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Shafika Mattar / Associated Press:
Iraqi Woman Confesses on Jordan TV — AMMAN, Jordan - Strapped with a disabled explosives belt, an Iraqi woman arrested Sunday confessed on television to trying to blow herself up with her husband in one of three suicide attacks earlier this week that killed 57 people.
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Lawhawk / A Blog For All:
The Jordanian Bomber's Wife — The wife of one of the suicide bombers in the Amman hotel bombings has been captured. Apparently, she was trying to be a suicide bomber herself, but her bomb failed to detonate. … So, the suicide bombers are staying in the family as it were?
Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Police, Rioting Youths Clash in Central Lyon — PARIS, Nov. 12 — Dozens of youths threw trash cans at police and attacked sidewalk shops in a main square of Lyon on Saturday night in the first clash between rioters and police in a city center after more than two weeks of violence in France, according to news reports.
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Samantha Bordes / Associated Press:Rioters Attack Police in Lyon; Paris Calm
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:French Riots Continue Despite Ban On Assemblies
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Liza Porteus / Fox News:
Bush Fires Back Against Iraq War Critics — President Bush on Friday shot back at critics claiming his administration misconstrued or lied about pre-war intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, saying "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."
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Kit Jarrell / euphoricreality.net:
Easy Like Sunday Morning - OPEN POST — No, the title does not refer to Ashlee Simpson, Britney Spears, or...*cough* Madonna. (Sorry, that's an inside joke. I couldn't help myself.) — Easy refers to the level of difficulty in posting on an open trackback post. Leave us some linky love, and we'll return the favor.
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Washington Post:
Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role — In the opening days of the CIA leak investigation in early October 2003, FBI agents working the case already had in their possession a wealth of valuable evidence. There were White House phone and visitor logs, which clearly documented the administration's contacts with reporters.
Thomas / The Right Coast:
Yale Law School on Alito nomination — By Tom Smith — At least Peter Schuck doesn't sound like a ninny. But then there is this: … And in my judgment, Professor Gordon is just too steadfastly pompous. Alito, a mere craftsman, adorned with canvas apron and work belt …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice — Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline — The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation's anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens …
Right Wing Nut House:
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #21 — Decisions...decisions... Who will wear the "Cluebat of the Week" laurels? — Certainly there has been enough cluelessness exhibited by Republicans this week as a group of Republican Congressmen decided that the American people don't really care about high gas prices.
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New York Times:
The Democrats and Judge Alito — Judge Samuel Alito has been working hard to win over moderate Democratic senators. But just as it would be irresponsible to reject his nomination to the Supreme Court without giving him a full hearing, it is unwise to embrace it - or rule out the possibility of a filibuster - until more is known.
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Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:
Free Speech Libertarian — Judge Alito has an expansive view of the First Amendment. — What would Samuel Alito's confirmation mean for First Amendment law? It's impossible to be sure, but his appeals court opinions give us some clues. A Justice Alito would likely take a pretty broad view …
Drudge Report:
HOWARD THE DUCK: DEAN DODGES NBC APPEARANCE WITH REPUBLICAN — Dem Chair Dean Ducks Last Second Joint MEET THE PRESS Appearance With GOP Chair Mehlman — The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from exclusive sources that Democrat Party Chair Howard Dean turned down Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman's …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Harry Reid, Ironist — George Bush came out swinging yesterday against the politicians who have made "false charges" and "baseless attacks" about the use of pre-war intelligence. — Harry Reid, politician and ironist, responded: … Left unexplained - how the Democrats unrelenting focus …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Warren Beatty flirts with politics, yet again — In movies, a big star is insulated by protocol and precedence. Your big-time silver-screen colossus might get killed in a film, but not by the hands of some nondescript extra who casually shoots him with nary a thought.
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Wrestling With History — Sometimes you have to fight the war you have, not the war you wish you had — If only he could show us the memo. — "It's still classified, I suppose?" says Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, looking toward his assistant.
