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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
President Pushover — Under other circumstances, President Bush's choice of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court would have been seen as a bold move by a strong president with a clear policy objective. By choosing a man of superior intellectual heft and an indelible record of conservative views …
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David W. Moore / Gallup:
Alito's Ratings Similar to Miers', Lower Than Roberts' — Majority says Supreme Court nominee should be rejected if opposed to Roe v. Wade — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans greet the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court with about the same degree …
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons — Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 — The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe …
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New York Times:
Detainee Policy Sharply Divides Bush Officials — WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - The Bush administration is embroiled in a sharp internal debate over whether a new set of Defense Department standards for handling terror suspects should adopt language from the Geneva Conventions prohibiting "cruel," …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Mad About You — In the genteel club that is the United States Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) had a screaming temper tantrum yesterday. — Minutes after his Democratic counterpart, Harry Reid (Nev.), used a surprise parliamentary maneuver to throw the Senate into a rare closed session …
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New York Times:
Partisan Quarrel Forces Senators to Bar the Doors — WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session on Tuesday over the Bush administration's use of intelligence to justify the Iraq war and the Senate's willingness to examine it.
New York Times:
G.O.P. Reaches to Other Party on Supreme Court Pick — WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 - Facing deep Democratic skepticism over the choice of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme Court, the Bush administration turned quickly on Tuesday to moderate Democrats who could be crucial to the confirmation …
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Alito nomination to test 'Gang of 14' — Senate Republicans said yesterday they will use the "nuclear option" to ban judicial filibusters if Democrats try using the tactic to block the confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. — "Certainly, this does not rise …
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Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
Victory: One Year Later — Sometimes, don't you just miss the old days? — Today marks one year from Election Day 2004. It was a long and suspenseful day. I ended up spending most of the day away from this blog and was in New Hampshire knocking on doors all morning and afternoon, and at an election party in the evening.
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Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Plamegate's real liar — 'SCOOTER" LIBBY'S indictment was not exactly good news for the White House, but it could have been a lot worse. Feverish speculation had been building that Karl Rove would soon be "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs," as Valerie Plame's bombastic hubby, Joe Wilson, had hoped.
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Christine Ollivier / Associated Press:
Chirac Warns of Firm Hand for Rioters — PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac, intervening after six nights of rioting in housing projects outside Paris, called Wednesday for calm and said authorities will use a firm hand to curtail what may become a "dangerous situation."
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Michelle Malkin:
"OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." — "OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." — These are words you did not read in the New York Times. They are the words of the late Corporal Jeffrey B. Starr, whose letter to his girlfriend in case of death …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
DeLay Loath to Doff His Leadership Hat — Former House majority leader Tom DeLay's efforts to retain power despite his indictment have angered some rank-and-file Republicans, many of whom say his ethical problems and uncertain status are staining them and destabilizing GOP unity.
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
The good news from Iraq is not fit to print — WHAT WAS the most important news out of Iraq last week? — That depends on what you consider ''important. " Do you see the war against radical Islam and Ba'athist fascism as the most urgent conflict of our time?
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Los Angeles Times:
Nominee Has Some Unexpected Supporters — Liberals who have worked with Samuel A. Alito Jr. say he is fair, not a rigid ideologue. — WASHINGTON — Samuel A. Alito Jr. was quickly branded a hard-core conservative after President Bush announced his nomination, but a surprising number …
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
Pentagon: Top al-Qaida Operative Escaped — FORT BLISS, Texas - A man once considered a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him, a defense lawyer involved in a prison abuse case said Tuesday.
