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New York Times:
In a Scripted TV Scene, Soldiers Reassure Bush — WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 - In a videoconference linking him by satellite to a group of soldiers in Iraq, President Bush sought and won their assurances on Thursday that Iraqi forces are up to the job of helping American troops provide security for the voting there this weekend.
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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 …
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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.
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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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.
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
Insurgents Bomb Sunni Arab Office in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents determined to derail this weekend's referendum bombed an office of Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party on Friday, after the group dropped its opposition to the draft constitution.
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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 …
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Taegan Goddard's …, The Next Hurrah, Captain's Quarters, Washington Post, The Reaction, Basie!, MyDD, Wall Street Journal and Prairie Weather
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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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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Russian Forces Seize Rebel Holdout — MOSCOW, Oct. 14 —Early Friday, Russian special forces stormed a police station in southern Russia where eight militants were holding five hostages. The hostages, including police officers, were freed and all eight militants were killed as they tried to flee in a van, Russian officials said.
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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.
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 …
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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Gateway Pundit:
Condoleezza Chases Down Dictator! — After Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made stops in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and later to Tajikistan, she was not about to put up with any silliness from the Ex-Soviet Autocratic President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on Thursday!
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
That Was a Short War on Poverty — It has long been said that Americans have short attention spans, but this is ridiculous: Our bold, urgent, far-reaching, post-Katrina war on poverty lasted maybe a month. — Credit for our ability to reach rapid closure on the poverty issue goes …
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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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.
