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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
John Simpson / BBC:
Violence exposes France's weaknesses
New York Times:
French Officials Try to Ease Fear as Crisis Swells
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The Next Hurrah
nationmultimedia.com:
EDITORIAL: Paris riots expose social ills
Discussion: Reuters, The Age and Kenders' Musings
Timothy Heritage / Reuters:   France imposes curfews as rioting spreads
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 …
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory
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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.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
ALL ABOUT CHENEY....Over at Slate, Daniel Benjamin regales us …
Discussion: The Reaction and The Sideshow
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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Dem Bloggers
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
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.
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.
Discussion: Tim Blair and The American Mind
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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 …
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Tim Blair
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
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.
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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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
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Discussion: ACSBlog and TalkLeft
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
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New Yorker:
UPS AND DOWNS  —  During the six months or so prior …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Reselling the Wars  —  America's ambassadors to Iraq and Afghanistan …
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to Hear Tribunals Challenge
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
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