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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
18,000 Reportedly Killed in South Asia's 7.6 Quake — Mother Nature has brutally struck again in a year when she has been deadly cranky: the death toll for South Asia's earthquake is now 18,000 and rising, as is clear from this AP report: … CNN notes:
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Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
Quake Kills More Than 18,000 in South Asia — A devastating earthquake triggered landslides, toppled an apartment building and flattened villages of mud-brick homes Saturday, killing more than 18,000 people across a mountainous swath touching Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
Washington Post:
Bush Rejects Calls To Withdraw Miers — President Bush yesterday rejected conservative calls to withdraw his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and prepared to reassure skeptical Republicans and persuade the Senate to confirm her for the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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NewsMax.com:
Robert Bork 'Borks' Harriet Miers — Legendary conservative jurist Robert Bork is "borking" Bush Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, trashing her nomination as a complete and total "disaster." — Asked by MSNBC's Tucker Carlson Friday night if he was impressed by Ms. Miers, Bork replied: "Not a bit.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Three-Part Disharmony — Earlier this week, the Washington Post asked …
New York Times:
President Bush's Major Speech: Doing the 9/11 Time Warp Again — Yesterday, the same day New Yorkers were warned there was a "specific threat" of a bombing on their subways, President Bush delivered what the White House promoted as a major address on terrorism. It seemed, on the surface, like a perfect topic for the moment.
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The Mahablog
Don Surber:
Conspiring To Do A Legal Act? … If 24 years in West Virginia taught me anything, it is that a politician is guilty until proven innocent. The court has to presume innocence, not me. — Still I had to chuckle at the re-indictment of Tom DeLay. He was charged originally with conspiracy based on a law that came after the fact.
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The Politburo Diktat
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Justice Department Nominee Tied to Lobbyist Withdraws — WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - President Bush's pick for the second-ranking position at the Justice Department abruptly withdrew his nomination today after facing weeks of questions over his ties to the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his role in formulating torture policies, officials said.
New York Times:
3rd Man Detained in Connection With Terror Plot, Official Says — A third man has been detained in a suspected plot to detonate explosives on the city's subway system, a government official said today, as police officers searched passengers' bags on subways, buses and ferries.
Carol Cratty / CNN:
Miller to meet with CIA leak prosecutor — Interview could lead to another appearance before grand jury — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The special prosecutor in the CIA leak investigation will interview New York Times reporter Judith Miller next week, according to one of Miller's attorneys, Floyd Abrams.
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Adam Entous / Reuters:Reporter turns over notes in CIA leak case
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Hullabaloo, Billmon, Daily Kos, Associated Press, firedoglake, villagevoice.com and War and Piece
Denise Grady / New York Times:
Danger of Flu Pandemic Is Clear, if Not Present — Fear of the bird flu sweeping across Asia has played a major role in the government's flurry of preparations for a worldwide epidemic. — That concern prompted President Bush to meet with vaccine makers on Friday to try to persuade …
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JustOneMinute
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Why the Miers Fight is Worth Fighting — There is a school of thought in the conservative blogosphere that "the Miers pick ... is done now; we have to move on." Presumably this entails conservative critics of Miers taking Lindsey Graham's advice to just "shut up." I for one, however, have no plans to do so any time soon.
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Opinion Journal
MSNBC:
Slacker Friday — Politics, music and reader musings — I've got a new Think Again column, here " Meet Roy Blunt. (If You Liked Tom DeLay...") and a new Nation column here, "The First Time Was Tragedy." — Thanks George. "CNN reported that U.S. military and other government agencies conducted …
Robert / musil.blogspot.com:
Another Looming Miers Disaster — He may be right. He's very smart. And he's there. — But having reviewed the increasingly personal, nasty and ill tempered criticism of Harriet Miers (including that of Charles Krauthammer, who ridiculed the nomination as "a joke" - and worse) …
Washington Post:
Snap Judgments — TO HEAR THE reaction from some conservatives to President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, you would think the president had named an avowed liberal. The White House has spent the past few days trying to soothe a Republican base angered by the nomination.
New York Times:
Bush Addresses G.O.P. Unease Over Nominee — WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - After a blistering week, the White House is scrambling to control a conservative uprising over the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, with President Bush pitching his choice directly to the public on Saturday …
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Patterico's Pontifications
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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William Saletan / Slate:
Culture of Litmus — Don't you dare judge Harriet Miers on abortion. — The day after President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, a reporter asked him whether he had ever "gleaned from her comments her views on" abortion. Bush replied that he had "no litmus test.
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Althouse
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Emily Bazelon / Slate:Harriet's Man — The Texas judge who is vouching for Miers on Roe.
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Confirm Them
