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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House Drops Arctic Drilling From Bill  —  WASHINGTON - A solid phalanx of Republican moderates drove House GOP leaders to drop a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wilderness area to oil drilling as a sweeping budget bill headed toward a vote Thursday.  —  A plan to allow states to lift …
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Michelle Malkin:
LETTERS TO THE GOP  —  Reader reaction to the GOP cave-in on ANWR has been overwhelming.  I'm reprinting just a small sample of letters that came in this morning from conservatives fed-up with Republican "leadership."  —  Update 1120am EST.  I'll keep adding letters throughout the day.
The Anchoress:   Attention GOP Leadership:
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Shocked Jordanians Protest Bombings in Their Capital  —  AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 10 - Thousands of Jordanians staged protests in the heart of the capital today against the terrorist bombings that killed 59 people and wounded about 100 when they ripped nearly simultaneously through three popular hotels on Wednesday night.
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MSNBC:
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Nov. 9  —  Read the transcript to the Wednesday show  —  Guest: Karim Kawar, John McCain, Wayne Downing, Robert Baer, Michael Scheur, Rand Beers  —  CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Tonight, Jordan, our best Arab friend, gets hit by terrorist bombings.
Michael Kranish / Boston Globe:
Alito reviewed '95 case involving sister's firm  —  Questions persist about conflicts  —  WASHINGTON — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., who said in 1990 that he would disqualify himself from cases involving his sister's law firm, was a member of an appeals court that reviewed a 1995 case …
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New York Times:
Democrats Press Court Designee Over Mutual Fund Case
Discussion: Sisyphus Shrugged
Joe / AMERICAblog:
Alito has a history of not keeping his word to the US Senate
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Could I ever become a Democrat?  —  Here is a symposium on whether progressives can believe in economic growth as a primary value.  The impetus is Gene Sperling's new and intelligent book The Pro-Growth Progressive.  Here is a summary of the book.  Here is a recent Sperling article.
Discussion: TAPPED and The Washington Monthly
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Weekly Standard:
The Party of Sam's Club  —  THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. Bush has three years yet to run, but this season of scandal and disillusionment is an opportune moment for conservatives to start thinking seriously about the post-Bush era—and particularly how to fashion a domestic policy from the wreckage …
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Stop This Amendment.  —  From the AP: … To repeat: this could come up for a vote tomorrow.  TalkLeft has posted a pdf of the amendment.  The relevant text: … This is seriously bad news.  As best I can tell, it strips the courts of all power to hear any habeas motion from a detainee …
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:   Senator: Bar Terror Suspects From Court
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Dem's win in Va. gov race gives GOP a scare  —  House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and the House Republican campaign chairman, Rep. Tom Reynolds, were given a sobering warning last week by senior GOP political operatives.  They were told that on Tuesday, Nov. 8, the Democrats were sure to win the governorship of Virginia.
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Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Bush 'sank' GOP in Virginia
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
FREE TRADE....Since I've gotten several emails about this, it's probably worth pointing out that I didn't intend the previous post to imply that trade agreements are bad things.  I don't think they are.  —  Rather, I just wanted to point out that they have their downsides as well as their upsides.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Everyone  —  enough post Kevin Drum writes:
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Andrea Mitchell - More Media Backpedaling  —  On Nov 1, James Taranto of the WSJ unearthed a CNBC transcript which suggested that, according to Andrea Mitchell anyway, Ms. Plame's employment at the CIA was not a total mystery to interested reporters.  From "The Capitol Report, Oct 3, 2003 …
Discussion: firedoglake
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Probe Takes Shape  —  Senators Discuss Inquiry Into Administration Statements About Iraq  —  The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday worked out a tentative arrangement for pursuing its inquiry into how the Bush administration publicly portrayed the intelligence …
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
At the White House, Prizes for 14 Champs  —  Medal of Freedom Ceremony Shows Ali as Fast as Ever  —  Aretha Franklin was teary-eyed, Carol Burnett was teasing, Alan Greenspan was reliably taciturn, and "The Greatest of All Time" stole the show when President Bush bestowed the Medal of Freedom …
Discussion: WTF Is It Now??
U.S. Newswire:
Veterans Lash Out at Loss of Voice on Capitol Hill  —  Contact: David E. Autry of Disabled American Veterans, 202-314-5219  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ — A proposal to end the long-standing practice of veterans groups addressing a joint session of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees …
Associated Press:
Frist concerned more about leaks than secret prisons  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he is more concerned about the leak of information regarding secret CIA detention centers than activity in the prisons themselves.  —  Frist told reporters Thursday …
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
The Reporter's Last Take  —  In an Era of Anonymous Sources, Judy Miller Is a Cautionary Tale of the Times  —  NEW YORK Judy Miller's fumbling with the tape recorder.  It's not even her tape recorder.  —  "This is off the record," she's saying, her voice high and nasal.
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
An Important Indictment  —  The flailing Bush presidency continues to spin off new compelling story lines almost daily; yesterday it was torture, today it's Bush as electoral albatross.  It's almost inevitable that the media will let some fall by the wayside.

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