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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Reid Calls for Rove to Resign  —  The leader of the Senate Democrats today called for White House chief political strategist Karl Rove to resign, saying it's time for President Bush to "come clean" with the American people about the administration's role in the disclosure of a CIA operative's name.
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Randall Mikkelsen / Reuters:
Calls for White House shakeup focus on Karl Rove
Discussion: Ezra Klein and AMERICAblog
Jason / G e n e r a t i o n W h y ?:
So Much for that "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" Stuff
Discussion: Don Surber and Loaded Mouth
Jeffrey Rosen / New York Times:
So, Do You Believe in 'Superprecedent'?  —  AS he prepares for another Supreme Court confirmation battle, President Bush faces intense pressure to quell the uproar from social conservatives who feared that Harriet Miers was not a true strict constructionist.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:   Luttig and "super-stare decisis."
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:   SUPER STARE DECISIS....Jeffrey Rosen writes in the New York Times today …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Let's Tell Mikey, He'll Print Anything  —  It wasn't like Michael Isikoff didn't already have plenty to be ashamed of.  After all, it was he who turned the pages of once-respectable Newsweek into a lurid bodice-ripper of Brobdingnagian proportions during Monicagate.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Libby May Rely on Faulty-Memory Defense
Discussion: Below The Beltway
iranfocus.com:
Iran's President says "2 or 3 hangings" could end market woes  —  Tehran, Oct. 30 - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that "if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever" …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Jihad Watch
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Detroit News:
Absentee ballots tainted?  —  Some Detroit voters are incapacitated, without valid addresses, raising question of mayoral election's fairness.  —  A Detroit News investigation raises serious questions about the handling of absentee ballots under Detroit City Clerk Jackie Currie as the city prepares …
Feddie / Confirm Them:
I am going out on a limb  —  I think it's going to be Judge Janice Rogers Brown.  —  I am not basing this on anything but a political hunch, but here's my thought process:  —  (1) President Bush knows that his base wants a genuine judicial conservative on the Supreme Court to replace Justice O'Connor …
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Steve Dillard / Southern Appeal:
I am going out on a limb: I think it's going to be Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
DoctorZin / A Daily Briefing on Iran:
Why Haven't We Seen This?  —  If you follow the news you may have seen this picture, of Iran's President Ahmadinejad speaking at the "World Without Zionism" conference where he spoke of wiping "Israel off the map."  —  But in this photo you can only see a portion of the graphic.
Time:
A Time To Regroup  —  Bloodied by scandal, setbacks and casualties, Bush is looking for fresh troops and a new battle plan  —  You have to wonder sometimes why Presidents even run for re-election, given how things usually turn out.  Second terms have a way of veering into wild and menacing terrain …
Discussion: firedoglake, Pandagon and Needlenose
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Alito's Dissent in Casey  —  There is a lot of buzz saying that Judge Samuel Alito may be President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court.  If Judge Alito is nominated, the primary Democrat talking point is going to be his dissent in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 947 F.2d 682 (3d Cir. 1991).
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
What's a Modern Girl to Do?  —  When I entered college in 1969, women were bursting out of theirs 50's chrysalis, shedding girdles, padded bras and conventions.  The Jazz Age spirit flared in the Age of Aquarius.  Women were once again imitating men and acting all independent: smoking …
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
The Price of Loyalty  —  The consequences of a bias for loyalty over debate have been devastating.  Issues don't get aired; downside risks remain unassessed.  —  Nov. 7, 2005 issue - The posthumous Purple Heart rested near the folded American flag on the modest dining-room table of his parents' home in Cleveland.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE BIG LOSER in the Libby affair, it would seem to me, is the CIA.  At least it will be if anyone pays attention.  —  Consider: Assuming that Valerie Plame was some sort of genuinely covert operative — something that's not actually quite clear from the indictment — the chain …
Discussion: JunkYardBlog and Roger L. Simon
John F. Burns / New York Times:
The Real Sunnis: Please Stand Up  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq — For those exhausted by Iraq's relentless violence and sectarianism, there are few tonics like a conversation with Adnan Pachachi.  At 82, Mr. Pachachi is an Iraqi patrician who began his diplomatic career in Washington on the day in April 1945 …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and Austin Bay Blog
nationaljournal.com:
Addington's Role In Cheney's Office Draws Fresh Attention  —  On the morning of July 8, 2003, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, then-chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, had a two-hour meeting with New York Times reporter Judith Miller at which Libby gave information to Miller in an attempt …
MSNBC:
Meet the Press transcript for Oct. 30  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The special counsel for the CIA leak investigation, Patrick Fitzgerald, makes this announcement.  —  (Videotape):  —  MR. PATRICK FITZGERALD: A few hours ago, federal grand jury, sitting in the District of Columbia …

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