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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
'Party trumps race' for Steele foes — Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican. — Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election …
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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, I held a link fest, but it is over.
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CBS News:
Poll: More Bad News For Bush — (CBS) Most Americans believe someone in the Bush Administration did leak Valerie Plame's name to reporters - even though Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted no one for doing that. Half of the public describes the matter as something of great importance …
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Mrs Smash / The Indepundit:
Project Valour-IT Fundraising Drive — While Smash is busy with his "real" job, I've been asked to take over certain tasks "around the house." One of the duties I've been assigned is heading the charge for the Navy in the Project Valour-IT Fundraising Competition.
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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.
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
LYING TIMES — Michelle Malkin has a follow up report on the storm brewing over the New York Times' use of selective quotes from a final letter home from an American GI. — For those who might not have known, the Times took these words from US Marine Corporal Jeffrey B. Starr:
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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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Scott McClellan / thinkprogress.org:
November 2 Press Gaggle — MR. McCLELLAN: Good morning, everyone. The President had breakfast with some of the congressional leadership: Senator Frist, Senator McConnell, Speaker Hastert and Congressman Blunt. This was kind of a follow on meeting to the discussion they had last week.
National Review:
Who Did What? — The hot-blooded search for criminality in the matter of Cheney/Libby/Rove has not truly satisfied those in search of first degree venality. Very soon after the indictment of Mr. Libby, the tricoteuses glumly conceded that no conspiracy has been uncovered.
MEMRI:
Iranian Animated Film for Children Promotes Suicide Attacks — The following are excerpts from an Iranian animated movie for children, which aired on IRIB 3 TV on October 28, 2005, at 8 a.m. Iran time. — Palestinian woman: "You killed my child, that's enough. You ruthless man, let him go."
rawstory.com:
Bolton's chief of staff gave information on outed agent to Libby, lawyers involved in leak case say — John Bolton, the former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs who is now the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was contacted by I. Lewis "Scooter" …
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 …
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AMERICAblog, The Next Hurrah, Pandagon, Big Brass Blog, How Appealing, Pam's House Blend and TalkLeft
WorldNetDaily:
Michael Moore owns Halliburton! — New book debunks claims of celebrity activists — "I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed. — He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares - including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing …
Bull Moose:
Romney — The Moose weighs in on the re-litigation of the war. — Yesterday's Senate action demonstrated that the Democratic minority can stage creative political theater. It is good for the Republican majority to be hornswaggled once and a while. The Democrats also forced the Republicans …
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Fiscal Phonies — The scramble by congressional Republicans and White House officials to show they're serious about dealing with the budget recalls the classic 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," whose main character, Holden Caulfield, denounces almost everyone as a "phony."
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 …
Michael J. Totten:
The Ghost City of Cyprus — Just on the north side of the Attila Line that partitions the island of Cyprus, the ghost city of Varosha (a suburb of Famagusta) is surrounded with barbed wire. — In 1974 the Turkish military invaded and carved up the island. Greek Cypriots in the north were forced to move south side of the line.
