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Gateway Pundit:
Violence Escalates! France in Retreat! — SEVENTH NIGHT OF VIOLENCE IN PARIS IS WORST YET! — VIDEO HERE — As the violence continues to escalate in France, the attacks against Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy continue to increase as well. Sarkozy is one Frenchman who looked through …
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Reuters:
French youths riot for seventh night running — PARIS (Reuters) - Violence broke out in Paris suburbs for the seventh night running overnight on Thursday after French youths set fire to dozens of cars. — The continuing unrest compounds pressure on Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government …
Washington Post:
Rove's Future Role Is Debated — White House May Seek Fresh Start In Wake of Leak — Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
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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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Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House Defeats Bill on Political Blogs — WASHINGTON - Online political expression should not be exempt from campaign finance law, the House decided Wednesday as lawmakers warned that the Internet has opened up a new loophole for uncontrolled spending on elections.
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National Review:
Who Did What? — The hot-blooded search for criminality in the matter of Cheney/Libby/Rove has not truly satisfied those in search of first degree venality. Very soon after the indictment of Mr. Libby, the tricoteuses glumly conceded that no conspiracy has been uncovered.
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Washington Post:
Critics See Ammunition In Alito's Rights Record — Eight years ago, a trio of federal appellate judges heard the case of Beryl Bray, a housekeeping manager at a Marriott hotel in Park Ridge, N.J., who alleged that she was denied a promotion because she was black.
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:Joining Forces in Scalitovision 2005
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Alamo Nation
Bloomberg:
Alito Finds Constitutional Privacy Right, Durbin Says (Update2) — Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr., meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, told one senator that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to privacy and won praise from Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
AP: DeLay's staff tried to help Abramoff — WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom DeLay's staff tried to help lobbyist Jack Abramoff win access to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, an effort that succeeded after Abramoff's Indian tribe clients began funneling a quarter-million dollars to an environmental group founded by Norton.
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Is Rove a Security Risk? — Because he disclosed Plame's CIA identity to reporters, the Bush aide could lose his clearance. — Nov. 2, 2005 - The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that Karl Rove is out of the woods. But while an indictment against him in the Valerie Plame leak case …
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Stewart Bell / National Post:
CSIS: terror cell busted — Bomb expert among four Algerians in Toronto — TORONTO - Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned.
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Daimnation!
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Life of the Party? Only in the 'Grand Old' Sense. — Senators will debate Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito's legal views for months, but this much is settled law: The Senate is witnessing a real-life revenge of the nerd. — Alito, bespectacled, hair askew, suit rumpled and ill-fitting …
Frank Davies / Knight Ridder:
In Katrina's aftermath, FEMA chief mused about his future — WASHINGTON - Even as subordinates warned him that the flooding of New Orleans was a matter of life or death, Michael Brown, the now-dismissed head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, remained strangely detached from the crisis, e-mails made public Wednesday show.
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Facing South
Francis Fukuyama / Opinion Journal:
A Year of Living Dangerously — Remember Theo van Gogh, and shudder for the future. — One year ago today, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh had his throat ritually slit by Mohamed Bouyeri, a Muslim born in Holland who spoke fluent Dutch. This event has totally transformed Dutch politics …
Investor's Business Daily:
Not A Good Thing — Politics: If stealing and destroying secret documents, stuffing them into your pants and then lying about it isn't a crime worthy of jail time, why is having a different recollection of events than Tim Russert? — If the charges swirling around Scooter Libby …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraq Asks Return of Some Officers of Hussein Army — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 2 - The Iraqi government called Wednesday for the return of junior officers from the disbanded army of Saddam Hussein, openly reversing an American directive issued in 2003. — The move is aimed at draining the insurgency …
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