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USA Today:
President's ratings hit new low in poll  —  WASHINGTON — Americans' views of President Bush and his trustworthiness have hit new lows, a downturn that could make it more difficult for him to push his legislative agenda and to boost Republican candidates in next year's congressional elections.
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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
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
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The Politics of War  —  Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's vice president, may seem a bit unfeeling as he assesses the ongoing violence in his country.  It is very hard, he says — but better than during Saddam Hussein's day, when, Mahdi says, each year 30,000 Iraqis were executed or assassinated by the regime or killed in the dictator's wars.
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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.
Discussion: Pandagon, Daily Kos and Oliver Willis
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John / AMERICAblog:
Gov Ehrlich and Lt Gov Steele in Maryland caught …
Discussion: Demagogue and »«TBogg»«
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
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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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 …
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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 …
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 …
New Yorker:
SCOTUS WATCH  —  In the months since Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Americans have become obsessed with judge-watching.  The new pastime practically eclipsed the World Series, with fans paying more attention to Harriet Miers's eye makeup than to Jermaine Dye's batting average.
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:
Under Her Robe  —  Article III Groupie recently gave Jeffrey Toobin …
Discussion: Wonkette, Amygdala and Althouse
Washington Post:
Detainees Deserve Court Trials  —  As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me.  Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.  Terrorists!  Kyl must have said the word 30 times.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Incompetent On All Levels by digby Those of us w...  Incompetent On All Levels  —  Those of us who've been writing about the torture regime for a long while already knew that the DOD had decided to use the SERE techniques to "interrogate" prisoners.  This NY Times article reveals something about this I didn't know before —
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 …
New York Times:
Spain Looks Into C.I.A.'s Handling of Detainees  —  LONDON, Nov. 11 - On the Spanish island of Majorca, the police quietly opened a criminal investigation in March after a local newspaper reported a series of visits to the island's international airport by planes known to regularly operate for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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.)
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 …

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