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Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy “Ten Simple Rules for Arguing Before My High Court” Moore is running for Alabama Governor. What are his qualifications? Besides a notable disregard for your mortal “laws?” On his website, he provides solid proof that he has the experience necessary to govern that great state: MORE »

• Daily Kos poster, LGF commenters form suicide call help line. How-to line, maybe. [Mr. Snitch]
• m4m, must be over 18, willing to travel, kill people. [NYPost]
• We are pleased to report that Benton M Wilmoth IV still makes the shittiest money in the White House. [Froomkin]
• Roy Moore hoping to make Alabama safe for 5000 pound religious sculpture. [WP, The Atlantic]
• The Iraq war is not going so well, according to both Jon Stewart and, uhm, Andy Rooney. [C&L, CBS] MORE »

• Bush nominates Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court; seen as “a woman who broke barriers in the male-dominated Texas legal world but brings no judicial experience or constitutional background to her new assignment.” Bush: “I know her heart. I know her character.” [WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ, WT]
• Miers likely to avoid partisan fight. Kristol: “It’s hard to explain why Harriet Miers is the right pick unless you’re trying to avoid a fight about someone who has expressed a conservative constitutional philosophy… it’s demoralizing for the president to pass over a host of publicly identified conservative constitutionalists.” [WP, NYT]
• DeLay is indicted for alleged money laundering; former majority leader says prosecutor “is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a ‘do-over’ since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate.” Punishment for money laundering can be life in prison. [WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ, USAT]
• Many conservatives express skepticism, disappointment about Miers; responses range “from hostility to silence to praise.” [WP, LAT, NYT, WT, USAT, USAT]
• Nomination viewed as “more like a bunt than a bid for a home run,” writes Ron Brownstein. Bush “has no appetite, at a time when he and his party are besieged by problems, for an all-out ideological fight,” suspects Richard Stevenson. [LAT, NYT]
• Critics allege cronyism, the perception of which “is especially risky because it comes at a time when the White House has been accused of putting under-qualified political associates in top positions throughout the government.” [LAT, USAT]

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