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Patrick Hynes / anklebitingpundits.com:
Blogger Conference Call With WH Advisor Steve Schmidt On Alito Nomination — Today I had the opportunity to participate in a blogger conference call with Steve Schmidt, Special Advisor to the President in charge of the White House confirmation team. We first want to thank Steve and Patrick Ruffini …
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Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
Blogger Conference Call with WH Advisor Steve Schmidt — I just got off of another blogger conference call, this one with Steve Schmidt, Special Advisor to the President in charge of the White House Confirmation Team. According to Schmidt, the nomination is off to a terrific start …
Gateway Pundit:
Vicente Fox, Not Bush, Dampens Chavez's Marxist Party — THOUSANDS COME TO ARGENTINA TO PROTEST BUSH & FREE TRADE, — VIDEO HERE — Cindy Sheehan is scheduled to give a talk today at the Marxist Anti-Bush Rally in Argentina. — Thousands participate in a demonstration against the presence …
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CNN:
Americas summit protest turns violent — Anger in streets over Bush, economic policies as leaders gather — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (CNN) — Protesters set one building on fire Friday and threw objects at police in the streets of this resort city as the leaders of 34 nations began the fourth Summit of the Americas.
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
DeLay Asked Lobbyist to Raise Money Through Charity — WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - Representative Tom DeLay asked the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a private charity controlled by Mr. Abramoff, an unusual request that led the lobbyist to try to gather at least $150,000 …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Case Against Karl Rove (Ongoing...) — The NY Times has a good news / bad news story about the case against Karl Rove. — (a) Fitzgerald is no longer looking at some of the more dramatic charges, such as conspiracy or lying to the President; — (b) Fitzgerald is focusing …
New York Times:
Prosecutor Narrows Focus on Rove Role in C.I.A. Leak — WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case has narrowed his investigation of Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, to whether he tried to conceal from the grand jury a conversation with a Time magazine reporter …
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:
TWO A. SULLIVANS — don't understand why many Catholic bishops want to deny communion to Catholic politicians who vote for legal abortion but are not "applying pressure" and bringing their "coercion campaign" to Catholic judges who (allegedly) do the same thing.
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Amy Sullivan / The Washington Monthly: NO COMMUNION FOR JUDGES, PART 2....Ramesh Ponnuru and Stephen Bainbridge …
Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:The Difference Between Judging and Legislating by Catholics
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The French "Intifada" — With the riots in Paris by Muslims entering its ninth day, the sense of a chaotic situation with no obvious end point growing out of control has become pervasive. This morning, Drudge reports on the French government's growing belief that these riots …
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New York Sun:Intifada in France — If President Chirac thought …
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Michael Kinsley / Slate:
How Conservative Is "Too Conservative"? — Rules for the Alito Games. — The Democrats have declared war on President Bush's latest Supreme Court candidate, Samuel Alito, without much in the way of weapons. Only two, really: the filibuster and the power of persuasion.
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Agence France Presse:
Former Powell aide links Cheney's office to abuse directives — WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney's office was responsible for directives that led to U.S. soldiers' abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former top State Department official said Thursday.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Spending Inquiry for Top Official on Broadcasting — WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees most government broadcasts to foreign countries, including the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, is the subject of an inquiry into accusations …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
The Real Global Virus — The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. — National Review Online — Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once.
Associated Press:
Clinton: Hillary Would Be Better President — Former President Clinton said in an interview Friday that he believes his wife would do a better job than he did in the nation's highest office. — New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has not said whether she plans to run in Nonetheless …
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John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:
A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment — In my last column, I tried to deflate expectations a bit about the likely consequences of the work of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald; to bring them down to the realistic level at which he was likely to proceed.
Right Wing Nut House:
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #20 — There were a couple of leading candidates for Cluebat of the Week this time around. Some would have been awarded on a collective basis (The French Government for their tepid response to rioting Muslims), some for individual achievement (Harry Reid's stunt in closing the Senate).
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Tom DeLay / Washington Post:
A Swing and A Miss on Tax Reform — In case you were wondering what that giant "whoosh" emanating from Washington was, it was the sound of the people on the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform swinging and missing at the easy underhand toss that George W. Bush sent their way.
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
House Delays Vote on U.S. Treatment of Terrorism Suspects — WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - The House Republican leadership has delayed a vote on a proposed ban against cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners in American custody, and Democrats say the move is an effort to spare Vice President Dick Cheney an embarrassing defeat.
