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CNN:
Poll: Bush approval mark at all-time low  —  (CNN) — Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday.  —  Bush also received his all-time worst marks …
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:   Clinton Is More Trusted Than Bush, Who According To Gallup Is Now Toxic To GOP
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year …
White House:
President Delivers Remarks at Elmendorf AFB on War on Terror  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Thanks for the warm welcome.  (Applause.)  Laura and I were in the neighborhood - (laughter) — we thought we'd come by to say hello to the nation's "Arctic Warriors."  (Applause.)
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John / AMERICAblog:
Target digs itself a deeper hole in emergency contraceptive scandal  —  AMERICAblog reader, and fellow blogger, Joseph Hughes of Hughes for America, just sent me the latest response from Target about their growing emergency contraception scandal.  —  Full disclosure, I've worked as a consultant …
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Maria Newman / New York Times:
F.D.A.'s Rejection of Contraceptive Is Questioned
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Andrew / Confirm Them:
Alito on Abortion, Circa 1985  —  RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for 'Alito on Abortion, Circa 1985'.  —  Patterico's Pontifications » Breaking: Alito Firmly Said Constitution Does Not Protect Right to Abortion -  —  Stop The ACLU -  —  Aggressive Conservative -
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito on Abortion: Vindication for the Anti-Miers Crowd
David Stout / New York Times:
Parents Carry Burden of Proof in School Cases, Court Rules  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - The Supreme Court ruled today, in a case of intense interest to educators and millions of parents, that people who demand changes to their children's special-education programs have the burden of proving those programs inadequate.
Discussion: ACSBlog
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Washington Post:
In Special-Ed Case, Court Backs Montgomery Schools
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Closing Statement  —  Unless the Bingaman amendment is introduced Tuesday instead of Monday, or hilzoy has something up her sleeve, I think this is the last post we are going to be able to do on this subject.  It will also be the shortest.  —  First, I wanted to provide links to all the posts …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Believe It or Not  —  Are you sure you want to keep saying we were fooled by Ahmad Chalabi and the INC?  —  What do you have to believe in order to keep alive your conviction that the Bush administration conspired to launch a lie-based war?  As with (I admit) the pro-war case, the ground of argument has a tendency to shift.
Discussion: Power Line and The Anchoress
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
"Operation Steel Curtain Continues" In Ubaydi  —  As we mentioned yesterday, Operation Steel Curtain was not stopping at Husaybah or Karabilah, but would likely push further eastward and address insurgent activity in the towns of Ushsh and Ubaydi.  The troops of Steel Curtain are maintaining …
Discussion: Media Lies
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New York Times:
2 Marines Die in Assault on Small Iraqi Town
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: Sen. Levin On Iraq  —  Sen. Levin (D-MI) Tries To Separate Iraq From The War On Terror.  SEN. LEVIN: "But before the war, the President was saying that you cannot distinguish between Saddam Hussein and Iraq.  As a matter of fact, he said that so often that he tried …
Andrew A. Green / Baltimore Sun:
Ehrlich bristles at Oreo skeptics … Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: The Washington Post On Pre-War Intelligence  —  The Washington Post Implies That The Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) Was Superior To The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) Given To Congress.  "But Bush does not share his most sensitive intelligence, such as the President's Daily Brief, with lawmakers.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MANIPULATING INTELLIGENCE....Did the Bush administration mislead the country during the runup to the Iraq war?  It's true that they turned out to be wrong about a great many things, but that doesn't answer the question.  It merely begs it.  Were they sincerely wrong, or did they intentionally manipulate …
Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Senate Weighs Measures Urging Bush Set Limits in Iraq (Update1)  —  Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate opened debate today on measures that would put the chamber on record for the first time asking President George W. Bush to set limits for keeping American troops in Iraq.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush escalates bitter Iraq war debate  —  ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — President Bush escalated the bitter debate over the Iraq war on Monday, hurling back at Democratic critics the worries they once expressed that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the world.
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
No Dean apology for Steele  —  The chairman of the Republican Party yesterday challenged his Democratic counterpart to condemn racist statements against Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, but Howard Dean demanded his own apology and ignored the question.  —  The former Vermont governor …

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