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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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Sadaqat Jan / Associated Press:
Asian Quake Death Toll at Least 20,000 — BALAKOT, Pakistan - Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands Sunday through the debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard crying beneath the rubble after a massive earthquake. Pakistani officials said the death toll ranged between nearly 20,000 and 30,000.
CNN:
South Asian quake toll nears 20,000 — Pakistan declares three days of national mourning — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Rescue workers pulled survivors from rubble and uncovered bodies from debris in Islamabad and elsewhere a day after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake caused devastation across South Asia.
Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:Quake Kills More Than 18,000 in South Asia
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Secular Blasphemy
New York Times:
Bush Works to Reassure G.O.P. Over Nominee for Supreme Court — 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 …
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Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Opening Arguments, Endlessly — Inside every lawyer, it is said, there is a brilliant writer, held back by professional ambition or by fear of failure. Nowhere is that truism more evident than in the explosion of online blogs by, for and about lawyers. — There is Markos Moulitsas Zúniga …
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Edward Morrissey / Washington Post:
How Harriet Unleashed a Storm on the Right — Well, he's finally done it. By nominating White House lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George Bush has managed to accomplish what Al Gore, John Kerry, Tom Daschle and any number of Democratic heavyweights have been unable to do: He has cracked the Republican monolith.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Three-Part Disharmony — Earlier this week, the Washington Post asked me to write an analysis of the conservative reaction to the Harriet Miers nomination, after a recommendation from Michelle Malkin. It took up a bit of my evenings this week, one of the reasons my output may have seemed a bit slow …
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Small Town Veteran
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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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.
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Avi Green / Tel-Chai Nation:NYC on alert for terror attacks against subway systems
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Radioactive Liberty
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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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 …
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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.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
White House Tries to Quell a Rebellion on the Right — WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - The White House moved to contain a continuing revolt among conservatives on Thursday over President Bush's selection of Harriet E. Miers for the Supreme Court. Some conservatives said that Ms. Miers could withdraw …
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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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The Right: With Friends Like These — The cheerleaders for Bush's judicial pick found little to cheer. — Oct. 17, 2005 issue - After Sandra Day O'Connor resigned from the Supreme Court in July, the White House reached out to an informal network of conservative lawyers and academics to help build support for the next nominee.
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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.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
THE POLITICS OF POLARIZATION....I went ahead and read William Galston and Elaine Kamarck's "The Politics of Polarization" last night, and I was....underwhelmed. It's not so much that it's wrong, but that it's not really interesting enough to spend much time arguing with.
