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New York Sun:
Intifada in France  —  If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated.  Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced …
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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Rioting Spreads in Paris Suburbs as Angry Youths Burn More Cars  —  PARIS, Nov. 3 - Angry youths clashed with police and firefighters outside Paris late Wednesday in the worst of seven straight nights of violence set off by the accidental death of two teenagers.
Sky News:
Disabled Woman Set Ablaze  —  A handicapped woman was doused with petrol and set on fire by youths during another night of rioting in Paris.  —  The 56-year-old suffered third degree burns to 20% of her body in the attack.  —  Witnesses said a youth poured petrol over the woman and then threw …
Discussion: Tel-Chai Nation and Jihad Watch
Kerry Jacoby / Pardon My English:   Mea Culpa, Mon Amis!
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Kenneth Tomlinson Quits Public Broadcasting Board  —  Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who sparked controversy by asserting that programs carried by public broadcasters have a liberal bias, resigned yesterday from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a day after the agency's inspector general delivered …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Distorting Sam Alito  —  Pop quiz: Which of the following abortion regulations is more restrictive, more burdensome, more likely to lead more women to forgo abortion?  —  (a) Requiring a minor to get the informed consent of her parents, or to get a judge to approve the abortion.
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Why Does William Saletan Treat Women Like Girls?
Discussion: Slate
New York Times:
Bush at Hemisphere Talks: Trade Fight Awaits  —  MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 3 - President Bush arrived in this beach resort city on Thursday night for a gathering of Western Hemisphere leaders after one of the worst weeks of his presidency, only to be greeted by strong anti-American sentiment …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Tries to Improve U.S. Image at Summit
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senate Passes Plan to Cut $35 Billion From Deficit  —  The Senate approved sweeping deficit-reduction legislation last night that would save about $35 billion over the next five years by cutting federal spending on prescription drugs, agriculture supports and student loans, while clamping down on fraud in the Medicaid program.
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
Muslims march over cartoons of the Prophet  —  A Danish experiment in testing "the limits of freedom of speech" has backfired - or succeeded spectacularly - after newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked an outcry.  —  Thousands of Muslims have taken to the streets in protest at the caricatures …
Discussion: Amygdala and Secular Blasphemy
Opinion Journal:
The Clare Luce Democrats  —  How they're lying about "he lied us into war."  —  Harry Reid pulled the Senate into closed session Tuesday, claiming that "The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this Administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq."
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Don't Say It If You Don't Mean It, Tough Guy  —  Masquerading as First Amendment crusaders, the Wall Street Journal is already trying to mess with Patrick Fitzgerald's case.  As Atrios would say, unleash the waaaaaahhh: … "Dominant political leanings?"  Since when did the WSJ have a problem with abject capitalism?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Daily Kos:
The blog menace  —  I know Democracy 21, Common Cause, and the rest of the out-of-touch "reform" groups are fixated on the dangers of the billlion-dollar Haliburton blog, even though such a creature has never existed and if it did, I'd welcome it to the party, along with the 20,000 other blogs created each day.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Voted in, Hamas Sets a West Bank City Astir  —  QALQILYA, West Bank, Oct. 29 - The mayor won a landslide victory from the inside of an Israeli jail, and still sits there today.  The city banned a cultural festival from its grounds, in no small part because singing, dancing and the mixing of men and women reflects "a Western mentality."
Crooks and Liars:
How's that hooker Dick Morris?  —  How's that Hooker Dick Morris?  —  Thom Hartmann had Dick Morris (I am the toe man) on his show today and there was a very interesting exchange.  Morris was prattling on about how wonderful Condi Rice is when Thom questioned her job performance.
Norm / normblog:
The normblog profile 111: Omar  —  The youngest of four children from a middle-class Iraqi family, Omar lives in Baghdad.  He has had temporary careers managing a mini-market and raising aquarium fish, but he is trained as a dentist and that is his profession.  Omar has always been interested in politics.

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