memeorandum: Donald Trump: Open to Independent Bid if GOP Doesn't Treat Him ‘Fairly’ (Laura Meckler/Wall Street Journal)

6:00 PM ET, November 22, 2015

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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:

Donald Trump Again Says He Saw Cheering in New Jersey on 9/11

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed, OnPolitics, CANNONFIRE, The Week and New York Times

Dara Lind / Vox:

Protester gets punched at Trump rally. Trump: “Maybe he deserved to get roughed up” — Yesterday, at a Donald Trump rally in Birmingham, AL, a local activist named Mercutio Southall Jr. started shouting “Black Lives Matter!” as Donald Trump spoke. What followed was a physical altercation between Southall …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Little Green Footballs, addictinginfo.org and Washington Post

Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:

Donald Trump: My Fans Were Right To Beat Up Black Protester — After his supporters beat up a Black Lives Matter protester on video, Donald Trump suggested that they may have done the right thing. — The protester, a black man, reportedly started chanting Black Lives Matter at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturay.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, Yahoo! Finance, addictinginfo.org, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Daily Kos, BuzzFeed, Slantpoint, Mediaite, Fusion and KTLA

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’ — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Donald Trump said Sunday that the protester who interrupted his rally at a convention center here on Saturday morning was “so obnoxious and so loud” that “maybe he should have been roughed up.”

Discussion: Breitbart, CNN, Slantpoint, The Week, The Daily Caller and addictinginfo.org

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’ — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says GOP primary front-runner Donald Trump is doing a “great service” by taking on the media and political correctness in his presidential campaign. — “Donald Trump is, I think, doing a great service,” Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Discussion: Liberaland and Hullabaloo

Niall Stanage / The Hill:

GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt — Donald Trump's rhetoric since the Paris terrorist attacks appears to have helped him with GOP primary voters, according to most polls. But Republican insiders are concerned that his words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, The American Mirror, CNN and NBC News

Kyle Balluck / The Hill: Trump doubles down: Thousands in NJ cheered on 9/11

Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump: Open to Independent Bid if GOP Doesn't Treat Him ‘Fairly’

Discussion: New York Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Slantpoint

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics

Discussion: Mother Jones

ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Donald Trump

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ABC News:
Donald Trump Says He Would Bring Back Waterboarding

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Associated Press and NBC News

Carol Robinson / al.com:
Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs, he says

Discussion: The Montgomery Advertiser, Balloon Juice, The Gateway Pundit, Informed Comment and NOLA River

Bradford Richardson / The Hill: Trump refuses to rule out third-party run

John Nolte / Breitbart:
Cancel the Debate! CNN Caught Selectively-Editing Trump's ‘Muslim’ Comments

Discussion: Little Green Footballs

Mike Flynn / Breitbart:
Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’

Discussion: Independent Journal

CBS News:

Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH — Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place. Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third. — While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready …

Discussion: Liberaland, BostonGlobe.com, ABC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Politico, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys, Political Wire and NBC News

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience

Discussion: CNN, RedState, New York Times, Fox News, Politico and Political Wire

Frank Bruni / New York Times:
How ISIS Defeats Us

Discussion: National Review

Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana's next governor — State Rep. John Bel Edwards, a relatively unknown Democrat from a rural Amite, will be the state's next governor after toppling Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in one of the biggest political upsets in the state's history.

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, Booman Tribune, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, The Daily Beast and NOLA River

Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice, Washington Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway

Rex Murphy / National Post:

Hillary's hypocrisy — It's an odd world. Glamour magazine recently named the former Bruce Jenner as its Woman of the Year. In all respectable circles, she is of course now recognized as Caitlyn Jenner, after coming out as a woman. In this context, coming out is simply to be understood as an act of self-declaration.

Discussion: Instapundit

Valerie Gonzalez / KGNS:

Five Syrians Stopped at Laredo International Bridge One — Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13. — According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security …

Discussion: Independent Journal, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Jihad Watch

Reuters:

Iran says sentences Washington Post reporter Rezaian to prison — An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting the judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations.

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, Poynter. and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier. — TWENTY-FOUR years ago this month, my wife and I married in Barcelona, Spain. Two weeks after our wedding, flush with international idealism, I had the bright idea of sharing a bit of American culture with my Spanish in-laws by cooking a full Thanksgiving dinner.