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Angela Doland / Associated Press:
Rioting Spreads to 300 Towns in France — PARIS - Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a 61-year-old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
First Death Is Reported in Paris Riots as Arson Increases — PARIS, Monday, Nov. 8 - France's urban unrest claimed its first life today when a 61-year-old man died of injuries sustained last week when he was beaten by a hooded youth in the Parisian suburb of Stains .
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:French Riots Come After Multiple Warnings Of Islamist Attacks
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture' — PANAMA CITY, Panama - President Bush vigorously defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terror Monday and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture. — "There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said.
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Shakespeare's Sister, TAPPED, Needlenose, Centerfield, Wonkette, PunditGuy, Blogenlust and Pam's House Blend
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Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:Bush: "We do not torture" — PANAMA CITY (Reuters) …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Military Tribunals — WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - The Supreme Court agreed today to take a case involving Osama bin Laden's driver that presents a major test to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects.
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Reselling the Wars — America's ambassadors to Iraq and Afghanistan were both in Washington during the past 10 days. They peddled plans for badly needed corrections of U.S. policy — and they listened to the furious debate over Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame and the handling of flawed intelligence three years ago.
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Greg's Opinion
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James Lewis / The American Thinker:
There are an amazing number of French fingerprints all over the Plame-Wilson affair. While it is not easy to penetrate the dark fog of lies, there is a highly consistent pattern pointing to French government involvement with a Watergate-style assault on the American Presidency, fronted by Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
Los Angeles Times:
Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning — All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena risks losing its tax-exempt status because of a former rector's remarks in 2004. — The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing …
Daniel Benjamin / Slate:
President Cheney — His office really does run national security. — It has become a cliché to say that Dick Cheney is the most powerful vice president in American history. Nonetheless, here is a prediction: When the historians really get digging into the paper entrails …
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The Washington Monthly
A Man / The Right Nation:
Monday Night Round-Up — â-ºLa bufala di RaiNews 24 sul "fosforo bianco" utilizzato dall'esercito statunitense nella battaglia di Falluja, è stata ripresa da tutti (AdnKronos, AGI, Corriere della Sera, L'Unità, Repubblica) ed è, mentre scriviamo, la notizia d'apertura di Google News.
Russell Roberts / Cafe Hayek:
Alan Alda for President — I turned on the TV last night, hoping to see the opening of the Redskins-Eagles game, and I stumble on what appears to be Alan Alda, talking about drug company profits. But it can't be Alan Alda. I think of Alan Alda as someone who is hostile to drug company profits.
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TheAgitator.com
National Review:
The French Connection — You never know with ouija boards, especially mine, which I bought in one of those kinda ratty antiques-and-esoterica shops in the French Quarter before New Orleans got blown away. I suppose I should be grateful that it works at all, but I had been trying for several days …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
At Some Magazines, Men Appear to Rule the Word — Earlier this year, the feminist writer Susan Estrich said that women's bylines appeared far less frequently than men's on newspaper opinion pages like those of The Los Angeles Times. Now, a Condé Nast editor is making a similar case …
Norm Coleman / Wall Street Journal:
Beware a 'Digital Munich' — It sounds like a Tom Clancy plot. An anonymous group of international technocrats holds secretive meetings in Geneva. Their cover story: devising a blueprint to help the developing world more fully participate in the digital revolution.
John M. Smith / dailyprincetonian.com:
A grand slam nomination — For the Red Sox, the White Sox and now Princeton's heavy-hitters in the law, the curse has finally been broken. If the Senate confirms Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. '72 to the U.S. Supreme Court as expected, it will end a 35-year drought of Princetonians on the nation's highest court.
neo-neocon:
So, is it a "clash of civilizations?" — Yesterday, Clive Davis expanded on some comments he made earlier here, about blog response and press coverage (or lack thereof) of the riots in France, and added some interesting-looking links to some French blogs. He also provides a helpful translation …
