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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 …
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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.
The Uncooperative Blogger:
Sticky: 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.
Lawhawk / A Blog For All:
The Jordanian Bomber's Wife — The wife of one of the suicide bombers in the Amman hotel bombings has been captured. Apparently, she was trying to be a suicide bomber herself, but her bomb failed to detonate. … So, the suicide bombers are staying in the family as it were?
Jim Lynch / bRight & Early:Worn Out Beyond Belief Overnight News Open Post
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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 …
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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:French Riots Continue Despite Ban On Assemblies
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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.
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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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 …
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 …
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Peace With Honor — God Almighty, I actually voted for this guy once. Are we actually supposed to take this seriously just because he admits he regrets his original vote for war? As he himself points out, the question is what to do now. — Well, according to him …
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John Edwards / Washington Post:The Right Way in Iraq — I was wrong. — Almost three years ago …
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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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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.
Suzanne Gamboa / Austin American-Statesman:
In e-mails, consultant claims link to Cornyn — Christian Coalition leader says he influenced effort to shut casinos. — WASHINGTON — Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general …
New York Times:
Death of Hussein Aide Is Confirmed — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 12 - Former officials of the Baath Party confirmed Saturday on their Web site the death of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still at large in Iraq and a man long sought by the American military command …
