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TimChapman / Townhall.com:
RNC blogger conference call  —  The RNC has organized another blogger conference call this afternoon.  Today's call will be with the White House's Alito confirmation team leader, Steve Schmidt.  —  Capitol Report will be on the 2:00 call.  —  UPDATE: In progress...details to follow.
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Patrick Hynes / anklebitingpundits.com:
Blogger Conference Call With WH Advisor Steve Schmidt On Alito Nomination  —  Today I had the opportunity to participate in a blogger conference call with Steve Schmidt, Special Advisor to the President in charge of the White House confirmation team.  We first want to thank Steve and Patrick Ruffini …
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:   Blogger Conference Call with Steve Schmidt
Flip / Suitably Flip:   Alito Conference With WH Special Advisor: Take 2
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:   Blogger Conference Call with WH Advisor Steve Schmidt
decision08.net:   Blogger Conference Call - Steve Schmidt on the Alito Nomination
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:   Blogger Conference Call With The Head Of The Alito Confirmation Team
New York Sun:
Intifada in France  —  If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated.  Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced …
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Sky News:
Disabled Woman Set Ablaze  —  A handicapped woman was doused with petrol and set on fire by youths during another night of rioting in Paris.  —  The 56-year-old suffered third degree burns to 20% of her body in the attack.  —  Witnesses said a youth poured petrol over the woman and then threw …
Kerry Jacoby / Pardon My English:   Mea Culpa, Mon Amis!
Gateway Pundit:
Vicente Fox, Not Bush, Dampens Chavez's Marxist Party  —  THOUSANDS COME TO ARGENTINA TO PROTEST BUSH & FREE TRADE,  —  VIDEO HERE  —  Cindy Sheehan is scheduled to give a talk today at the Marxist Anti-Bush Rally in Argentina.  —  Thousands participate in a demonstration against the presence …
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New York Times:
Prosecutor Narrows Focus on Rove Role in C.I.A. Leak  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case has narrowed his investigation of Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, to whether he tried to conceal from the grand jury a conversation with a Time magazine reporter …
Discussion: Decision '08, TalkLeft and First Draft
Michael Kinsley / Slate:
How Conservative Is "Too Conservative"?  —  Rules for the Alito Games.  —  The Democrats have declared war on President Bush's latest Supreme Court candidate, Samuel Alito, without much in the way of weapons.  Only two, really: the filibuster and the power of persuasion.
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
What's Too Conservative?  —  The Democrats have declared war on President Bush's latest Supreme Court candidate, Samuel Alito, without much in the way of weapons.  Only two, really: the filibuster and the power of persuasion.  And the filibuster — because it seems (and is) …
Discussion: TAPPED and The Sideshow
John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:
A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse?  Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment  —  In my last column, I tried to deflate expectations a bit about the likely consequences of the work of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald; to bring them down to the realistic level at which he was likely to proceed.
Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:
TWO A. SULLIVANS  —  don't understand why many Catholic bishops want to deny communion to Catholic politicians who vote for legal abortion but are not "applying pressure" and bringing their "coercion campaign" to Catholic judges who (allegedly) do the same thing.
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
The Difference Between Judging and Legislating by Catholics
rawstory.com:
Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considing impeachment over Iraq, 51-45 percent  —  Impeachment support is greater among all adults than likely voters  —  A new poll of likely voters by Zogby International has found that a majority of Americans support Congress considering …
Opinion Journal:
The Clare Luce Democrats  —  How they're lying about "he lied us into war."  —  Harry Reid pulled the Senate into closed session Tuesday, claiming that "The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this Administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq."
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Carter condemns abortion culture  —  Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday condemned all abortions and chastised his party for its intolerance of candidates and nominees who oppose abortion.  —  "I never have felt that any abortion should be committed — I think each abortion is the result …
Allison R. Hayward / National Review:
System Failure  —  OWednesday, the Online Freedom of Speech Act(HR 1606) failed to pass on suspension with the necessary two-thirds vote.  While supporters, pleased with their clear majority (225-182), vow to bring it back as a bill in the ordinary course, this is an unfortunate development …

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