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BBC:
Riot erupts in French city centre  —  Police in the French city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin.  —  Police on the city's famous Place Bellecour square made two arrests in what state news agency AFP …
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Ferdinand T Cat / Conservative Cat:
Have the French Lost Touch Again?  —  When I last discussed the Paris riots, I thought that the whole mess was on the verge of dying out completely.  After all, the Chirac government had declared a state of emergency and the number of incidents had declined for two straight nights.
Chad Evans / In the Bullpen:
France Riots, Day 16  —  Fifteen vehicles in Belgium …
Discussion: TMH's Bacon Bits and Jihad Watch
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   French Riots Gain Steam Again Over The Weekend
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
The Quick and the Dead  —  The premise of George Romero's Night …
Discussion: Daimnation! and Captain's Quarters
John Edwards / Washington Post:
The Right Way in Iraq  —  I was wrong.  —  Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told — and what many of us believed and argued — was a threat to America.  But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Yale Law Frets Over Court Choices It Knows Best  —  NEW HAVEN, Nov. 8 - The morning after Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. was announced as the president's choice for the Supreme Court, some students and professors at his alma mater, the Yale Law School, were already hard at work - to defeat him.
California Conservative:
Why We Love Bill O'Reilly  —  He says it like it is, and takes the heat.  —  "You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Dean Not Raising Enough $$ For Democrats  —  If you're a political junkie, here's an important fact to file away; according to the New York Times, under Howard Dean the Democrats are seriously behind the Republicans in the quest to raise vital campaign funds:
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Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Autumn of Discontent  —  The latest NEWSWEEK poll shows serious political trouble for President Bush.  —  Nov. 12, 2005 - In the wake of the bombings in Jordan by suspected followers of Iraq's Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the indictment of top White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) …
La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
U.S. To Sue Southern Illinois University For Anti-White Bias  —  Update: Welcome to LBC.  Bookmark.  Grab a feed.  Visit often.  —  It's about time the Bush administration did something to stop blatant skin color preferences and to uphold the Constitution.
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Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
U.S. accuses SIU of anti-white bias
Discussion: In the Agora
New York Times:
Playing With Fire  —  It certainly is a relief that the Senate is finally getting around to doing the job it so shamefully refused to do four years ago, after the 9/11 attacks: requiring the administration to follow the law and the Geneva Conventions in dealing with prisoners taken by the military and intelligence operatives.
Discussion: Pacific Views
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Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Management Visionary Peter Drucker Dies  —  Peter F. Drucker, 95, who was often called the world's most influential business guru and whose thinking transformed corporate management in the latter half of the 20th century, died Nov. 11 at his home in Claremont, Calif. No cause of death was reported, but he was under hospice care.
Discussion: The Right Coast
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Barnaby J. Feder / New York Times:   Peter F. Drucker, a Pioneer in Social and Management Theory, Is Dead at 95
Times of London:
Al-Qaeda calls Queen an 'enemy of Islam'  —  AL-QAEDA has threatened the Queen by naming her as "one of the severest enemies of Islam" in a video message to justify the July bombings in London.  —  The warning has been passed by MI5 to the Queen's protection team after it obtained …
Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Calif. May Build Tunnel in Quake Region  —  ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable - an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Wizbang
New York Times:
Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims  —  Iran's uranium conversion plant at Isfahan, where work resumed in August.  Work remains suspended at its uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.  —  In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders …
Discussion: lgf
Opinion Journal:
A 'Tortured' Debate  —  A ban on aggressive interrogation would amount to unilateral disarmament in the war on terror.  —  If Osama bin Laden is alive and looking for signs of flagging U.S. will to fight the war on terror, he need look no further than our national debate about interrogating …
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Ian Mather / Scotsman:
Al-Qaeda on defensive as bombs begin to backfire  —  AFTER years of al-Qaeda terror attacks in which thousands have been killed, many of them Muslims - the people they wish to recruit - voices of dissent are starting to be heard in the Middle East.  —  As moderate Muslims dare to protest …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:
Mitt Romney and the anti-gay movement  —  How in God's name did Romney become governor of Massachusetts?  Was it just that he seemed to be more moderate than he really is?  Or was it his all-American good looks and charisma?  I went to college there back in the early-'90s.
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Daily Kos:
Mitt Romney: Appalling
Discussion: The American Street
Marc Perelman / Forward:
Ex-Powell Aide Suggests Pre-War Memo Was Kept From Bush  —  A former top official in the Bush administration is suggesting that a White House memo outlining the need for hundreds of thousands of troops for the Iraq invasion was kept from the president.  Lawrence Wilkerson …
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Meeting of Muslim Nations Ends in Discord  —  MANAMA, Bahrain, Nov. 12 - A meeting of Muslim nations initiated by the Bush administration ended in discord on Saturday after objections by Egypt blocked a final declaration supporting democracy.  —  The administration did, however …
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
The Second Front  —  I've got an important point, but bear with me, because I want to tell you a story first.  —  A couple of years after Desert Storm, I had the opportunity to do some research at the Air Force Historical Research Agency, located on Maxwell Air Force Base.
Discussion: Media Lies and Power Line

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