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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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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 …
Discussion: The Heretik, neo-neocon and Dohiyi Mir
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."
Discussion: Confirm Them
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Militant Group Claims Responsibility for New Delhi Blasts  —  NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 30 -A day after a synchronized string of bombs tore through packed holiday-season markets in the Indian capital, killing 59 people, a little-known militant outfit in the disputed Kashmir province took responsibility today …
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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 and The Anchoress
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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.
Discussion: Gates of Vienna and protein wisdom
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 …
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.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
An Interview with Colonel Davis  —  Late Friday I conducted an interview with Colonel Stephen W. Davis, the Commander of Marine Regimental Combat Team - 2, who is responsible for fighting in western Anbar province, also known as AO Denver.  Col. Davis made himself available for a phone interview via phone …
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.
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: sisu, PoliBlog, The Sideshow, BTC News and QandO
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 …
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
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.
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Alito Out?  —  If you believe this commenter at Confirm Them, Alito is out because Arlen Specter doesn't like him.  [Please see both updates to this post.]  —  Good Lord.  Does Bush want Specter's blessing or that of his base?  Because they're not the same thing.  —  Has he learned nothing from the Miers debacle?
Discussion: Betsy's Page and PoliPundit.com

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