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Newsweek:
The Gathering Storm  —  How Katrina hurt Harriet—and what's next for the embattled high-court nominee.  —  Oct. 31, 2005 issue - The White House Counsel's Office is home to some of the best, brightest and busiest conservative lawyers in the country.  Among their duties …
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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.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
The Politics of Killing the Miers Nomination
Discussion: The Mahablog
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
HEWITT V WILL  —  I'm sure this will be much discussed in certain quarters of the web today.  Let me just throw in two cents now one small part of his broadside which is aimed in part at me.  Hewitt writes: … Me: Piffle.  If reports are to be believed Miers argued …
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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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Greta / Hooah Wife:
Interview LTC Perry (here & only here)
Discussion: Don Singleton
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Newborn Taken From Mother and Convicted Sex Offender
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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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.
Betsy / Betsy's Page:
I first saw this story when it happened five or six years ago.  It was so unbelievable that I'd clipped the story for discussion when I cover freedom of religion in my classes.  A five-year old boy had drawn a picture of Jesus for an assignment in Kindergarten to draw a poster about how to help the environment.
Discussion: joannejacobs.com
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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Fourth Rail and Rantingprofs
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."
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 …
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," …
Discussion: RedState.org
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 …
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!
Ken McCracken / WILLisms.com:
Pundit Roundtable  —  Hello, this is NOT George Stuffinenvelopes, but Ken McCracken, bringing you PUNDIT ROUNDTABLE, your blog alternative to the Sunday morning talking head shows.  —  Our classy pundits this week have been asked these questions: Tom Delay was indicted and arrested this week …
Discussion: Say Anything

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