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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Reporter turns over notes in CIA leak case — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York Times reporter has given investigators notes from a conversation she had with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney weeks earlier than was previously known, suggesting White House involvement started …
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Sweet Judy Blew Lies — By now you've all heard that Judy discovered some forgotten notes from June 2003. It seems she and Fitzgerald are going to have a lot to talk about the next time they get together. — It's looking increasingly likely that the outtamyarse speculations I made in July …
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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Says He Wasn't Involved in CIA Leak — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told President Bush and others that he never engaged in an effort to disclose a CIA operative's identity to discredit her husband's criticism of the administration's Iraq policy, according to people …
Point Five:
IAEA Embarrassment As Nobel Committee Develops Warhead — On what should have been a day of triumph, Mohamed ElBaradei, and the International Atomic Energy Agency that he heads, have suffered another bitter embarrassment. — Just hours after the announcement that ElBaradei and the IAEA …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:ElBaradei and IAEA Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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Tom / Time Hath Found Us:
Idiot judge finds Mt. Soledad Cross unconstitutional — In a direct slap in the face of an overwhelming majority of voters, Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett has found Proposition "A", the save the Mt. Soledad War Memorial Cross measure, unconstitutional.
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10news.com:
Fate Of Soledad Cross Questioned — Judge Rules Cross Proposition Unconstitutional — SAN DIEGO — A Superior Court judge has ruled that a proposed transfer of the Mount Soledad Cross to the federal government is unconstitutional. — Judge Patricia Cowett found Friday that maintenance …
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Kevin P. Martin / Boston Globe:
Miers's qualifications — PRESIDENT BUSH'S nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has been met with a remarkable amount of resistance from conservative pundits, including such luminaries as George Will, who have stumbled over themselves rushing to question her credentials.
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CBS News:
GOP Pushes Through Refinery Bill — (CBS/AP) The House narrowly approved a Republican-crafted energy bill Friday aimed at encouraging construction of new refineries, although opponents said it would do nothing to ease energy prices while handing unneeded benefits to a profit-rich oil industry.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
… Lame. Meanwhile, blogger Eric Cowperthwaite isn't any happier with the response he got from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): "I plan to vote against Senator Boxer when she comes up for re-election and I plan to vocally and publicly let people know that she is absolutely unwilling to cut waste …
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Cinnamon Stillwell / aim.org:
Terrorism Strikes the Heartland — If you happened to be browsing the Internet last weekend, the headline, "Suicide bombing in Oklahoma" just might have caught your attention. After all, it's not every day that there's a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and supposedly there hasn't been one since 9/11.
Stephen Henderson / Knight Ridder:
Miers espoused progressive views as elected official, records show — WASHINGTON - In what appear to be some of her only public statements about a constitutional issue, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers testified in a 1990 voting rights lawsuit that the Dallas City Council had too few black …
Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
Hundreds Dead in Pakistan-India Earthquake — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building, killing hundreds of people in both nations.
Ronald A. Cass / realclearpolitics.com:
Stop Whining - Right Choices and the Courts — To hear the howls from conservative commentators following President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers, you would think that Bush just sold a seat on the Supreme Court to someone who's a cross between Ann Richards and Barney the White House pet.
Washington Post:
Nine Explain Interrogation Votes — Reacting to reports of abuse of detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, the Senate voted 90 to 9 Wednesday night for an amendment by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would ban the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in the custody of the U.S. military.
Will Lester / Associated Press:
Poll: Groups Unhappy With Bush Performance — WASHINGTON - Evangelicals, Republican women, Southerners and other critical groups in President Bush's political coalition are worried about the direction the nation is headed and disappointed with his performance, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
US News:
The president's speech — I was in the hall at the Ronald Reagan Building (irony: Washington's largest federal building is named after the president who said government was the problem not the solution) when George W. Bush delivered his speech to the National Endowment for Democracy.
Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:
Two Year Old Story Leads Guardian, Indy; Black Activist Either Blind or Lying; Boobs at the Grauniad — For most of today's papers, the announcement of a vaccine for cervical cancer takes top billing, dominating as it does the front pages of the Telegraph, Times and Daily Mail.
