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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.
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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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Calls for Miers to withdraw get louder Moves to mollify critics aren't working — Washington — Calls by conservatives for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to withdraw her nomination intensified Thursday as White House efforts to reassure critics continued to backfire.
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TheAgitator.com
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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.
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Captain's Quarters, Hugh Hewitt, The Heretik, www.AndrewSullivan.com, PoliPundit.com, Bench Memos … and Brendan Nyhan
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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Gateway Pundit
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:More Sunnis Accept Constitution And Pay An Immediate Price
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BillHobbs.com
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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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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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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TigerHawk
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.
Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Katrina Food Aid Blocked by U.S. Rules — In the early days of September, as military helicopters plucked desperate New Orleanians from rooftops and Red Cross shelters swelled with the displaced, nearly 400,000 packaged meals landed on a tarmac at Little Rock Air Force Base and were whisked by tractor-trailer to Louisiana.
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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Lean Left, The Moderate Voice, The Reaction, The Left Coaster, Don Surber and Suburban Guerrilla
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.
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 …
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.
