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New York Times:
France Declares 12-Day State of Emergency to Curb Crisis  —  PARIS, Nov. 8 - France declared a 12-day state of emergency today in an attempt by the government to curb the worst civil disturbances in the country in nearly four decades.  —  The government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin used …
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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
State of Emergency Declared in France  —  President Jacques Chirac declared a state of emergency Tuesday, paving the way for curfews to be imposed on riot-hit cities and towns in an extraordinary measure to halt France's worst civil unrest in decades after 12 nights of violence.
Daniel Pipes / danielpipes.org:
Reflections on the Revolution in France*  —  The rioting by Muslim youth that began October 27 in France to calls of "Allahu Akbar" may be a turning point in European history.  —  What started in Clichy-sous-Bois, on the outskirts of Paris, by its 11th night had spread to 300 French cities and towns, as well as to Belgium and Germany.
Patrick Belton / OxBlog:
JUST BECAUSE I'M NOT POSTING DOESN'T MEAN I'M DEAD DEPT …
Discussion: neo-neocon and Cold Fury
¡No Pasarán!:
French MSM covers up what is, in fact, a pogrom
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Daily Kos:
Trent Lott says GOP Senator guilty of leaking story re: secret torture prisons  —  Too funny!  Hastert and Frist make a big show of calling for an investigation into a leak allegedly affecting national security — the locations of secret "black site" torture prisons.  And then — BOOM!!!
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Eschaton and Pandagon
Editor and Publisher:
Another Leak Probe?  GOP Calls for Investigation into 'Wash Post' Scoop on CIA 'Black Sites'  —  NEW YORK Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Tuesday called for a congressional investigation into who told Washington Post reporter Dana Priest about previously undisclosed CIA interrogation centers.
Discussion: AMERICAblog, THE BRAD BLOG and Macsmind
Peter Popham / Independent:
US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah  —  Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians …
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BBC:   US 'uses incendiary arms' in Iraq
Tom Regan / Christian Science Monitor:
Did the US military use chemical weapons in Iraq?
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
New York Times:
President Bush's Walkabout  —  After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run.  An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front.
John / AMERICAblog:
Republicans now trying to Swift Boat Ambassador Joe Wilson over Rove-Treason-Gate  —  Two GOP attack dogs (who are regular pundits on FOX and have been published by Regnery, the nutty GOP publishing arm) are now trying to spread a lie about Joe Wilson, saying he revealed to them in a casual conversation …
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Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
Becoming Part of Sherrod Brown Campaign Story  —  So a Sherrod Brown staffer used some lines from one of my blog posts.  Who frigging cares?  This is a ridiculous story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: … This is the post Brown used to list the cases where Alito has attacked workers rights.
California Conservative:
"Judgment Day": Coverage Of California'S Special Election  —  We have a historic opportunity to vote for critical reforms.  —  TODAY, Californians are heading to the polls to vote on several major propositions that shall dramatically affect both the political and economic future of our state.
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Greg Ransom / PrestoPundit:   If You Live In California
Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Dubya-Cheney ties frayed by scandal  —  'There has been some distance for some time'  —  WASHINGTON - The CIA leak scandal has peeled back the veil on the most closely held White House secret of all: the subtle but unmistakable erosion in the bond between President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
dailyprincetonian.com:
Nominee's missing thesis recovered  —  Alito '72 believes Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, adviser says  —  Chanakya Sethi  —  The senior thesis of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72, which along with some 300 others was lost during the 1970s, resurfaced Monday when Alito's thesis adviser provided a copy to the University.
Stephen Spruiell / National Review:
MDforDirtyPolitics...  Earlier this year a mysterious source turned over some e-mails to a Washington Post reporter.  The e-mails seemed to indicate that a man with ties to the Republican governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, was spreading rumors about the governor's chief political rival on FreeRepublic.com.
Jed Babbin / American Spectator:
The CIA Disinformation Campaign  —  The CIA's disinformation campaign against President Bush — headlined in the Wilson/Plame affair — is more jujitsu than karate.  Instead of applying your own force to defeat your opponent, you turn his energy and momentum against him and bring him down.
Jane Galt / Asymmetrical Information:
Why are French muslims rioting?  —  Is it because Arabs/Muslims are a roiling repository of violent, seething hatred, ever threatening to bubble over onto unsuspecting victims in their path?  Because the French are so damn mean?  —  Let me suggest another possibility …

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