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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.
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.
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 …
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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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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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Judy Remembers! — Per Reuters, embattled Times reporter Judith Miller …
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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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
Not My Internet! — Given what I am doing, I am barely off line these days (except when I sleep, and even then my dreams are sometimes wired), so I have been feeling on "en vacance" this weekend in the Santa Ynez Valley, only able to get online in spare moments when I can slip off to the WiFi …
New York Times:
Foe of Abortion, Senator Is Cool to Court Choice — WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 - Amid uproar among conservatives over the candidacy of Harriet E. Miers for the Supreme Court, one of the most ardent abortion opponents in the Senate said Thursday that Ms. Miers had not persuaded him to vote to confirm her.
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.
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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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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Avian Flu — It's Pandemic Flu Awareness Week, so I thought I'd write a Pandemic Flu Awareness Post. Actually, a couple of them. This one is on general background and a few hints for personal preparedness; the next one will be on governmental responses and related issues.
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Denise Grady / New York Times:Danger of Flu Pandemic Is Clear, if Not Present
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Nancy Gibbs / Time:
The Two Knocks on Miers — And why—surprise!—they're both coming from the right. And why, even so, they might not derail her — Among the rarest honors that President Bush bestows is induction into the Hundred Degree Club. Its members are the aides who have managed to keep …
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Norm / normblog:
Shock and mock — Whether George Bush actually said what he was reported on the front page of the Guardian as having said seems to be in some doubt now. But, whatever the case, there it was on the front page - as also of the Independent - and yesterday the Guardian readership was following up.
