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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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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.
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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 …
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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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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Damian / Daimnation!:
A MEME IN THE MAKING — In a new BBC documentary, the Palestinian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister - and if you can't believe Palestinian officials, who can you believe? - say President Bush told them that God asked him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan:
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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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A Chequer-Board of Nights …
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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.
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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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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 …
Lawhawk / A Blog For All:
Hinrichs Bomb Plot, New and Improved … World Net Daily story has more information, including the following: … Definitely curious. Indictments suggest that there are other individuals out there, and that this wasn't a lone individual who may or may not have had emotional problems.
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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 …
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.
Reuters:
Looking for work? Consider Al Qaeda... DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has put job advertisements on the Internet asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported. — The London-based Asharq al-Awsat said on its Web site this week that al Qaeda had …
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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.
BBC:
David Frost joins al-Jazeera TV — Veteran UK broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station al-Jazeera, the network has confirmed. — Sir David is to appear on al-Jazeera International, the pan-Arab news network's new English-language channel, due to be launched next spring.
Todd Zywicki / volokh.com:
[Continue Reading Warren Defends Times Editorial on Bankruptcy Reform and Hurricane Katrina under hidden text]: — DEMOCRACY, KELO-STYLE: When I first read Kelo, one thing that jumped out at me was the cute and endearing description of the way in which local land-use and redevelopment plans are made and implemented.
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