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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
A MIERS MELTDOWN? More and more, I have to wonder what the White House was thinking with this. First of all, when you're already under fire for cronyism, and you nominate someone who's, well, a crony, you ought to be locked-and-loaded in terms of response. They weren't.
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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...
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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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.
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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Richard Clough / dailybruin.ucla.edu:
Explosive found at Midvale — A calm and quiet Westwood was briefly disrupted Friday afternoon when the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad inspected and detonated an explosive device found within the Midvale Plaza apartment complex on the 500 block of Midvale Avenue.
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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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" …
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oudaily.com:
The FBI needs to start talking — OUR VIEW: 10/10 — One week and two days after the FBI began investigating the Joel Hinrichs case, the feds seemingly have stopped releasing information about what they have learned. — It's time the FBI opened its files and provided The Daily …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:PC Hacks at OU Paper Covering Up Oklahoma Bombing
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Reaganites Unite!
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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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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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 …
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:
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.
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
Kitty Kelley / New York Times:
Bush's Veil Over History — SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy, prohibiting photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq …
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.
