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Nick Gass / Politico:
Christie on Trump's claims about New Jersey after 9/11: 'I don't recall' — Chris Christie does not remember the 9/11 attacks the way Donald Trump remembers them. — At a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday, the Manhattan business mogul recounted how he saw “thousands of thousands of people …
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whorunsGov, The Week and The Last Refuge
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Washington Post's Fact Checker Doesn't Read the Washington Post — I wrote earlier today about the liberal media attacking Donald Trump's statement that on 9/11, “thousands and thousands” of American Muslims in Jersey City celebrated the successful terrorist attacks.
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Althouse, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, NPR, CBS Philly and National Review
New Jersey Online:
Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that' — NJ Advance Media for NJ.com By Matt Arco | MANCHESTER, N.H. — Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday said Donald Trump's claim that “thousands and thousands of people” cheered in Jersey City as the Twin Towers fell …
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Talking Points Memo
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks
Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks
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Power Line and JustOneMinute
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump doubles down: Thousands in NJ cheered on 9/11
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government — Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas — Overview — A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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Washington Post, Pew Research Center and Politico
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CBS News:
Do Americans think President Obama has a clear plan for ISIS? — Just over a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, only 23 percent of Americans think President Barack Obama has a clear plan for dealing with the militant group ISIS, the lowest number yet recorded in the CBS News Poll.
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Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Reform Lives! — To the right's dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare's opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral” of low enrollment and rising costs.
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New York Post:
ObamaCare's imploding even without repeal — It's looking like ObamaCare won't survive even if Congress can't manage to repeal it. — The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, said last week that it's losing too much — $425 million — from policies sold on the health exchanges, and may have to pull out by 2017.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics — Donald Trump, the leading candidate in the Republican presidential primary, tweeted a graphic with fake statistics about murders in the United States. — The statistics are also racist and wildly inaccurate.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa — On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks. When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile. They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
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BillMoyers.com, more at Mediagazer »
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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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt
GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt
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Politico, Booman Tribune and The American Mirror
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist — On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, mounted a small stage at the Elks Lodge in Boulder City, Nevada, a popular retirement spot near Las Vegas. In his twenties, as an obscure Republican state legislator, Rubio exhibited such innate political skill …
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Political Wire
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Anti-Muslim Is Anti-American — There seems to be no bottom to the cesspool of Islamophobic rhetoric coming from Republican candidates. — The tone of anti-Muslim musings post-Paris attack has become so poisonous that it cannot portend anything positive.
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American Prospect and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
In U.S., 51% Say Government Should Ensure Healthcare Coverage — WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. adults are slightly more likely to say it is the responsibility of the federal government to ensure all Americans have health insurance coverage (51%) than to say it is not the government's responsibility (47%).