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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities — PARIS, Monday, Nov. 7 - Rioters fired shotguns at the police in a working-class suburb of Paris on Sunday, wounding 10 officers as the country's fast-spreading urban unrest escalated dangerously. Just hours earlier, President Jacques Chirac called …
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Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Chirac Speaks Out on Rioting — On 11th Day of Unrest, French President Vows to Restore Order — PARIS, Nov. 6 — French President Jacques Chirac addressed the public Sunday for the first time in 11 days of the country's worst violence in decades, saying his government's "absolute priority" …
Reuters:
French Muslim group issues fatwa against rioting — PARIS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - One of France's largest Islamic groups issued a fatwa against rioting on Sunday after officials suggested Muslim militants could be partly to blame for violent protests scarring poor neighbourhoods around the country.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
French Riots Come After Multiple Warnings Of Islamist Attacks — The riots in France have little connection to the Islamist terrorist offensive against the West, if the American media coverage gives any indication. However, alert CQ reader Mr. Michael points out that both American …
Jonathan / Blogoland:France: A right-wing assimilationist utopia
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The Mahablog, The Peking Duck, Left in the West, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, EU Referendum, Instapundit.com and Eschaton
Janny Scott / New York Times:
Court Choice Is Conservative by Nature, Not Ideology — In an office two doors away from Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Samuel A. Alito Jr. found himself at the heart of the Reagan revolution. He was a 35-year-old deputy assistant attorney general and it was 1985.
Washington Post:
Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy — As Pressure Mounts to Limit Handling Of Terror Suspects, He Holds Hard Line — Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing …
Gateway Pundit:
Massive Muslim Demonstration Against Al Qaida!! — * 150,000 Demonstrate Against Al Qaida in Morocco — * Protesters Pledge Unity with Iraq! — * "All Moroccans are with Iraq, all Moroccans are innocent," the marchers chanted. — * Rally draws people cutting across political lines
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Kieran Healy / Crooked Timber:
Libertarian Litmus Test — Over at Volokh, the puppy blood is flying again. This time, it's Juan Non-Volokh who defends America's network of secret, overseas torture centers against the vicious charge that they resemble Soviet gulags: … Nice to see a fine legal mind at work on such a hard problem.
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Balkinization
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Stephen Schwartz / Tech Central Station:
"Red Belt" Riots — In December 1979, at 31, I first went to Europe. I was then an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary communist. I flew to London and after a boat-train trip to Paris, was met by comrades in the small movement to which I belonged, centered in France and Spain.
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Cold Fury
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Newsweek:
Jennifer Aniston: Seven Things* I'd Rather Talk About ... Than the Men in (or Out) of My Life — My new movie, "Derailed." It's a really sexy psychological thriller with Clive Owen. I had never done a thriller before. It was hard to kiss Clive, but you know what?
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Biden: Alito Filibuster Seems Unlikely — WASHINGTON - Samuel Alito should get an up-or-down vote on his Supreme Court nomination, a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday, playing down the chances of a filibuster. — "My instinct is we should commit," said Sen. Joseph Biden …
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Pam's House Blend
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David Sirota / The Huffington Post:
D.C.'s Professional B.S. Artists Again Go Off On Iraq — The Philadelphia Inquirer's top political reporter, Dick Polman, has an interesting piece today about how more Democrats are (finally) admitting they were wrong in supporting the Iraq War, and that they were misled by the Bush administration.
Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
White House Tries to Keep Distance From Leak Case — WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 - In the hours before the Justice Department informed the White House in late September 2003 that it would investigate the leak of a covert C.I.A. officer's identity, Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary …
Michael J. Totten:
Paris: The Beirut of Europe — They say Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East. Does that mean Paris is the Beirut of Europe? Or is that an insult to Beirut? — Paris has been on fire for 11 days now. The violence is out of control and it's spreading. Some are calling this the French Intifada.
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Roger L. Simon
BBC:
Azeri ruling party 'wins' polls — Azerbaijan's ruling party has won parliamentary elections, according to partial official results. — With around 90% of votes counted, the New Azerbaijan Party had won 62 of the 125 seats in parliament, the electoral body said.
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democracy guy
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Rachel / Tinkerty Tonk:
RINO SIGHTINGS — Get out your binoculars and focus: The RINOs have been sighted. — INOs aren't always in the right, reports Professor Bainbridge. Big spending Conservatives used their weight to push the repeal of Colorado's TABOR law, a model of limited government and, by extension, limited government spending.
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Court Could Tip to Catholic Majority — Some Say Slant Is Dangerous; Others See Historic Victory — If Samuel A. Alito Jr. is confirmed to the Supreme Court, a majority of its nine justices for the first time will be Roman Catholics — a fact that, depending on whom you ask …
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Michelle Malkin:
AN ANTI-WAR SMEAR ARTIST EXPOSED — If you read nothing else today, make sure it's this devastating article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by reporter Ron Harris on an anti-war fraud named Jimmy Massey. Excerpt: … Some of the lies: … Kudos to Harris for pursuing this story.
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