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Colin Randall / Telegraph:
Leaders fiddle as France burns — In pictures: Paris burns after week of rioting — France was struggling to overcome one of its gravest post-war crises last night as every major city faced the threat of fierce rioting that began 12 nights ago and now seems to have spun out of control.
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Associated Press:France Sets Curfews, Deploys 9,500 Cops
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Tom Heneghan / Reuters:French integration model fails, no back-up in sight
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Daniel Benjamin / Slate:
President Cheney — His office really does run national security. — It has become a cliché to say that Dick Cheney is the most powerful vice president in American history. Nonetheless, here is a prediction: When the historians really get digging into the paper entrails …
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Peter Popham / Independent:
US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah — Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians …
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dailykos.com:
Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians — by paper tigress — Italian media going full-bore on the Bush Administration. After its revelations on the subterfuge behind the Nigergate forgeries, documentary evidence of the use by US troops …
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to Hear Tribunals Challenge — The Supreme Court agreed today to rule on the legality of the Bush administration's planned military commissions for accused terrorists, setting the stage for what could be one of the most significant rulings on presidential war powers since the end of World War II.
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strategypage.com:
The Real Problems With Urban Schools and Recruiters — November 7, 2005: The U.S. Department of Defense sees urban schools as ones of its biggest recruiting obstacles. Not because leftist teachers in some of those schools try to keep recruiters out, but because so many potential recruits …
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:Middle class filling up military, study says
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James Lewis / The American Thinker:
There are an amazing number of French fingerprints all over the Plame-Wilson affair. While it is not easy to penetrate the dark fog of lies, there is a highly consistent pattern pointing to French government involvement with a Watergate-style assault on the American Presidency, fronted by Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
radioblogger.com:
Victor Davis Hanson on Muslim violence in France and Europe. — HH: I'm now joined by Victor Davis Hanson, military historian extraordinaire, and you can read him every Friday at National Review Online. Victor, good to have you back on the program. — VDH: Glad to be here, Hugh.
The Hill:
FBI called in on Hill — The FBI and Capitol Police are investigating the vicious attack of a top Senate staffer at her home last week amid concerns that the assault might be related to her work on the Finance Committee. — Emilia DiSanto, chief investigator for committee Chairman Chuck Grassley …
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NEWS.com.au:
Raids 'thwarted major attack' — AUSTRALIAN security agencies appear to have averted a major terrorist attack on home soil with a series of dramatic raids on a suspected terrorist network this morning. — Sixteen people were arrested and are facing terrorism-related charges.
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Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war — According to its Office du Tourisme, the big event in Evreux this past weekend was supposed to be the annual fête de la pomme, du cidre et du fromage at the Place de la Mairie. Instead, in this charmingly smouldering cathedral town in Normandy …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Should Bush Fire Rove? — LAST FRIDAY, a memo to White House staffers was issued (and released to reporters): Time to go back to class! All White House staffers with security clearances were instructed by the president to attend ethics briefings, including on "the rules governing the protection …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Reselling the Wars — America's ambassadors to Iraq and Afghanistan were both in Washington during the past 10 days. They peddled plans for badly needed corrections of U.S. policy — and they listened to the furious debate over Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame and the handling of flawed intelligence three years ago.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Realism in Darfur — Consider the horrors of peace. — It looks as if the realists have won the day in the matter of Darfur. Or, to phrase it in another way, it looks as if the ethnic cleansers of that province have made good use of the "negotiation" and "mediation" period to complete their self-appointed task.
New Yorker:
UPS AND DOWNS — During the six months or so prior to and encompassing the nomination and confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States, one phrase was on every Republican senatorial lip. "All of the President's nominees, both now and in the future, deserve a fair up-or-down vote," said Sam Brownback, of Kansas.
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