memeorandum: Obama: Syrian refugees are like pilgrims on the Mayflower (Bradford Richardson/The Hill)

8:10 PM ET, November 26, 2015

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Four new Laquan McDonald shooting videos raise more questions — Activists take to the streets in reaction to the release of a Chicago police dash-cam video showing the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17, by an officer in October 2014. — Newly released videos from four additional police vehicles …

Discussion: The Week, Raw Story, Mediaite and CNN

President Obama / Facebook:

Like many Americans, I was deeply disturbed by the footage of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. This Thanksgiving, I ask everybody to keep those who've suffered tragic loss in our thoughts and prayers, and to be thankful for the overwhelming majority of men and women in uniform who protect our communities with honor.

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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Chicago Protests Aren't Just About Laquan McDonald

Discussion: Fusion and BizPac Review

Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:

Trump draws scornful rebuke for mocking reporter with disability — Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump is under fire for mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina this week, drawing a scornful rebuke from the reporter …

Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.)

Discussion: Algemeiner.com, Vox, Salon, Slate and The Hill

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Obama: Syrian refugees are like pilgrims on the Mayflower — This Thanksgiving, President Obama is calling for Americans to lend a helping hand to another group of pilgrims fleeing persecution. — “Nearly four centuries after the Mayflower set sail, the world is still full of pilgrims …

Discussion: The White House, Independent Journal, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools

Matt Latimer / Politico:

How to BE the Crazy Uncle This Thanksgiving — Every year at the holidays, millions of Americans partake in a whole parallel tradition: avoiding the “crazy uncle,” that one exhausting relative who treats every event as a chance to assault you with their fringe political ideas …

Discussion: CNN, The Week, Outside the Beltway and ABC News

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Google deems Bernie Sanders' economic plan a ‘phishing scam’ — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernard Sanders' economic plan triggered Gmail's “phishing scam” antenna, with the mail system saying the senator's liberal campaign promises — including lower prescription drug prices and free college for all — sound like frauds.

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, The Week and The Daily Caller

Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:

End of daily injections for diabetes as scientists restore insulin production — Injecting billions of immune cells back into the body boosts insulin production, preventing the need for daily injections — The end of daily injections for diabetes sufferers could be in sight after scientists showed …

Linda Harvey / WND:

Is there anyplace left for Christians to shop? — Exclusive: Linda Harvey exposes stores that push ‘gay’ agenda on workers, customers — Linda Harvey is president of Mission America and hosts a talk show on Salem affiliate WRFD in Columbus, Ohio. — Well, it's that time again …

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Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:

The Threat from ‘Minnesota Men’ — Where ISIS goes for American recruits. — If you get your news from the headlines, you can be excused for thinking that “Minnesota men” pose a special risk of taking up the terrorist jihad at home and abroad. As the Wall Street Journal reported this past April …

Discussion: Power Line and Breitbart

George F. Will / Washington Post:

America's higher education brought low — Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely called educators have taught, by their negative examples, what intelligence is not.

Michael Sasso / Bloomberg Business:

United Offers Pilots 13% Raise in Bid to Find Labor Peace — Initial boost said to be followed by two more annual increases — Accord awaits union leadership approval, rank-and-file vote — United Continental Holdings Inc., seeking labor peace five years after the airline's creation in a merger …

Discussion: Reuters and The Daily Caller

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

GOP rider would boost party spending — Senate Republicans plan to insert a provision into a must-pass government funding bill that would vastly expand the amount of cash that political parties could spend on candidates, multiple sources tell POLITICO. — The provision, which sources …

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