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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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The Sundries Shack, Houston's Clear Thinkers, Jihad Watch, » Outside The Beltway and MSNBC
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Radio Blogger:
Mark Steyn on the Euroarabian war currently happening in the suburbs of France. — HH: Hello, Mark. Where do we find you today? — MS: I'm in the great state of New Hampshire, Hugh. — HH: Okay, you've gone to ground up there for almost three weeks in a row. That's really quite remarkable for you.
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:Paris-Area Riots Spread to 20 Towns
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Oblogatory Anecdotes, PunditGuy, Washington Post, Roger L. Simon, Below The Beltway, Tel-Chai Nation and A Blog For All
Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:Paris Burning — Riots have now continued for eight days in and around Paris.
Dafydd / Big Lizards:Arms For the Poor — Gun Rights and Occasional Wrongs , Politics - Internationalia
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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The Claremont Institute
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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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Bush Approval Sagging to New Lows — On Iraq, Economy and Ethics, a Perfect Storm Bedevils Bush — Nov. 3, 2005 — An increasingly unpopular war, an ethics cloud, and broad economic discontent have pushed public opinion of the Bush administration from bad to worse …
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Donklephant, The Moderate Voice, Oliver Willis, The Reaction, Eschaton, Nitpicker, NewsBusters.org and The RCP Blog
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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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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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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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 …
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The Blogging of the President, Wampum, Talking Points Memo, Centerfield and War and Piece
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 …
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.
The Left Coaster:
Treasongate: The Niger Forgeries v. the CIA Intel Reports - Part 5: The State Court of Niger — This is the next part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4) focused on comparing the CIA intel reports on Niger to the corresponding contents of the relevant Niger documents …
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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
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.
