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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 …
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Cancel the Debate! CNN Caught Selectively-Editing Trump's ‘Muslim’ Comments — Left-wing cable news network CNN has been caught red-handed selectively editing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's comments about a “Muslim registry,” and doing so in order to make it sound as though he is agreeing to this registry.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump: Open to Independent Bid if GOP Doesn't Treat Him ‘Fairly’ — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he is open to running for president as an independent if he concludes Republicans are not treating him “fairly.” — He made his comments on ABC's “This Week” …
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Political Wire and Balloon Juice
Carol Robinson / al.com:
Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs, he says — The Black Lives Matter protester attacked during Donald's Trump's Birmingham rally said he was punched, kicked and called “n****r” while a group of eight or nine people were on top of him.
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The Gateway Pundit and NOLA River
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Black activist punched at Trump rally
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Political Wire, Liberal Values, addictinginfo.org and Mediaite
Mike Flynn / Breitbart:
Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’
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Independent Journal
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Calls for Surveillance of ‘Certain Mosques’ and a Syrian Refugee Database
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Business Insider, The Week and Slantpoint
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care — Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn't even close. The two-term senator lost the runoff election to Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards by double digits …
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Washington Post, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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.
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Vox, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, The Daily Beast and NOLA River
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race — NEW ORLEANS — With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards …
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New Orleans Times-Picayune, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Edwards beats Vitter in Louisiana governor's race
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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 …
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Politico and Political Wire
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience
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Politico and Political Wire
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants — Donald Trump says if he's elected president, he'll bring back enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants. — “I would bring it back, yes. I would bring it back,” Trump said on ABC's “This Week” on Sunday.
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Political Wire
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Buchanan: Terror attacks bringing ‘retreat of liberalism’ — Political commentator Pat Buchanan says the recent string of terrorist attacks are bringing about a “retreat of liberalism.” — “I think we are seeing a general retreat of liberalism in the United States and in Europe …
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Politico
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.
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