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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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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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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.
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 …
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 — Middle-class youths, not the poor, are providing the bulk of wartime recruits to the armed forces, according to a new study by a conservative think tank. — The Heritage Foundation research paper found that a higher percentage of middle-class …
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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.
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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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.
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 …
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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Aaron / aaron:
Bloggers Anonymous Club - The Twelve Steps and The Rules — 12 Steps of Bloggers Anonymous Club — We admitted we were powerless over politics — that by blogging our lives had become unmanageable. — Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could do what we do.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
New Orleans Is Still Grappling With the Basics of Rebuilding — NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7 - Something once unimaginable has begun to happen here: the United Parcel Service is delivering again downtown. At Langenstein's grocery, celery and pork chops are moving out the door …
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The Poor Man Institute
