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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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California Conservative, Brainster's Blog, Betsy's Page, G e n e r a t i o n W h y ? and Viking Pundit
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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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Captain's Quarters, baldilocks, Daily Pundit, Confederate Yankee, How Appealing and Sister Toldjah
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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Simon World
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
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.
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
GOP rank and file back Miers — The Republican base across the country looks more favorably on President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court than the cluster of conservative critics who are opposing her inside the Beltway, according to a Washington Times survey of state party chairmen.
Washington Post:
Lack of Contracts Hampered FEMA — Dealing With Disaster on the Fly Proved Costly — Among the many failures in government planning revealed by Hurricane Katrina, one was particularly striking: No one, it seems, figured out ahead of time who was going to pick up the dead.
Paul Pierson / The Washington Monthly:
Why is American Politics Off Center? We are very grateful to Kevin for offering this chance to discuss the current state of American politics. It's gratifying that astute political analysts like Kevin, Chris Hayes, Henry Farrell, Mark Schmitt, Mathew Yglesias, and Paul Krugman …
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
Charlotte Eby / globegazette.com:
John Kerry calls for reopening values debate — DES MOINES — In a return trip to Iowa Sunday, former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry told a group of women activists it is time to reopen the values debate in America. — The Massachusetts senator said it is good that religion …
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
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 …
New York Times:
FEMA Director Under Clinton Profits From Experience — WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 - Not long before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, James Lee Witt, the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and his colleagues called officials on the Gulf Coast to offer their help.
