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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
A MIERS MELTDOWN? More and more, I have to wonder what the White House was thinking with this. First of all, when you're already under fire for cronyism, and you nominate someone who's, well, a crony, you ought to be locked-and-loaded in terms of response. They weren't.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Polling Right-Of-Center Bloggers On The Harriet Miers Nomination — Right Wing News emailed more than 200 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer 4 questions about the Harriet Miers nomination. Representatives from the following 79 blogs responded...
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Miers Remorse — Conservatives are right to be skeptical. — I have changed my mind about Harriet Miers. Last Thursday, I wrote in OpinionJournal's Political Diary that "while skepticism of Ms. Miers is justified, the time is fast approaching when such expressions should be muted until the Senate hearings begin.
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Confirm Them, The Right Coast, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Heretik, RealClearPolitics, Patterico's Pontifications, Hit and Run, The Moderate Voice, PoliBlog, GOP Bloggers, Betsy's Page, AMERICAblog, JunkYardBlog, The American Mind, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Ace of Spades HQ, Right Wing News, Daily Pundit and All Things Conservative
11alive.com:
'Terrorist Act' on Tech Campus — Three explosive devices found in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus Monday morning were part of a "terrorist act," an Atlanta police official said. — One of the devices exploded, injuring the custodian who found them inside a plastic bag.
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Richard Clough / dailybruin.ucla.edu:
Explosive found at Midvale — A calm and quiet Westwood was briefly disrupted Friday afternoon when the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad inspected and detonated an explosive device found within the Midvale Plaza apartment complex on the 500 block of Midvale Avenue.
Sadaqat Jan / Associated Press:
Hungry Pakistanis Wait for Quake Relief — MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Shopkeepers clashed with looters Monday, and hungry families huddled under tents while waiting for relief supplies after Pakistan's worst earthquake razed entire villages and buried roads in rubble. Death toll estimates ranged from 20,000 to 30,000.
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Shakespeare's Sister
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Paul Mirengoff / Weekly Standard:
Holding Our Fire—And Our Breath — THE DISAPPOINTMENT many conservatives feel over the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court will not vanish unless and until Miers begins writing solid conservative Supreme Court opinions. In the absence of such opinions, there is little reason …
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Betsy's Page, California Conservative, Blogs for Bush, Bench Memos … and The Claremont Institute
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David Rennie / Telegraph:
Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers — The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes. — The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef …
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Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Shield Law Sponsor Lugar: Bloggers 'Probably Not' Considered Journos — INDIANAPOLIS Bloggers would "probably not" be considered journalists under the proposed federal shield law, the bill's co-sponsor, U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R.-Ind.), told the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Monday afternoon.
BBC:
Merkel to take German chancellery — Angela Merkel is to become Germany's first woman chancellor under a deal agreed between her Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD). — Mrs Merkel confirmed the deal at a news conference and said a CDU-SPD "grand coalition" …
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Patrick Ruffini / Patrick Ruffini '05:
Same Fight, Different Role — I leave, I come back. I leave, I come back... This week, I'm starting on a new path that will take me away from the day-to-day upkeep of this blog. I'll be returning to the Republican National Committee to serve as eCampaign Director.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
TV's Newest Anchor: A Smirk in Progress — NEW YORK — As one of the premier fake journalists on the planet, Stephen Colbert is struck by the reaction of those he mercilessly ridicules. — "The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, 'I wish I could say what you say.' What I don't understand …
Dylan / Still Angry:
Et tu, W? — Friends, Americans, bloggers, lend me your ears — I come to bury Miers, not to confirm her. — The evil that Justices do lives after them; — The good is oft preserved by rejecting their nominations; — So let it be with Miers. — The noble Bush hath told you Harriet is conservative;
Kitty Kelley / New York Times:
Bush's Veil Over History — SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy, prohibiting photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq …
Time:
Rove Redux — As top Bush aide Karl Rove prepares for his fourth grand-jury appearance, the federal probe into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the media is believed to be wrapping up. But the investigation has taken a toll on White House aides, many of whom now fear …
