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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged — WASHINGTON - It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution.
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Dafydd / Big Lizards:AP Response to Bush Teleconference Staged!
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A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Terry / Nitpicker:
This stinks — Of course, now there are questions about the authenticity of the letter found in Iraq. … Look, you can't help but question these guys. Their intelligence is too often either wrong or made up. Are those words too harsh for you? Then how about "inaccurate and wrong and in some cases …
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Power Line, AMERICAblog, Secular Blasphemy, California Conservative, The Alliance and Donkey Stomp
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Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Jitters at the White House Over the Leak Inquiry — WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 - Karl Rove nosed his Jaguar out of the garage at his home in Northwest Washington in the predawn gloom, starting another day in which he would be dealing with a troubled Supreme Court nomination, posthurricane reconstruction …
Michelle Malkin:
A MOONBAT GETS A NOBEL PRIZE — Anti-war playwright Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for literature. — Here's his website, which proudly highlights Pinter's recent moonbattery. — The website also features some of his brilliant poetry, including such sophisticated works as …
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Peter Marks / Washington Post:British Playwright Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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David Brown / Washington Post:
Floodwater Not as Toxic As Feared, Experts Say — Metals Seen as Chief Hazard In Survey of New Orleans — The floodwater that covered New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was not unusually toxic and was "typical of storm water runoff in the region," according to a study published yesterday.
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Jane / Armies of Liberation:
Chemical Weapons, Drug Smuggling, and Other Crimes of the Yemeni Dictator — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is scheduled to visit the United States in November for a round of meetings with President Bush and other high ranking US officials. As the representative of the Yemeni people …
Tom Lasseter / Knight Ridder:
Sectarian resentment extends to Iraq's army — BAGHDAD, Iraq — Swadi Ghilan's two sons were dropping their sister off at high school earlier this year when a carload of Sunni Muslim insurgents pulled up and emptied their AK-47s into their bodies. In broad daylight his children were torn to pieces …
David Burge / iowahawk:
I HATE MY BOSS — Iowahawk Guest Commentary — by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi — Senior VP, Al-Qaeda In Iraq — How's it hangin,' homos? Same ol' - same ol' here in the Big Sandbox. Not much new since my last letter; Team Satan keeps dropping the hammer, we keep mopping up the jihadi juice.
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hughhewitt.com:
Rove on the Record — I spoke to Karl Rove an hour ago. His support for the Miers nomination is not merely enthusiastic, but adamant and even vehement. The judicial philosophy question? She has been a member of the White House's judicial selection committee for three years …
Matthew Scully / New York Times:
The Harriet Miers I Know — WHITE House speechwriters first learned the name Harriet Miers in January 2001, when drafts started reappearing full of corrections, instructions and particularly annoying requests for factual substantiation. In the campaign, life had been simpler, the editing and fact-checking a little more casual.
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
The Moses of Mendacity — A leak is when you ask a reporter to write a story. —Ken Mehlman — I threw out a great post today. In it, I speculated that Judy Miller may have been submitting stories to Reuters (and making sure NYT picked up those stories) during the period …
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Pew Research Center:
Summary of Findings — President George W. Bush's poll numbers are going from bad to worse. His job approval rating has fallen to another new low, as has public satisfaction with national conditions, which now stands at just 29%. And for the first time since taking office in 2001 …
Hullabaloo:
Don't Look At Me — Read this very interesting Hardball transcript of a discussion between Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell as they dissect the body of public evidence we have about Fitzgerald's investigation. They speculate grandly about what Fitzgerald's up to —
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The Anonymous Liberal, Lean Left, The Left Coaster, Shadow of the Hegemon and Suburban Guerrilla
Washington Post:
Scandals Take Toll On Bush's 2nd Term — A series of scandals involving some of the most powerful Republicans in Washington have converged to disrupt President Bush's agenda, distract aides and allies, and exacerbate political problems for an already weakened administration, according to party strategists and White House advisers.
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Mathew Gross
bangkokpost.com:
Iraq paints the country purple — As controversial as the Iraq war has become around the world, it is easy to lose sight of the extraordinarily good news that has emerged from that country and battleground. The first was the downfall of one of the world's most heinous dictatorships.
Pejman Yousefzadeh / Tech Central Station:
The Myth of the "Constitution-in-Exile" Movement — Last week, I wrote about the conspiracy-mongering regarding the existence and function of the Federalist Society that has become part of the judicial confirmation wars and has emerged as a major talking point against right-of-center judicial nominees.
CNN:
White House: Miers won't withdraw — High court nominee's record unsettles some conservatives — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Harriet Miers won't ask President Bush to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court despite sharp criticism from some of Bush's conservative allies, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday.
