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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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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.
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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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Analyzing Paul Mirengoff's Piece — and Announcing My Position on Miers — As you know, I've been looking for a convincing argument that I should support Harriet Miers, or at least withhold judgment. And I keep coming up empty. Virtually every brief for Miers I have read …
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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 …
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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Mark Fitzgerald / Editor and Publisher:
Shield Law Sponsor Lugar: Bloggers 'Probably Not' Considered Journos — INDIANAPOLIS Bloggers would "probably not" be considered journalists under the proposed federal shield law, the bill's co-sponsor, U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R.-Ind.), told the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Monday afternoon.
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MoxieGrrrl.com, Eschaton, Roger L. Simon, AMERICAblog, Concurring Opinions and Environmental Republican
Scott / Environmental Republican:
The Carnival of the RINO's — Sorry about the late RINO posting, but hey, better later than really later. It's been a long week and it's only Monday. Starting with the Eagles suffering an ass-kicking by the hated Cowgirls. I'm full of piss and venom and can't wait to get this carnival started.
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Classical Values
Dylan / Still Angry:
Et tu, W? — Friends, Americans, bloggers, lend me your ears — I come to bury Miers, not to confirm her. — The evil that Justices do lives after them; — The good is oft preserved by rejecting their nominations; — So let it be with Miers. — The noble Bush hath told you Harriet is conservative;
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!
Arianna Huffington / huffingtonpost.com:
Clueless in Phoenix — For the all-time example of a man whistling past the graveyard, check out Bill Keller's jaw dropping comments this past Friday at the Association of National Advertisers conference in Phoenix. — His paper finds itself in the midst of what may turn out to be the worst crisis …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Isikoff Arrives! — Mike Isikoff of Newsweek finally brings a bit of coverage to the Karl Rove e-mail to Steven Hadley, which spawned the Matt Cooper saga. — He is essentially telling us now what I told folks last August: … To recap and supplement a bit, with thanks to Reddhedd and Polly's comments at firedoglake:
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firedoglake, The Carpetbagger Report, The Reaction, Obsidian Wings, Viking Pundit, TalkLeft and Instapundit.com
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
Attorney: Rove didn't circulate CIA operative's name — Key White House aide to testify before grand jury for fourth time — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Karl Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said Monday his client "did not circulate" the name of an undercover CIA operative.
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 …
Richard John Neuhaus / FIRST THINGS:
It's Columbus Day… — It's Columbus Day and Justice Antonin Scalia is the grand marshall of the parade down Fifth Avenue. He takes great satisfaction in being an Italian-American, and he knows how to strut with all the fun and none of the arrogance that goes into fine strutting.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
AL QAEDA MOVING INTO GAZA — When Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza, Scott and others expressed concern that al Qaeda and other terrorist groups (in addition to Hamas, of course) would move into the resulting power vacuum. It appears that those concerns were well founded. Today's Jerusalem Post reports:
