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New York Times:
France Declares 12-Day State of Emergency to Curb Crisis  —  PARIS, Nov. 8 - France declared a 12-day state of emergency today in an attempt by the government to curb the worst civil disturbances in the country in nearly four decades.  —  The government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin used …
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 …
Discussion: Cold Fury
¡No Pasarán!:
French MSM covers up what is, in fact, a pogrom
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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BBC:   US 'uses incendiary arms' in Iraq
Tim F. / Balloon Juice:
Hope Like Hell This Isn't True
Discussion: Ezra Klein
James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:
U.S. Used "Chemical Weapons" in Falluja
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
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.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
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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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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.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Iowa Voice and Slant Point

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Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
DeLay Case Turns Spotlight on Texas Judicial System
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Associated Press:
Frist, Hastert Consider Prison Leak Probe
Doug Thompson / Capitol Hill Blue:
Bush Leagues  —  White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'
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Mark Corallo / American Spectator:
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Julian Borger / Guardian:
Washington elite bring Chalabi in from the cold
Mickey Kaus / Slate:
NBC Mystery Solved?
Discussion: Bradford Plumer
Washington Post:
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