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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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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 …
Reuters:
French youths riot for seventh night running
Paul Carrel / Reuters:
Shots fired as French riots escalate
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.
Discussion: Wonkette
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
And Away We Go  —  Yippee kay-yay.  From tomorrow's WaPo:
Discussion: 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  —  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.
Discussion: Facing South
Timothy Williams / New York Times:
Former Cheney Aide Pleads Not Guilty in C.I.A. Leak Inquiry  —  I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, pleaded not guilty in federal court today to charges that he lied about disclosing classified information, and his lawyer said Mr. Libby intends to "clear his good name."
Discussion: whatever already! and The RCP Blog
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:   Libby Pleads Not Guilty in CIA Leak Case
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:
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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Daily Kos:
Friends  —  I was on the road yesterday, and was unfortunately unable …
Discussion: Decision '08
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 …
Discussion: The Heretik
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.
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 …
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Top Democrats duck on Steele hits  —  Three of Maryland's top Democrats — including the two leading candidates for governor next year — declined to repudiate comments by black Democratic leaders who said racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele are fair because he is a black conservative Republican.
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.
Discussion: Daimnation!
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.
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 …
Discussion: TigerHawk, Cold Fury and Dr. Sanity

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Salena Zito / realclearpolitics.com:
Goodbye Earle  —  Ronnie Earle, the district attorney …
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Reaction to Alito Nomination Generally Favorable
Discussion: Decision '08 and Wonkette
Jacob Leibenluft / Yale Daily News:
Alito was quiet scholar
Discussion: The Right Coast and Power Line
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism isn't about saving jobs
PoliPundit.com:
The Refined Product  —  Earlier this year, when the MSM …
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Jack Shafer Gets Results! (But What Are They?)
Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
Open Up, Mr. President  —  Wouldn't a letter to the editor have sufficed?
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED.  Marshall Wittmann objects to a growing sentiment on the left:

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