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Bush expected to name Bernanke next Fed chief — Administration official says announcement set for 1 p.m. ET — President Bush is poised to name Ben Bernanke, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, NBC News and Reuters reported Monday.
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CNN:
Bernanke's the man — President Bush's nominee to succeed Greenspan is expected to be chief economic adviser. — NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - President Bush was expected to announce Monday that he has picked top economic adviser Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Chairman …
New York Times:
Bush Nominates Bernanke to Succeed Greenspan as Fed Chief — WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - President Bush nominated Ben S. Bernanke, his top economic adviser, to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. — Calling him the "right man to build on the record that Alan Greenspan has built …
Larry Kudlow / The Corner on National Review Online:BERNANKE WORKS — CEA chair and former Fed governor Ben Bernanke …
Michelle Malkin:
SEN. HUTCHISON'S BLUNDER — The Left had a field day over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's remarks on NBC's Meet the Press this morning in which she downplayed possible perjury and obstruction of justice indictments this week in the Rove/Plame/Miller/Libby/God-knows-who- else leak case.
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Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:What Happened to the Party of Lincoln?
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:Let The Chips Fall Where They May In The Plamegate Investigation
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Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Bushies feeling the boss' wrath — Prez's anger growing in hard times - pals — WASHINGTON - Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. — With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq …
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Journalists' Hotel in Baghdad Attacked — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three enormous bombs, including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post outside the Palestine Hotel — home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Iraqi officials said 17 people were killed.
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CNN:
Explosions rock central Baghdad — Police say 10 killed, 18 wounded — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Three explosions near two hotels housing journalists rocked Iraq's capital at sunset Monday, killing 10 people and wounding 18, Iraqi police said. — The third blast was larger than the initial explosions …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
What Went Wrong — Lessons the White House should learn from the Miers debacle. — President Bush has returned from a weekend in Camp David, where much of the discussion centered on the beleaguered nomination of Harriet Miers. While the president is determined to press forward, the prognosis he received was grim.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Protecting the Presidential Seal. No Joke. — You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda …
Martin Walker / UPI:
Walker's World: Bush at bay — WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
Kevin / Louisiana Libertarian:
Carnival of the RINOs (10/24/05) — I would like to welcome everyone who has come to read the Carnival of the RINOs. My name is Kevin Boyd and I currently reside in Southeast Louisiana in a city called Slidell. This carnival almost did not happen because of Hurricane Katrina which forced …
Billmon:
Fitzgerald's New Boss — Josh Marshall wonders what it might mean for the special prosecutor's case now that U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty has been nominated for the number-two job at the Justice Department. I suspect the short answer is: nothing good. — McNulty, U.S. Attorney …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:Federal Prosecutor Paul McNulty Named Deputy Attorney General
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Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Enemy Body Counts Revived — U.S. Is Citing Tolls to Show Success in Iraq — Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations.
The Age:
Piggy banks 'offend UK Muslims' — British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. — Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Letters Show Frist Notified Of Stocks in 'Blind' Trusts — Documents Contradict Comments on Holdings — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was given considerable information about his stake in his family's hospital company, according to records that are at odds with his past statements …
