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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.
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Myopic Zeal
Sean McCabe / judicialnetwork.com:1985 Alito statement that constitution does not protect abortion is widely held
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.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Believe It or Not — Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC? — What do you have to believe in order to keep alive your conviction that the Bush administration conspired to launch a lie-based war? As with (I admit) the pro-war case, the ground of argument has a tendency to shift.
Andrew A. Green / Baltimore Sun:
Ehrlich bristles at Oreo skeptics … Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.
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USA Today:
President's ratings hit new low in poll — WASHINGTON — Americans' views of President Bush and his trustworthiness have hit new lows, a downturn that could make it more difficult for him to push his legislative agenda and to boost Republican candidates in next year's congressional elections.
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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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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.
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 …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Incompetent On All Levels by digby Those of us w... Incompetent On All Levels — Those of us who've been writing about the torture regime for a long while already knew that the DOD had decided to use the SERE techniques to "interrogate" prisoners. This NY Times article reveals something about this I didn't know before —
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John / AMERICAblog:
Target digs itself a deeper hole in emergency contraceptive scandal — AMERICAblog reader, and fellow blogger, Joseph Hughes of Hughes for America, just sent me the latest response from Target about their growing emergency contraception scandal. — Full disclosure, I've worked as a consultant …
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.
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New York Times:
Spain Looks Into C.I.A.'s Handling of Detainees — LONDON, Nov. 11 - On the Spanish island of Majorca, the police quietly opened a criminal investigation in March after a local newspaper reported a series of visits to the island's international airport by planes known to regularly operate for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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