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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.
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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.
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.
Ted Belman / Israel news and commentary from IsraPundit:Today the suburbs, tomorrow the world
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Melanie Phillips's Diary
Olivier Guitta / The Counterterrorism Blog:Intifada in Paris — For the past week, the suburbs of Paris …
Editor and Publisher:
Smoking Gun on Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence? 'NY Times' Cites New Document — NEW YORK Ever since the Democrats briefly closed the U.S. Senate from view earlier this week, to protest alleged Republican foot-dragging in probing Bush administration pre-war manipulation of intelligence …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:MARKETING THE WAR....UPDATE....Via Atrios, this is an example …
Jack Yoest / Jack Yoest at Yoest.org:
The Single Best Measure of A Business — Prostitutes and consultants have been labeled as not being too particular about clients. Your Business Blogger may be the exception. As consultant, that is. — There are many ways to evaluate and predict the success of an enterprise.
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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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The Blogging of the President
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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TalkLeft
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 …
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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.
Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
Pick Your Battles — Democrats shouldn't waste their time filibustering Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. There are bigger fights coming down the pike. — Nov. 4, 2005 - Democrats shouldn't filibuster Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court unless he really bungles the hearings.
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Unclaimed Territory, WILLisms.com, Decision '08, Power Line, The Politburo Diktat and Discriminations
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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Confirm Them
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Colbert I. King / Washington Post:Credentials Are Fine, but Values Matter, Too
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reasoned audacity …
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.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Fight Back, Mr. President — Last week, I suggested that the Bush administration's second-term bear market had bottomed out. Since then, we've been pummeled by polls showing Bush in continued decline. Perhaps my bullish call on Bush was a bit early. Or perhaps it was wrong. Which is it?
Joseph T. Hallinan / Wall Street Journal:
Media — The Bad News in Black and White — The Fourth Estate is braced to get more bad news about itself next week. — On Monday, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases its semiannual figures on circulation — and they are expected to show that paying readers continue to disappear …
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BuzzMachine
Point Five:
The Frinch — by a4g and The Evil Emperor Mindstation — All the Youths down in Youth-ville hated Christians a lot. — But the Frinch- who all lived in Paris, just north of Youth-ville- did not. — Or, more precisely, they kept Christ at arm's length — Understanding completely France's "secular strength."
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Senate Votes Again for Ban on Abusing Prisoners — WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - The Senate restated its support on Friday for banning the abusive treatment of prisoners in American custody, and the measure's Republican sponsor chided the House Republican leadership for delaying a vote on it.
