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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.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Prometheus 6
Deignan / Info Theory:
Overview: How do we know Miers is pro-Roe?
Discussion: Basil's Blog
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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Washington Post:
Miller's Lawyer Says Aide May Face 'Problem' in Probe  —  Attorney for Reporter Cites Possibility of Conflicting Testimony  —  Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has "a problem" in the investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's identity if his testimony conflicts …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Who Is the Third Man?
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 …
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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.
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Sunnis Appear to Fall Short in Iraq Vote  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's landmark constitution seemed assured of passage Sunday after initial results showed minority Sunni Arabs had fallen short in an effort to veto it at the polls.  The apparent acceptance was a major step in the attempt …
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.
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 …
Opinion Journal:
Religion and the Court  —  Harriet Miers's faith tells us nothing about how she would rule.  —  The world will learn a lot more about Harriet Miers in coming weeks, so we're not going to join the pack already chasing her back to Texas.  But one strategy that the White House would be wise …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Josh Peter / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
TAKING THE WHEEL  —  To some he is a thug, but to the 60 people on the school bus he commandeered as Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters rose, Jabar Gibson is nothing short of a hero.  —  HOUSTON — Across the street from the Astrodome, in the alcove of a motel where the night manager sits …
John / AMERICAblog:
The Normalization of Treason, the Republicans' gift to America  —  If a senior White House staffer had intentionally outed an American spy during World War II, he'd have been shot.  —  We're at war, George Bush keeps reminding us.  We cannot continue with business as usual.  A pre-9/11 mentality is deadly.
Discussion: Daily Kos

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