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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.
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.
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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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:Rescuers Reach Pakistani City Destroyed by Huge Earthquake
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Feministe
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:Pakistan Appeals for Help as Rescuers Dig by Hand
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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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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.
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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David McHugh / Associated Press:
Deal Would Make Merkel German Chancellor — BERLIN - Conservative leader Angela Merkel said Monday she had reached a "good and fair" deal that will make her Germany's first female chancellor in a power-sharing agreement that would end Gerhard Schroeder's seven years in office.
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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" …
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.
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Confirm Them, The Corner on National …, Hugh Hewitt, What Now?, The Strata-Sphere and Balloon Juice
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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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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 …
Editor and Publisher:
Local Christian Coalition Official Did Molest, Family Members Tell 'The Oregonian' — NEW YORK After news broke that local law enforcement officials were investigating complaints that Louis Beres, longtime chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon, had molested three female family members …
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The All Spin Zone
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 …
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 …
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.
Bob Geiger / Yellow Dog Blog:
Another Cruel Vote By Senate Republicans — I wrote on Thursday about an under-the-radar Senate vote that happened the previous week, in which Republicans voted to gut the Community Services Block Grant program, which provides money to help low-income people with essential living expenses such as housing, food and heating costs.
