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Don Surber:
Right On, Harriet! — Hey, Truth Laid Bear, I support the Miers nomination. — As a supporter of Harriet Miers, I wrote a long response to George Will's screed of intolerance toward anything Miers. "Perfect perversity" and "cannot be dignified as arguments" and "reveal a deficit …
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:Newborn Taken From Mother and Convicted Sex Offender
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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:How Keeping $50 Could Save Your Sanity
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Byron Calame / New York Times:
The Miller Mess: Lingering Issues Among the Answers — THE good news is that the bad news didn't stop The New York Times from publishing a lengthy front-page article last Sunday about the issues facing Judith Miller and the paper, or from pushing Ms. Miller to give readers a first-person account of her grand jury testimony.
Mark Leibovich / Washington Post:
In the Spotlight And on the Spot — I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is known for his sarcastic, world-weary and at times dark sense of humor. He once quipped to an aide that he planned to stay as Vice President Cheney's top adviser until "I get indicted or something."
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Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Powerful Ears Still Turning to Adviser — WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - In a city where proximity is power, I. Lewis Libby Jr. begins many of his days by sharing a limousine ride to work with his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, and ends them long hours later having counseled Mr. Cheney behind …
Knight Ridder:
Miers family received 'excessive' sum in land case — WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers collected more than 10 times the market value for a small slice of family-owned land in a large Superfund pollution cleanup site in Dallas where the state wanted to build a highway off-ramp.
The Truth Laid Bear:
call to bloggers: take your stand on miers — Folks: — The Miers nomination is reaching a critical point, with rumors of her withdrawl swirling and conservative fixtures such as Jonah Goldberg and George Will coming out in opposition. — Recognizing that the Supreme Court …
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Letter Shows Authority to Expand CIA Leak Probe Was Given in '04 — Weeks after he took over the investigation 22 months ago into the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald got authority from the Justice Department to expand his inquiry …
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New York Times:
C.I.A. to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths — WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - Despite indications of C.I.A. involvement in the deaths of at least four prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, C.I.A. employees now appear likely to escape criminal charges in all but one of those incidents …
Michael Yon / Weekly Standard:
All Quiet on the Baghdad Front — I WAS IN BAQUBA during Iraq's January elections, having hitched a ride with the U.S. Army to a polling site. There were bombs exploding, mortars falling, and hot machine guns. The fact that the voting was going great despite the violence was something few people expected.
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Newsview: Like Father, Like Son for Bushes — WASHINGTON - Throughout his first term, President Bush struggled to avoid repeating his father's mistakes. Yet less than a year after he claimed the re-election mandate denied his dad, he is confronting some of the same problems that bedeviled the first Bush presidency.
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Unseen Enemy Is at Its Fiercest in a Sunni City — RAMADI, Iraq, Oct. 22 - The Bradley fighting vehicles moved slowly down this city's main boulevard. Suddenly, a homemade bomb exploded, punching into one vehicle. Then another explosion hit, briefly lifting a second vehicle up onto its side before it dropped back down again.
catholicnewsagency.com:
5-year old censored by NY school will get his day in court — New York, Oct. 21, 2005 (CNA) - 5-year old Antonio Peck had no idea when he turned in his homework assignment—a poster about protecting the environment—that it would land him in federal court. — Peck, then a kindergarten student …
Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops — Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed. — The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph …
