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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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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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You raised some eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at your latest rally. I want to show them, relating to 9/11. … TRUMP: “It did happen. I saw it.”
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New Jersey Online:
Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that'
Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that'
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Donald Trump Again Insists He Saw Celebrations in New Jersey on Sept. 11
Donald Trump Again Insists He Saw Celebrations in New Jersey on Sept. 11
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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed — THE BIG IDEA: — Democrats felt very good about winning the Louisiana governor's race until the Paris attacks happened on Friday the 13th. — Republican Sen. David Vitter, trailing by double digits in the polls …
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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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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
We Found Where Donald Trump's “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From — So today, this happened. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (yes, him again) re-tweeted the following blatantly racist graphic: … Not only is this racist, it's completely false.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’
Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics
Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics
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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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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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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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Steals From His Attacks on Jeb Bush to Hit Hillary Clinton's ‘Stamina’ — Donald J. Trump has, over the last few days, been road-testing a new criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton — that she is too low-energy to be president. — After using that line of argument …
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Chad Kiewiet De Jonge / ABC News:
Clinton Leads Trump in Trust to Handle Terrorism
Clinton Leads Trump in Trust to Handle Terrorism
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, author of book about the Constitution, incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson crafted it — It's a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the United States Constitution in 1787. But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric …
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Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Shocker: Avis Car Rental Bars Israeli Executive from Renting — Upper West Side clerk and manager defy company policy, decline Israel passport and license — UPDATE (6:33 pm): This story has been updated to add comment from Avis. — On Saturday evening, Dov Bergwerk arrived at the Avis branch on West 76th Street and Broadway.
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
Post correspondent Jason Rezaian sentenced to prison term in Iran — Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter who has been held by the government of Iran for the past 16 months and was convicted on unspecified charges last month, has been sentenced to a prison term, the state news agency announced Sunday.
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