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TimChapman / Townhall.com:
RNC blogger conference call — The RNC has organized another blogger conference call this afternoon. Today's call will be with the White House's Alito confirmation team leader, Steve Schmidt. — Capitol Report will be on the 2:00 call. — UPDATE: In progress...details to follow.
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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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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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Babalu Blog, In the Bullpen, The Noonz Wire, Brainster's Blog and Weapons of Mass Destruction
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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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Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, firedoglake, TAPPED, The Stakeholder, Majikthise and Taegan Goddard's …
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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 …
New York Sun:
Intifada in France — If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated. Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced …
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Pardon My English, New York Post, Michelle Malkin, QandO, » Outside The Beltway, Hit and Run, Mark in Mexico, Peaktalk, Instapundit.com, Front Page Magazine, Six Meat Buffet, In the Bullpen, EdCone.com, The Daily Demarche, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Diggers Realm, Publius Rendezvous, Donklephant, Don Surber and Mike's Noise
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Sky News:
Disabled Woman Set Ablaze — A handicapped woman was doused with petrol and set on fire by youths during another night of rioting in Paris. — The 56-year-old suffered third degree burns to 20% of her body in the attack. — Witnesses said a youth poured petrol over the woman and then threw …
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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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
What's Too Conservative? — 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. And the filibuster — because it seems (and is) …
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.
rawstory.com:
Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considing impeachment over Iraq, 51-45 percent — Impeachment support is greater among all adults than likely voters — A new poll of likely voters by Zogby International has found that a majority of Americans support Congress considering …
Opinion Journal:
The Clare Luce Democrats — How they're lying about "he lied us into war." — Harry Reid pulled the Senate into closed session Tuesday, claiming that "The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this Administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq."
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The Huffington Post, Sister Toldjah, Gay Patriot, SoCalPundit, Cold Fury, Blogs for Bush, Southern Appeal, Captain's Quarters and USS Neverdock
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.
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Carter condemns abortion culture — Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday condemned all abortions and chastised his party for its intolerance of candidates and nominees who oppose abortion. — "I never have felt that any abortion should be committed — I think each abortion is the result …
Allison R. Hayward / National Review:
System Failure — OWednesday, the Online Freedom of Speech Act(HR 1606) failed to pass on suspension with the necessary two-thirds vote. While supporters, pleased with their clear majority (225-182), vow to bring it back as a bill in the ordinary course, this is an unfortunate development …
