memeorandum: Mike Huckabee compares Syrian refugees to tainted Chipotle food in weird analogy about closing borders (Bethania Palma Markus/Raw Story)

5:15 PM ET, November 17, 2015

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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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air and Lawyers, Guns & Money

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air

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) …

Discussion: KTBC, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Bob and Chez Show, Political Wire, CANNONFIRE, Hullabaloo, CNN, Texans for Tony Dale, Hit & Run and Niskanen Center

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.

Eliza Collins / Politico:

Trump: Obama sending refugees to Republican states — The Obama administration is deliberately sending Syrian refugees to states led by Republican governors, Donald Trump alleged Tuesday. — Trump, who was speaking to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, said of the refugees …

Discussion: Daily Mail, RedState, New York Times, Independent Journal, The Gateway Pundit, Kelly Ayotte and Guardian

Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
16 Of The Worst Ways To Respond To ISIS' Paris Attack

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Washington Post:
Republican leaders call for ‘pause’ on Syrian refugee program

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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

Laura Koran / CNN:
How do Syrian refugees get into the U.S.? Explaining the process

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Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
Mike Huckabee compares Syrian refugees to tainted Chipotle food in weird analogy about closing borders

Discussion: The Hill

David Weigel / Washington Post:
Louisiana's race for governor is set to end on November 21 …

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Scott Wong / The Hill:
House to vote this week on bill to ‘pause’ Syrian refugee program

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Questions Whether Syrian Refugees Are a ‘Trojan Horse’

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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Cruz to introduce bill to bar Syrian refugees

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The Hill:
Pressure builds to block refugees

Discussion: Politico, Yahoo Politics, Bloomberg.com news and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: Vox, New York Magazine, The Bob and Chez Show, Mediaite, The Week, AMERICAblog News, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and Unfogged

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.

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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 …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and Fusion

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

Discussion: Boing Boing, BGR, Independent Journal and The Week

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.

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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

Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Trump: Why I may have to go to war with Ted Cruz

Discussion: Independent Journal

Will Dobbs-Allsopp / Morning Consult:

Republican Leaders: Planned Parenthood Could Get Dropped From Reconciliation — Two of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) top lieutenants opened the door Monday to dumping language attached to an Obamacare repeal attempt that would defund Planned Parenthood.

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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood cleared of wrongdoing in key state

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Business Insider:

Germany-Netherlands game has been canceled, and the stadium is being evacuated following a bomb threat — A friendly soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at short notice after the Hannover police acquired “concrete information” about a bomb threat on Tuesday.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNN, CNBC, Outside the Beltway, FOX 61, Pamela Geller and Hot Air

Ciaran Fahey / Associated Press:
Germany-Netherlands match called off shortly before kickoff

Discussion: Mother Jones

John Kerry / US Department of State:

Remarks to the Staff and Families of U.S. Embassy, Paris — Remarks — Secretary of State — U.S. Embassy — AMBASSADOR HARTLEY: Good morning, and thanks to all of you for coming together again this morning. It's been a difficult few days since these horrific attacks that occurred in Paris last week.

Discussion: The Federalist and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
Kerry in Paris: Charlie Hebdo Attack Had ‘Rationale’ to ‘Aggrieve One Particular Sense of Wrong’

Discussion: Chicago Boyz, Jihad Watch and Instapundit

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mediaite, Poynter. and Matter, more at Mediagazer »

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 …