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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Schumer: Miers Lacks Votes to Be Confirmed — WASHINGTON (AP) - A Democrat on the Senate committee that will consider Harriet Miers' nomination said Sunday that President Bush's Supreme Court choice lacks the votes now to be confirmed, saying there are too many questions about her qualifications.
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Washington Post:
U.S. Confirms Killing Of Contractors in Iraq — Four Were Slain by Angry Mob Last Month — BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 — Four U.S. contractors were killed last month when their convoy took a wrong turn, drove into a town north of Baghdad and was attacked by an angry mob, a senior U.S. military official said Saturday.
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euphoricreality.net:
U.S. Civilian Contractors: 4 Killed, 1 BURNED ALIVE By Sunni Muslims — In light of the global outrage surrounding burning Taliban corpses, I found this story particularly enraging: — U.S. Confirms Killing Of Contractors in Iraq … Lest anyone smugly sneer that "this is what we get in retaliation …
Emperor Darth Misha I / Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: Exterminate Them. NOW — …and while COL Hunt and the MSM …
bamapachyderm.com:
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy — It's better to be a smartass than a dumbass. — WLWOTPCFCD time — by Beth @ 6:15 am. — Time for the Weekend Link Whorage Open Trackback Post Covered Fest Carnival Dish! Send your links! — If you have something you'd like others to read, link to this post, and send a trackback.
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La Shawn Barber's Corner, Cao's Blog, The Florida Masochist, Soldiers' Angel and Stop The ACLU
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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.
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Associated Press:
Report: Texas Overpaid Miers in Land Sale — Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 _ 10 times the land's worth _ despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday.
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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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.
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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 …
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Betsy / Betsy's Page:I first saw this story when it happened five or six years ago.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Outside The Beltway, The Truth Laid Bear, MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Don Singleton and Basil's Blog
Elisabeth Goodridge / Associated Press:
Young Lawmaker Likens Congress to Jr. High — WASHINGTON — Don't let his age fool you. The youngest member of Congress says he thinks he has Capitol Hill all figured out, though he's been on the job only 10 months. — "This place is a much more sophisticated junior high school," …
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A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
BOLIVIAN FREE TRADE MARCH — Thousands of Bolivian workers marched on the U.S. embassy yesterday to demand … A FREE TRADE PACT WITH THE U.S. — Now who knew that? For god sakes give them their free trade pact! We'll all benefit if we can buy Bolivian goods!
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California Conservative
Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
Paul Krugman: The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit — Much has been written here and elsewhere (here too) regarding the Bush tax cuts and the deficit. Many claim that the tax cuts didn't increase the deficit. Instead, the claim is that the tax cuts increased economic growth enough to bring …
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