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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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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
Paris-Area Riots Gain Dangerous Momentum — Paris-Area Riots Gain Dangerous Momentum With Youths Shooting at Police, Attacking Trains — AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France Nov 3, 2005 — A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday …
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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Sky News:
Disabled Woman Set Ablaze — A handicapped woman was doused with petrol and set on fire by youths during another night of rioting in Paris. — The 56-year-old suffered third degree burns to 20% of her body in the attack. — Witnesses said a youth poured petrol over the woman and then threw …
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:Paris Burning — Riots have now continued for eight days in and around Paris.
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Six Meat Buffet, Viking Observer, Booman Tribune ~ Boo!, Big Lizards and Tel-Chai Nation
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.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:Broadcasting Ex-Chairman Is Removed From Board
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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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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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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.
New York Times:
Bush at Hemisphere Talks: Trade Fight Awaits — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 3 - President Bush arrived in this beach resort city on Thursday night for a gathering of Western Hemisphere leaders after one of the worst weeks of his presidency, only to be greeted by strong anti-American sentiment …
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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 …
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
For Americans, Getting Sick Has Its Price — Survey Says U.S. Patients Pay More, Get Less Than Those in Other Western Nations — Americans pay more when they get sick than people in other Western nations and get more confused, error-prone treatment, according to the largest survey to compare U.S. health care with other nations.
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Deignan / Info Theory:
The Left Responds — And apparently the response in the great debate is, "I'm telling your teacher on you!" — From an individual identifying him/herself as an "actual professor" (yes, I sent an e-mail for confirmation) in the comment thread of Sameul Alito: An Undue Burden On Us from a feminist site:
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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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The Left Coaster:
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 4: Wissam Al-Zahawi and Uranium from Niger — This is the next part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents …
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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.
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 …
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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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Ideology Serves as a Wild Card on Court Pick — WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, concedes that Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. - a brainy product of Princeton and Yale, a former federal prosecutor and Supreme Court litigator and an appellate judge for 15 years …
