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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands — Ever since 9/11, I've been gloomily predicting the European powder keg's about to go up. ''By 2010 we'll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,'' I wrote in Canada's Western Standard back in February.
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Elaine Ganley / Associated Press:
Unrest Reaches Paris; 28 Cars Torched — PARIS - Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said Sunday.
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
France Has an Underclass, but Its Roots Are Still Shallow — PARIS — Just two months ago, the French watched in horrified fascination at the anarchy of New Orleans, where members of America's underclass were seen looting stores and defying the police in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for Recognition — Spreading Rampage in Country's Slums Is Rooted in Alienation and Abiding Government Neglect — LE BLANC-MESNIL, France, Nov. 5 — Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs …
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Tyler / T. Longren:
France: To Hell in a Handbasket - UPDATED — [Nine] Ten nights of muslims rioting in the streets so far. All due to a couple kids who got in trouble by the cops and fled to a power station. Do cops in Paris just chase people for the hell of it? I doubt it. — The protests/rioting continues to grow more violent.
John Derbyshire / The Corner on National Review Online:WHY AN INTIFADA IN FRANCE?
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:Riots Spread From Paris to Other French Cities
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Ted Belman / Israel news and commentary from IsraPundit:Today the suburbs, tomorrow the world
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Olivier Guitta / The Counterterrorism Blog:Intifada in Paris — For the past week, the suburbs of Paris …
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:
Did Harry Reid Hit Bill Frist This Week With The "Smoking Gun"? — When Harry Reid shut down the Senate earlier this week due to Pat Roberts and Bill Frist's stonewalling of a Phase Two investigation over how the Bush Administration used intelligence in making its case for war, many of us wondered why now?
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:MARKETING THE WAR....UPDATE....Via Atrios, this is an example …
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring — Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.
Victoria Toensing / Opinion Journal:
Investigate the CIA — An "outing" was the result of either incompetence or an effort to undermine the White House. — In a surprise, closed-door debate, Senate Democrats last week demanded an investigation of pre-Iraq War intelligence. Here's an issue for them: Assess the validity …
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Don Surber:
Dems Lie, NYT Repeats It — I never bought the WMD crap in Iraq. I figured if Saddam Hussein had him, he would use them. But then again, what do I know? Bill Clinton assured us in 1998 that Saddam had them. Ted Kennedy said it. Jimmy Carter said it. Hillary Clinton said it.
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Washington Post:
Why Alito's the Man for the True Conservative Agenda — For conservatives, it was a teaching moment, and a kind of vindication. Two months ago, millions of Americans watched as Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, billed as a conservative Republican, sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Barton Gellman / Washington Post:
The FBI's Secret Scrutiny — In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans — The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
The Forgotten of Africa, Wasting Away in Jails Without Trial — LILONGWE, Malawi - Since Nov. 10, 1999, Lackson Sikayenera has been incarcerated in Maula Prison, a dozen iron-roofed barracks set on yellow dirt and hemmed by barbed wire just outside Malawi's capital city. — He eats one meal of porridge daily.
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Lexington Green / chicagoboyz.net:
Paris Burns, The Second Leftist Utopia Burns With It — The current intifada in France has stripped the American Left of its second Utopia in a generation. — The Left lost its earlier worldly utopia when the Soviet Union fell apart. 1989 was not only the year that the countries …
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CNN:
Bush sends staff back to ethics class — Memo: Staff should adhere to 'spirit' of all rules — WASHINGTON (CNN) — With his chief political aide under investigation as part of a probe into the public unmasking of a CIA operative, President Bush is sending his staff back to school — ethics school.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
President Has Little to Say About Questions on Rove — MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 4 - President Bush was asked four times on Friday about Karl Rove and the C.I.A. leak investigation, and four times he refused to answer. — Speaking to reporters in this seaside resort city …
Herbert E. Meyer / The American Thinker:
Finally, the spotlight has started to swing away from Lewis Libby and his allegedly perjurous grand-jury testimony toward where that spotlight should have focused all along: on the CIA's incompetent, weird - and possibly treasonous—response to Vice President Cheney's inquiry about Iraq's interest in purchasing yellowcake from Niger.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Alito Smear #3: The Rock-Ribbed Racist's Candidate — Normally I page through most of the news stories in a day's media output, selecting a handful as interesting and "staging" them in a separate Firefox session before deciding which ones to analyze. Occasionally, however …
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Colbert I. King / Washington Post:Credentials Are Fine, but Values Matter, Too
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