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BBC:
Fresh violence hits Paris suburbs — Rioting youths opened fire on police and set dozens of vehicles ablaze in a seventh night of violence in Paris. — In escalating unrest, shots were fired at police and firefighters, while gangs besieged a police station, set fire to a car showroom and threw petrol bombs.
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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 …
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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.
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John Podhoretz / The Corner on National Review Online:
MCCLELLAN GOES AFTER ROVE — The much-discussed Washington Post story this morning headlined "Rove's Future Role Is Debated" is a bit of a breakthrough because it's one of the few times during Dubya's tenure in the White House that the press has been used as a tool to fight an internal battle.
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Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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 …
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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.
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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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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Colorado Cap on Spending Is Suspended — DENVER, Nov. 2 - The national movement to impose caps on state taxes and spending took a sharp blow in Tuesday's election, conservatives and liberals say, when Colorado voters decided that the tightest spending cap in the nation was just a tad too tight.
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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.
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:Joining Forces in Scalitovision 2005
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Alamo Nation
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Judge Said He Struggled on '91 Abortion Opinion — WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 - Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's choice for the Supreme Court, told a pivotal Democrat that he had wrestled intensely with a 1991 opinion favoring an abortion restriction that has become a flashpoint in the debate over his confirmation.
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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 …
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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 …
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Shakespeare's Sister, Decision '08, Majikthise, The Carpetbagger Report, Sirotablog and NewsBusters.org
Investor's Business Daily:
Not A Good Thing — Politics: If stealing and destroying secret documents, stuffing them into your pants and then lying about it isn't a crime worthy of jail time, why is having a different recollection of events than Tim Russert? — If the charges swirling around Scooter Libby …
Frank Davies / Knight Ridder:
In Katrina's aftermath, FEMA chief mused about his future — WASHINGTON - Even as subordinates warned him that the flooding of New Orleans was a matter of life or death, Michael Brown, the now-dismissed head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, remained strangely detached from the crisis, e-mails made public Wednesday show.
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Facing South
PoliPundit.com:
The Refined Product — Earlier this year, when the MSM was screaming nasty things about the Arab nations because oil prices were so high, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent Crown Prince Abdallah Bin Abdul-Aziz to meet with President Bush, a task both honoring and annoying the nobleman.
Stewart Bell / National Post:
CSIS: terror cell busted — Bomb expert among four Algerians in Toronto — TORONTO - Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned.
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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 …
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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 …
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