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Bill Sammon / Washington Times:
Alito rejected abortion as a right  —  Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times.  —  "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position …
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Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Alito: Abortion is Not a Right
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hardly Seems Fair To Quote Them Now  —  I haven't found Ted Kennedy's floor speech prior to the October 2002 vote on the war resolution, but here he is at SAIS on Sept 27, 2002.  Early laugh lines include these: … and … Only later did Kennedy realize what a liar Bush was, and how important it was to question his motives.
Discussion: Instapundit.com and GOP Bloggers
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Counter-Offensive Turns Into A Team Sport  —  The pushback against the ridiculous "Bush lied!" campaign taken up by Democrats in 2005 after they lost an entire electoral cycle on it in 2004 has broadened out past the White House to even the President's fair-weather friends in the GOP.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Jay's Bogus Journey?
Discussion: Myopic Zeal
MSNBC:
Transcript for November 13  —  Guests: His Majesty King Abdullah II, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan;  —  Ken Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee; and  —  Howard Dean, Chairman, Democratic National Committee  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the Democrats win governorships in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Sweetness & Light:
Tim Russert, Democrat Shill
Discussion: OxBlog
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Shuster v. Russert v. Dean v. The Truth
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Obsidian Wings
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Denver Post:
Justice detained at Guantanamo
Discussion: The Huffington Post and TalkLeft
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.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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Daily Kos:
WaPo's Ed Board Editor Practices The New McCarthyism
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
TigerHawk:
Strategic overview: Annotating and updating Den Beste  —  More than two years ago, blogging great Steven Den Beste (now (perhaps) returned from retirement!) published a widely-linked "strategic overview" of the war on Islamic fascism, including (in Den Beste's conception) the invasion of Iraq.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - A coalition of liberal groups is preparing a national television advertising campaign against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. that seeks to move the debate over his selection …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Donklephant
The Age:
Gore makes sustainable investment his business  —  As chairman of a British company, the former US vice-president still has global warming and long-term consequences on his mind, writes Peter Weekes.  —  AL GORE, the man who five years ago won the popular vote but lost the US presidential elections …
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Heavy Hand of the Secret Police Impeding Reform in Arab World  —  AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 13 - At a cultural festival last year, Sameer al-Qudah recited a poem of his depicting Arab rulers as a notch below pirates and highwaymen on the scale of honorable professions.  Within days, Jordan's intelligence police summoned him.
Discussion: Rantingprofs, TAPPED and rubber hose
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.
Rod Nordland / Newsweek:
Terror For Export  —  Iraq is the base for a new generation of jihadists, well trained in urban warfare, who have begun to take the battle abroad.  —  Nov. 21, 2005 issue - In Washington, D.C., last week, intelligence officials at a brainstorming session debated whether Al Qaeda's top commander …
Discussion: »«TBogg»« and Oliver Willis
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
CIA Article Sidebar: A Story of Deja Vu  —  Dana Priest, and her newspaper, are being hit from both sides.  —  Some conservatives are furious over her Washington Post story this month disclosing that the CIA has been hiding and interrogating terror suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe.
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.
Discussion: World O'Crap and The Common Room
New York Times:
Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us  —  Washington — How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include abuse rising to the level of torture?  Much has been said about the illegality of these tactics, but the strategic error that led to their adoption has been overlooked.
New York Times:
Candidate Cites Bad News for Bush as Key to Loss  —  The race for New Jersey governor between the multimillionaires was supposed to be a tight one, or so the final polls said before Tuesday's election.  But Douglas R. Forrester, a Republican, lost by a wide margin to Senator Jon S. Corzine …

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