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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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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.
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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Captain's Quarters, The Strata-Sphere, baldilocks, Daily Pundit, Confederate Yankee and How Appealing
PoliPundit.com:
Harriet Miers Must not be Confirmed — Since her nomination was announced, I've said that Harriet Miers should be confirmed to the Supreme Court, despite her unexciting qualifications, because she's a conservative. Information that has come out over the last week has caused me to believe she is not a conservative.
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.
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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.
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
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The Reaction, ACSBlog, Think Progress, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, TalkLeft, AMERICAblog and PinkDome
Gateway Pundit:
Murder & The Chinese Democracy Movement — Dog Pundit sent this news of the democracy protests in the village Kaishi and the disturbing death of one of China's Democracy activists. — The Guardian on Sunday wrote about the very brutal death of Chinese democracy activist Lu Banglie on Saturday night in a village in southern China:
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:Chinese activist bludgoned to death in front of 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.
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The Emerging Democratic …, Balloon Juice, Betsy's Page, David Frum's Diary … and Bark Bark Woof Woof
Mark Leibovich / Washington Post:
Buddy Story — Heard the One About the Mississippi Governor With a Disaster on His Hands? Grab a Chair, and a Glass. — JACKSON, Miss. — Gov. Haley Barbour's favorite political memento is a framed sequence of four photos of himself trading off-color jokes with his former boss, Ronald Reagan.
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Jack Yoest at Yoest.org
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 …
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 …
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Shakespeare's Sister
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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The Left Coaster
Jon Fine / Business Week:
All the News That's Fit to Dis — New York Times Editor Bill Keller has been taking shots at rival news organizations. One topic he wouldn't explore: Reporter Judith Miller and her role in the ongoing Plamegate probe — Bill Keller looks a lot like you'd expect the top editor …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Journamalism — Jodi Wilgoren tells us how she sees her job: … One of the complaints journalists have with bloggers is that they don't do "original reporting." But, now we see that "original reporting" has, for some journalists, become nothing more than finding people who have opinions …
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Presstitutes
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" …
