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Don Surber:
Edwards Is Wrong About Being Wrong — John Edwards lays out in the Washington Post the new Democratic Party tack to derail President Bush: Surrender Iraq. — It is a disingenuous plan that requires a false confession of error on his part. ("I was wrong.") A false premise for the war.
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The Uncooperative Blogger:
Weekend Open Trackback Party! — Here is how it works. If you have an article you would like to share with my readers, edit the post to include a link to this post, and send a trackback. If your article contains no link to this post, then the trackback will be caught in the spam filter, and deleted.
The Evil Emperor Mindstation / Point Five:
Weekend Open Trackbacks: Delete All Trackbacks Edition — It's time again for Open Trackbacks. — That's right. It's called delete all trackbacks edition. That means that all trackbacks will be efficiently, and mercilessly deleted. So try it, I dare you, and watch as your puny trackbacks …
Jim Lynch / bRight & Early:Worn Out Beyond Belief Overnight News Open Post
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Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Police, Rioting Youths Clash in Central Lyon — PARIS, Nov. 12 — Dozens of youths threw trash cans at police and attacked sidewalk shops in a main square of Lyon on Saturday night in the first clash between rioters and police in a city center after more than two weeks of violence in France, according to news reports.
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Samantha Bordes / Associated Press:
Rioters Attack Police in Lyon; Paris Calm — PARIS - Rioters pelted police with stones in the historic heart of Lyon, and youths rammed a burning car into a center for retirees in southern France in a 17th night of urban violence. Paris was calm, despite fears of a rampage in the capital.
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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.
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Washington Post:
Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role — In the opening days of the CIA leak investigation in early October 2003, FBI agents working the case already had in their possession a wealth of valuable evidence. There were White House phone and visitor logs, which clearly documented the administration's contacts with reporters.
Tim Butcher / Telegraph:
Jordanians turn against al-Qa'eda leader over bombings — Sympathy for al-Qa'eda's leader in Iraq turned to hatred in his home town yesterday as clan members and ex-neighbours dismissed the justification for the Amman bombings. — The terrorist who chose his nom de guerre, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi …
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Warren Beatty flirts with politics, yet again — In movies, a big star is insulated by protocol and precedence. Your big-time silver-screen colossus might get killed in a film, but not by the hands of some nondescript extra who casually shoots him with nary a thought.
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice — Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline — The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation's anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens …
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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 …
Epoch Times:
Pigs in China's Hunan Province Test Positive for Bird Flu — Chinese officials revealed that pigs have tested positive for bird flu in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, where a bird epidemic is raging and one human death, possibly from bird flu, has already occurred, reported Phoenix TV on November 10.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Harry Reid, Ironist — George Bush came out swinging yesterday against the politicians who have made "false charges" and "baseless attacks" about the use of pre-war intelligence. — Harry Reid, politician and ironist, responded: … Left unexplained - how the Democrats unrelenting focus …
The Aardvark / Abu Aardvark:
Understanding al-Qaeda: the irrelevance of IR theory — In my review essay on al-Qaeda (in progress), I note that mainstream International Relations theory has had virtually nothing to say about al-Qaeda, the war on terror, or anything to do with Islamism. … But is that true?
