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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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump refuses to rule out third-party run
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience
Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience
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Mike Flynn / Breitbart:
Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’
Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’
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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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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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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race
John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race
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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
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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Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
How Ted Cruz could win the GOP nomination
How Ted Cruz could win the GOP nomination
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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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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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Calls for Surveillance of ‘Certain Mosques’ and a Syrian Refugee Database
Donald Trump Calls for Surveillance of ‘Certain Mosques’ and a Syrian Refugee Database
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Business Insider and Slantpoint
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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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: GOP attacks on refugees help ISIL — ISIL's still not the varsity team, President Barack Obama said Sunday, but if Republicans running for president and in Congress continue to respond to attacks by playing off fears, they're doing the terrorists' work for them.
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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.