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The DeLay Indictment — YESTERDAY'S indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws won't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched the Texas Republican operate over the years. In his drive to consolidate Republican power …
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:Now We Know — Now we know where most Republicans stand …
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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Senate Confirms Roberts As Chief Justice — WASHINGTON - John Glover Roberts Jr. won confirmation as the 17th chief justice of the United States Thursday, overwhelmingly approved by the Senate as the jurist to lead the Supreme Court through turbulent social issues for generations to come.
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Roberts confirmed as chief justice — Bush poised to name O'Connor replacement — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Judge John Roberts was easily confirmed Thursday to be the 17th chief justice of the United States, winning Senate approval with a solid majority. — He is expected to be sworn in to the post later in the day.
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Roberts Confirmed by Senate — The Senate confirmed John Glover Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States, replacing the late William H. Rehnquist, the mentor for whom he clerked. The vote was 78-22. — Justice John Paul Stevens, the senior associate justice who has been performing …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Troubled Year Gets Worse for the GOP — Bad news often comes in bunches, but for a Republican Party that not long ago looked ahead to an unfettered period of growth and expansion, yesterday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) represented one of the most significant blows …
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Attempt to Pick Successor Is Foiled — Blunt Temporarily Takes Reins as Conservatives Reject Dreier — As the legal troubles mounted for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in recent weeks, he and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert talked repeatedly to craft a detailed strategy for the Republican leadership …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
The DeLay Dilemma And The Successor Search — Indicted Tom DeLay has stepped down as House Majority Leader temporarily, we are told, but now the real dilemmas surface over his successor, his party's stance towards him and his case, the response of Democrats — and the values the nation …
Scott Shields / MyDD:
Media Finally Sees Through Bush's 'Number 2 Man' Myth — Ever notice how many times the Bush administration and the Pentagon tout the killing or capture of high level al Qaeda operatives? Just how many 'Number 2,' 'Number 3,' and 'Number 4' men can bin Laden and Zarqawi possibly have, anyway?
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Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25 - After the storm came the siege. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans. The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations …
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Barry Moody / Reuters:
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq — LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
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Juliette Kayyem / tpmcafe.com:
America Abroad — Karen of Arabia — Yesterday, news reports suggested that new public diplomacy czar (Undersecretary of State) Karen Hughes faced criticism in her first visit to Saudi Arabia because of her comments relating to women, equal rights and the ban on female driving in the Gulf nation.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:Turks Challenge Hughes on Iraq
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Gov. Blanco gets no Katrina questions — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city's post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The Althouse comments persona. — Here at Althouse, there's the Althouse of the front page posts and the Althouse of the comments. Things are a little more experimental and brainstormy in the comments. I'm used to having my posts linked, but it's surprising to get something I toss out in the comments linked.
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Associated Press:
Bush narrows Supreme Court list — Judges, lawyers being considered, analysts say — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, nearing the end of his search for a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has whittled his list to a handful of candidates and could announce his decision by week's end.
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Hero's return for Labour heckler — An 82-year-old activist thrown out of the Labour party conference for heckling Jack Straw has returned to the venue to a hero's welcome. — Walter Wolfgang, from London, was cheered as he held up his security pass - confiscated by stewards on Wednesday.
neo-neocon:
The varieties of pacifism: (Part I)—Gandhi's absolutism — While researching this post on the phrase "speaking truth to power," I discovered that it originated among Quakers, and I promised that I'd write something soon about Quaker pacifism. I had planned that this post would be that "something."
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
The blogs Kevin is referring to are run by, how shall I say this, rather young bloggers. ("Immature" might be another word, "naive" another, "downright silly sometimes" another). — I don't mind the silliness every once in a while, after all its not like conservatives are adverse to this type of thing …
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Operation Rhma: Final Mission — Much world travel has convinced me that the "average American" is a good person. But even a good person needs information in order to act effectively on their best impulses. Oftentimes, good things do not happen simply because information does not make it to the right people.
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