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Associated Press:
Sen. Biden Suggests Scrapping Hearings — WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominees are so mum about the major legal issues at their Senate confirmation hearings that the hearings serve little purpose and should probably be abandoned, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden said Thursday.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Kos Kidz Go After Alito's Wife — It can't be pleasant for family members of a judge who sit through confirmation hearings. Just imagine being in their position. Here's this person you have great love and respect for, on TV, in front of the whole world, being attacked by a bunch of ill-tempered …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Alito's Wife Cries at Confirmation Hearing — WASHINGTON — Martha-Ann Bomgardner left her husband's confirmation hearings in tears, returning not long after. The episode elicited sympathy for her from senators of both parties _ and instant finger-pointing.
National Review:
Alito: A Last-Gasp Democratic Gambit Fails — What's in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton papers? Nothing. — You can say what you want about the liberal groups opposing Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, but they stay on message. So much so that by late afternoon Wednesday …
Tom Bevan / The RCP Blog:
How Many Dems Could Be Confirmed? — After watching the wife of the nominee break down into tears yesterday evening at the treatment being given to her husband by Senate Democrats, it seems fair to ask: how many Democrats sitting on the Judiciary Committee could be confirmed using their own standards?
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The American Princess
Sam Alito / TalkLeft:
Sparks Fly at Alito Hearing — We were waiting for some fireworks at Judge Sam Alito's confirmation hearing. Tuesday was definitely dullsville. We wanted sparks to fly. We wanted to hear — Bell's going to ring — Hear the alarms — Better tell the fire chief — To quit playing cards
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Nihilist In Golf Pants, QandO, MyDD, Hullabaloo, James Wolcott, firedoglake and Opinio Juris
Mike Allen / Time:
GOP Confident as Alito Hearings Wrap — Despite frustrating Democrats with his answers, the nominee has made no major slip-ups … Republicans, already sensing that this week's hearings have defanged any real threat to Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation for the Supreme Court …
Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:Senate's swirling winds
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New York Times, Washington Post, Carol Platt Liebau, irishpennants.com, The Heretik and How Appealing
Dean Barnett / dbsoxblog.blogspot.com:TEARS TO YOUR EYES — Joe Biden chortles while Alito's wife weeps
John / AMERICAblog:
AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.95 — UPDATE: We tried to get the cell phone records of other high-profile Washingtonians like ABC's George Stephanopoulos, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, and the New York Time's Adam Nagourney …
Chris Hogg / BBC:
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs — Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. — They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Writer Says He Made Up Some Details — The author of a best-selling memoir whose truth was called into question this week acknowledged yesterday that he had made up details of his life. — But Oprah Winfrey, whose recommendation last fall of the memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," …
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The Constitutional Catechism — The Alito hearings make clear that at this point in American constitutional history, a Supreme Court nominee must recite a catechism of belief if he or she is to be confirmed. — The nominee must state that he or she (1) believes that there is a right to privacy …
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The Glittering Eye
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CNN:
Hajj stampede kills hundreds — MINA, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — At least 345 people have been killed in a stampede during a symbolic stoning ritual at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, according to the country's health ministry. — Health Minister Hamad al-Maneh told Saudi TV …
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This Blog Is Full Of Crap, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, IMAO, ScrappleFace, PoliBlog and Dean's World
ctv.ca:
Ad wasn't an attack on military: Paul Martin — Paul Martin defended the series of controversial ads his Liberal Party unleashed this week and continued his attack on Stephen Harper, painting him as a leader who subscribes to a far right-wing ideology. — In an interview Thursday morning …
Dane Smith / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
'Impaler' sinks his teeth into governor's race — Self-styled "vampyre" Jonathon Sharkey is running for governor on a platform that includes impaling terrorists. — Looking for something really, really different in a political candidate this year? — Take a gander at Jonathon (The Impaler) …
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Shakespeare's Sister
Maria Glod / Washington Post:
DNA Tests Confirm Guilt of Executed Man — DNA tests released this afternoon confirmed the guilt of a Virginia man who had proclaimed his innocence in a slaying and rape even as he was strapped into the state's electric chair in 1992. — Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) …
Michael Fumento / American Spectator:
The James Wolcott Treatment — Every once in awhile, in the spirit of "know thy enemy," you have to brace yourself and take a peek inside the fetid mind of an influential defeat-nik. "Enter, if you will," as Rod Serling might have said, "the head of one James Wolcott."
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