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Associated Press:
Sen. Biden Suggests Scrapping Hearings — WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominees are so mum about the major legal issues at their Senate confirmation hearings that the hearings serve little purpose and should probably be abandoned, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden said Thursday.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Kos Kidz Go After Alito's Wife — It can't be pleasant for family members of a judge who sit through confirmation hearings. Just imagine being in their position. Here's this person you have great love and respect for, on TV, in front of the whole world, being attacked by a bunch of ill-tempered …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Alito's Wife Cries at Confirmation Hearing — WASHINGTON — Martha-Ann Bomgardner left her husband's confirmation hearings in tears, returning not long after. The episode elicited sympathy for her from senators of both parties _ and instant finger-pointing.
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:Best of the Web — Roberts Without the Charm
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:Kennedy belongs to exclusive university club of his own
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TigerHawk:Alito roundup: Ted Kennedy tramples on freedom of speech and association
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Radio Blogger:John Podhoretz on the foolishness among the Democrat Senator in the Alito hearing.
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Deacon / Power Line:
JUDGE ALITO'S COLLEAGUES SPEAK — Judge Alito's colleagues on the Third Circuit have been testifying this afternoon. You can get a sense of the high esteem in which they hold him by checking out NRO's Bench Memos. — One of the witnesses is Judge Timothy Lewis, an African-American …
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Mike Allen / Time:GOP Confident as Alito Hearings Wrap
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James Wolcott:
NOXIOUS FUMES — In a feeble attempt to draw attention to itself before it sinks into the briny deep under the dead weight of its founders Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon and its undistinguished blogroll, Pajamas Media showcases an attack on me by Michael Fumento, and seldom has a writer been more aptly named.
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Michael Fumento / American Spectator:
The James Wolcott Treatment — Every once in awhile, in the spirit of "know thy enemy," you have to brace yourself and take a peek inside the fetid mind of an influential defeat-nik. "Enter, if you will," as Rod Serling might have said, "the head of one James Wolcott."
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John / AMERICAblog:
AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.95 — I reported the other day that your cell phone records are on sale online for anyone to buy, without your permission. Well, this morning AMERICAblog bought former presidential candidate, and former Supreme Allied Commander …
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Brian C. Anderson / City Journal:
The Plot to Shush Rush and O'Reilly — Talk radio, cable news, and the blogosphere freed U.S. political discourse. The Left wants to rein it in again. — The rise of alternative media—political talk radio in the eighties, cable news in the nineties, and the blogosphere in the new millennium …
William Tate / The American Thinker:
The controversy following revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored suspected terrorist related communications since 9/11 reflects a severe case of selective amnesia by the New York Times and other media opponents of President Bush. They certainly didn't show the same outrage …
Chris Hogg / BBC:
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs — Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. — They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.
Maria Glod / Washington Post:
DNA Tests Confirm Guilt of Executed Man — DNA tests released this afternoon confirmed the guilt of a Virginia man who had proclaimed his innocence in a slaying and rape even as he was strapped into the state's electric chair in 1992. — Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) …
Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
THE (Broken) TRIANGLE: Progressive Bloggers in the Wilderness — "This, then, is the reality: progressive bloggers and online activists — positioned on the front lines of a cold civil war — face a thankless and daunting task: battle the Bush administration and its legions of online and offline apologists …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
This Is How It's Done — It is remarkably frustrating to blog the Alito hearings, feel the righteous indignation of people in the comments sections all over the blogosphere that the supreme court is in danger of making a major lurch to the extreme right with the potential appointment of a bigoted …
Dane Smith / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
'Impaler' sinks his teeth into governor's race — Self-styled "vampyre" Jonathon Sharkey is running for governor on a platform that includes impaling terrorists. — Looking for something really, really different in a political candidate this year? — Take a gander at Jonathon (The Impaler) …
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New York Times:
Europeans Want U.N. to Act on Iran's Nuclear Program — BERLIN, Jan. 12 - The leading nations of Europe joined with the United States today to declare an end, for now, to negotiations with Iran over dismantling its suspected nuclear weapons program and to demand that Iran be referred …
