memeorandum: The Threat from ‘Minnesota Men’ (Scott W. Johnson/Weekly Standard)

3:05 PM ET, November 26, 2015

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: The American Mirror, Guardian, Mashable, Breitbart, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, NBC News, France 24, Washington Post, Mediaite and Chicago Tribune

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

Discussion: Fusion and BizPac Review

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Obama ‘deeply disturbed’ by McDonald shooting video

Discussion: Liberaland and Bloomberg.com news

Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:

Trump blasted by New York Times after 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 …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, RedState, Gothamist, Independent Journal, Washington Monthly, Hollywood Life, addictinginfo.org, Slantpoint, Infowars, NBC News, Mashable, Mediaite, Business Insider and NPR

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

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

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

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 …

Discussion: Right Wing Watch, Mock Paper Scissors and Joe.My.God.

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.

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 …

Susan Berfield / Bloomberg.com:

How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce … People take part in a protest for better wages outside a Walmart in Los Angeles on Nov. 7, 2013. — Photographer: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Discussion: addictinginfo.org, naked capitalism, Daily Kos, Common Dreams and WhoWhatWhy

Roger Simon / Politico:

All hail Donald — Do not say you were not warned. Der Donald has warned you. — Security is going to rule in America. And unthinkable things will be done. — Don't believe me? Ask him. — “We're going to have to do things that we never did before,” Trump says.

Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post

Matea Gold / Washington Post:

Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.) — When Donald Trump landed in Ohio this week, he got a taste of the meager Republican super PAC efforts aimed at him: a 47-second web video clipping together some of his most provocative comments and a small airplane trailing …

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

Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:

Why a Georgia sheriff posted this ‘politically incorrect’ welcome sign … Drive through western Georgia on State Route 116 and you might notice an unusual declaration on a welcome sign: Harris County is not politically correct. — The sign, which went up earlier this week …

Discussion: addictinginfo.org, Independent Journal, Fusion, Friendly Atheist and Mediaite