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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
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:
Bush's Troubles Follow Him to Summit in Argentina
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The reality of Latin American reaction to Bush
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 …
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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 …
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.
Tom DeLay / Washington Post:
A Swing and A Miss on Tax Reform  —  In case you were wondering what that giant "whoosh" emanating from Washington was, it was the sound of the people on the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform swinging and missing at the easy underhand toss that George W. Bush sent their way.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
GOP mulls ending birthright citizenship  —  House Republicans are looking closely at ending birthright citizenship and building a barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexico border as they search for solutions to illegal immigration.  —  A task force of party leaders and members active on immigration …
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."
Agence France Presse:
Former Powell aide links Cheney's office to abuse directives  —  WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney's office was responsible for directives that led to U.S. soldiers' abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a former top State Department official said Thursday.

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