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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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Wall Street Journal:
Reporter's Account Suggests Probe's Tack — Prosecutor in Leak Case — May Be Looking Into Possible — Misconduct by Cheney's Office — A New York Times reporter's account of her involvement in the Central Intelligence Agency leak case shows that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald …
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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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 …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / New York Times:Why Conservatives Are Divided
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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 where he hangs his hat, and a funder for Rep. Jim McDermott's Legal Expense Trust.
Hammorabi:
The Results indicate YES vote for the Iraqi constitution — The preliminary results from different sources indicate the following: — The nine southern provinces from Basra to Hila voted between 75-95% by yes. — Baghdad region voted by 65-75% yes. — The three northern Kurdish provinces voted by 70-80% yes.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps — Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper's Editors Regarding Leak — Media analysts assailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her editors yesterday for what they called a series of missteps and questionable decisions revealed …
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Ryan Lizza / The New Republic:
Run Stopper — Al Gore is back in the news. In the last few weeks a boomlet of commentary has Democrats whispering—or wishing—that he is considering a run for president in 2008. The New York Post argues that Gore "is suddenly re-emerging as a vocal and visible Bush-basher" …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court allows inmate's abortion — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a Missouri inmate to obtain an abortion over the objection of state officials. In a brief order, the Court refused the state's request to stay a federal judge's order requiring that the inmate be taken to a St. Louis clinic.
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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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Judd / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Barber Cancels Ed Schultz's Debut on Armed Forces Radio — Armed Forces Radio (AFR) is a station that is broadcast to American troops overseas through "over 1,000 outlets in more than 175 countries." It currently features an hour of programming from right-wing host Rush Limbaugh.
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.
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.
Associated Press:
Sen. Edward Kennedy Helps Rescue Fishermen — HYANNIS, Mass. — U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy attempted to rescue six men who had become trapped by high tide on a jetty off Hyannisport on Sunday. — The Massachusetts Democrat eventually left the rescue to Hyannis firefighters, The Cape Cod Times reported Monday.
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
General Motors and Union Reach Agreement on Health Care Costs — General Motors reached an agreement today that it had long been pursuing with the United Auto Workers to reduce the company's mounting health care costs. — G.M., the nation's largest automaker, also said it was considering selling …
Walid Phares, Ph.D. / reportingwar.com:
PharesWire — Iraqi Victory, American Achievement — On October 15, 2005, an historic Iraqi victory was registered in the 6,235 polling centers across the country. Millions of Iraqis cast their ballot for a "yes" or a "no" to the new constitution. — Regardless of the final results …
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo — Scientists have devised two new techniques to derive embryonic stem cells in mice, one of which avoids the destruction of the embryo, a development that could have the potential to shift the grounds of the longstanding political debate about human stem cell research.
