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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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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito on Abortion: Vindication for the Anti-Miers Crowd  —  The Washington Times dug up a 1985 job application submitted by Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to then attorney general Ed Meese.  In it, Alito stated: … Several observations:  —  I think this clearly vindicates those of us who led the anti-Miers fight.
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 and Althouse
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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Daily Kos:
WaPo's Ed Board Editor Practices The New McCarthyism
Discussion: The All Spin Zone
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: Daily Kos and Pam's House Blend
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John / AMERICAblog:   Gov Ehrlich and Lt Gov Steele in Maryland caught …
New York Times:
Unwavering Bush Ally Acts Quickly on Court Choices  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - When President Bush named Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. as his Supreme Court pick, it took Progress for America just 39 minutes to introduce a slick Web site and begin lobbying for his confirmation.  And that was slow.
Discussion: RedState.org
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Michael Fumento / fumento.com:
FUSS AND FEATHERS  —  PANDEMIC PANIC OVER THE AVIAN FLU  —  "The indication is that we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of flu," warns America's top health official.  "In 1918, half a million people died.  The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans . . . "
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.

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