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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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Vodkapundit, Roger L. Simon, neo-neocon, » Outside The Beltway, Gateway Pundit, Shadow of the Hegemon and Blogs of War
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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:
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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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.
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Facing South
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.
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.
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Left in the West
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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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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 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.
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 …
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.
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!
