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Don Surber:
They Wanted A Hog, But Got A Scooter — After two years of hoping to see Karl Rove frog-marched in a perp walk, liberals got the veep's chief of staff hobbling on crutches. The New York Times had to admit: "Even after the indictment on Friday of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Buffeted With Problems, Bush Must Chart a Recovery — President Bush's descent from the euphoria of an against-the-odds reelection victory one year ago this week to the current reality of a White House in crisis has been as rapid as it has been unexpected. Presidential advisers …
Andrew Alderson / Telegraph:
Prince Charles to plead Islam's cause to Bush — The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11. — The Prince, who leaves on Tuesday …
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Random Numbers, USS Neverdock, Angry in the Great White North, Dodgeblogium, The LLama Butchers and Dog Pundit
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Charles To Follow Royal Tradition Of Appeasement — What is it about frustrated members of the British royal family who, when unable to garner the throne for themselves, decide to campaign on behalf of genocidal nutcases? After being forced to abdicate the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson …
Washington Post:
White House Ethics, Honesty Questioned — 55% in Survey Say Libby Case Signals Broader Problems — A majority of Americans say the indictment of senior White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby signals broader ethical problems in the Bush administration, and nearly half say the overall level …
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Hullabaloo:
39% Approval? After Everything That's Happened?!? — What is wrong with this country? Bush's approval is at 39%. True, it's the lowest ever for the Post/ABC survey but think about it. How could more than 1/3 of the people think this president, whose performance in office makes it clear …
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Luttig, Alito contenders as Bush mulls court pick — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday was narrowing his choices of Supreme Court nominees to replace Harriet Miers as Republicans said the short list consisted of highly credentialed, solidly conservative judges.
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
HOW LIBBY PLAYED "HARDBALL" — AND LOST: — Here's a passage from today's Fitzgerald indictment: — Who was the reporter drawing Libby's ire? It was almost certainly Chris Matthews. A Nexis search of Libby's name turns up an episode of "Hardball" from July 8, 2003 …
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The Next Hurrah, Viking Pundit, The American Mind, The Huffington Post and Poynter Online
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:
Alito : Luttig :: Clement : Roberts — The growing Supreme Court buzz around Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. is reaching highly suspect, Clement-ine proportions. Is the White House trying to fake us out using the same strategy that it previously employed? Article III Groupie is reminded …
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Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
A Leak, Then a Deluge — Air Force Two arrived in Norfolk on Saturday morning, July 12, 2003, with Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff aboard. They had come "to send forth a great American ship bearing a great American name," as Cheney said from the flag-draped flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
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THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH, War and Piece, Balkinization, ScrappleFace, Just a Bump in the Beltway and David Corn
Douglas Jehl / New York Times:
Indictment Gives Glimpse Into a Secretive Operation — WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - Over a seven-week period in the spring of 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney's suite in the Old Executive Office Building appears to have served as the nerve center of an effort to gather and spread word …
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Lanny J. Davis / New York Times:
New Scandal, Old Mistakes — FOR those of us who lived through the Clinton White House, it's déjà vu all over again. — The indictment against Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, by the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald presents a challenge …
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Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Kurds Reclaiming Prized Territory In Northern Iraq — Repatriation by Political Parties Alters Demographics and Sparks Violence — KIRKUK, Iraq — Providing money, building materials and even schematic drawings, Kurdish political parties have repatriated thousands of Kurds …
Associated Press:
Three Schoolgirls Beheaded in Indonesia — JAKARTA, Indonesia — Unidentified assailants attacked a group of high school girls on Saturday in Indonesia's tense province of Central Sulawesi, (search) beheading three and seriously wounding a fourth, police said.
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The Wide Awakes
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Sheldon Drobny / The Huffington Post:
Fitzgerald Threw a Softball — Besides my co-founding Air America Radio, I have another day job. I have helped prosecute and defend white collar crime offenses for 38 years including experience with Mr. Fitzgerald's office in my home town Chicago on current political prosecutions.
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The Tattered Coat
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Michael Moss / New York Times:
Lack of Armor Proves Deadly for Iraqi Army — After a string of deadly attacks against Iraqi forces in the spring, American soldiers in the Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad established an operation at their Army base to add armor to the unprotected open-bed trucks used by the Iraqis.
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Rantingprofs
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
U.S. Quietly Issues Estimate of Iraqi Civilian Casualties — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 29 - In the first public disclosure that the United States military is tracking some of the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the military has released rough figures for Iraqis who have been killed or wounded by insurgents since Jan. 1 last year.
Don Surber:
Lock Them Up — Via Balloon Juice, I learn that a site called Stop the Drug War said: … Ah the myth of prisons crowded by pot smokers continues. — So what are the real numbers? More than 1 in 10 of the nation's criminal are in prison for murder — 148,300 all told.
Cao / Cao's Blog:
Interview with Jim Morris re Jack Idema — I am pleased to have with me today Jim Morris, a well-published author and SF to the nth power-whose history with Jack Idema goes way back in time. Excuse me, Sir, but it's been over 20 years, hasn't it? — Morris is the author of the best seller War Story …
The Right Track:
Sunday Funnies Trackbacks 30-Oct-2005 — I remember when I was a kid how I'd crawl in bed on Sunday mornings and get my daddy to ready the "funny papers" to me. As I grew older, it became the thing I would read last — kind of like desert, clearing my mind from the more serious items of the day.
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