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Riot erupts in French city centre — Police in the French city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin. — Police on the city's famous Place Bellecour square made two arrests in what state news agency AFP …
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Ferdinand T Cat / Conservative Cat:
Have the French Lost Touch Again? — When I last discussed the Paris riots, I thought that the whole mess was on the verge of dying out completely. After all, the Chirac government had declared a state of emergency and the number of incidents had declined for two straight nights.
Lawhawk / A Blog For All:
Sixteen Candles — One for each day of rioting in France. How many of those days received serious scrutiny by the US media? Three? Four? Yet, the rioting continues unabated despite the media lack of interest. — How would civil rights groups in the US respond to a ban on all public meetings in a major metropolitan area.
Richard W. Stevenson / New York Times:
Bush Contends Partisan Critics Hurt War Effort — TOBYHANNA, Pa., Nov. 11 - President Bush on Friday sharply criticized Democrats who have accused him of misleading the nation about the threat from Iraq's weapons programs, calling their criticism "deeply irresponsible" and suggesting that they are undermining the war effort.
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Pasco Conservative / Stuck On Stupid:
Veteran's Day Blogfest! — From Patriotism.org : — Veterans' Day (formerly Armistice Day) — November 11, is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed in the Forest of Compiegne by the Allies and the Germans in 1918, ending World War I, after four years of conflict.
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Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Autumn of Discontent — The latest NEWSWEEK poll shows serious political trouble for President Bush. — Nov. 12, 2005 - In the wake of the bombings in Jordan by suspected followers of Iraq's Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the indictment of top White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) …
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Management Visionary Peter Drucker Dies — Peter F. Drucker, 95, who was often called the world's most influential business guru and whose thinking transformed corporate management in the latter half of the 20th century, died Nov. 11 at his home in Claremont, Calif. No cause of death was reported, but he was under hospice care.
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The Right Coast
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New York Times:
Playing With Fire — It certainly is a relief that the Senate is finally getting around to doing the job it so shamefully refused to do four years ago, after the 9/11 attacks: requiring the administration to follow the law and the Geneva Conventions in dealing with prisoners taken by the military and intelligence operatives.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Democrats Provided Edge on Detainee Vote — WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 - Democrats who had voted previously to prohibit abusive treatment of detainees in American custody provided the margin of victory on Thursday for a Republican-backed measure that would deny prisoners at Guantánamo Bay …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Democrats Losing Race For Funds Under Dean — The Democratic National Committee under Howard Dean is losing the fundraising race against Republicans by nearly 2 to 1, a slow start that is stirring concern among strategists who worry that a cash shortage could hinder the party's competitiveness in next year's midterm elections.
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel — ZARQA, Jordan, Nov. 11 - The Maktoum Mosque was crowded with worshipers for Friday Prayer as the imam sharply criticized the suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman, saying those who committed the crimes were not Muslims, no matter what they called themselves.
Opinion Journal:
A 'Tortured' Debate — A ban on aggressive interrogation would amount to unilateral disarmament in the war on terror. — If Osama bin Laden is alive and looking for signs of flagging U.S. will to fight the war on terror, he need look no further than our national debate about interrogating …
Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:
Mitt Romney and the anti-gay movement — How in God's name did Romney become governor of Massachusetts? Was it just that he seemed to be more moderate than he really is? Or was it his all-American good looks and charisma? I went to college there back in the early-'90s.
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Kevin Rothstein / Boston Herald:
Mayor suggests summit, searches to stem flow of illegal guns — Pointing to the rising number of shootings in Boston, Mayor Thomas M. Menino is calling for a "handgun summit" in New England and raised the possibility of random police searches of cars crossing into the state to intercept illegal weapons.
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Deacon / Power Line:
THEY'RE BAAACK — Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus attempt to pick at the Bush administration's defense of its handling of pre-war intelligence and its statements about what that intelligence showed. But they succeed only in showing that the attacks on Bush in these regards are meritless and hypocritcal.
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Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
U.S. accuses SIU of anti-white bias — President Bush's administration has threatened to sue Southern Illinois University, alleging its fellowship programs for minority and female students violate federal civil rights laws by discriminating against whites, men and others.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
LA TIMES OP-ED SHAKEUP....A bunch of commenters on Thursday wondered what I thought about the recently announced overhaul of the LA Times op-ed page. Basically, Robert Scheer (hard lefty columnist), Michael Ramirez (hard right cartoonist), and David Gelernter (bizarro right wing columnist) …
Marc Perelman / Forward:
Ex-Powell Aide Suggests Pre-War Memo Was Kept From Bush — A former top official in the Bush administration is suggesting that a White House memo outlining the need for hundreds of thousands of troops for the Iraq invasion was kept from the president. Lawrence Wilkerson …
