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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Reid Calls for Rove to Resign — The leader of the Senate Democrats today called for White House chief political strategist Karl Rove to resign, saying it's time for President Bush to "come clean" with the American people about the administration's role in the disclosure of a CIA operative's name.
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Bush, Cheney Urged to Apologize for Aides — WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Sunday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should apologize for the actions of their aides in the CIA leak case. — Reid, D-Nev., also said Bush should pledge not to pardon …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:Libby May Rely on Faulty-Memory Defense
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Below The Beltway
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
So, Do You Believe in 'Superprecedent'? — AS he prepares for another Supreme Court confirmation battle, President Bush faces intense pressure to quell the uproar from social conservatives who feared that Harriet Miers was not a true strict constructionist.
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The Reaction, Balkinization, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Daily Kos and The Blogging of the President
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Luttig and "super-stare decisis." — Jeffrey Rosen re-airs the topic of "super-stare decisis" — the notion that the precedential value of some cases is especially strong, perhaps so strong that you ought to have to agree in advance not to overrule them to win confirmation to the Supreme Court.
iranfocus.com:
Iran's President says "2 or 3 hangings" could end market woes — Tehran, Oct. 30 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that "if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever" …
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Jihad Watch
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Militant Group Claims Responsibility for New Delhi Blasts — NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 30 -A day after a synchronized string of bombs tore through packed holiday-season markets in the Indian capital, killing 59 people, a little-known militant outfit in the disputed Kashmir province took responsibility today …
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Feddie / Confirm Them:
I am going out on a limb — I think it's going to be Judge Janice Rogers Brown. — I am not basing this on anything but a political hunch, but here's my thought process: — (1) President Bush knows that his base wants a genuine judicial conservative on the Supreme Court to replace Justice O'Connor …
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Steve Dillard / Southern Appeal:I am going out on a limb: I think it's going to be Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
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Underneath Their Robes
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
What's a Modern Girl to Do? — When I entered college in 1969, women were bursting out of theirs 50's chrysalis, shedding girdles, padded bras and conventions. The Jazz Age spirit flared in the Age of Aquarius. Women were once again imitating men and acting all independent: smoking …
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Vox Popoli, Majikthise, Roger L. Simon, Pandagon, What Would Phoebe Do?, Althouse and Alarming News
DoctorZin / A Daily Briefing on Iran:
Why Haven't We Seen This? — If you follow the news you may have seen this picture, of Iran's President Ahmadinejad speaking at the "World Without Zionism" conference where he spoke of wiping "Israel off the map." — But in this photo you can only see a portion of the graphic.
TBlumer / BizzyBlog.com:
This Weekend's Single Unanswered Question: When Is This Economy Going to Get Some Respect? — An update post is here. — Another installment in a nearly-regular series of mysteries and pseudo-mysteries (usually 3-4, but this time just one) this inquiring mind would like to have answers for.
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Newsweek:
Flying Blind — Dark days: Singed by the special prosecutor and rattled by the Harriet Miers mess, Team Bush is in turmoil. — Nov. 7, 2005 issue - The mood in the White House last Friday afternoon was grim, but eerily quiet. Dick Cheney was gone, off in Georgia giving yet another …
Detroit News:
Absentee ballots tainted? — Some Detroit voters are incapacitated, without valid addresses, raising question of mayoral election's fairness. — A Detroit News investigation raises serious questions about the handling of absentee ballots under Detroit City Clerk Jackie Currie as the city prepares …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Alito's Dissent in Casey — There is a lot of buzz saying that Judge Samuel Alito may be President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court. If Judge Alito is nominated, the primary Democrat talking point is going to be his dissent in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 947 F.2d 682 (3d Cir. 1991).
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Alito Out? — If you believe this commenter at Confirm Them, Alito is out because Arlen Specter doesn't like him. [Please see both updates to this post.] — Good Lord. Does Bush want Specter's blessing or that of his base? Because they're not the same thing. — Has he learned nothing from the Miers debacle?
Time:
A Time To Regroup — Bloodied by scandal, setbacks and casualties, Bush is looking for fresh troops and a new battle plan — You have to wonder sometimes why Presidents even run for re-election, given how things usually turn out. Second terms have a way of veering into wild and menacing terrain …
