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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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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
French Authorize Curfews to Stop Violence  —  PARIS - France's Cabinet authorized curfews under a state-of-emergency law Tuesday in an extraordinary measure to halt the country's worst civil unrest in decades after violence raged for a 12th night.  —  Local officials "will be able …
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
State of Emergency Declared in France
New York Times:
French Officials Try to Ease Fear as Crisis Swells
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The Next Hurrah
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 …
New York Times:
President Bush's Walkabout  —  After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run.  An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front.
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 …
Discussion: BillHobbs.com and joannejacobs.com
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Middle class filling up military, study says
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Hullabaloo:
This is Not A Good Man  —  Kevin Drum says: … I agree.  It's finally coming into focus that every single one of this administration's so-called grown-ups are idiots.  There were people who knew that the avuncular Dick Cheney was something of a nut, but nobody believed them.
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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.
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.
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Washington Post:
Fires in France  —  THE RIOTS in France have provoked their own mini-storm of misinterpretation, outside the country and among some of the French.  So it's worth noting what 12 days (so far) of car-burning, looting and occasional shooting in the poor suburbs of Paris, and now dozens of other towns, is not about.
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Bernard O'Riordan / Guardian:
Australia foils 'catastrophic' terrorist chemical attack  —  · 17 arrested in raids in Sydney and Melbourne  —  · Railway stations thought to be likely target  —  Australian authorities believe they have foiled a major terrorist attack after arresting 17 people in overnight raids …
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NEWS.com.au:
Raids 'thwarted major attack'
Discussion: Tim Blair and The American Mind
dailyprincetonian.com:
Nominee's missing thesis recovered  —  Alito '72 believes Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, adviser says  —  Chanakya Sethi  —  The senior thesis of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72, which along with some 300 others was lost during the 1970s, resurfaced Monday when Alito's thesis adviser provided a copy to the University.
Discussion: Bench Memos …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
His Night in the Sun  —  After 25 Years, Ted Koppel Is Leaving the Show That Did It His Way  —  Given all the heat Ted Koppel took last year for reading the names of the hundreds of Americans killed in Iraq, he could be forgiven for claiming vindication over the huge coverage when the death toll hit 2,000 late last month.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Official Reveals Budget for U.S. Intelligence  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - In an apparent slip, a top American intelligence official has revealed at a public conference what has long been secret: the amount of money the United States spends on its spy agencies.  —  At an intelligence conference …
Stephen Green / Vodkapundit:
The Arm of Decision  —  Four years into the Terror War, "What's the most important element for victory?" is a question long overdue.  It's also a question our national leadership, nearly all of our intellectuals, and none of our mainstream media have yet to answer.
Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives Also Irked by IRS Probe of Churches  —  The agency's warning to All Saints is part of a wider look into political activity by nonprofits.  —  The IRS threat to revoke the tax-exempt status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena because of an antiwar sermon there during …
Discussion: One Hand Clapping
New York Times:
Pentagon Plans Tighter Control of Interrogation  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - The Pentagon has approved a new policy directive governing interrogations as part of an effort to tighten controls over the questioning of terror suspects and other prisoners by American soldiers.
Discussion: ACSBlog and Prometheus 6

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