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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.
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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.
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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radioblogger.com:
Victor Davis Hanson on Muslim violence in France and Europe. — HH: I'm now joined by Victor Davis Hanson, military historian extraordinaire, and you can read him every Friday at National Review Online. Victor, good to have you back on the program. — VDH: Glad to be here, Hugh.
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Art Moore / WorldNetDaily:
General wants Wilson apology — Threatened again with lawsuit over claim of 'outing' CIA wife — Threatened with a lawsuit for "slander," retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely is turning the tables on Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, calling on the man at the center of the CIA leak controversy …
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¡No Pasarán!:
French MSM covers up what is, in fact, a pogrom — If you think that French media are downplaying the extent of the actual violence and damage, you are right. Quite a bit of hard news is not being reported both by design and by the circumstances on the ground.
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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.
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Another Saddam Co-Defendant's Lawyer Slain — BAGHDAD, Iraq — Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial and wounded another Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said. It was the second assassination of a Saddam defense team lawyer in less than a month.
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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.
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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.
Think Progress:
Sleeping With the Enemy: Chalabi's Sordid History — "I can't substantiate [Chalabi's] claims. He makes new ones every year." — Colin Powell, 6/12/03 — Today, Ahmed Chalabi arrives in the United States. The Guardian reports: … Here's a short rap sheet on the man …
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Fox News Is Accused in Bias Suit — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Fox News network, claiming it harassed and discriminated against its female employees, creating a "hostile work environment because of their sex."
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.
Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives Also Irked by IRS Probe of Churches — The agency's warning to All Saints is part of a wider look into political activity by nonprofits. — The IRS threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena because of an antiwar sermon there during …
Drudge Report:
GOP LEADERS TO LAUNCH NEW 'LEAK' PROBE; INFO TO WASH POST 'DAMAGED NATIONAL SECURITY' — Sources tell Drudge that early this afternoon House Speaker Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Frist will announce a bicameral investigation into the leak of classified information to the WASHINGTON POST regarding the …
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