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8:15 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
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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 …
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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
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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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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
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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 …
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Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Bush and Cheney Discussed Plame Prior to Leak  —  In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding mission …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Show Your Teeth  —  WHEN CHIDED for a sharp or acerbic remark …
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Bob Carter / Telegraph:
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998  —  For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem.  In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco.
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
'West Wing' Writers' Novel Way of Picking the President  —  Like many political campaigns, the presidential election depicted last night on "The West Wing" on NBC would have had a different ending had it been held four months ago.  —  But the reversal of fortune for Matt Santos …
Stephanie Simon / Los Angeles Times:
Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies  —  Many codes intended to protect gays from harassment are illegal, conservatives argue.  —  ATLANTA — Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.  —  Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality.
Neil Munro / nationaljournal.com:
Real Or Fake? … Thanks to digital technology, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the most photographed in history.  Photographers with digital cameras have provided, almost instantaneously, an enormous flood of accurate, dramatic, and even shocking images to people around the world.
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.
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
Michelle Malkin:
MUSLIMS FOR OPEN BORDERS  —  Illegal alien protest in Detroit.  Sunday, April 9, 2006.  Second from right is guest speaker Dawud Walid, 34, of Detroit, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations-Michigan.  —  March 27 illegal alien protest in Detroit.
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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