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Patrick Hynes / anklebitingpundits.com:
Blogger Conference Call With WH Advisor Steve Schmidt On Alito Nomination — Today I had the opportunity to participate in a blogger conference call with Steve Schmidt, Special Advisor to the President in charge of the White House confirmation team. We first want to thank Steve and Patrick Ruffini …
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Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:Blogger Conference Call with WH Advisor Steve Schmidt
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Immigrant Rioting Flares in France for Ninth Night — AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov. 4 - France's worst urban violence in a decade exploded for a ninth night on Friday as bands of youths roamed the immigrant-heavy, working-class suburbs of Paris, setting fire to dozens of cars and buildings …
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BBC:
No halt to French urban violence — French police have arrested more than 50 people, following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France. — Some 220 cars have been burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in mainly immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
CNN:
Americas summit protest turns violent — Anger in streets over Bush, economic policies as leaders gather — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (CNN) — Protesters set one building on fire Friday and threw objects at police in the streets of this resort city as the leaders of 34 nations began the fourth Summit of the Americas.
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Bill Cormier / Associated Press:
Summit Protests Turn Violent in Argentina — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - More than 1,000 demonstrators angry about President Bush's policies clashed with police, shattered storefronts and torched businesses Friday, marring the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas as leaders began debating creation …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings — White House Counsel to Give 'Refresher' Course — President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory briefings beginning next week on ethical behavior and the handling of classified material after the indictment last week …
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Spending Inquiry for Top Official on Broadcasting — WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees most government broadcasts to foreign countries, including the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, is the subject of an inquiry into accusations …
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
DeLay Asked Lobbyist to Raise Money Through Charity — WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - Representative Tom DeLay asked the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a private charity controlled by Mr. Abramoff, an unusual request that led the lobbyist to try to gather at least $150,000 …
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Balloon Juice, firedoglake, Booman Tribune ~ Boo!, Taegan Goddard's …, TAPPED, The Stakeholder and Facing South
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Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
The Real Global Virus — The plague of Islamism keeps on spreading. — National Review Online — Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once.
Associated Press:
Clinton: Hillary Would Be Better President — Former President Clinton said in an interview Friday that he believes his wife would do a better job than he did in the nation's highest office. — New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has not said whether she plans to run in Nonetheless …
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Right Wing Nut House:
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #20 — There were a couple of leading candidates for Cluebat of the Week this time around. Some would have been awarded on a collective basis (The French Government for their tepid response to rioting Muslims), some for individual achievement (Harry Reid's stunt in closing the Senate).
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Case Against Karl Rove (Ongoing...) — The NY Times has a good news / bad news story about the case against Karl Rove. — (a) Fitzgerald is no longer looking at some of the more dramatic charges, such as conspiracy or lying to the President; — (b) Fitzgerald is focusing …
Aaron / aaron:
Deck 'O Bloggers 2005 - Taking Nominations — Inspired by Hugh Hewitt's lamenting the absense of Hallmark Cards for bloggers and anticipating the receipt of cease and desist letters due to violating trademarks for well-known games, I'm announcing the creation of a new interim blogmeme...
Amy Sullivan / The Washington Monthly:
NO COMMUNION FOR JUDGES, PART 2....Ramesh Ponnuru and Stephen Bainbridge both take umbrage at my suggestion that Catholic judges might be vulnerable to the same sort of pressure that Catholic politicians are. Of course, saying that the two of them disagree with me is about as remarkable …
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James Glanz / New York Times:
U.S. Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds — An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary.
Denny Walsh / Sacramento Bee:
War protesters sue for right to bare breasts — A hearing is set over CHP warning that nudity at a Capitol rally will lead to arrests. — Mendocino County women who have been baring their breasts at various venues to protest the war in Iraq are in Sacramento federal court seeking …
Ritzy / Miss Mabrouk of Egypt:
Anti-Islamic Blogger Detained, Missing — The whereabouts of blogger Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman who was abducted from his home by Egyptian state security on Wednesday Oct. 26 is still not known. The police refused to answer questions by AP, the first wire to run the story.
