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Think Progress:
BREAKING: DeLay's Lawyer Lies About MoveOn — Tom DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, claims that the judge presiding over DeLay's criminal case in Texas, Bob Perkins, should be disqualified. A central part of his claim is that an organization that Perkins has donated to in the past, MoveOn …
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Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
DeLay in Court; Lawyers Request New Judge — AUSTIN, Texas - Rep. Tom DeLay appeared in court Friday for the first time since his indictment, but his arraignment on conspiracy and money laundering charges was delayed pending a hearing on his request for a new judge in the politically charged case.
Chris Kromm / Facing South:
ESP wonder; newspapers channel Bush — What do this newspaper editorial, this one, this one, and this one all have in common? — All of them are unsigned editorials, which makes it look like they're original opinion pieces for each paper. (The Colorado Gazette even says it's "our view.")
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jdnews.com:
Time to close up this federal trough — One of the smartest things President Bush did to reduce recovery costs in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was to suspend Davis-Bacon Act rules in the hardest hit states. But Congress is frantically trying to overrule the president …
New York Times:
Top Syrian Seen as Prime Suspect in Assassination — UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 - The United Nations investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon is focusing on the powerful brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as the main suspect …
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Blogs for Bush, Hit and Run, Right Wing Nut House, Wonkette, The Moderate Voice and AMERICAN FUTURE
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Miers: The Only Exit Strategy — It's no secret that I think the Harriet Miers nomination was a mistake. Nonetheless, when asked how she will do in her confirmation hearings, my answer is, I hope she does well. I have no desire to see her humiliated. Nor would I take any joy in seeing her rejected …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Bad News Turns Into Flood On Miers — This morning's news has administration aides choking on their morning coffee regarding the Harriet Miers nomination. While the Wall Street Journal comes out in opposition to her confirmation and urges withdrawal, the New York Sun reports …
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Frank Bass / Associated Press:Miers Firm Received Bush Campaign Payments
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:Lotto Trouble — The Miers nomination pits a Swift Boat author …
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Dahlia Lithwick / New York Times:
Deferential Calculus — OF all the mysteries surrounding President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, possibly the biggest is this: How could a man who got it so right with John Roberts get it so wrong with Ms. Miers? — If the lesson of the Roberts confirmation …
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Associated Press:
Afghan leader tries to calm anti-U.S. rage over video — KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Today Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai condemned the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters by U.S. troops, but he said mistakes happen in war and Afghans shouldn't let it mar their impression of the United States.
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Juan / Informed Comment:US Military Desecrates bodies of Afghans to Uproar
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Los Angeles Times:
Bush Critic Became Target of Libby, Former Aides Say — Cheney's chief of staff reportedly sought an aggressive campaign against Wilson. — WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was so angry about the public statements of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV …
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Mike S. Adams / Townhall.com:
Exterminating Whitey — Columnist Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, NC has written a blog entry that reveals just how easy it is to get a job teaching Africana Studies at N.C. State University. It also demonstrates how the diversity movement is bringing people together in the great state of North Carolina.
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carolinajournal.com, The Queen of All Evil, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Antisemantics and Michelle Malkin
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James K. Glassman / Tech Central Station:
Are Americans Becoming Europeans? — MILAN - I have just finished a two-week trip to Europe — my honeymoon, if you must know — and, as usual with a European trip, I have come away with two completely different impressions. — Europe, or at least the parts I go to, is a wonderful place to live and to visit.
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Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber:
Ye Ladies of Easy Leisure — So by now everyone and his same-sex partner knows that Maggie Gallagher's stint at Volokh is one long struggle between her strong argument that marriage has many benefits and her handwaving about gay people bringing down the Roman Empire.
National Review:
With a Whimper — The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution. Those who forecasted that either the Sunnis would boycott …
Mary Curtius / Chicago Tribune:
Official: FEMA failed in Katrina — Agency veteran says ex-director was unresponsive — WASHINGTON — The only FEMA employee to ride out Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans painted a grim portrait Thursday of an agency led by officials who were unprepared for the scope of the disaster …
Washington Post:
A Palpable Silence at the White House — At 7:30 each morning, President Bush's senior staff gathers to discuss the important issues of the day — Middle East peace, the Harriet Miers nomination, the latest hurricane bearing down on the coast. Everything, that is, except the issue on everyone's mind.
Ryan Lizza / The New Republic:
Beached Party — That was fast. Last month, George W. Bush was the leader of the conservative movement. This month, he's a traitor. "I don't think that Bush was ever one of us," says Bruce Bartlett, the conservative columnist and former Reagan and Bush 41 official. "And conservatives knew that.
