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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  —  PARIS, Nov. 7 - The civil unrest sweeping France spread to nearly every major city in the country by Monday, claiming its first death, and even touched two cities elsewhere in Europe as the French government sought to reassure a jittery nation …
Discussion: Rantingprofs and The Next Hurrah
Colin Randall / Telegraph:
Leaders fiddle as France burns
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.
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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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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Art Moore / WorldNetDaily:
General wants Wilson apology  —  Threatened again with lawsuit over claim of 'outing' CIA wife  —  Threatened with a lawsuit for "slander," retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely is turning the tables on Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, calling on the man at the center of the CIA leak controversy …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
How Green Was The Room With Vallely?
Discussion: Macsmind and Michelle Malkin
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
I Want To See Joe Wilson Sue Somebody
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Stuck On Stupid
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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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.
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
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
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: TAPPED and Prometheus 6
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
Blogs For Bush: Two Year Blogiversary  —  It was two years ago, Election Day 2003, that Blogs For Bush publicly launched.  Back then the site looked something like this, we had only a dozen blogs on the Blogroll For Bush, Wictory Wednesdays were a regular feature, and Howard Dean was expected to get the Democratic nomination.
Discussion: Iowa Voice and Slant Point
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.
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.

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