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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 …
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 …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:ElBaradei and IAEA Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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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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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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California Conservative:
California'S Cruciphobia: Banning San Diego'S Mt. Soledad War Memorial — atheist Philip Paulson, who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross on city land in 1989. — A California judge has ruled that San Diego's Proposition A, a voter initiative to preserve …
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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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.
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.
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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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
What Is To Be Done? — IT'S BEEN A BAD WEEK for the Bush administration—but, in a way, a not-so-bad week for American conservatism. George W. Bush's nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was at best an error, at worst a disaster. There is no need now to elaborate on Bush's error.
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.
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.
Presstitutes:
The Sound Of A Tornado - How Bush Could Rebound — Bush is "likable." Bush is "religious." Bush is "resolute." Bush is "plain-spoken." "Al Gore invented the Internet." John Kerry is a "flip-flopper." The media is "liberal." — Through a self-reinforcing loop …
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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 …
