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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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Clive Davis:
STILL LOST IN THE CLOUDS OF FRENCH TEAR-GAS — [***Welcome, Instapundit readers. BTW I'm not saying the reports of riots are exaggerated, simply that we need to be careful about reading too much into the accounts that have come in so far. At the moment there seems to be a complex mix of causes.
Patrick Belton / OxBlog:
JUST BECAUSE I'M NOT POSTING DOESN'T MEAN I'M DEAD DEPT: Only that there aren't nearly enough internet spots in the banlieues. No wonder they're rioting. A few quick observations from my first interviews, before I catch the RER up to Aulnay-sous-Bois; then I'll try to write more extensively this afternoon:
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Cold Fury
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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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.
Jed Babbin / American Spectator:
The CIA Disinformation Campaign — The CIA's disinformation campaign against President Bush — headlined in the Wilson/Plame affair — is more jujitsu than karate. Instead of applying your own force to defeat your opponent, you turn his energy and momentum against him and bring him down.
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Ace of Spades HQ
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:THREE YEARS OF THE CONDOR
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The American Thinker, Right Wing Nut House, The Huffington Post, Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin
John / AMERICAblog:
Republicans now trying to Swift Boat Ambassador Joe Wilson over Rove-Treason-Gate — Two GOP attack dogs (who are regular pundits on FOX and have been published by Regnery, the nutty GOP publishing arm) are now trying to spread a lie about Joe Wilson, saying he revealed to them in a casual conversation …
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Art Moore / WorldNetDaily:General wants Wilson apology
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Right Wing News, Gateway Pundit, The Strata-Sphere, The American Thinker, The Left Coaster, QandO and Stuck On Stupid
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.
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.
Drudge Report:
GOP LEADERS TO LAUNCH NEW 'LEAK' PROBE; INFO TO WASH POST 'DAMAGED NATIONAL SECURITY' — Sources tell Drudge that early this afternoon House Speaker Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Frist will announce a bicameral investigation into the leak of classified information to the WASHINGTON POST regarding the …
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.
Tom Bowman / Baltimore Sun:
Army reaches low, fills ranks … WASHINGTON // The number of new recruits who scored at the bottom of the Army's aptitude test tripled last month, Pentagon officials said, helping the nation's largest armed service meet its October recruiting goal but raising concerns about the quality of the force.
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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."
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 …
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Talking Points Memo
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.
