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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Half of Senate Republicans doubt Miers — Nearly half of Senate Republicans say they remain unconvinced that Harriet Miers is worthy of being confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Times. — As with the nomination of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. …
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Bloomberg:
Specter to Ask Whether Rove Gave Private Assurances on Miers — Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist of how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule on the court.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Endorsement of Nominee Draws Committee's Interest — WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and several Democrats on the committee said Sunday that they were considering calling the evangelical conservative James C. Dobson …
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Specter to Press Miers in Hearings — Judiciary Panel Leader Says Nominee Has Not Yet Been Heard — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will get a thorough vetting by the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel's chairman said yesterday, adding that critics of President Bush's pick …
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Guardian:
'They beat him until he was lifeless' — How democracy activist in China's new frontline was left for dead after a brutal attack by a uniformed mob — Benjamin Joffe-Walt in Taishi, southern China — The last time I saw Lu Banglie, he was lying in a ditch on the side of the street …
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Chinese activist bludgoned to death in front of journalist — Here his how the chilling account by the Guardian's Benjamin Joffe-Walt begins: … Joffe-Walt describes how Lu got in a taxi with him to take him to Taishi, when their car was surrounded by men in uniform and some men in plainclothes.
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hughhewitt.com:
What Do The Critics of the Miers Nomination Want? — This is a long post, designed to reply to some of the major arguments advanced against Harriet Miers by conservative critics. Ed Morrissey has doen a fine job of reviewing last week's intra-conseravtive battles, though overstating my role in it …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:SPECTER: CONSTITUTION MAY BE TOO COMPLICATED FOR MIERS
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
"The very first words I wrote on this blog were: 'I shouldn't be doing this. I'll be going up for tenure soon.'" — Daniel Drezner puts his thoughts about being denied tenure in genuinely bloggish form, which takes nerve and charm and high spirits. (Link via Instapundit.)
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Thomas / The Right Coast:Tenure woes — Like Professor Rappaport, I was dismayed to read …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
'60 Minutes' to Include Clinton Camp's Denial of Freeh's Accusations — Under strong pressure from former president Bill Clinton's advisers, CBS's "60 Minutes" has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on tonight's program by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MEDICARE WOES....Are George Bush and the Republicans in trouble now? Max says: just wait until the new Medicare drug benefit takes effect. — By the way, this reminds me. If we're ever going to sell America on national healthcare — and it's going to take a while to do this …
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William Shawcross / Los Angeles Times:
Peace is not the answer — Calls to end Iraq's bloodshed are hardly noble when those who would triumph slaughter teachers as children weep. — IT SEEMS UNLIKELY that many of the so-called peace marchers who trooped through Washington and London two weekends back listened on Thursday …
cbc.ca:
Rescuers hunt for South Asia quake survivors — Rescuers struggled to reach remote, mountainous areas of Pakistan Sunday after one of the country's worst-ever earthquakes killed more than 20,000 people. — The quake wiped out entire villages, buried roads in rubble and knocked out electricity and water supplies.
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MSNBC:
Transcript for October 9 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday... (Videotape): — PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: And I'm nominating Harriet Ellen Miers. — MR. RUSSERT: ...the president nominates his own counsel to the Supreme Court. Why have so many conservatives spoken out against her?
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Bing West / Washington Post:
Slighting This Greatest Generation — We Focus on the Bad Apples and Ignore the Courageous Heroes — Recently the refractory city of Fallujah reemerged as a front-page story. Fallujah first leaped to national attention last November when it became the scene of the fiercest urban combat in the past 35 years.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
The Crisis of the Bush Code — WHEN Gov. George W. Bush of Texas hit the presidential campaign trail, he seldom brought up his view of abortion. But with conservative Christian crowds, he never missed an opportunity to praise "pregnancy crisis centers." Abortion opponents …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Elian and the party line — LIKE WINSTON SMITH, Elian Gonzalez has learned to love Big Brother. CBS News loves him, too. Elian's excuse is that he is 11 years old and has been brainwashed by a totalitarian police state. What excuse is there for CBS? — Last week, ''60 Minutes" …
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US News:
It's Up, Up, and Away for Air Condi — There's at least one cabinet secretary not returning Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman 's calls for fuel conservation by Americans: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. That's because she's on the road. In just her first year as the nation's top diplomat …
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
The Case of the Missing Notebook — The latest twist in the Plame Affair only deepens the mystery: What's in the suddenly uncovered notebook that documents the previously unknown Judith Miller/Scooter Libby chat of June 25, 2003? Who told the prosecutor about it? And why, exactly, does he want to talk to Miller again?
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