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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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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.
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 …
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Specter to Press Miers in Hearings — Judiciary Panel Leader Says Nominee Has Not Yet Been Heard — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will get a thorough vetting by the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel's chairman said yesterday, adding that critics of President Bush's pick …
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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.
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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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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Los Angeles Times:
Shut Out on Healthcare After Storm — Many hurricane victims don't qualify for aid if their insurance coverage vanished with their jobs. — WASHINGTON — Like most of those whose lives were upended by Hurricane Katrina, 52-year-old school bus driver Emanuel Wilson can thank the federal government …
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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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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
IT'S BAY VS. BAY on Miers: … A spirited dialogue ensues. But that dialogue isn't just within a marriage — it's within Bush's coalition: Ed Morrissey writes in the Washington Post: … Read the whole thing. And note Ed's wish that the debate stays as courteous as that within the Bay household.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:SPECTER: CONSTITUTION MAY BE TOO COMPLICATED FOR MIERS
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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 …
Washington Post:
For GOP, Election Anxiety Mounts — Republican politicians in multiple states have recently decided not to run for Senate next year, stirring anxiety among Washington operatives about the effectiveness of the party's recruiting efforts and whether this signals a broader decline in GOP congressional prospects.
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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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New York Times:
Belgium Is Trying to Unravel the Threads of a Terror Web — BRUSSELS - On a damp, gray day in March 2004, the Dutch traffic police stopped a Belgian driver for a broken headlight and accidentally stumbled onto a major investigation of Islamic radicals. — The driver was Khalid Bouloudo …
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.
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.
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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US News:
It's Up, Up, and Away for Air Condi — There's at least one cabinet secretary not returning Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman 's calls for fuel conservation by Americans: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. That's because she's on the road. In just her first year as the nation's top diplomat …
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
Justin Gardner / Donklephant:
Karl Rove And The Case Of The Missing Email — Sounds like a case for the Hardy Boys, right? Well, it's actually the title of a new article from Newsweek. — Heh. — So then, the Architect has been called to testify before the grand jury again, and it appears that a faulty keyword search for an email could be to blame.
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