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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
State of Emergency Declared in France  —  President Jacques Chirac declared a state of emergency Tuesday, paving the way for curfews to be imposed on riot-hit cities and towns in an extraordinary measure to halt France's worst civil unrest in decades after 12 nights of violence.
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New York Times:
French Officials Try to Ease Fear as Crisis Swells
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The Next Hurrah
Colin Randall / Telegraph:
Leaders fiddle as France burns
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Tim F. / Balloon Juice:
Hope Like Hell This Isn't True
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
How Green Was The Room With Vallely?  —  General Paul Vallely (ret). caused a stir yesterday, and kept at it today.  From the always interesting, sometimes accurate World Net Daily: … Joseph Wilson may have over-reacted a bit: … Now, Wilson has a valid point, but perhaps not a strong enough point to justify litigation:
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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.
¡No Pasarán!:
French MSM covers up what is, in fact, a pogrom  —  If you think that French media are downplaying the extent of the actual violence and damage, you are right.  Quite a bit of hard news is not being reported both by design and by the circumstances on the ground.
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Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Another Saddam Co-Defendant's Lawyer Slain  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq — Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial and wounded another Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said.  It was the second assassination of a Saddam defense team lawyer in less than a month.
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Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
Becoming Part of Sherrod Brown Campaign Story  —  So a Sherrod Brown staffer used some lines from one of my blog posts.  Who frigging cares?  This is a ridiculous story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: … This is the post Brown used to list the cases where Alito has attacked workers rights.
Think Progress:
Sleeping With the Enemy: Chalabi's Sordid History  —  "I can't substantiate [Chalabi's] claims.  He makes new ones every year."  — Colin Powell, 6/12/03  —  Today, Ahmed Chalabi arrives in the United States.  The Guardian reports: … Here's a short rap sheet on the man …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Fox News Is Accused in Bias Suit  —  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Fox News network, claiming it harassed and discriminated against its female employees, creating a "hostile work environment because of their sex."
Stephen Spruiell / National Review:
MDforDirtyPolitics...  Earlier this year a mysterious source turned over some e-mails to a Washington Post reporter.  The e-mails seemed to indicate that a man with ties to the Republican governor of Maryland, Robert Ehrlich, was spreading rumors about the governor's chief political rival on FreeRepublic.com.
Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Dubya-Cheney ties frayed by scandal  —  'There has been some distance for some time'  —  WASHINGTON - The CIA leak scandal has peeled back the veil on the most closely held White House secret of all: the subtle but unmistakable erosion in the bond between President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
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 …
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: NewsHog, TAPPED and Prometheus 6

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