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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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Telegraph:
French police find petrol bomb factory — Police last night found a petrol bomb factory in a southern suburb of Paris, on France's tenth and worst consecutive night of violence. — 1,300 vehicles were torched on — France's worst night of violence so far
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
French Ministers Meet Under Growing Pressure From Riots — PARIS, Nov. 6 - The French government met in emergency session today to confront rioting that worsened on its 10th night, sweeping into the heart of Paris from suburbs with large Arab and African populations.
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 …
Reuters:
Chirac vows order as French riots spread — PARIS (Reuters) - President Jacques Chirac on Sunday vowed to restore order in France after riots in Paris spread across the country and began to unnerve his European neighbors. — "The Republic is quite determined, by definition …
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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.
Betsy / Betsy's Page:Sometimes I see strange connections as I go from preparing …
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:France Has an Underclass, but Its Roots Are Still Shallow
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
TORTURE AND THE VICE PRESIDENT....As I mentioned yesterday, Sunday's New York Times carries a story about Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, an al-Qaeda prisoner captured shortly after 9/11. According to a newly declassified memo, not only did al-Libi provide us with false information suggesting that Iraq …
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Douglas Jehl / New York Times:
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Doubts — WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members …
New York Times:
Major Offensive Hits Insurgents on Iraqi Border — HUSAYBA, Iraq, Nov. 5 - Thousands of American and Iraqi troops laid siege on Saturday to this town near the Syrian border in one of the largest military assaults since American-led forces stormed the guerrilla stronghold of Falluja last year, Marine Corps officials said.
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Dick Stanley / Austin American-Statesman:
3,000 protest Klan's rally of 14 — Klan favors banning gay marriage — Ten men and four women calling themselves members of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan gathered at City Hall plaza Saturday for a brief and hugely contested rally against gay marriage.
Washington Post:
Sex at School Increasing, Some Educators Say — Perhaps the most shocking thing about students having sex in a high school auditorium was that other students didn't find it very shocking at all. — "I glanced over and, whatever, I just let him continue on with his business," …
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Gateway Pundit:
Cindy Sheehan's Anti-War Marine is a Fraud! — Here is the story of former Marine Sgt. Jimmy Massey as printed in the St. Louis Post Dispatch today. He has been out traveling with Cindy Sheehan on her bus tour across the country. Jimmy is a member of Veterans Against the Iraq War.
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Ron Harris / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Is Jimmy Massey telling the truth about Iraq?
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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.
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Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:If Bush and the White House …
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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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Joseph Farah and / WorldNetDaily:
Joe Wilson fumes over Vallely charges in WND — Demands retraction of statements alleging he 'outed' wife in Fox studio — WASHINGTON - Ambassador Joseph Wilson's attorney is demanding Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely retract a statement he made to WND that the man at the center of the CIA leak case …
John Hendren / Los Angeles Times:
McCain vows to add torture ban to all major Senate legislation — WASHINGTON - Girding for a potential fight with the Bush administration, supporters of a ban on torturing prisoners of war by U.S. interrogators threatened Friday to include the prohibition in nearly every bill the Senate considers until it becomes law.
Ken McCracken / WILLisms.com:
Pundit Roundtable — Hello again, and welcome back to PUNDIT ROUNDTABLE. I am your host, Ken McCracken, bringing you another power-packed panel of pundits. Here are our topics this week: — Topic 1: This has been a rough last few weeks for the Bush administration.
Time:
A White House Without Rove? — He's not gone yet, but his Texas-size ambitions are giving way to smaller goals — He's weary. his wife and only child, who is approaching college, miss him. He has monstrous legal bills. His unique bond with the President is under stress. His most important work is done.
