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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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New Jersey Online, whorunsGov, The Week and The Last Refuge
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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, CBS Philly, National Review and NPR

Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks
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Power Line and JustOneMinute


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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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


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.
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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.


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.”
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BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and The Week
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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.”
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Hullabaloo
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GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt
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Politico, Booman Tribune and The American Mirror

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

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 »


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%).


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


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 …
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The Mahablog

Obama to Hollande: Stay the course against Russia — When President Obama hosts French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, he'll have more on his agenda than demonstrating solidarity against terrorism. He'll also be working to make sure Hollande sticks with the international effort …