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Richard Keil / Bloomberg:
Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say — Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) — A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent's name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Judgment Call — Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade? — Two days after President Bush announced Harriet Miers's Supreme Court nomination, James Dobson of Focus on the Family raised some eyebrows by declaring on his radio program …
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Rush Limbaugh / Opinion Journal:
Holding Court — There's a crackdown over Miers, not a "crackup." — I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / New York Times:
Why Conservatives Are Divided — CONSERVATIVES are conducting a bitter debate about President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Some see a divide between populists and elitists: they say that the conservative masses are gung-ho for the nomination, which is opposed only by Beltway insiders.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
For U.S., a Hard Road Is Still Ahead in Iraq — For the Bush administration, the apparent approval of Iraq's constitution is less of a victory than yet another chance to possibly fashion a political solution that does not result in the bloody division of Iraq.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Leaders Set to Cut Spending — Leadership Shake-Up Spurred Policy Shift — House Republican leaders have moved from balking at big cuts in Medicaid and other programs to embracing them, driven by pent-up anger from fiscal conservatives concerned about runaway spending and the leadership's own weakening hold on power.
New York Times:
Recipe for Destruction — AFTER a decade of painstaking research, federal and university scientists have reconstructed the 1918 influenza virus that killed 50 million people worldwide. Like the flu viruses now raising alarm bells in Asia, the 1918 virus was a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, the scientists reported.
John Seewer / Associated Press:
White Supremacists Riot in Toledo, Ohio — Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, Declares Emergency, Sets Curfew After Hundreds of White Supremacists Riot — TOLEDO, Ohio Oct 16, 2005 — Protesters at a white supremacists' march threw rocks at police, vandalized vehicles and stores and cursed the mayor for allowing the event.
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Tom / The Media Mob - NYO:
NYT: Miller's Delays Made Story Miss Deadline — It didn't take 85 days, but Judith Miller was slow enough to cooperate with the New York Times team reporting on her case that some readers ended up missing the paper's long-awaited Miller coverage on Oct. 16.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps
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RonK / The Next Hurrah:
Gephardt on Iraq: "I was wrong" — Former House Minority Leader the Hon. Dick Gephardt was in Seattle last week on several accounts — a victory lap for his mediation of the Boeing strike, a business seminar for the DC law firm wehre he hangs his hat, and a funder for Rep. Jim McDermott's Legal Expense Trust.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Nominee Gets First Chance to Counter Critics — WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 - After two weeks of hectoring from conservatives about her Supreme Court nomination, Harriet E. Miers is expected to offer her first rebuttal on Monday, in her answers to a Senate questionnaire.
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Allan Guyton / Politechnical:
RINO Sightings XI — The Raging RINO species is very diverse. The one thing you can say without question is that Raging RINOs are opinionated and feel no need to conform to anyone's expectations. The two things you can say about Raging RINOs is that we're opinionated, anti-conformity, and extremely intelligent.
BBC:
Anger over Mugabe tirade in Rome — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has drawn applause and anger for a speech denouncing the UK's Tony Blair and US President George Bush at a UN event. — Mr Mugabe described the leaders as "unholy men" at the meeting in Rome.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Rape Up, While Murders Down in 2004 — WASHINGTON — Murders across the United States fell for the first time in five years, while rapes increased slightly last year, the FBI reported Monday. — Overall, the number of violent crimes, which also include aggravated assaults and robberies, fell by 1.2 percent last year.
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MSNBC:
U.S. nabs al-Qaida Web site producer — Propaganda site was unusually quiet during weekend referendum — The al-Qaida in Iraq Web site publicizes attacks, like this one Friday in Kirkuk. — By Ashraf al-Taie — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Web site run by al-Qaida in Iraq was strangely quiet during …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Administration's Tone Signals a Longer, Broader Iraq Conflict — WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 - For most of the 30 months since American-led forces ousted Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration has argued that as democracy took hold in Iraq, the insurgency would lose steam because Al Qaeda …
