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Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities  —  PARIS, Monday, Nov. 7 - Rioters fired shotguns at the police in a working-class suburb of Paris on Sunday, wounding 10 officers as the country's fast-spreading urban unrest escalated dangerously.  Just hours earlier, President Jacques Chirac called …
Discussion: THE NEWS BLOG
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CNN:
Chirac vows to punish rioters  —  Riots, arson take new turn, spreads across country  —  PARIS, France (CNN) — As arson and violence spreads into regional France and central Paris, French President Jacques Chirac has vowed to crack down on the perpetrators.
Steven Plaut / Arutz Sheva:
Got That "Ooo La La, Intifada" Feeling?
Discussion: Don Surber and bRight & Early
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands
Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
Democrat says Alito unlikely to face a filibuster  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key Democrat said on Sunday that he expects the full Republican-led Senate to vote on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito without the threat of a Democratic filibuster.  —  But Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Filibuster Momentum Dying Out  —  The political momentum of a Democratic filibuster appears to have dissipated over the weekend after a momentary corrective earlier this week.  Last weekend, two key GOP members of the Gang of 14 asserted that they would not only support the confirmation …
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Biden: Alito Filibuster Seems Unlikely
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Biden: Alito Probably Won't Be Filibustered
Ron Harris / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Is Jimmy Massey telling the truth about Iraq?  —  WASHINGTON  —  For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq.  —  In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories …
Discussion: Daimnation!
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Ron Harris / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Why did the press swallow Massey's stories?  —  WASHINGTON  —  Media outlets throughout the world have reported Jimmy Massey's claims of war crimes, frequently without ever seeking to verify them.  —  For instance, no one ever called any of the five journalists who were embedded …
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Intelligence War  —  LAST TUESDAY, Senate Democrats fired the opening shot in the coming battle over prewar intelligence on Iraq when Minority Leader Harry Reid took the Senate into a closed session.  The offensive began in earnest this weekend with a New York Times article:
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Douglas Jehl / New York Times:
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Doubts
MSNBC:
Transcript for November 6  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the vice president's former chief of staff, Lewis Libby, is arraigned in federal court.  —  (Videotape):  —  MR. THEODORE WELLS: He has declared that he wants to clear his good name.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Rep. Tom Coburn: Body Language Soothsayer
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Pandagon
Dan / danieldrezner.com:
SO FRIDAY WAS A PRETTY GOOD DAY....  Friday was a great day for two reasons.  First, a 70 degree day in Chicago in November is a rare treat and needs to be properly savored.  —  [Wow, you're keeping up such a brave face after getting denied tenure—ed.] Well, that leads to the second …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Pharyngula
Joseph Farah and / WorldNetDaily:
Joe Wilson fumes over Vallely charges in WND  —  Demands retraction of statements alleging he 'outed' wife in Fox studio  —  WASHINGTON - Ambassador Joseph Wilson's attorney is demanding Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely retract a statement he made to WND that the man at the center of the CIA leak case …
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Mark Noonan / Blogs for Bush:
Vallely vs Wilson
Jerusalem Post:
EU to launch Palestinian police mission  —  The EU plans to announce on Monday that it will launch a three-year mission, starting January 1, to help the Palestinians build up a credible police force, EU officials said.  —  Officials said the decision by the EU foreign ministers …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Aksa Brigades endorse Iran's call to eliminate Israel
California Conservative:
"Carnival Of Arnold" — Inaugural Edition  —  In the order they were received, and without further ado, we recommend you read the following:  —  Proposition 77: Vote Yes  —  by Eric's Grumbles Before The Grave  —  Excerpt: A history of the deal that lead to the 2000 Gerrymander …
Discussion: mccannta and SoCalPundit
Newsweek:
Jennifer Aniston: Seven Things* I'd Rather Talk About ... Than the Men in (or Out) of My Life  —  My new movie, "Derailed."  It's a really sexy psychological thriller with Clive Owen.  I had never done a thriller before.  It was hard to kiss Clive, but you know what?
Discussion: TalkLeft
Stuart Buck / The Buck Stops Here:
Alito's Dissents  —  Cass Sunstein had a Washington Post op-ed the other day in which he analyzed the cases in which Judge Alito dissented.  (He had already presented the results of his study on a radio show, as discussed by Ann Althouse here).  Sunstein summarized Alito's dissents like this:
Dick Stanley / Austin American-Statesman:
3,000 protest Klan's rally of 14  —  Klan favors banning gay marriage  —  Ten men and four women calling themselves members of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan gathered at City Hall plaza Saturday for a brief and hugely contested rally against gay marriage.
riverbendblog.blogspot.com:
Movies and Dreams...  My parents, like many Iraqis of their generation and educational background, discouraged too much tv.  When E. and I were younger, they were vigilant about the type of shows and movies we were allowed to watch.  They didn't like for us to be exposed to propaganda- Arab …
Discussion: Pacific Views

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John Dzienkowski / Legal Ethics Forum:
Judge Alito and the Vanguard Recusal Question
Discussion: The Right Coast
Laura / War and Piece:
Phase II  —  I'm supposed to be finishing an article, but this is not unrelated.
Discussion: firedoglake
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
You Have To Break A Few Humans To Prevent An Omelette
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
It's about trust  —  Judy Miller makes one lousy poster girl.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and PSoTD
Los Angeles Times:
Rogues, despots, terrorists and shattered ideals — the movie version
The Brussels Journal:
Show Them Who Is the Boss in France
Michael Smith / Times of London:
Iraq battle stress worse than WWII
Darrel Rowland / dispatch.com:
3 issues on way to passage, poll finds

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Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
Suicide bombers on Iran kids' TV
Discussion: joannejacobs.com
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
So far it's been like shooting fish in a barrel... with a machine gun.
Los Angeles Times:
Beatty, Bening Try to Crash the Gov.'s Party
Discussion: Dan Gillmor's blog
David Neiwert / Orcinus:
Fact check: Malkin and O'Reilly
Ken McCracken / WILLisms.com:
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Washington Post:
Voter Anger Might Mean an Electoral Shift in '06
Daily Kos:
VA-Gov: GOP dirty tricks
New York Times:
Major Offensive Hits Insurgents on Iraqi Border
 
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