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Colin Randall / Telegraph:
Leaders fiddle as France burns — In pictures: Paris burns after week of rioting — France was struggling to overcome one of its gravest post-war crises last night as every major city faced the threat of fierce rioting that began 12 nights ago and now seems to have spun out of control.
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Associated Press:France Sets Curfews, Deploys 9,500 Cops
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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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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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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.
dailykos.com:
Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians — by paper tigress — Italian media going full-bore on the Bush Administration. After its revelations on the subterfuge behind the Nigergate forgeries, documentary evidence of the use by US troops …
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NEWS.com.au:
Raids 'thwarted major attack' — AUSTRALIAN security agencies appear to have averted a major terrorist attack on home soil with a series of dramatic raids on a suspected terrorist network this morning. — Sixteen people were arrested and are facing terrorism-related charges.
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The Hill:
FBI called in on Hill — The FBI and Capitol Police are investigating the vicious attack of a top Senate staffer at her home last week amid concerns that the assault might be related to her work on the Finance Committee. — Emilia DiSanto, chief investigator for committee Chairman Chuck Grassley …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Should Bush Fire Rove? — LAST FRIDAY, a memo to White House staffers was issued (and released to reporters): Time to go back to class! All White House staffers with security clearances were instructed by the president to attend ethics briefings, including on "the rules governing the protection …
Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war — According to its Office du Tourisme, the big event in Evreux this past weekend was supposed to be the annual fête de la pomme, du cidre et du fromage at the Place de la Mairie. Instead, in this charmingly smouldering cathedral town in Normandy …
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.
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 …
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Macsmind, The Strata-Sphere, Blogs for Bush, TAPPED, The American Thinker and The Left Coaster
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.
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.
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 …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Realism in Darfur — Consider the horrors of peace. — It looks as if the realists have won the day in the matter of Darfur. Or, to phrase it in another way, it looks as if the ethnic cleansers of that province have made good use of the "negotiation" and "mediation" period to complete their self-appointed task.
New Yorker:
UPS AND DOWNS — During the six months or so prior to and encompassing the nomination and confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States, one phrase was on every Republican senatorial lip. "All of the President's nominees, both now and in the future, deserve a fair up-or-down vote," said Sam Brownback, of Kansas.
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