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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.
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, the brilliant legal affairs writer at the New Yorker, a peek beneath her robe. Toobin now reports that one David B. Lat, a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey, claims responsibility for this blog.
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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.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion — WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - A coalition of liberal groups is preparing a national television advertising campaign against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. that seeks to move the debate over his selection …
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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 …
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.
Michael Fumento / fumento.com:
FUSS AND FEATHERS — PANDEMIC PANIC OVER THE AVIAN FLU — "The indication is that we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of flu," warns America's top health official. "In 1918, half a million people died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans . . . "
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
CIA Article Sidebar: A Story of Deja Vu — Dana Priest, and her newspaper, are being hit from both sides. — Some conservatives are furious over her Washington Post story this month disclosing that the CIA has been hiding and interrogating terror suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe.
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Bryan Preston / Tech Central Station:
Did Bush Lie? Ask Google — President Bush came out swinging on Veterans Day in a speech accusing his Democratic war critics of re-writing history. Some war critics have mounted a campaign against him by boiling the entire pre-war history and post-invasion violence down to a two-word phrase: "Bush Lied".
