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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Mellowing on Miers. — The Washington Times reports on the official White House response to the massive doubts about Harriet Miers. On the surface, it's all wait and see, we actually know what we're doing. Meanwhile, nearly half the Republican senators have expressed doubts.
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alicublog, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Conglomerate Blog, Blogs, Inside Opinions, The Volokh Conspiracy, PoliBlog and Little Miss Attila
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hughhewitt.com:
Althouse et al — University of Wisconsin Professor of Law Ann Althouse has a very important post today, because it is the first "turning" post I have seen on Harriet Miers, proving that such "mellowing" is in fact possible, and from within the Academy. — Here's the crucial proposition AA makes:
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:Hewitt and Mirgenoff on What Bush Promised
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Kelli Arena / CNN:
Sources: Tip on N.Y. subway threat a hoax — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Information that led to heightened security for the New York City transit system was a hoax, government sources said Tuesday. — The sources said an informant in Iraq who provided the tip had told investigators …
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nbc11.com, Newsday, The Moderate Voice, A Blog For All, Wizbang, THE BRAD BLOG, PunditGuy and Roger L. Simon
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BREITBART.COM:
New York subway threat a hoax: reports — The subway terrorist threat that gripped New York last weekend was a hoax stemming from false intelligence provided by a normally reliable informant, US law enforcement officials were quoted as saying. — According to newspaper and television reports …
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Point Five, Stop The ACLU, Instapundit.com, Ace of Spades HQ, The Blue State Conservatives and Alarming News
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:Iraqi Informant Admits New York Subway Threat Was A Hoax
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The Heretik
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Libby Did Not Tell Grand Jury About Key Conversation — In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New …
John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Cheney spokesman departs country as CIA leak investigation wraps up — The chief spokesman for Vice President Dick Cheney, Steve Schmidt, left the United States Oct. 3 and won't return until Oct. 26, just as the investigation into who outed a covert CIA agent wraps up, RAW STORY has confirmed.
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Will / Attytood:
Fun with Dick and George: The biggest story of 2005 is hiding in plain sight — No one in the mainstream media seems to be working on this, but the big story — the one that could dramatically change the course of the next three years — is right under their collective noses.
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Laura Bush Joins President's Defense of Miers — Joining her husband in defense of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Laura Bush today called her a "role model for young women around the country" and suggested that sexism was a "possible" reason for the heavy criticism of the nomination.
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Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:
Laura Bush says sexism possible in Miers criticism — COVINGTON, Louisiana (Reuters) - First lady Laura Bush joined her husband in defending his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday and said it was possible some critics were being sexist in their opposition to Harriet Miers.
New York Times:
Documents Show Miers's Close Ties to Bush — AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 10 - "You are the best governor ever - deserving of great respect," Harriet E. Miers wrote to George W. Bush days after his 51st birthday in July 1997. She also found him "cool," said he and his wife, Laura, were "the greatest!" and told him: "Keep up the great work.
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Bull Moose, The Mahablog, Shakespeare's Sister, Daily Pundit, David Corn, James Wolcott, Big Brass Blog, Ezra Klein, Harriet Miers's Blog!!!, Wonkette, The Carpetbagger Report, Underneath Their Robes, TheAgitator.com, skippy the bush kangaroo, WTF Is It Now??, Galley Slaves and Preemptive Karma
Wonder Woman / A North American Patriot:
Losing my virginity, at the Ball — This is my first time hosting the Cotillion Ball, and I feel like a virgin on a date with Hugh Hefner — Certain to be dirty and disheveled by the end of it! All I can say is — It's OK. I like it rough! :: wink:: — So on to the task at hand...
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Pierre-Antoine Souchard / Associated Press:
Ex-French U.N. Diplomat Taken Into Custody — PARIS (AP) - France's former U.N. ambassador has been taken into custody as part of an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in the Iraq oil-for-food program, judicial officials said Tuesday. — Jean-Bernard Merimee, 68 …
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Bernard Haykel / New York Times:
Terminal Debate — WHEN Iraq's most notorious terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declared a "full-scale war" on Iraq's Shiites on Sept. 14, he appeared to be speaking for all or most jihadis. But Mr. Zarqawi's war on Shiites is deeply unpopular in some quarters of his own movement.
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NewsMax.com:
Bono, U2 in Fund-Raiser for Senator Rick Santorum — On Sunday, October 16, a truly unique political event will take place. — Teaming up with the legendary rock group U2 for a one-night only appearance will be Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.). — The thousand-dollar-a-seat concert …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
DISAPPOINTING — Fed by what are to me very cheap arguments by RNC spokesmen and independent stalwarts of the administration — chiefly, it seems, Hugh Hewitt — there is now this permanently established belief in some quarters that people around here and elsewhere oppose Miers based purely on bad motives …
New York Times:
Military May Propose an Active-Duty Force for Relief Efforts — WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - The military's Northern Command is developing a proposal to organize a specially trained and equipped active-duty force that could respond quickly to assist relief efforts in the event of overwhelming natural disasters …
