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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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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 …
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Specter to Question Miers' Qualifications — WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he plans to vigorously question Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers about her qualifications because she has not proved to him she can handle the weighty issues that come before the high court.
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Washington Post:
Miers to Face Tougher Time Than Roberts in Hearings — In a room at the Justice Department this summer, Harriet Miers listened silently as young lawyers playing senators threw question after question at John G. Roberts Jr. at a secret practice hearing, or "murder board."
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Miers And Myers — It was Full Ahead for two controversial Bush nominees.
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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.
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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.
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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:
Mike Pechar / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:Pakistan Quake Tolls More Than 18,000 Dead
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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.
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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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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Judy Remembers! — Per Reuters, embattled Times reporter Judith Miller …
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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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.
Opinion Journal:
The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats?) — Keep your U.N. off my Internet. — Kofi Annan, Coming to a Computer Near You! The Internet's long run as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments take a "hands off" approach—is in jeopardy. Preparing for next month's U.N.-sponsored World Summit …
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Avi Green / Tel-Chai Nation:
NYC on alert for terror attacks against subway systems — Michelle Malkin reports on the NYPD's investigation of terrorist threats against the subway system in the Big Apple. — One problem however, is just how seriously mayor Bloomberg is responding to the threat. The AP Wire reports that:
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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 …
