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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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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 …
Jay Tea / Wizbang:
VIVA LA FRANCE? — I know I've done my share of France-bashing in the past, but the current Muslim riots wracking the country have me doing the unthinkable — feeling sorry for them. — There is a certain element of "hoist by their own Petain" (a phrase I shamelessly steal from Bigwig's utterly brilliant …
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:First Death Is Reported in Paris Riots as Arson Increases
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Gregory / THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH:FRANCE: A TIME OF TROUBLES
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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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Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters:Bush: "We do not torture" — PANAMA CITY (Reuters) …
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
A DEADLY INTERROGATION — Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner? — At the end of a secluded cul-de-sac, in a fast-growing Virginia suburb favored by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a handsome replica of an old-fashioned farmhouse, with a white-railed front porch.
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:Look on the Bright Side — We May Be Torturing …
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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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Associated Press:
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Military Tribunals — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects, a major test of the government's wartime powers.
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 …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Alito and the Family Medical Leave Act — Part 5. — Harvard lawprof Laurence Tribe on the FMLA case: … Talk about doing a double take! Is this really by Larry Tribe? — The "nearly identical" Chittister case didn't involve caring for a family member. It involved self-care.
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Laurence H. Tribe / Boston Globe:Alito's world — YOU CAN'T help doing a double-take when you …
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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 …
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New York Times:
Delays Hurting U.S. Rebuilding in Afghanistan — TURMAI, Afghanistan, Nov. 2 - Islamuddin Ahmadiyar, a 22-year-old student, remembers the excitement in this dusty farming hamlet in central Afghanistan when American contractors broke ground two years ago. — A one-story, 12-room health clinic …
Michael Janofsky / New York Times:
When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation — WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 - In their long and frustrated efforts pushing Congress to pass legislation on global warming, environmentalists are gaining a new ally. — With increasing vigor, evangelical groups that are part of the base of conservative support …
Tom Shales / Washington Post:
A Debatable Ploy by NBC — Live 'West Wing' Earns No Points for Substance — A moderately bewildering exercise in exceptional acting and lily-livered irrelevancy, last night's special episode of the NBC drama series "The West Wing" was designed to inject some much-needed zip into what has become a stubbornly buzzless old warhorse.
Drudge Report:
HOLLYWOOD ROCKED: 'GAY COWBOY' MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER — Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal.
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Two-Year Blogiversary — Last Saturday marked the second year I've been blogging. I was too busy with my 20th high school reunion to notice. What can I say? It's been a great ride. — While I consider myself a pure blogger, one who enjoys (and in my case, craves) the act of blogging itself …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Morale, and Profits, Down At the Times — New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. says his paper should have corrected its flawed reporting on whether Iraq had illegal weapons far sooner than it did, calling this an "institutional failure." — Judith Miller, accused by Editor Bill Keller …
