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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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Swing State Project, Taegan Goddard's …, The Heretik, Basie!, Talking Points Memo and The Next Hurrah
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CNN:
Poll: Bush approval mark at all-time low — (CNN) — Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday. — Bush also received his all-time worst marks …
Right Wing Nut House:
GOING DOWN FIGHTING — Courtesy of Michelle Malkin, we have a preview of the President's remarks at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska in which he inches closer to calling out Democrats by name who are accusing him falsely of lying about pre-war Iraq intel: … An excellent tactic.
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.
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Andrew / Confirm Them:
Alito on Abortion, Circa 1985 — RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for 'Alito on Abortion, Circa 1985'. — Patterico's Pontifications » Breaking: Alito Firmly Said Constitution Does Not Protect Right to Abortion - — Stop The ACLU - — Aggressive Conservative -
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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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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.
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 …
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Hullabaloo, TheAgitator.com, Patridiot Watch, Think Progress, Eschaton, Nitpicker, BlondeSense and Seeing the Forest
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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Daily Kos, The All Spin Zone, The Heretik, www.AndrewSullivan.com, Viking Pundit and Betsy's Page
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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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How Appealing, Concurring Opinions, PrawfsBlawg, ACSBlog, SCOTUSblog, The Volokh Conspiracy, Crescat Sententia and Confirm Them
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:Under Her Robe — Article III Groupie recently gave Jeffrey Toobin …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Closing Statement — Unless the Bingaman amendment is introduced Tuesday instead of Monday, or hilzoy has something up her sleeve, I think this is the last post we are going to be able to do on this subject. It will also be the shortest. — First, I wanted to provide links to all the posts …
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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Obsidian Wings, firedoglake, A Blog For All, The Washington Monthly, Hit and Run, Think Progress, The Heretik, Preemptive Karma, Unfogged, MaxSpeak, TalkLeft and rubber hose
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 —
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.
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
No Dean apology for Steele — The chairman of the Republican Party yesterday challenged his Democratic counterpart to condemn racist statements against Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, but Howard Dean demanded his own apology and ignored the question. — The former Vermont governor …
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Blogs for Bush, Brendan Nyhan, G e n e r a t i o n W h y ?, Sister Toldjah and The Strata-Sphere
David Stout / New York Times:
Parents Carry Burden of Proof in School Cases, Court Rules — WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - The Supreme Court ruled today, in a case of intense interest to educators and millions of parents, that people who demand changes to their children's special-education programs have the burden of proving those programs inadequate.
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