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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...
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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. …
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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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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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.
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Thomas Schelling, new Nobel Laureate — Note my biases, Schelling was my mentor at Harvard. — Tom is an unassuming guy, who looks as if he sells Hush Puppies at the local mall. But he is one of the sharpest people you will meet. He delivers the killer point, argument, or anecdote with striking regularity.
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Associated Press:
Game Theorists Win Nobel Prize for Economics — STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Israeli-American Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for their work on game theories that help explain political and economic conflicts from arms races to price wars.
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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Guardian:
Mob attacks key Chinese democrat — Activist left for dead near village at centre of fresh wave of unrest — Jonathan Watts in Chongqing — One of China's leading democracy activists has been beaten, possibly to death, in front of a Guardian journalist.
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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.
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.
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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Rahul Bedi / Telegraph:
Militants' training camps wiped out — Training camps used by jihadists battling with the Indian army for control of Kashmir were buried by landslides or left in ruins by the earthquake, bringing hope of a new opportunity for peace-making after a 16-year Islamic insurgency.
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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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Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:A Matter Of Timing — Two old and dear friends had their …
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
