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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.
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John Edwards / Washington Post:
The Right Way in Iraq — I was wrong. — Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told — and what many of us believed and argued — was a threat to America. But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003.
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 …
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Mr. Snitch / Mister Snitch!:
Charlie Rose interviews the Avian Flu, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the pandemic — In deciding how to feel about the Avian Flu, we've settled on alarm combined with morbid acceptance. It's like realizing the house is surrounded by Zombies and they've cut off the phone liines.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Yale Law Frets Over Court Choices It Knows Best — NEW HAVEN, Nov. 8 - The morning after Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. was announced as the president's choice for the Supreme Court, some students and professors at his alma mater, the Yale Law School, were already hard at work - to defeat him.
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) …
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California Conservative:
Why We Love Bill O'Reilly — He says it like it is, and takes the heat. — "You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Dean Not Raising Enough $$ For Democrats — If you're a political junkie, here's an important fact to file away; according to the New York Times, under Howard Dean the Democrats are seriously behind the Republicans in the quest to raise vital campaign funds:
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:Democrats Losing Race For Funds Under Dean
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
U.S. To Sue Southern Illinois University For Anti-White Bias — Update: Welcome to LBC. Bookmark. Grab a feed. Visit often. — It's about time the Bush administration did something to stop blatant skin color preferences and to uphold the Constitution.
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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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New York Times:
Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims — Iran's uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, where work resumed in August. Work remains suspended at its uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. — In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders …
Times of London:
Al-Qaeda calls Queen an 'enemy of Islam' — AL-QAEDA has threatened the Queen by naming her as "one of the severest enemies of Islam" in a video message to justify the July bombings in London. — The warning has been passed by MI5 to the Queen's protection team after it obtained …
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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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Calif. May Build Tunnel in Quake Region — ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable - an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country.
Ian Mather / Scotsman:
Al-Qaeda on defensive as bombs begin to backfire — AFTER years of al-Qaeda terror attacks in which thousands have been killed, many of them Muslims - the people they wish to recruit - voices of dissent are starting to be heard in the Middle East. — As moderate Muslims dare to protest …
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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 …
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Meeting of Muslim Nations Ends in Discord — MANAMA, Bahrain, Nov. 12 - A meeting of Muslim nations initiated by the Bush administration ended in discord on Saturday after objections by Egypt blocked a final declaration supporting democracy. — The administration did, however …
