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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson's Psychology Test Story Gets Even Weirder — More Ben Carson news today! You remember Doc Carson's story about the psychology test hoax that proved he was the most honest man at Yale? Well, Carson says it really happened, and the proof is on the right.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, bradford-delong.com and Washington Post
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Dr. Ben Carson / Facebook:
On Saturday a reporter with the Wall Street Journal published a story that my account of being the victim of a hoax at Yale where students were led to believe the exams they had just taken were destroyed and we needed to retake the exam was false. The reporter claimed that no evidence existed to back up my story.
James Hibberd / EW.com:
DONALD TRUMP GIVES SNL ITS BIGGEST RATINGS IN YEARS — Trump is still bringing the bump. — With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012. — According to NBC, SNL had a whopping 6.6 household rating on Saturday night …
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Hank Stuever Tv / Washington Post:
Trump's sorry night on ‘SNL’: An overhyped bummer for us all — Donald Trump's highly touted and almost certainly inappropriate hosting gig on NBC's “Saturday Night Live” turned out to be an anemic and halfhearted dud. — Once upon a time, not so long ago, there might be a lesson to learn …
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Liberal Values, New York Times, Fusion, Associated Press, Althouse, Mediaite, NO QUARTER USA NET, ABC News, Scared Monkeys and Hot Air
Maureen Ryan / Variety:
Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live’: Not Hugely Entertaining
Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live’: Not Hugely Entertaining
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Vox, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and Associated Press
Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Ben Carson Says Drug Addiction Is A Symptom Of ‘Political Correctness’ — As voters in numerous states express increasing concern over the rise in drug abuse, current Republican presidential front-runner, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, said the problem can be traced back to an over-emphasis on “political correctness.”
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Philly.com and Bloomberg Business
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Shawna Thomas / NBC News:
Carson: I'm a ‘Threat’ to ‘Secular Progressive Movement’
Carson: I'm a ‘Threat’ to ‘Secular Progressive Movement’
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Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Missouri football players to boycott until president Tim Wolfe resigns — More than 30 football players at the University of Missouri will not participate in any practices or games until Missouri System president Tim Wolfe resigns or is terminated. Several black team members announced …
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Paul Hakimata / National Review:
Democrats Asked for Obamacare but Now Try to Duck Out of Paying for It — Congressional Democrats led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are quietly working to repeal the “Cadillac tax,” a 40 percent excise on certain expensive health-insurance policies enacted as part of the so-called Affordable Care Act …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Moe Lane and Josh Blackman's Blog
Elias Isquith / Salon:
“A turning point for Obama”: How the president learned to love the national security state — NYT reporter Charlie Savage tells Salon the real reason why Obama has broken less from Bush than many hoped — One of the great mysteries — and ongoing controversies — of the Barack Obama presidency …
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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Fox News:
Rep. McCaul on downed Russian jet, growing terror threat; Gov. Christie responds to missing cut for FBN's prime-time debate — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” November 8, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS HOST: I'm Chris Wallace.
New York Post:
Mall downplays Christmas decorations so as not to ‘offend’ — A Long Island mall swapped Santa's sleigh for something resembling a spaceship and nixed the Christmas tree because it didn't want to “offend” anyone, irate shoppers told The Post. — The Roosevelt Field Mall ditched …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, protein wisdom and Fox News Insider
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Dying of the Whites — STARTING around the turn of the millennium, the United States experienced the most alarming change in mortality rates since the AIDS epidemic. This shift was caused, not by some dreadful new disease, but by drugs and alcohol and suicide — and it was concentrated …
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JustOneMinute, Washington Monthly and Independent Journal
Los Angeles Times:
Why some LAUSD teachers are balking at a new approach to discipline problems — In a South Los Angeles classroom, a boy hassles a girl. The teacher moves him to the back of the room, where he scowls, makes a paper airplane and repeatedly throws it against the wall.
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The PJ Tatler and American Power
Reuters:
Exclusive - Investigators ‘90 percent sure’ of bomb on crashed Russian plane — Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are “90 percent sure” the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team told Reuters on Sunday.
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The PJ Tatler
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James Murray Exclusive / Daily Express:
British extremists linked to jet bomb: London & Birmingham voices heard cheering disaster
British extremists linked to jet bomb: London & Birmingham voices heard cheering disaster
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Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch and Daily Mail