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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, Booman Tribune, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hot Air

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: Los Angeles Times, Politico, Infowars, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Mediaite, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos

Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:

Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values — As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NPR, Mediaite, AMERICAblog News, alicublog and New York Times

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: Kelly Ayotte, Mother Jones, New York Times, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent Journal, The Gateway Pundit, CBS DC, RedState, Al Jazeera English, Washington Post, Associated Press and The Hill Talk

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.

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, addictinginfo.org, CANNONFIRE, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Political Wire, Hullabaloo, The Bob and Chez Show, CNN and Texans for Tony Dale

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

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Jake Sherman / Politico:
House likely to vote Thursday on Syrian refugee bill

Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg.com news, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Daily Kos

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Ian McKellen: Syrian refugees ‘should be looked after’

Discussion: Raw Story and Instapundit

Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Christie on refugees: Not even 5-year-old orphans

Discussion: Politico, usccb.org, New Jersey Online, Guns.com, The Huffington Post, The Federalist, Fusion, Hot Air, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Hit & Run and Slantpoint

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

Discussion: BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress, TPNN, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, Breitbart, Mediaite and NPR

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

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

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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 …

Pamela Engel / Business Insider:

Ben Carson's campaign slams bombshell New York Times report as ‘affront to good journalistic practices’ — One of Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson's foreign-policy advisers questioned the candidate's grasp of Middle East events in an interview with The New York Times, prompting a quick rebuke from the campaign.

Discussion: Politico and Slantpoint

Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Says Its Jet Was Bombed Over Egypt and Intensifies Syria Airstrikes

Discussion: Reuters, Weekly Standard, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, CNN, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Political Insider blog, The Week, Refinery29, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway and rubber hose

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.”

Discussion: TPNN, American Spectator, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Patterico's Pontifications and CNBC

Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Exclusive: After Paris, Americans see Trump, Clinton as most able to address terrorism - poll

Discussion: The Last Refuge, OnPolitics and Political Wire

Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump: I should be President because ‘I can feel’ terrorism

Discussion: Gothamist and Newscult

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

Eliza Collins / Politico:

Kerry sees ‘rationale’ in Charlie Hebdo murders, unlike Friday's attacks in Paris — Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Tuesday that there was a “rationale” for the assault on satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, unlike the more recent attacks in Paris.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

John Kerry / US Department of State:
Remarks to the Staff and Families of U.S. Embassy, Paris

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com, National Review, The Last Refuge, The Federalist, The Tower 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: American Spectator, Jihad Watch and Chicago Boyz

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, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story 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

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.

Discussion: Erick on the Radio

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

Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Bob and Chez Show

Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate GOP presses ahead with Planned Parenthood defunding

Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post

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, WREG-TV, Outside the Beltway, Pamela Geller and FOX 61

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

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Fox News:
Another disaster averted? German soccer stadium evacuated after bomb plot uncovered

Discussion: Guardian, The Last Refuge, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hot Air

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Slantpoint, Vogue, Shakesville, Queerty, Fusion, Guardian, BuzzFeed, Here & Now, WREG-TV, Hollywood Life, The Week and NBC News

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Bobby Jindal drops out of White House race — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday said he was ending his presidential bid, saying “this is not my time.” — Jindal had struggled to gain traction as he centered his campaign on Iowa, a state with a large pool of evangelical voters …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Yahoo Politics, Bloomberg.com news, Towleroad and Daily Kos

Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:

What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II … The results of the poll, illustrated above by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion, were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938. Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, NOLA River, The Stranger …, Canada Blog …, addictinginfo.org, Mashable and The Week

Bobby Jindal / Facebook:

I cannot tell you what an honor it has been to run for President of the United States of America. My parents came to this country 45 years ago searching for freedom and a chance. — When I was born, we lived in student housing at LSU, and never in their wildest dreams did they think their son …

Discussion: WSFA-TV, ABC News, Mediaite, RedState, NBC News and The Daily Caller

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.