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Bill Sammon / Washington Times:
Alito rejected abortion as a right  —  Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times.  —  "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito on Abortion: Vindication for the Anti-Miers Crowd  —  The Washington Times dug up a 1985 job application submitted by Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to then attorney general Ed Meese.  In it, Alito stated: … Several observations:  —  I think this clearly vindicates those of us who led the anti-Miers fight.
Discussion: Bench Memos …
New Yorker:
SCOTUS WATCH  —  In the months since Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Americans have become obsessed with judge-watching.  The new pastime practically eclipsed the World Series, with fans paying more attention to Harriet Miers's eye makeup than to Jermaine Dye's batting average.
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:
Under Her Robe  —  Article III Groupie recently gave Jeffrey Toobin …
Discussion: Althouse
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hardly Seems Fair To Quote Them Now  —  I haven't found Ted Kennedy's floor speech prior to the October 2002 vote on the war resolution, but here he is at SAIS on Sept 27, 2002.  Early laugh lines include these: … and … Only later did Kennedy realize what a liar Bush was, and how important it was to question his motives.
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The Politics of War  —  Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's vice president, may seem a bit unfeeling as he assesses the ongoing violence in his country.  It is very hard, he says — but better than during Saddam Hussein's day, when, Mahdi says, each year 30,000 Iraqis were executed or assassinated by the regime or killed in the dictator's wars.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Betsy's Page
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Daily Kos:
WaPo's Ed Board Editor Practices The New McCarthyism
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
New York Times:
Unwavering Bush Ally Acts Quickly on Court Choices  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - When President Bush named Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. as his Supreme Court pick, it took Progress for America just 39 minutes to introduce a slick Web site and begin lobbying for his confirmation.  And that was slow.
Discussion: RedState.org
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Donklephant
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: The Washington Post On Pre-War Intelligence  —  The Washington Post Implies That The Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) Was Superior To The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) Given To Congress.  "But Bush does not share his most sensitive intelligence, such as the President's Daily Brief, with lawmakers.
The Age:
Gore makes sustainable investment his business  —  As chairman of a British company, the former US vice-president still has global warming and long-term consequences on his mind, writes Peter Weekes.  —  AL GORE, the man who five years ago won the popular vote but lost the US presidential elections …
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Heavy Hand of the Secret Police Impeding Reform in Arab World  —  AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 13 - At a cultural festival last year, Sameer al-Qudah recited a poem of his depicting Arab rulers as a notch below pirates and highwaymen on the scale of honorable professions.  Within days, Jordan's intelligence police summoned him.
Associated Press:
Dead suspect could be detainee U.S. let go in Iraq  —  AMMAN, Jordan — American forces last year detained and later released an Iraqi with a name that matched one of three suicide bombers who struck Amman hotels, killing 57 people, the U.S. military said today.
Discussion: Informed Comment and Galley Slaves
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Jamal Halaby / Associated Press:
Iraqi Woman Admits on TV to Jordan Attack
Discussion: Tinkerty Tonk
Jimmy Carter / Los Angeles Times:
This isn't the real America  —  IN RECENT YEARS, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.  —  These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace …
Washington Post:
Detainees Deserve Court Trials  —  As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me.  Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.  Terrorists!  Kyl must have said the word 30 times.
MSNBC:
Transcript for November 13  —  Guests: His Majesty King Abdullah II, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan;  —  Ken Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee; and  —  Howard Dean, Chairman, Democratic National Committee  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the Democrats win governorships in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Shuster v. Russert v. Dean v. The Truth
TigerHawk:
Strategic overview: Annotating and updating Den Beste  —  More than two years ago, blogging great Steven Den Beste (now (perhaps) returned from retirement!) published a widely-linked "strategic overview" of the war on Islamic fascism, including (in Den Beste's conception) the invasion of Iraq.
New York Times:
Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us  —  Washington — How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include abuse rising to the level of torture?  Much has been said about the illegality of these tactics, but the strategic error that led to their adoption has been overlooked.

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Rod Nordland / Newsweek:
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