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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Bush Plan Shows U.S. Is Not Ready for Deadly Flu — WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - A plan developed by the Bush administration to deal with any possible outbreak of pandemic flu shows that the United States is woefully unprepared for what could become the worst disaster in the nation's history.
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
After Delay, U.S. Faces Line for Flu Drug — As concern about a flu pandemic sweeps official Washington, Congress and the Bush administration are considering spending billions to buy the influenza drug Tamiflu. But after months of delay, the United States will now have to wait in line to get the pills.
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Dan Gillmor's blog
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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Confederate Yankee, Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, In the Bullpen, Basil's Blog and Pam's House Blend
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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.
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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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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David Frum's Diary …
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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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Conglomerate Blog
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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PoliBlog, CALIFORNIA YANKEE, The Anchoress, Patterico's Pontifications, How Appealing and BrothersJudd Blog
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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
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
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 …
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
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
10 Plots Foiled Since Sept. 11, Bush Declares — WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - President Bush on Thursday tried to refocus American attention on terrorism, declaring in a speech that the United States and its partners had disrupted 10 serious plots since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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 …
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.
