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Boston Globe, United States By Adam Entous  |  October 24, 2005

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday the investigation into the outing of a covert CIA operative was “very serious,” even as Republican allies started casting aspersions on the prosecutor and the possibility of perjury charges.

The mixed signals came as special prosecutor [...]

The New Nation, Bangladesh By Zbigniew Brzezinski Fri, 21 Oct 2005, 10:46:00

Sixty years ago, Arnold Toynbee concluded, in his monumental “A Study of History,” that the ultimate cause of imperial collapse was “suicidal statecraft.” Sadly for President George W. Bush’s place in history but - much more important - ominously for America’s future, it has lately seemed [...]

Progressive.org, WI By Howard Zinn November 2005 Issue (h)

John Roberts sailed through his confirmation hearings as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with enthusiastic Republican support, and a few weak mutterings of opposition by the Democrats. And in nominating Harriet Miers, Bush is trying to put another rightwinger on the bench to replace Sandra Day [...]

Washington Post, United States Thursday, October 20, 2005; Page A26

CONGRESS VOTED earlier this year to trim $35 billion in entitlement spending over the next five years. House Republican leaders want to bump up that number to $50 billion — supposedly to deal with the costs of Hurricane Katrina. But don’t be bamboozled by the self-satisfied claims [...]

Financial Times By Edward Alden in Washington

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government’s foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

In a scathing attack [...]

Amsterdam News, MD by HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews

A warming trend continues in the Mid-West while showers are expected in parts of New England. Oh, by the way, five U.S. Army soldiers participating in a combat operation were killed by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad during Iraq’s constitutional referendum yesterday.

USC, the number one college football [...]

Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau (m) By STEVEN THOMMA

Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON _ Republicans are headed into an ‘unstable time when President Bushs poor approval ratings could hurt party members at the polls and a leadership vacuum will exacerbate fault lines on social issues, tax and spending, and immigration, a leading Republican pollster says.

Bill McInturff says Bush is stuck [...]