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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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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 …
Don Surber:
Linkfest For Nov. 2, 2005 — Today marks the first anniversary of George Walker Bush's historic re-election. He drew more votes than any president. Ever. 62 million. — LaShawn Barber remembered! As did — Blogs for Bush. — In celebration, permalink this to your post. Post a trackback.
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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.
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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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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The Strata-Sphere, Cold Fury, Think Progress, Power Line, Daily Pundit and Austin Bay Blog
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New York Times:
Remember That Mushroom Cloud? — The indictment of Lewis Libby on charges of lying to a grand jury about the outing of Valerie Wilson has focused attention on the lengths to which the Bush administration went in 2003 to try to distract the public from this central fact …
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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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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Michelle Malkin:
"OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." — ***scroll for updates...a soldier responds...*** — "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 …
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Battle Royale at the Pentagon: David Addington v. Common Article 3 — As I have previously explained, perhaps the single most important turning point in the torture and abuse scandals was the President's determination, on February 7, 2002, that the United States would no longer uniformly abide …
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BLACKFIVE:
CALLING ALL BLOGGERS - "GREEN LIGHT!!! GO!!!" — "At that time I had no use of either hand. I know how humbling it is, how humiliating it feels. And I know how much better I felt, how amazingly more functional I felt, after Soldiers' Angels provided me with a laptop and a loyal reader provided me with the software.
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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.
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Boston Globe:
Alito writing backed privacy, gay rights — PRINCETON, N.J. — As a senior at Princeton University, Samuel A. Alito Jr. chaired an undergraduate task force that recommended the decriminalization of sodomy, accused the CIA and the FBI of invading the privacy of citizens …
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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Murray Waas / whatever already!:
Exclusive: Senate Democrats consider pressing for appointment of special select committee to investigate administration's pre-war intelligence claim — The Senate Democratic leadership over the course of the last several days has had discussions among themselves, along with senior congressional staff …
Michelle Malkin:
THE VILE BILE WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH — Straight from the headlines, here's exactly the kind of unhinged liberal hatred and bigotry against minority Republicans I talk about in my book— via the Washington Times today: … This is how low the Left's political discourse has sunk: I'm a banana and a coconut and a whore and worse.
