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10:50 PM ET, April 10, 2006

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Gateway Pundit:
France Surrenders!  —  It was only a matter of time...  The kids did not care for the new plan...  It had to go.  They were forced to take their fight to the streets.  (France-Echos)  —  After putting up a brave fight, France surrendered today to the young socialist thugs on the street.
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Matthew Bigg / Reuters:
France scraps youth job law
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters:   France to scrap disputed youth job contract
CNN:
Bush: Talk of Iran attack 'wild speculation'  —  Reports suggest U.S. contemplating nuclear strike against Tehran  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Monday dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that his administration has considered nuclear strikes against sites in Iran to prevent the nation from building nuclear weapons.
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Bull Moose:
Prudent Planning  —  The Moose is pleased that the taxpayers …
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Bloomberg:
Berlusconi Overtakes Prodi in Italian Election (Update1)  —  April 10 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi overtook former European Commission President Romano Prodi in Italian elections and now leads in voting for both houses of parliament, projected results showed.
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Alessandra Rizzo / Associated Press:
Italian Election Remains Too Close to Call  —  ROME - Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving premier since World War II, was locked in a battle for power early Tuesday with center-left challenger Romano Prodi as vote projections from parliamentary election returns swung dramatically back and forth.
Discussion: MSNBC
BBC:
Election cliffhanger grips Italy  —  Italy's general election is turning into an extremely close race, with early results pointing to a slender lead for PM Silvio Berlusconi.  —  Mr Berlusconi's centre-right coalition may narrowly retain control of both houses of parliament, according to projections from the Nexus pollsters.
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Kim Priestap / Wizbang:
DEMOCRATS RECRUITING AT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT PROTESTS  —  Updated  —  Scroll to read updates.  —  A number of photos were taken at yesterday's Dallas illegal immigrant protest, including this one of a Democrat recruitment flyer encouraging Mexican immigrants to vote for Democrats in 2006.
Michelle Malkin:
ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTER RECRUITMENT
Discussion: A Blog For All and In the Bullpen
Associated Press:
Lawyer: No DNA Match in Duke Gang Rape Case  —  DURHAM, N.C. — DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday.  —  Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police …
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Raleigh News & Observer:
Attorney: No DNA found on victim  —  From staff reports  —  DURHAM — Defense lawyers said Monday that DNA testing proves that Duke University lacrosse players did not rape a woman hired to strip at a team party, but the district attorney said he remains intent on building his case.
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Immigration Advocates Rally Across U.S.  —  Crowds of immigrants and their supporters predicted to total in the hundreds of thousands marched today in more than 100 cities throughout the country, casting off the old fears of their illegal status to assert that they have a right to a humane life in this country.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Thousands Demonstrate Over Immigration  —  NEW YORK - Hundreds of thousands of people demanding U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants took to the streets in dozens of cities from New York to San Diego on Monday in some of the most widespread demonstrations since the mass protests began around the country last month.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Wowie Zahawie  —  Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger.  —  In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie.
Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
Surprise!  Fox News Ignores Page Six Extortion Story  —  Proving once again that the "News" in Fox News is not meant to be taken literally, the Rupert Murdoch-owned news channel has all but ignored the stunning story of the New York City gossip columnist who tried to extort nearly $250K …
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Behind Gossip, There's Often a Relationship
Discussion: FishBowlDC and News Blog
USA Today:
Army surpassing year's retention goal by 15%  —  WASHINGTON — Two of every three eligible soldiers continue to re-enlist, putting the Army, which has endured most of the fighting in Iraq, ahead of its annual goal.  —  The Army was 15% ahead of its re-enlistment goal of 34,668 …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Show Your Teeth  —  WHEN CHIDED for a sharp or acerbic remark, Pat Moynihan used to invoke an old aphorism: "This animal is vicious; when he's attacked, he bites back."  Moynihan would quote the French verse, which made the point seem more elegant (cet animal est très méchant; quand on l'attaque, il se défend).
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House  —  WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Bush's Job Approval Rating Continues to Swoon  —  Forty-Seven Percent of Americans 'Strongly' Disapprove of Handling of the Presidency  —  Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low and boosted Democratic chances …
Michael J. Totten:
Back to Iraq - Part One  —  GALLIPOLI PENNINSULA, WESTERN TURKEY - My recent trip to Turkey wasn't my first, but my friend Sean LaFreniere - whom I flew from Beirut to Istanbul to meet - had never been there before.  So I let him decide our itinerary.  He wanted to see Gallipoli and Troy, even though Izmir has better ruins than Troy.
Discussion: The Wide Awake Cafe
Lieut. General Greg Newbold / Time:
Why Iraq Was a Mistake  —  A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed it  —  Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war.  Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized.
Paul Horwitz / PrawfsBlawg:
Balkin on Wills on JC  —  An interesting post by Jack Balkin today, itself referring to an op-ed by Garry Wills in the New York Times.  Wills argues against the institutionalization of Jesus in politics — against the tendency to recruit him as "a campaign aide."
 
 
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