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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 …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senators Agree on Detainee Rights — A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise yesterday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects by granting them a final recourse to the federal courts but stripping them of some key legal rights.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Senate GOP Plays Smart Tactics, Not Surrender (Updated) — Senate GOP Plays Smart Tactics, Not Surrender — Several CQ readers point out this article in today's New York Times, angry at what appears to be yet another Republican surrender to the Democrats on the national stage.
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Habeas and Guantanamo: Breaking News — All right. There are two new amendments: — Graham has proposed an amendment to his own amendment, which is co-sponsored by Carl Levin and John Kyl. Here is a PDF of it. It still cuts off habeas but it allows more judicial review than the version …
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:Confusing Developments Senate-Side on GTMO Detention, Commissions and Habeas
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:Retired military leaders, human-rights activists outraged by Graham amendment
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Washington Post:
No Right to Abortion, Alito Argued in 1985 — Reagan-Era Papers Show Staunch Conservatism — As a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," declared his firm opposition …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:'85 Document Opens Window to Alito Views
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William J. Bennett / National Review:
Rockefeller's Confession — What was the West Virginia Democrat doing as a freelancing prewar diplomat? — Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, the following exchange took place between Chris Wallace and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
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Don Surber:
Bush Whacks Situational Hawks — Welcome Malkin readers. I'm flattered. … "Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever we choose to call this enemy, we must recognize that this ideology is very different from the tenets of the great religion of Islam.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Another Set of Scare Tactics — Mr. President, it won't work this time. — With a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll finding 57 percent of Americans agreeing that George W. Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq," the president clearly needs to tend to his credibility problems.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
I Was Wrong, but So Were You — Parsing Bush's new mantra. — Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up to get all of Slate's free daily podcasts. — President George W. Bush has suddenly shifted rhetoric on the war in Iraq. Until recently, the administration's line …
New York Times:
Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials — To avoid having to account for his administration's misleading statements before the war with Iraq, President Bush has tried denial, saying he did not skew the intelligence. He's tried to share the blame, claiming that Congress had the same intelligence he had, as well as President Bill Clinton.
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USA Today:
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon — WASHINGTON — The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell. — "We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters.
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill — WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators.
Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
Alito Against Democracy — The release of Alito's 1985 Job Application is causing ripples because of his clear statement that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion." — But forget Roe— that's just confirmation of what everyone suspected, and I continue to believe …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Ginsburg Fallacy — To hear some Republicans tell it, letting Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court was a tough pill to swallow. She was an ACLU-loving, bra-burning feminazi, but they supported her anyway, dutifully respecting the president's right to put his own stamp on the high court.
Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
Bush's magnificent deception — JUST FOR the record, the polling numbers President Bush claims not to read show the following with regard to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003: — According to The Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey last week, 57 percent of the sample believe Bush …
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John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
U.S. Widens Offensive In Far Western Iraq — Insurgent Positions Near Syria Targeted — BAGHDAD, Nov. 14 — The U.S. military broadened its offensive in western Iraq on Monday, launching a major attack on insurgent positions in the town of Ubaydi near the Syrian border and killing …
