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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 …
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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 …
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: GOP refugee opponents ‘scared of widows and orphans’ — President Obama is lashing out at Republican politicians who oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S., accusing them of being “scared of widows and orphans.” — Speaking to reporters Wednesday morning in the Philippines …
Sarah Frostenson / Vox:
Here's a map of every state refusing to accept Syrian refugees — In the wake of Friday's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, more than half of all US governors have said they won't allow Syrian refugees to resettle in their state. — As of Tuesday afternoon, 26 governors had issued statements saying …
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Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Christie on refugees: Not even 5-year-old orphans — (CNN)Chris Christie says the U.S. should not accept any new Syrian refugees, not even young orphans. — “I do not trust this administration to effectively vet the people who are proposed to be coming in,” the New Jersey governor …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain slams Cruz's call for religious test for refugees — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday panned the idea of favoring Christian refugees from Syria over Muslims, delivering a rebuttal to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a GOP presidential candidate. — McCain said using a religious test …
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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
NRA-Backed Legislator: We Can't Take Syrian Refugees Because It's Too Easy For Them To Buy Guns
New York Times:
G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees
G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees
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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 …
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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.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Carson camp: New York Times took advantage of ‘elderly gentleman’
Carson camp: New York Times took advantage of ‘elderly gentleman’
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bobby Jindal drops out of White House race — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Tuesday he is 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 …
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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 …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Inevitable: Bobby Jindal drops out of presidential race
Inevitable: Bobby Jindal drops out of presidential race
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Bobby Jindal Quits Republican Presidential Race
Bobby Jindal Quits Republican Presidential Race
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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.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Kerry sees ‘rationale’ in Charlie Hebdo murders, unlike Friday's attacks in Paris
Kerry sees ‘rationale’ in Charlie Hebdo murders, unlike Friday's attacks in Paris
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
John Kerry Justifies Charlie Hebdo Slaughter
John Kerry Justifies Charlie Hebdo Slaughter
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Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
Kerry in Paris: Charlie Hebdo Attack Had ‘Rationale’ to ‘Aggrieve One Particular Sense of Wrong’
Kerry in Paris: Charlie Hebdo Attack Had ‘Rationale’ to ‘Aggrieve One Particular Sense of Wrong’
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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.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump takes 9-point lead over Carson — Donald Trump has nearly a double-digit lead over Ben Carson in the race for the GOP's presidential nomination, a new poll says. — Trump is ahead of Carson by 9 points as the top pick among likely Republican primary voters next year, according to the University of Massachusetts survey.
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Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Exclusive: After Paris, Americans see Trump, Clinton as most able to address terrorism - poll
Exclusive: After Paris, Americans see Trump, Clinton as most able to address terrorism - poll
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher
Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher
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CNN:
2 Air France flights diverted due to bomb threats — (CNN)Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted Tuesday night due to bomb threats, officials said. — Both flights landed safely. — Flight 65, headed from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted …
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Tiffany DeMasters / fox13now.com:
Air France flight diverted to SLC after bomb threat, authorities confirm
Air France flight diverted to SLC after bomb threat, authorities confirm
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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 …
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Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
How to Beat ISIS: The President Is Partly Right
How to Beat ISIS: The President Is Partly Right
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Nicolas Hénin / Guardian:
I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes
I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes
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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 …
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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.
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CNN:
German stadium evacuated ahead of soccer match with Netherlands — (CNN)A sports stadium in Hannover, Germany, was evacuated Tuesday evening ahead of a scheduled friendly soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands, police said. — No reason was immediately given for the evacuation and the cancellation of the game.
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