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On Miers: John Fund paints an ugly picture of the vetting process; Tim Chapman weighs in on the sexism card. Steve Bainbridge is polling. Charmaine Yoest covers the Dobson angle. Paul Deignan catches the White House having it both ways.

B Relevant updates the stolen jet story. Smash updates the San Diego suicide story.

The suspicious suicide in Syria: Blog coverage of the Syrian Interior Minister’s death at The Jawa Report, Wunderkraut, LGF.

Dan Gross of the Philadelphia Daily News says he screwed up. Glad to hear it.