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Bush Steadfast in Face of Criticism of Nominee — WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - Brushing aside calls from conservatives to withdraw the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, President Bush on Friday declared that he was confident the Senate would confirm Ms. Miers and that she would become a justice …
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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 …
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.
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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David Johnston / New York Times:
Prosecutor in Leak Inquiry Orders Rove to Return Again — WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - The special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case has summoned Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, to return next week to testify to a federal grand jury in a step that could mean charges will be filed in the case, lawyers in the case said Thursday.
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail — Oct. 17, 2005 issue - The White House's handling of a potentially crucial e-mail sent by senior aide Karl Rove two years ago set off a chain of events that has led special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to summon Rove for a fourth grand jury appearance this week.
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Earthquake's Toll Sure to Rise; Aftershocks Are Feared — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 9 - A powerful earthquake centered in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan on Saturday morning sent tremors across South Asia, killing more than 18,000 people, including at least 1,600 in remote northern Pakistan …
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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.
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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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
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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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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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The Left Coaster:
Treasongate and Jeff Gannon - Redux — In a previous post on Jeff Gannon/James Guckert and his link to Treasongate, I commented that his claim about his not having been aware of the now-famous INR memo (with the (S) for secret attribution to the paragraph discussing Valerie Plame) …
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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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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.
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 …
