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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) …
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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.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump And Mike Huckabee Argue The U.S. Is Too Cold For Syrian Refugees  —  Cold weather, hot takes.  —  Scott Olson / Getty Images  —  Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee have seized on an odd argument to argue against taking Syrian refugees: The U.S. is too cold for them.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Week and Vox
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.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Ryan calls for ‘pause’ on Syrian refugee program  —  House Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday called for a “pause” to the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States, citing the national security risks in the wake of the Paris attacks.  —  “We cannot let terrorists take advantage of our compassion …
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.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Louisiana's race for governor is set to end on November 21, one week after the Paris bombings.  Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the struggling Republican nominee, is trying to make the race turn on one issue: Whether to let Syrian refugees settle in the United States.
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Cruz to introduce bill to bar Syrian refugees
Justin Salhani / ThinkProgress:
All Paris Attackers Identified So Far Are European Nationals, According To Top EU Official
New York Times:
After Paris Attacks, Vilifying Refugees
CNN:
Syrian refugees shunned by some in U.S. after attacks in Paris
Wall Street Journal:
Paris Stadium Attacker Got to Europe Using Fake Syrian Passport
The Hill:
Pressure builds to block refugees
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
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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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Trump: Why I may have to go to war with Ted Cruz
Discussion: Independent Journal
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.
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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Paul Taylor / Reuters:   France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked
Andrew Roth / Washington Post:
Russia confirms Sinai plane crash was the work of terrorists
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
Daily Mail:
Sick taunts of the Paris mastermind: Jihadist boasts of freely crossing Europe's borders and mocks police who had him in their clutches  — ISIS jihadi Abdelhamid Abaaoud has shuttled between Syria and Europe, exploiting the migrant crisis on EU borders  — The mastermind …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Why Al Gore won't endorse Hillary Clinton  —  At least four times in the past year, Al Gore has passed up opportunities to endorse Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, brushing off questions from People magazine and other media outlets with the admonition that it's still too early …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jeff Wald / CBS Minnesota:
51 Black Lives Matter Protesters Arrested After Shutting Down I-94 In Minneapolis  —  MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - More than 50 people were arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest that shut down I-94W in Minneapolis for over two hours.  At the same time, Jamar Clark, the 24-year-old north Minneapolis man …
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Marco Rubio Says GOP Rivals Tried to Weaken U.S. Intelligence Efforts … WASHINGTON-Days after the Paris terrorist attacks heightened homeland security concerns, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio leveled pointed charges Monday at a pair of Republican presidential rivals who backed efforts to overhaul U.S. bulk collection of phone records.
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Real Clear Politics:
The GOP Race for Delegates: An Interactive Tool
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Antonin Scalia Questions Logic Behind Gay Rights Protections  —  The Supreme Court's decisions protecting gay rights were not rooted in the Constitution, and their logic could as easily apply to child molesters, Justice Antonin Scalia told a room filled with first-year law students at Georgetown University on Monday.
Annie Karni / Politico:
Sanders hesitates on socialism speech  —  Bernie Sanders' ballyhooed speech on socialism is now on indefinite hold.  —  Details about how Sanders would pay for his proposed single-payer national health insurance program to provide Medicare for all Americans have yet to be fleshed out …
 
 
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