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nationaljournal.com:
Rove Assured Bush He Was Not Leaker  —  By Murray Waas, Washington-based journalist, for National Journal  —  White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame …
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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 …
Editor and Publisher:
'National Journal': Rove Told Bush He Did Not Leak to Reporters in Plame Case  —  NEW YORK The plot continued to thicken this afternoon in the Plamegate scandal, as veteran investigative reporter Murray Waas wrote in the National Journal online that Karl Rove had "personally assured President Bush …
Discussion: THE BRAD BLOG and DC Debate
Tom / The Media Mob - NYO:
Miller Surrenders Additional Notes  —  According to sources involved in the Judith Miller case, lawyers for Miller have turned over an additional, previously unreported batch of notes on the New York Times reporter's conversations with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
Rove's First Story, and Second Story, and Third Story to the Prosecutor
Discussion: firedoglake and Blue Mass. Group
Think Progress:
Right-Wing House Twists Arms, Thwarts Democracy To Pass Oil Industy Windfall  —  Emotions erupted on the floor of the House of Representatives this afternoon as the right-wing-led Congress held open yet another vote to twist arms and pass a bill that would line the pockets of energy company executives.
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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Indepundit
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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.
California Conservative:
California'S Cruciphobia: Banning San Diego'S Mt. Soledad War Memorial
Discussion: JunkYardBlog
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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Jay Tea / Wizbang:
AN ALTERNATIVE FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE  —  Yesterday, I derided the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency.  In the ocmments, one reader questioned just who I thought might deserve the prize.  So I started thinking.  —  The general requirements seem …
Discussion: »«TBogg»«
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Laurence Simon / This Blog Is Full Of Crap:   Who would I have proposed for a Nobel Peace Prize?
Tech Central Station:
Pork Gumbo  —  Louisiana lawmakers have come up with a request for $250 billion in federal reconstruction funds for Louisiana alone.  That's more than $50,000 per person in the state.  This money would come on top of the $62.3 billion that Congress has already appropriated for emergency relief …
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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.
Discussion: MyDD
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 …
MSNBC:
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for October 6  —  Read the transcript to the Thursday show  —  Guest: Lawrence O'Donnell, Craig Crawford, Evan Kohlmann, Mo Rocca, Peter  —  KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow?  —  Story continues below ↓
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washingtonian.com:
U.S. News Makes Big Bet on Internet to Try to Save Fading Magazine  —  U.S. News & World Report, the perennial third among the newsmagazines, is trying to become the first to exploit the Internet.  It's also trying to be among the first of the mainstream media outlets to hitch its fortunes to the shaky engine of Web economics.
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.
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.
Elizabeth Gibson / media.dailynorthwestern.com:
Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win  —  The problem with Democrat campaign speeches is "litany," and they need more narrative like Winnie the Pooh stories, political consultant and pundit James Carville said.  —  At a speech sponsored by the Northwestern College Democrats Thursday evening …

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Eric / Is That Legal?:
Investigate The Miers Nomination.
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Stop Whining - Right Choices and the Courts
Virginia / Dynamist Blog:
Why the Anger?
Aftenposten:
Teacher told to drop Star of David
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Dionne Notes Chickens Coming Home To Roost
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Miers' Wealth Declined Due to Mother's Care, Church Donations
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and SCOTUSblog

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Atrios / Eschaton:
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Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
The Bush speech falls flat for some
Discussion: Peaktalk and Daily Pundit
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
No. 2 Justice candidate withdraws name
Discussion: Hotline On Call
Damian / Daimnation!:
A MEME IN THE MAKING
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
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