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Don Surber:
They Wanted A Hog, But Got A Scooter  —  After two years of hoping to see Karl Rove frog-marched in a perp walk, liberals got the veep's chief of staff hobbling on crutches.  The New York Times had to admit: "Even after the indictment on Friday of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief …
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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Bush, Cheney Urged to Apologize for Aides  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Sunday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should apologize for the actions of their aides in the CIA leak case.  —  Reid, D-Nev., also said Bush should pledge not to pardon …
Andrew Alderson / Telegraph:
Prince Charles to plead Islam's cause to Bush  —  The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11.  —  The Prince, who leaves on Tuesday …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Charles To Follow Royal Tradition Of Appeasement
Doug / Below The Beltway:
Mind Your Own Business Chuck
Hullabaloo:
39% Approval?  After Everything That's Happened?!?  —  What is wrong with this country?  Bush's approval is at 39%.  True, it's the lowest ever for the Post/ABC survey but think about it.  How could more than 1/3 of the people think this president, whose performance in office makes it clear …
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Dr. Sanity:
Command Hallucinations  —  The American public is hearing voices.  And like auditory hallucinations experienced by psychiatric patients, these voices whisper continual doom and gloom.  They tell the American consumer that prices are too high.  That the economy is tanking; that poverty is on the rise …
Discussion: BizzyBlog.com
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Balkinization:
Justices Alito and Luttig?  —  This Chicago Tribune article suggests that President Bush has narrowed his choices to replace Justice O'Connor to two, Samuel Alito of the 3rd Circuit and Michael Luttig of the 4th Circuit.  —  Both men would be acceptable to President's conservative base …
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Douglas Berman / Sentencing Law and Policy:
Is it Alito, Luttig or ... Brown?
Neelesh Misra / Associated Press:
Group Said to Be Behind India Blasts  —  NEW DELHI - A caller claimed Sunday that a little-known Islamic group in the Kashmir insurgency was behind terror bombings that killed at least 59 people at two crowded markets the day before in India's capital.  —  Police said earlier that 61 people died …
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Lanny J. Davis / New York Times:
New Scandal, Old Mistakes  —  FOR those of us who lived through the Clinton White House, it's déjà vu all over again.  —  The indictment against Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, by the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald presents a challenge …
Discussion: BTC News, The Sideshow and QandO
James Traub / New York Times:
'The Right War?' and 'A Matter of Principle': Everybody Is a Realist Now  —  ON the whole, it has been a very satisfying postwar period for opponents of the American engagement in Iraq.  I have agreed to pay off a bet with a friend who had rather gleefully predicted a steady flow of body bags from the battlefield.
Basil / Basil's Blog:
The TypePad TrackBack Solution  —  It's called WordPress.  —  I'm not a patient man.  But I do try to be fair.  Sometimes I'm more than fair.  Sometimes I'm less than fair.  But I try.  —  When I try and fail, I must suffer the consequences.  —  And so must TypePad.
Discussion: Cao's Blog and Tel-Chai Nation
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Bachman / Public Eye:
Takei gay, Sulu straight, Trekkers confused
Discussion: The Right Track and Stop The ACLU
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 …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
U.S. Quietly Issues Estimate of Iraqi Civilian Casualties  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 29 - In the first public disclosure that the United States military is tracking some of the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the military has released rough figures for Iraqis who have been killed or wounded by insurgents since Jan. 1 last year.
Times of London:
Iran's zealot in chief does Bush a favour  —  Tony Allen-Mills, New York and Ramita Navai, Tehran  —  THE situation was tailor-made for an undiplomatic outburst by John Bolton, the blunt-spoken US ambassador to the United Nations.  Iran's new president had just called for the destruction …
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Kurds Reclaiming Prized Territory In Northern Iraq  —  Repatriation by Political Parties Alters Demographics and Sparks Violence  —  KIRKUK, Iraq — Providing money, building materials and even schematic drawings, Kurdish political parties have repatriated thousands of Kurds …
Washington Post:
Kaine Inches Ahead In Va. Race, Poll Finds  —  Kilgore Accused of Negative Campaigning  —  Democrat Timothy M. Kaine has taken a narrow lead in Virginia's governor's race, buoyed by newfound strength in Northern Virginia's outer suburbs and an electorate turned off by what it considers …
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
A Leak, Then a Deluge  —  Air Force Two arrived in Norfolk on Saturday morning, July 12, 2003, with Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff aboard.  They had come "to send forth a great American ship bearing a great American name," as Cheney said from the flag-draped flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
Agence France Presse:
Third night of trouble in Paris suburb following teenage deaths  —  CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France, (AFP) - A Paris suburb suffered a third night of arson and arrests sparked by the electrocution deaths of two teenagers, police said.  —  The violence on Saturday night was significantly less …
Amanda Marcotte / Pandagon:
Little, round, effective at destroying Western Civilization  —  BAH BAH BAH BUM.  —  They seem so innocent, don't they?  Just sitting there in the little dial pack, cleverly disguised as just another one of those icky girlie make-up-y things, as if there was some kind of conspiracy to keep men from knowing about it.
Discussion: Pharyngula

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