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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.
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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...
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.
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:Half of Senate Republicans doubt Miers
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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.
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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.
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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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.
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Rescuers Reach Pakistani City Destroyed by Huge Earthquake — MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 10 - International rescue teams reached this remote city today and began digging through the rubble of buildings to search for survivors of a powerful earthquake estimated to have killed tens of thousands of people.
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:Pakistan Appeals for Help as Rescuers Dig by Hand
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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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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.
CNN:
Conservatives spar over Miers nomination — Politicians, religious leaders carry debate to Sunday talk shows — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court drew testy comments Sunday from conservatives who leveled their ire at other conservatives.
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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 …
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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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 …
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.
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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Times of London:
Iraq's message to Mr Blair: we still need the troops that saved us from tyranny — EVENTS OF recent weeks have reaffirmed the need for the alliance between the new Iraq and Britain. The lesson of the ghastly drumbeat of terrorism, the rioting in Basra and the vile murder of the leadership …
