Donald Trump says maybe Birmingham protester ‘should have been roughed up’  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Fox News on Sunday morning that a Black Lives Matter protester thrown out of his Birmingham rally perhaps deserved to be “roughed up” for being “obnoxious.”

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.

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.”

The GOP-ISIS nightmare coalition: Islamic extremists and the anti-immigrant right have the same goal — the death of democracy  —  Terrorists and the far right both see democracy as a decadent failure; at least ISIS admits they want to destroy it  —  Amid all the terror and panic …

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 …

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.

At 60, National Review's battle of ideas is as spirited as ever  —  IF GRATITUDE IS the quintessential conservative virtue, then Thanksgiving must be the quintessential conservative holiday.  And with Thanksgiving 2015 comes an additional reason for gratefulness on the right …

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 …

Coming Soon: Eagles of Death Metal Speak Out for the First Time Since the Paris Attacks  —  While reporting on last week's horrific terror attacks in Paris, we realized with shock that the band playing at the Bataclan, the venue where 89 rock fans had their lives taken, was Eagles of Death Metal.

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.

When will our leaders face up to the truth that the EU is a gigantic sham?  —  The ideas behind the European project look even more hollow in the wake of the devastating terrorist attack in Paris  —  What is left of the European idea?  Whatever indeterminate reassurances emerge from however many EU …