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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
'Mao': The Real Mao — If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and "mie jiuzu"- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree. — But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written …
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
The Zabar's Zeitgeist Resurrects Mao — If anyone wants to know what I mean by the "New Reactionaries," they should have a look at Nicholas D. Kristof's review of MAO, The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday in today's NYTBR. After paying some homage to the biography …
TBlumer / BizzyBlog.com:Nicholas Kristof and Mao: He Just, Can't, Let, Go
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The Conspiracy to Keep …
New York Times:
Fitzgerald Is Expected to Decide Whether to Seek Indictments — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - After a 22-month inquiry, the special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, is expected to announce this week whether he will seek indictments against White House officials …
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New York Times:
Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - With a decision expected this week on possible indictments in the C.I.A. leak case, allies of the White House suggested Sunday that they intended to pursue a strategy of attacking any criminal charges as a disagreement …
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Lawyers see charges this week in CIA-leak case — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be laying the groundwork for indictments this week over the outing of a covert CIA operative, including possible charges of perjury and obstruction of justice …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Judiciary Panel May Ask Dobson to Testify — Evangelical Leader Says He Has Been Privy to Miers's Views — The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to summon a leading conservative Christian to explain the private assurances he says he received from the White House about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers …
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Steve Clemons:
Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush in Major New Yorker Article — Jeffrey Goldberg has written a critique in The New Yorker of the Bush White House that equals Ron Suskind's devastating critique of Bush before the last election titled "Without a Doubt."
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The Mahablog, Hullabaloo, The Washington Monthly, Taegan Goddard's …, The Next Hurrah and Daily Kos
MSNBC:
Transcript for October 23 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the war in Iraq, and the investigation into the CIA leak case. With us, three United States senators with very different views: Republican George Allen of Virginia …
Matt / The Tattered Coat:
Another Military Blogger Silenced — Months ago, in response to a post I wrote about the military blogger Colby Buzzell, Kate of Broken Windows told me to pay attention to Daniel Goetz, a soldier writing a blog called All the King's Horses. — Regrettably, I never followed her advice.
Washington Post:
List of Foiled Plots Puzzling to Some — White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats — A White House list of 10 terrorist plots disrupted by the United States has confused counterterrorism experts and officials, who say they cannot distinguish between …
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Eric Umansky
Charles Fried / Boston Globe:
What Miers must show — OF COURSE, it is not necessary for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to have attended an elite law school to be qualified for a seat on the Supreme Court: Neither John Marshall Harlan nor his grandfather (famous for his eloquent dissent in the separate-but-equal decision) …
Daniel Gross / New York Times:
If You Don't Eat or Drive, Inflation's No Problem — Steve Triantafillou of Bell Fuels prepares to fill an oil tank at a home in Chicago. While the cost of energy has risen sharply, one price index intentionally excludes it. — ASIDE from the stuff that's becoming more expensive …
Associated Press:
Four U.S. Contractors Killed in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - An angry mob of insurgents attacked a convoy of American contractors last month when they got lost in a town north of Baghdad, killing four and wounding two, the U.S. military said on Sunday. — The Sept. 20 attack in the mostly Sunni Arab town …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
The Washington Secret Often Isn't — WASHINGTON — There are still lots of real secrets in Washington. But the most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way - even while its spokesman reflexively utter the caution, "We don't talk about intelligence," or, "Sorry …
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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Balkinization, RedState.org, Confirm Them, protein wisdom, INDC Journal, All Things Beautiful and ProfessorBainbridge.com
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