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Reuters:
French youths riot for seventh night running  —  PARIS (Reuters) - Violence broke out in Paris suburbs for the seventh night running overnight on Thursday after French youths set fire to dozens of cars.  —  The continuing unrest compounds pressure on Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government …
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Gateway Pundit:
Violence Escalates!  France in Retreat!  —  SEVENTH NIGHT OF VIOLENCE IN PARIS IS WORST YET!  —  VIDEO HERE  —  As the violence continues to escalate in France, the attacks against Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy continue to increase as well.  Sarkozy is one Frenchman who looked through …
Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:   The French riots: A 2002 perspective
Guardian:
Chirac calls for calm as violence spreads through capital's suburbs
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
BBC:
Fresh violence hits Paris suburbs
Discussion: Viking Observer
Washington Post:
Rove's Future Role Is Debated  —  White House May Seek Fresh Start In Wake of Leak  —  Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
National Review:
Who Did What?  —  The hot-blooded search for criminality in the matter of Cheney/Libby/Rove has not truly satisfied those in search of first degree venality.  Very soon after the indictment of Mr. Libby, the tricoteuses glumly conceded that no conspiracy has been uncovered.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Don't We Still Trust The CIA?
Discussion: NO QUARTER
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate's Closed-Session Move Borne Out of Daschle's Strategy  —  It took Democrats about five seconds to trigger the parliamentary move that forced the Senate into a rare closed session this week, but it was more than a year in the planning.  —  The final decision to employ the tactic …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Fact-esque
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Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Democrats intensify Bush slams
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and GOP Bloggers
Bloomberg:
Alito Finds Constitutional Privacy Right, Durbin Says (Update2)  —  Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr., meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, told one senator that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to privacy and won praise from Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Donklephant
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:   Judge Said He Struggled on '91 Abortion Opinion
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House Defeats Bill on Political Blogs  —  WASHINGTON - Online political expression should not be exempt from campaign finance law, the House decided Wednesday as lawmakers warned that the Internet has opened up a new loophole for uncontrolled spending on elections.
Francis Fukuyama / Opinion Journal:
A Year of Living Dangerously  —  Remember Theo van Gogh, and shudder for the future.  —  One year ago today, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh had his throat ritually slit by Mohamed Bouyeri, a Muslim born in Holland who spoke fluent Dutch.  This event has totally transformed Dutch politics …
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Is Rove a Security Risk?  —  Because he disclosed Plame's CIA identity to reporters, the Bush aide could lose his clearance.  —  Nov. 2, 2005 - The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that Karl Rove is out of the woods.  But while an indictment against him in the Valerie Plame leak case …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Life of the Party?  Only in the 'Grand Old' Sense.  —  Senators will debate Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito's legal views for months, but this much is settled law: The Senate is witnessing a real-life revenge of the nerd.  —  Alito, bespectacled, hair askew, suit rumpled and ill-fitting …
CBS News:
Bush's Job Approval Hits New Low  —  (CBS) Tempers cooled a bit in Washington today after the partisan meltdown that brought Senate business to a halt Tuesday.  —  Even so, neither Congress nor the White House will find much in a new CBS News poll to put them in a better humor.
Washington Post:
Critics See Ammunition In Alito's Rights Record  —  Eight years ago, a trio of federal appellate judges heard the case of Beryl Bray, a housekeeping manager at a Marriott hotel in Park Ridge, N.J., who alleged that she was denied a promotion because she was black.
Discussion: All Things Beautiful and MyDD
CBS News:
Poll: More Bad News For Bush  —  (CBS) Most Americans believe someone in the Bush Administration did leak Valerie Plame's name to reporters - even though Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted no one for doing that.  Half of the public describes the matter as something of great importance …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraq Asks Return of Some Officers of Hussein Army  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 2 - The Iraqi government called Wednesday for the return of junior officers from the disbanded army of Saddam Hussein, openly reversing an American directive issued in 2003.  —  The move is aimed at draining the insurgency …
Discussion: Angry Bear

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