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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Half of Senate Republicans doubt Miers — Nearly half of Senate Republicans say they remain unconvinced that Harriet Miers is worthy of being confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Times. — As with the nomination of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Endorsement of Nominee Draws Committee's Interest — WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and several Democrats on the committee said Sunday that they were considering calling the evangelical conservative James C. Dobson …
Bloomberg:
Specter to Ask Whether Rove Gave Private Assurances on Miers — Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist of how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule on the court.
Chicago Tribune:Conservatives say Democrats cowed Bush into weak court choice
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Patterico's Pontifications
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
"The very first words I wrote on this blog were: 'I shouldn't be doing this. I'll be going up for tenure soon.'" — Daniel Drezner puts his thoughts about being denied tenure in genuinely bloggish form, which takes nerve and charm and high spirits. (Link via Instapundit.)
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Thomas / The Right Coast:Tenure woes — Like Professor Rappaport, I was dismayed to read …
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Conglomerate Blog
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
'60 Minutes' to Include Clinton Camp's Denial of Freeh's Accusations — Under strong pressure from former president Bill Clinton's advisers, CBS's "60 Minutes" has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on tonight's program by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh.
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Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
CBS News Forced To Back Away From Freeh's One-Sided Smear Against Clinton Tonight — During the flap over Dan Rather's botched "60 Minutes" story on Bush's TANG service and the memos used in that story, I had focused my fire on the fact that the Mighty Wurlitzer had never disproved the content of the memos …
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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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Swopa / Needlenose:Another incriminating profession of innocence from Karl Rove's attorney
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
SPECTER: CONSTITUTION MAY BE TOO COMPLICATED FOR MIERS — Well, that's not quite what he said, of course. Senator Arlen Specter actually said that the intricacies of constitutional law as developed by the last generation of Supreme Court justices might be too much for a mere corporate lawyer and White House counsel:
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Guardian:
'They beat him until he was lifeless' — How democracy activist in China's new frontline was left for dead after a brutal attack by a uniformed mob — Benjamin Joffe-Walt in Taishi, southern China — The last time I saw Lu Banglie, he was lying in a ditch on the side of the street …
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Chinese activist bludgoned to death in front of journalist — Here his how the chilling account by the Guardian's Benjamin Joffe-Walt begins: … Joffe-Walt describes how Lu got in a taxi with him to take him to Taishi, when their car was surrounded by men in uniform and some men in plainclothes.
cbc.ca:
Rescuers hunt for South Asia quake survivors — Rescuers struggled to reach remote, mountainous areas of Pakistan Sunday after one of the country's worst-ever earthquakes killed more than 20,000 people. — The quake wiped out entire villages, buried roads in rubble and knocked out electricity and water supplies.
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MSNBC:
Transcript for October 9 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday... (Videotape): — PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: And I'm nominating Harriet Ellen Miers. — MR. RUSSERT: ...the president nominates his own counsel to the Supreme Court. Why have so many conservatives spoken out against her?
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William Shawcross / Los Angeles Times:
Peace is not the answer — Calls to end Iraq's bloodshed are hardly noble when those who would triumph slaughter teachers as children weep. — IT SEEMS UNLIKELY that many of the so-called peace marchers who trooped through Washington and London two weekends back listened on Thursday …
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 …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MEDICARE WOES....Are George Bush and the Republicans in trouble now? Max says: just wait until the new Medicare drug benefit takes effect. — By the way, this reminds me. If we're ever going to sell America on national healthcare — and it's going to take a while to do this …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
The Crisis of the Bush Code — WHEN Gov. George W. Bush of Texas hit the presidential campaign trail, he seldom brought up his view of abortion. But with conservative Christian crowds, he never missed an opportunity to praise "pregnancy crisis centers." Abortion opponents …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Elian and the party line — LIKE WINSTON SMITH, Elian Gonzalez has learned to love Big Brother. CBS News loves him, too. Elian's excuse is that he is 11 years old and has been brainwashed by a totalitarian police state. What excuse is there for CBS? — Last week, ''60 Minutes" …
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Joust The Facts
Bing West / Washington Post:
Slighting This Greatest Generation — We Focus on the Bad Apples and Ignore the Courageous Heroes — Recently the refractory city of Fallujah reemerged as a front-page story. Fallujah first leaped to national attention last November when it became the scene of the fiercest urban combat in the past 35 years.
Mary Foster / Associated Press:
New Orleans Police Beating Caught on Tape — NEW ORLEANS - Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations.
