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John Podhoretz / The Corner on National Review Online:
MCCLELLAN GOES AFTER ROVE — The much-discussed Washington Post story this morning headlined "Rove's Future Role Is Debated" is a bit of a breakthrough because it's one of the few times during Dubya's tenure in the White House that the press has been used as a tool to fight an internal battle.
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Washington Post:
Rove's Future Role Is Debated — White House May Seek Fresh Start In Wake of Leak — Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:And Away We Go — Yippee kay-yay. From tomorrow's WaPo:
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CNN:
'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged — E-mails give insight into Brown's leadership, attitude — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Louisiana congressman says e-mails written by the government's emergency response chief as Hurricane Katrina raged show a lack of concern for the unfolding tragedy and a failure in leadership.
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:Panel Still Waiting for Hurricane Katrina Papers
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Frank Davies / Knight Ridder:In Katrina's aftermath, FEMA chief mused about his future
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BBC:
Fresh violence hits Paris suburbs — Rioting youths opened fire on police and set dozens of vehicles ablaze in a seventh night of violence in Paris. — In escalating unrest, shots were fired at police and firefighters, while gangs besieged a police station, set fire to a car showroom and threw petrol bombs.
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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:Rioting Spreads to 20 Towns Around Paris
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Libby Pleads Not Guilty in CIA Leak Case — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff pleaded not guilty Thursday in the CIA leak scandal, marking the start of what could be a long road to a trial in which Cheney and other top Bush administration officials could be summoned to testify.
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Chris / AMERICAblog:
Republicans plan to cut 40,000 kids from school lunch program to pay for ANOTHER tax cut in the next month — They're asking the poor to suck it up and do without because of those critical tax cuts for the wealthy, corporate welfare and a failing war of convenience are more important than food for the poor.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate's Closed-Session Move Borne Out of Daschle's Strategy — It took Democrats about five seconds to trigger the parliamentary move that forced the Senate into a rare closed session this week, but it was more than a year in the planning. — The final decision to employ the tactic …
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Tom Stuckey / Associated Press:
Race Becomes Issue in Md. Governor's Race — ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A blogger's depiction of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in minstrel makeup has brought to the surface issues of race — and fidelity to one's race — as the Republican seeks to become Maryland's first black senator.
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New York Times:
Alito's Dissents Show Deference to Lower Courts — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissents slightly more often than the typical appeals court judge, and his dissenting opinions are almost always more conservative than the majority's. — In the several hundred cases he heard over 15 years …
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
AP: DeLay's staff tried to help Abramoff — WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom DeLay's staff tried to help lobbyist Jack Abramoff win access to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, an effort that succeeded after Abramoff's Indian tribe clients began funneling a quarter-million dollars to an environmental group founded by Norton.
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Newsweek:
In the Company of Friends — Bush may be besieged by charges of cronyism, but they don't seem to have affected his picks for a panel assessing intelligence matters. Plus, Alito, the talkie. — Nov. 2, 2005 - Controversy continues to rage over spying failures and the mishandling …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Jack Shafer Gets Results! (But What Are They?) — Jack Shafer takes up the puzzle of the Nick Kristof column that started it all: … Ahh, but the column was based on some errors, or miscommunications, or something, a point we have belabored seemingly endlessly. — But now Jack Shafer gets results:
Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
Regional judge steps aside in DeLay case — Motion filed by Earle prompted withdrawal; state chief justice, another Republican, will now name trial judge. — In an unprecedented move, Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, forced a Republican presiding judge from naming …
Associated Press:
Italian lawmaker: U.S. told of WMD forgeries — Senator says Bush administration was warned Iraq documents were fake — ROME - Italian secret services warned the United States months before it invaded Iraq that a dossier about a purported Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium in Africa was fake …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Life of the Party? Only in the 'Grand Old' Sense. — Senators will debate Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito's legal views for months, but this much is settled law: The Senate is witnessing a real-life revenge of the nerd. — Alito, bespectacled, hair askew, suit rumpled and ill-fitting …
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Joining Forces in Scalitovision 2005 — I received an e-mail from my dear friend and liberal, Michael J.W. Stickings over at The Reaction, he also writes for the Moderate Voice together with Joe Gandelman, and another young rising star by the name of David Schraub.
