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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.
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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.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:And Away We Go — Yippee kay-yay. From tomorrow's WaPo:
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Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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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Frank Davies / Knight Ridder:In Katrina's aftermath, FEMA chief mused about his future
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Facing South
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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The Carpetbagger Report
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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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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
HARRY REID UNPLUGGED: — In the wake of his daring feint against the Republicans on Tuesday, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid invited some congressional reporters down to his office on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol building for a chat. The 30-minute conversation bounced around, so there's no easy summary.
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 …
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Off the Kuff
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Food Stamp Cuts Are On Table — House Republicans are pushing to cut tens of thousands of legal immigrants off food stamps, partially reversing President Bush's efforts to win Latino votes by restoring similar cuts made in the 1990s. — The food stamp measure is just one of several provisions …
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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 …
Daily Kos:
Friends — I was on the road yesterday, and was unfortunately unable to follow the action of the Online Freedom of Speech Act. But seeing how things panned out (the bill failed), it was definitely one of those days when we in the netroots got a chance to see who believed and supported our medium and who didn't.
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Decision '08
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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Colorado Cap on Spending Is Suspended — DENVER, Nov. 2 - The national movement to impose caps on state taxes and spending took a sharp blow in Tuesday's election, conservatives and liberals say, when Colorado voters decided that the tightest spending cap in the nation was just a tad too tight.
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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:
Editor and Publisher:
CBS Poll Finds Public Takes Plamegate Seriously — NEWYORK One particular number in the new CBS poll released Wednesday has drawn most of the interest: President Bush's approval rating plunging to 35%, his worst standing ever and the lowest mark recorded in decades.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism isn't about saving jobs — Every time we hear about another cutback in newspapers — and there are plenty of them these days — we automatically hear the notion that journalism jobs must be saved to save journalism. I'm afraid it's time to challenge that assumption.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Malfeasance Might Have Hurt Levees, Engineers Say — WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 - The head of a team of engineering experts told a Senate committee on Wednesday that malfeasance during construction might have been one reason for the catastrophic failure of the levees that were supposed to protect New Orleans from hurricanes.
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 …
