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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Defending The Indefensible — Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it. Many of their justifications cannot be dignified as arguments. Of those that can be, some reveal a deficit …
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF — My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot. — No more. — After reading this story I'm officially against Miers.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Is Miers A Quota Queen, Or Just Misquoted? — Today's Washington Post alleges that Harriet Miers pushed for racial and gender set-asides in her role as president of the Texas State Bar, complete with the kind of specific numerical goals to which conservatives object as quota systems.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times Editor Expresses Regrets Over Handling of Leak Case — Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, told the newspaper's staff yesterday that he had several regrets over his handling of Judith Miller, the Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury in the C.I.A. leak case.
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Hullabaloo, The Washington Monthly, DownAndDirty, Bloggledygook, Eschaton and The Next Hurrah
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Maureen Dowd / truthout.org:
Woman of Mass Destruction — I've always liked Judy Miller. I have often wondered what Waugh or Thackeray would have made of the Fourth Estate's Becky Sharp. — The traits she has that drive many reporters at The Times crazy - her tropism toward powerful men, her frantic intensity …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:A Split Between The Times & Miller?
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The Moderate Voice, Hit and Run, David Corn, The Next Hurrah and Just a Bump in the Beltway
Michael J. Totten:
Mehlis Day — Fear and apprehension turned to anger and relief in Beirut after the Mehlis report named Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law as the chief suspect, and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as a possible accomplice, in the assassination of Rafik Hariri. — The city didn't explode.
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Fox News:
U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda — NEW YORK — The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department (search) now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinister, especially where it involves a mysterious private company called IHC Services …
Don Surber:
Cute Puppy Photo And Link Fest — Look at the cute little doggy all dressed up for Halloween. — Anyway, the reason I called you all here is to offer a linkfest. As you know, Blogger.com (Blogspot — google) does not make this easy. You have to trackback me, then I have to manually add your link …
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euphoricreality.net:
Burning Taliban — *************scroll down for updates*************** — If this situation goes any further at all, I feel a war comin' on (Pantano style)… — Report Of U.S. Burning Bodies Investigated … The Australian photojournalist, Stephen Dupont, who shot the video footage …
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New York Times:
Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems — The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities …
Billmon:
Will the Grinch Steal Fitzmas? — John Dean — who knows something about these things — has some cautionary words for all the little lefties eagerly counting presents (indictments) under the tree: Don't be entirely surprised if "Santa" leaves a lump of coal in your stocking.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
A RATHER RUDE ANTIWAR READER challenges me to admit that the Iraq invasion has produced a quagmire. This seems like an odd time to be claiming that given the recent elections, but I'll just endorse this statement from Kevin Drum: … I think the critics overstate their case …
Dana Bartholomew / L.A. Daily News:
Bush motorcade leaves other folks fuming — One hundred Brentwood kindergartners, many dressed in costumes, were all set to go see "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday when their first-ever field trip was blocked by the nation's 43rd president. — They never got to see the wizard.
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Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
How Miller was used by source — In an extraordinary memo on the Judith Miller affair sent to the New York Times staff late Friday afternoon, the paper's executive editor, Bill Keller, did something far more important than admit errors and explain why they occurred.
ynetnews.com:
Bomb hidden under toddler — The wife of a wanted Palestinian fugitive tried to hide a hand grenade under her baby; Five fugitives were arrested in a house where 10 Kg of explosives were found — Five wanted terror suspects have been arrested in overnight searches conducted by the IDF …
Opinion Journal:
The Miers Blunder — Walking the nominee into a political crossfire. — Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks.
