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4:50 PM ET, November 17, 2015

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Mother Jones:
Liberals Should Knock Off the Mockery Over Calls to Limit Syrian Refugees  —  Chris Cillizza on the post-Paris push among Republicans to keep Syrian refugees out of the country: … Cillizza has some poll numbers to back this up, but he's right in more ways than just that.
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Splits With Republicans Over Syrian Refugees  —  In an interview for Bloomberg's “With All Due Respect,” the Republican candidate stressed the United States shouldn't allow in refugees “if there's any kind of concern.”  —  michaelcbender  —  Jeb Bush said he wouldn't ban Syrian refugees …
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
NRA-Backed Legislator: We Can't Take Syrian Refugees Because It's Too Easy For Them To Buy Guns  —  A Texas state legislator wants the U.S. to stop allowing Syrian refugees into the country.  His reasoning: They might be able to buy guns in his state.  —  Rep. Tony Dale (R) …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees  —  Republican governors, presidential candidates and members of Congress pledged Monday to oppose or even defy President Obama's plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees as the party's fury over illegal immigration and border security reached new heights.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
16 Of The Worst Ways To Respond To ISIS' Paris Attack  —  Under President Francois Hollande, the French began their military and legal response to the horrific terror attacks that hit Paris on Friday.  ISIS, which took responsibility for the terrorism, threatened the United States that it could be next.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
House to vote this week on bill to ‘pause’ Syrian refugee program  —  The House is likely to vote this week on legislation to temporarily halt President Obama's plan to allow thousands of refugees from Syria to resettle in the U.S., Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump And Mike Huckabee Argue The U.S. Is Too Cold For Syrian Refugees
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Week and Vox
Rudy Koski / KTBC:
Governor says no to refugees while a state lawmaker says those here can buy guns
Discussion: Political Wire
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Questions Whether Syrian Refugees Are a ‘Trojan Horse’
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Cruz to introduce bill to bar Syrian refugees
The Hill:
Pressure builds to block refugees
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Texas GOP lawmaker: Keep Syrian refugees out of our state because it's too easy to get a gun here
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say  —  Ben Carson's remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Says Bomb Downed Plane in Egypt and Intensifies Attacks on ISIS  —  MOSCOW — Hours after confirming for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb brought down a Russian charter jet over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt more than two weeks ago, killing all 224 people aboard, Russia joined France in bombing Islamic State targets in Syria.
Kurt Schlichter / Independent Journal Review:
What Defeating ISIS Would Look Like  —  Kurt Schlichter is a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, California.  A retired U.S. Army infantry colonel, he is the author of Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041.  —  ShareTweetEmail  —  The Journal by IJReview …
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
How to Beat ISIS: The President Is Partly Right
Discussion: Washington Post
Nicolas Hénin / Guardian:
I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher  —  Donald Trump said Monday he is capable of turning on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in their competition for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination.  —  “If he catches on, I guess we'll have to go to war,” he told host Joe Kernen on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”
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Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Exclusive: After Paris, Americans see Trump, Clinton as most able to address terrorism - poll
Discussion: OnPolitics and Political Wire
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush tells closed-door fundraiser that by next GOP debate, ‘Trump will be in decline’
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Trump: Why I may have to go to war with Ted Cruz
Discussion: Independent Journal
Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump: I should be President because ‘I can feel’ terrorism
Discussion: Gothamist, Newscult and Slate
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Charlie Sheen reveals he's HIV positive in TODAY Show exclusive  —  Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer.  —  “It's a hard three letters to absorb.  It's a turning point in one's life,” the 50-year-old actor said.
Ciaran Fahey / Associated Press:
Germany-Netherlands match called off shortly before kickoff  —  HANNOVER, Germany (AP) — The friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at short notice due to the serious threat of an attack at the stadium on Tuesday.  —  “We had concrete evidence that someone wanted …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Raziye Akkoc / Telegraph:
Paris attacks: Hannover stadium evacuated after police receive tip of ‘explosive attack’ -latest news
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Gawker to Retool as Politics Site  —  Gawker.com, a site that pioneered the knowing and snarky tone that has come to define web journalism, will switch from covering New York and the media world, as it has done since its founding in 2003, to focus on politics.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
John Oliver, Last Month: Boy, Those Fox Chuckleheads Sure Are Paranoid Ninnies to Think That Terrorists Might Smuggle Themselves Into Europe With the Rufugees!  —  HBO's Progressive Televangelist John Oliver delivered a 17 minute sermon to the faithful last month, telling all the true believers …
Discussion: Tim Blair, BGR and addictinginfo.org
Oxford Dictionaries / OxfordWords blog:
Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is...  That's right - for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: , officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names.  There were other strong contenders from a range of fields …
 
 
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Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
Kerry in Paris: Charlie Hebdo Attack Had ‘Rationale’ to ‘Aggrieve One Particular Sense of Wrong’
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Clinton charities refile six years of tax returns to amend errors
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Cruz's vulnerability
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood cleared of wrongdoing in key state
Rachel Favors / The Dartmouth:
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Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Committee Member: Clinton Made Hearing Long So GOP Would “Look Cruel”
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Daily Mail:
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KEYE-TV:
Mosque vandalized with feces, torn Quran
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Why Al Gore won't endorse Hillary Clinton
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