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President's Radio Address — In Focus: Judicial Nominations — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, I nominated an exceptional individual to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. Harriet Miers is a remarkable woman and an accomplished attorney.
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MSNBC:
Bork calls Miers nomination a 'disaster' — Former Supreme Court nominee gives take on newest pick for the bench — TRANSCRIPT — A conservative uproar erupted over President George Bush's recent appointee to the Supreme Court. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Senate Dems Defend Miers on Top Court Nod — Senate Democrats Defend Harriet Miers From Conservative Criticism Over Supreme Court Nomination — WASHINGTON Oct 8, 2005 — Some Senate Democrats are jumping in the middle of a Republican fray to defend Harriet Miers from conservative criticism …
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Predicts Miers Will Be Confirmed for Supreme Court; Some in GOP Withhold Support — WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush predicted Friday that the Senate would confirm Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, even as a Republican senator said she had much work left to ensure that outcome.
Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
Hundreds Dead in Pakistan-India Earthquake — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building, killing hundreds of people in both nations.
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CNN:
Death toll in Asian quake tops 800 — Official says number of dead could reach into the thousands — (CNN) — Darkness is hampering the search for survivors of Saturday's major earthquake that rocked south Asia. — The magnitude 7.6 quake, which has generated strong aftershocks …
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Anthony Colarossi / orlandosentinel.com:
War-dead Web site leads to Polk obscenity arrest — Polk County officials arrested a Lakeland man on obscenity charges Friday after investigating his graphic Web site, which has gained international attention for allowing U.S. soldiers to post pictures of war dead on the Internet.
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Jack Yoest / Jack Yoest at Yoest.org:
William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh, George Will at NR's 50th. Not Cheney — Your Business Blogger and Charmaine attended National Review's 50th Anniversary Gala in Washington DC Thursday night with 998 other dear friends. A celebration of a half century of journalism and innovation and wit.
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Basil / Basil's Blog:Try one of these specials with your supper: — The Therapist applauds Delay fighting back
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Al-Jazeera Finds Its English Voice — David Frost Joins New International Television Network — Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer …
Richard W. Garnett / Bench Memos on National …:
The Administration, Ms. Miers, and the Federalist Society — I have, in several posts and comments (for example, here), criticized some of the criticisms of Ms. Miers's nomination, and expressed my view that it is a mistake to assume too quickly that the President has failed to nominate …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Judy, Pinch and a Boy Named Scooter — In a furious bout of post-prison housecleaning, Judy Miller just "happened" to find notes today from June 2003 when she spoke with Scooter Libby about Joe Wilson. — Of all the amazing discoveries. She's the f**king Indiana Jones of dust bunnies, that one.
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Michael Weissenstein / Associated Press:
Memo: NYC Attack Was Scheduled for Sunday — NEW YORK - Details emerged about an alleged plot to attack the city's subways with bombs hidden in bags and possibly baby strollers as local and federal officials jostled over the credibility of the threat. — A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained …
Cinnamon Stillwell / aim.org:
Terrorism Strikes the Heartland — If you happened to be browsing the Internet last weekend, the headline, "Suicide bombing in Oklahoma" just might have caught your attention. After all, it's not every day that there's a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and supposedly there hasn't been one since 9/11.
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tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com, In the Bullpen, Oblogatory Anecdotes, JunkYardBlog, Gateway Pundit and Caerdroia
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:OU President Denies Wider Plot, No Ticket Sold to Hinrichs
The Mahablog:
Payback — Oooo, those Swedes. They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Mohamed ElBaradei and International Atomic Energy Agency. The Bushies must be mightily pissed. — Mohamed ElBaradei, you might recall, is the same guy who, before the Iraq invasion, did everything but stand on his head …
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Pieter Dorsman / Peaktalk:
MOONBAT PRINCESS — The sister of Dutch Queen Beatrix has stepped into the limelight to declare that the West should initiate peace negotiations with al-Qaeda in an interview with De Volkskrant, one of the country's top newspapers. She also offered some criticisms of President Bush who in her opinion subscribes to only one ideal:
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cjrdaily.org:
Editor's Note — More Entanglements for the Times — Newspapers are seldom comfortable, or entirely forthcoming, when events call for them to write about themselves — witness almost any paper's coverage of, say, its own labor negotiations. But the Judy Miller case has caused …
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Booman Tribune ~ Boo!, firedoglake, The Carpetbagger Report, The Washington Monthly and Poynter Online
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Jo Becker / Washington Post:
'The Right Result' Was Key to Miers — DALLAS, Oct. 7 — This city was already on edge, divided along racial and class lines over how to desegregate public housing, under court order to change an election system that kept minorities out of power, and seething from a series of police shootings that killed innocent blacks.
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Harriet's Man — The Texas judge who is vouching for Miers on Roe. — Harriet Miers' paperless record is supposed to deprive Democrats of spitballs to throw at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. And it will. But at the moment, her blank-slate persona is giving some conservatives fits.
Editor and Publisher:
Mary Mapes Hits Bloggers and MSM in Upcoming Book — NEW YORK Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post might have a bigger scoop than he thought. In his online column this morning, as a final, almost throwaway item, he quoted from the first chapter of the forthcoming book by former CBS producer Mary Mapes …
Presstitutes:
The Sound Of A Tornado - How Bush Could Rebound — Bush is "likable." Bush is "religious." Bush is "resolute." Bush is "plain-spoken." "Al Gore invented the Internet." John Kerry is a "flip-flopper." The media is "liberal." — Through a self-reinforcing loop …
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