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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.
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.
Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
White House Dismisses Idea Of Withdrawal by Nominee — WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 - The White House said on Thursday that Harriet E. Miers would not contemplate withdrawing as President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, despite suggestions …
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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:Calls for Miers to withdraw get louder Moves to mollify critics aren't working
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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:More Sunnis Accept Constitution And Pay An Immediate Price
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Troops Put In a Good Word to Bush About Iraq — 10 U.S. Soldiers Upbeat in Staged Teleconference — President Bush yesterday sought to rally U.S. troops behind his Iraq strategy — and he and his aides left little to chance. — Before the president spoke via a video link …
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Firouz Sedarat / Reuters:
Al Qaeda in Iraq says Zawahri letter is fake - Web — DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq on Thursday rejected as a fabrication a letter by a top group leader that was issued by U.S. officials and suggested deep internal rifts among militants. — According to the letter …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Flu Hope, Or Horror? — While official Washington has been poring over Harriet Miers's long-ago doings on the Dallas City Council and parsing the byzantine comings and goings of the Patrick Fitzgerald grand jury, relatively unnoticed was perhaps the most momentous event of our lifetime — what is left of it, as I shall explain.
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Vaughn Ververs / CBS News:
Outside Voices - The Anchoress Speaks — Each week we invite someone from the outside to weigh in with their thoughts about CBS News and the media at large. This week, we invited The Anchoress, one of the blogosphere's most mysterious and interesting voices who this week turned …
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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!
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Stephen Schwartz / Weekly Standard:
And the Winner Is . . . SWEDEN HAS A REPUTATION for a high suicide rate. But a psychological crackup striking an ordinary Scandinavian, brooding in the long, dark winter, is merely a personal tragedy. By contrast, the moral suicide of a whole institution, like the Swedish Academy …
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National Review:
Mm'Doh! — This is my last column on Harriet Miers until her confirmation hearings begin — or until her press conference announcing that for the good of her (insert "country," "president," "family," "party," "faith" or "sanity") she's withdrawing from consideration for the Supreme Court.
Jonathan S. Landay / Knight Ridder:
Administration scrambles to prepare U.S. against possible pandemic — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is scrambling to prepare the nation for a possible global rampage by a new flu germ that it fears could kill nearly 2 million Americans, sicken tens of millions more and shatter the economy.
BREITBART.COM:
Leave exorcism to the experts, warns Church — A far cry from sorcerers, satanists and other practitioners whom he dismisses as "charlatans," Italian exorcist Andrea Gemma fights the devil only with the strength of his prayers and advises Catholics: 'Don't do this at home".
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Kansas Senator, Looking at Presidential Bid, Makes Faith the Bedrock of Campaign — MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 13 - After testing his stump speech on Tuesday night, Senator Sam Brownback rose early on Wednesday for a tour of the cavernous chapel and regimental dining hall used by the 30 remaining Benedictine monks of St. Anselm's abbey.
National Review:
Conservative vs. Conservative: Inside the Battle Over Miers — On Monday morning, October 3, not long after President Bush announced his decision to nominate Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, Wendy Long of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network appeared on CNN to defend the choice.
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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 …
