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8:20 AM ET, November 16, 2015

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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
GOP field takes new shape after Paris attacks  —  It took just 48 hours, but the tragic terror attacks on Paris have quickly cleaved the 2016 Republican primary into a contest between those with serious foreign policy experience and those without, shifting the race, at least for now …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In Presidential Campaign, It's Now Terrorism, Not Taxes  —  WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders dispensed with the threat from the Islamic State in two sentences at the start of the Democratic debate before abruptly pivoting to the dangers of a “rigged economy.”  Ben Carson struggled to answer …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
McCain: Obama's failed leadership led to rise of ISIS  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says President Obama's “failed policies” and lack of leadership have led to the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  —  “It's because of the president of the United States' failed policies …
Discussion: Liberaland
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
It's time for Obama to make a choice: Lead us or resign  —  In any time and place, war is fiendishly simple.  It is the ultimate zero-sum contest — you win or you lose.  —  That eternal truth is so obvious that it should not need to be said.  Yet even after the horrific slaughter in Paris …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and PoliticusUSA
Danny Monteverde / WWL-TV:
Officials: 14 Syrian refugees get access to Louisiana this year
Discussion: The Hayride and Fox News
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Clinton tells GOP how to defeat her
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CBS News:
French launch “massive” anti-ISIS airstrikes in Syria
Discussion: CBS DC
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
To Save Paris, Defeat ISIS
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
2 Suspects Identified as Paris Attack Investigation Widens
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
White House stays course on ISIL amid GOP calls for more
Discussion: Guardian, Hot Air and ABC News
Jennifer Ardis / Office of the Governor of Alabama:
Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama  —  MONTGOMERY—Governor Robert Bentley on Sunday announced he is refusing Syrian refugees relocating to Alabama.  —  “After full consideration of this weekend's attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris …
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Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Governor Of Alabama Says His State Will Refuse Syrian Refugees
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Week and Guardian
Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
Minnesota House candidate drops campaign after tweeting defense of ISIS  —  Surprise: Defending ISIS isn't good politics.  —  A Minnesota state House candidate abruptly ended his campaign Sunday just one day after tweeting a tone-deaf defense of ISIS just after the deadly terror acts in Paris.
Discussion: Liberaland and Raw Story
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Politico:
The Belgian radicals' den  —  Paris investigation leads to run-down Brussels neighborhood notorious for jihadi recruitment. … “We don't have a grip on the situation in Molenbeek.”  —  A confession — a mea culpa almost — summed up the Belgian government's reaction to the links discovered between …
Discussion: Politico
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Democrats divided on Middle East  —  Even before the recent terror attacks in Paris, the politics of war were intruding upon the presidential primary campaign.  —  Last week, among Republicans, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush joined businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in supporting a no-fly zone in Syria.
Aaron Short / New York Post:
Columbia student activists: Protest with us, or else!  —  Either you're with us or you're against us.  —  Columbia student activists are pestering peers to attend campus protests and walk-outs in solidarity with college students at Missouri and Yale or risk social isolation, students say.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rival campaigns starting to fear Ted Cruz  —  He has more cash than any other Republican candidate.  He is organized in every county in the first four voting states.  And he has served up one strong debate performance after the next.  —  Now, not three months from primary season …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fearing Fear Itself  —  Like millions of people, I've been obsessively following the news from Paris, putting aside other things to focus on the horror.  It's the natural human reaction.  But let's be clear: it's also the reaction the terrorists want.  And that's something not everyone seems to understand.
Norman Jean Roy / New York Magazine:
Patrick Hardison's face was not always his own.  —  Three months ago, it belonged to a young Brooklyn bike mechanic. … For the moment, the face belongs to no one.  It floats in a bowl of icy, hemodynamic preserving solution, paused midway on its journey from one operating room to another …
Discussion: myfox8.com and Raw Story
 
 
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