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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
Rioting Spreads to 20 Towns Around Paris — Rioters Shoot at Police, Torch Car Dealerships, Buses in Eighth Day of Violence in Paris Suburbs — AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France Nov 3, 2005 — Rampaging youths shot at police and firefighters Thursday after burning car dealerships and public buses …
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BBC:
Fresh violence hits Paris suburbs — Rioting youths opened fire on police and set dozens of vehicles ablaze in a seventh night of violence in Paris. — In escalating unrest, shots were fired at police and firefighters, while gangs besieged a police station, set fire to a car showroom and threw petrol bombs.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Muslims Try To Outdo Von Choltitz
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CNN:
'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged — E-mails give insight into Brown's leadership, attitude — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Louisiana congressman says e-mails written by the government's emergency response chief as Hurricane Katrina raged show a lack of concern for the unfolding tragedy and a failure in leadership.
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John Podhoretz / The Corner on National Review Online:
MCCLELLAN GOES AFTER ROVE — The much-discussed Washington Post story this morning headlined "Rove's Future Role Is Debated" is a bit of a breakthrough because it's one of the few times during Dubya's tenure in the White House that the press has been used as a tool to fight an internal battle.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:And Away We Go — Yippee kay-yay. From tomorrow's WaPo:
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April Castro / Associated Press:
Second Judge Out for DeLay Trial — AUSTIN, Texas - Two days after Rep. Tom DeLay won a fight to get a new judge in his case, prosecutors Thursday succeeded in ousting the Republican responsible for selecting the new judge. — Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub withdrew …
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Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
Regional judge steps aside in DeLay case — Motion filed by Earle prompted withdrawal; state chief justice, another Republican, will now name trial judge. — In an unprecedented move, Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat, forced a Republican presiding judge from naming …
Salena Zito / realclearpolitics.com:Goodbye Earle — Ronnie Earle, the district attorney …
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CNN:
Ex-Cheney aide pleads not guilty — Libby charged with five felony counts in CIA leak probe — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney's former top adviser made his first court appearance Thursday, pleading not guilty to felony charges of lying to investigators and a grand jury in the probe into a leak of a CIA agent's name.
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Tom Stuckey / Associated Press:
Race Becomes Issue in Md. Governor's Race — ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A blogger's depiction of Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in minstrel makeup has brought to the surface issues of race — and fidelity to one's race — as the Republican seeks to become Maryland's first black senator.
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New York Times:
Alito's Dissents Show Deference to Lower Courts — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissents slightly more often than the typical appeals court judge, and his dissenting opinions are almost always more conservative than the majority's. — In the several hundred cases he heard over 15 years …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate's Closed-Session Move Borne Out of Daschle's Strategy — It took Democrats about five seconds to trigger the parliamentary move that forced the Senate into a rare closed session this week, but it was more than a year in the planning. — The final decision to employ the tactic …
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Reuters:
U.S. court allows survey of children on sex topics — SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Parents have no constitutional right to prevent public schools from exposing children to sexual topics, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday. — The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court …
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Newsweek:
In the Company of Friends — Bush may be besieged by charges of cronyism, but they don't seem to have affected his picks for a panel assessing intelligence matters. Plus, Alito, the talkie. — Nov. 2, 2005 - Controversy continues to rage over spying failures and the mishandling …
Tom Doggett / Reuters:
US Senate backs oil drilling in Alaskan refuge — WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), narrowly rejecting a Democratic attempt to strike the plan from a budget bill.
Associated Press:
Italian lawmaker: U.S. told of WMD forgeries — Senator says Bush administration was warned Iraq documents were fake — ROME - Italian secret services warned the United States months before it invaded Iraq that a dossier about a purported Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium in Africa was fake …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Jack Shafer Gets Results! (But What Are They?) — Jack Shafer takes up the puzzle of the Nick Kristof column that started it all: … Ahh, but the column was based on some errors, or miscommunications, or something, a point we have belabored seemingly endlessly. — But now Jack Shafer gets results:
Chris / AMERICAblog:
Republicans plan to cut 40,000 kids from school lunch program to pay for ANOTHER tax cut in the next month — They're asking the poor to suck it up and do without because of those critical tax cuts for the wealthy, corporate welfare and a failing war of convenience are more important than food for the poor.
Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Joining Forces in Scalitovision 2005 — I received an e-mail from my dear friend and liberal, Michael J.W. Stickings over at The Reaction, he also writes for the Moderate Voice together with Joe Gandelman, and another young rising star by the name of David Schraub.
