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Roberts Hearings: Live Blogging Day 2 — most recent updates on top... UPDATE, 11:24 AM EDT: Housing... Voting rights... Accuses Roberts of "not fully appreciate" the problem of discrimination in our country... Roberts agrees voting is "a fundamental right."
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Democrats Prod Roberts on Abortion Stance — WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John Roberts jousted with Democratic senators Tuesday at his confirmation hearing to be chief justice, dodging their attempts to pin down his opinions on abortion, voting rights and other legal issues.
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Israeli evades arrest at Heathrow over army war crime allegations — · Retired general tipped off after judge issues warrant — · Ex-commander accused of demolishing Gaza homes — Vikram Dodd and Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv — Scotland Yard was thwarted yesterday …
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The last post — Here we go - as foreshadowed a few week ago, it's the time to say good-bye. — I'm not one for making speeches (at least not for myself), so let me just say: thank you. Thank you for all your support and encouragement, for reading and linking to my stuff, and for coming back.
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Taking My Leave — A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq. — It has been almost a year and a half since I first started compiling the often under-reported and overlooked stories of positive developments in Iraq and, later, Afghanistan. Now I must say goodbye.
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Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders — WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and said the disaster raised broader questions about the government's ability to respond to natural disasters as well as terror attacks.
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La Shawn Barber's Corner, Ramblings' Journal, The Left Coaster, Lean Left, Oliver Willis and The Reaction
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ASSESSING TEN YEARS — Andrew Ferguson wrote that political power had compromised conservatism's intellectual standards; Powerline criticized him; now Ross Douthat is defending him (with a bit more heat than I've come to expect from Douthat). Being in the middle of a blogfight is probably …
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TRENCH POLITICS....Ross Douthat writes today that conservatism …
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HAS CONSERVATISM DIED? — This entire debate about whether or not …
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As Battlefield Shrinks, Democrats Mute Their Attacks — The first day of confirmation hearings for Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to become the 17th chief justice of the United States proved to be a tepid opening to what once was billed as a battle of monumental proportions between left and right.
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A Day of Firsts, Overshadowed
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Wonkette, PoliBlog, Don Surber, Betsy's Page, PunditGuy, Roger L. Simon, The American Mind and camedwards.com
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End of the Bush Era — The Bush Era is over. The sooner politicians in both parties realize that, the better for them — and the country. — Recent months, and especially the past two weeks, have brought home to a steadily growing majority of Americans the truth that President Bush's government doesn't work.
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The 20 Most Obnoxious Hurricane Katrina Quotes — "You 60 million losers who voted for this loser open YOUR wallets. This president declared war on the poor long ago, and while some of us cared enough to vote for someone who gave a d@mn, you buried your heads in the sand …
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45 Bodies Found In La. Hospital — Bush Visits New Orleans and Defends Federal Response; FEMA Chief Quits — NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 12 — The bodies of 45 patients left in a hasty evacuation were recovered from a New Orleans hospital, officials said Monday, as the city braced for the scenes left by the receding waters.
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A Poverty of Thought — It took exactly one month — until the president's prime-time news conference of Oct. 11, 2001 — to refute the notion that Sept. 11 "changed everything." When a reporter said, "You haven't called for any sacrifices from the American people," he replied, "Well …
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Poll: Respondents dissatisfied with Katrina response — (CNN) — A majority of Americans surveyed in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday said they disapproved of President Bush's handling of the response to Hurricane Katrina. — Conducted September 8-11, the poll said 54 percent …
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NYT's Brooks revealed that "from Day One," the Bush White House "decided our public relations is not going to be honest" — why hasn't he written about this? — On the September 11 edition of NBC's syndicated The Chris Matthews Show, New York Times columnist David Brooks revealed that he has learned …
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Big Brass Blog, NewsHog, skippy the bush kangaroo, The Liberal Avenger and Brendan Nyhan
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I'm a hopeaholic. There's nothing George Bush can do about it — We have imposed our disastrous president on the world - but America's finest quality is already turning the tide at home — It's hard to travel or send words out of the US now. How can any American expect to be welcomed …