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New York Sun:
Intifada in France — If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated. Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced …
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Rioting Spreads in Paris Suburbs as Angry Youths Burn More Cars — PARIS, Nov. 3 - Angry youths clashed with police and firefighters outside Paris late Wednesday in the worst of seven straight nights of violence set off by the accidental death of two teenagers.
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» Outside The Beltway, Houston's Clear Thinkers, Balloon Juice, Jihad Watch and Hugh Hewitt
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
Paris-Area Riots Spread to 20 Towns — AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.
Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:Paris Burning — Riots have now continued for eight days in and around Paris.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Kenneth Tomlinson Quits Public Broadcasting Board — Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who sparked controversy by asserting that programs carried by public broadcasters have a liberal bias, resigned yesterday from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a day after the agency's inspector general delivered …
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Reuters:
Tomlinson quits US public broadcasting board — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kenneth Tomlinson, the former board chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accused by critics of trying to politicize public television and radio, has resigned from the board, it said on Thursday.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Distorting Sam Alito — Pop quiz: Which of the following abortion regulations is more restrictive, more burdensome, more likely to lead more women to forgo abortion? — (a) Requiring a minor to get the informed consent of her parents, or to get a judge to approve the abortion.
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William Saletan / Slate:Right to Wife — Why does Judge Alito treat women like girls?
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New World Man
Washington Post:
Bush's Integrity Is Questioned, According to Post-ABC Poll — For the first time in his presidency, a majority of Americans question the integrity of President Bush, and growing doubts about his leadership have left him with record negative ratings on the economy, Iraq and even the war on terrorism …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senate Passes Plan to Cut $35 Billion From Deficit — The Senate approved sweeping deficit-reduction legislation last night that would save about $35 billion over the next five years by cutting federal spending on prescription drugs, agriculture supports and student loans, while clamping down on fraud in the Medicaid program.
Opinion Journal:
The Clare Luce Democrats — How they're lying about "he lied us into war." — Harry Reid pulled the Senate into closed session Tuesday, claiming that "The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this Administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq."
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Sister Toldjah, Blogs for Bush, SoCalPundit, Cold Fury, Southern Appeal, Captain's Quarters and USS Neverdock
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Don't Say It If You Don't Mean It, Tough Guy — Masquerading as First Amendment crusaders, the Wall Street Journal is already trying to mess with Patrick Fitzgerald's case. As Atrios would say, unleash the waaaaaahhh: … "Dominant political leanings?" Since when did the WSJ have a problem with abject capitalism?
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Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Italy's Top Spy Names Freelance Agent as Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents — ROME, Nov. 3 - Italy's spymaster identified an Italian occasional spy named Rocco Martino on Thursday as the disseminator of forged documents that described efforts by Iraq to buy uranium ore from Niger …
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
Muslims march over cartoons of the Prophet — A Danish experiment in testing "the limits of freedom of speech" has backfired - or succeeded spectacularly - after newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked an outcry. — Thousands of Muslims have taken to the streets in protest at the caricatures …
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Norm / normblog:
The normblog profile 111: Omar — The youngest of four children from a middle-class Iraqi family, Omar lives in Baghdad. He has had temporary careers managing a mini-market and raising aquarium fish, but he is trained as a dentist and that is his profession. Omar has always been interested in politics.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Voted in, Hamas Sets a West Bank City Astir — QALQILYA, West Bank, Oct. 29 - The mayor won a landslide victory from the inside of an Israeli jail, and still sits there today. The city banned a cultural festival from its grounds, in no small part because singing, dancing and the mixing of men and women reflects "a Western mentality."
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Daily Kos:
The blog menace — I know Democracy 21, Common Cause, and the rest of the out-of-touch "reform" groups are fixated on the dangers of the billlion-dollar Haliburton blog, even though such a creature has never existed and if it did, I'd welcome it to the party, along with the 20,000 other blogs created each day.
