memeorandum: Tales of a Warmer Planet (Curt Stager/New York Times)

5:20 PM ET, November 29, 2015

Top Items:

Katie Valentine / ThinkProgress:

Republican Candidates Finally Comment On Shooting, Continue False Attacks On Planned Parenthood — Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Mike Huckabeee responded to the deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Sunday by reiterating false claims that the organization sells babies' body parts.

Discussion: The Hill, The Huffington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Towleroad, PoliticusUSA, MSNBC, NewsHounds blog and CBS News

New York Times:

Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’ — HARTSEL, Colo. — Robert L. Dear Jr. was a man who lived off the grid. — On this lonely, snow-covered patch of land in a hamlet ringed by the Rocky Mountains, his home was a white trailer, with a forest-green four-wheeler …

Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:

‘No more baby parts,’ suspect in attack at Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic told official … COLORADO SPRINGS — The gunman suspected of storming a Planned Parenthood clinic and killing a police officer and two others used the phrase “no more baby parts” to explain his act …

Discussion: YouCaring, CBS Denver, National Review, Politico, Shakesville, Outside the Beltway, whorunsGov, Slate, New York Times, Associated Press, The Week, CNN, TalkLeft, Yahoo Politics, Boston Herald and MSNBC

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fiorina: ‘Typical Left-Wing Tactics’ to Connect Pro-Lifers to Planned Parenthood Attack

Discussion: addictinginfo.org, Liberaland and Mock Paper Scissors

Jonathan Swan / The Hill: Planned Parenthood official: ‘Hateful’ speech contributed to shootings

Guardian:
Suspect in Planned Parenthood attack said ‘no more baby parts’ after arrest

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Jezebel, Breitbart, The Week and Associated Press

David Edwards / Raw Story: Mike Huckabee: Anti-abortion shooter is ‘abominable’ like Planned Parenthood killing ‘millions of babies’

NBC News:
Planned Parenthood Suspect Mentioned Politics, Abortion

Jonathan Swan / The Hill:

GOP donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination — When asked who he would vote for if the presidential race comes down to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the former mayor of Los Angeles and a longtime Republican establishment figure, Dick Riordan, says: “I would probably go find a deserted island.”

Discussion: Liberaland

Martin Pengelly / Raw Story:

Jeb Bush: I'd still support Trump over Clinton because ‘anybody is better than Hillary’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Jeb Bush would support Donald Trump if the real-estate billionaire were to win the Republican presidential nomination, “because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.

Discussion: Guardian, Infowars and Scripting News

Louis Nelson / Politico:
Jeb Bush: Trump not a ‘serious candidate’

Discussion: Political Wire

Kiri Blakeley For / Daily Mail:

University of Missouri assistant professor charged with ‘violently grabbing 14-year-old relative by the hair and dragging her out of school for not wearing hijab’ — Youssif Zaghwani Omar, 53, was arrested after allegedly dragging a 14-year-old female relative out of school

Discussion: RedState and Jihad Watch

Columbia Daily Tribune:
Man arrested on suspicion of abusing Hickman student

Discussion: TheBlaze.com, Vlad Tepes, BizPac Review, Pamela Geller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

House Dem threatens to file suit if Cruz wins nomination — Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) says he will file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) presidential bid if Cruz wins his party's nomination. — Grayson said Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother …

Discussion: RedState, Independent Journal and The Right Scoop

Jessica Hopper / ABC News:

Ted Cruz Does ‘Princess Bride’ Impression

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Trump's rhetoric turning Muslims against the US, McCain says — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric is only serving to turn the international Muslim community against the U.S. — “Oh, I think it has an interesting effect of turning Muslims all over the world …

Discussion: Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Curt Stager / New York Times:

Tales of a Warmer Planet — Paul Smiths, N.Y. — IT'S a mistake to think the climatic effects of our carbon emissions will be over within a few decades or centuries. Our intergenerational responsibilities run much deeper into the future. — In this new Anthropocene epoch, the “Age of Humans …

Bethan McKernan / The Independent:

The internet has united to photoshop Isis fighters as rubber ducks

Discussion: Telegraph, Infowars and Sputnik International

Washington Post:

For Democrats, it's not just ‘demographics as destiny’ — Democrats who happily think Donald Trump is helping to lead the Republican Party over the cliff could be looking at the state of American politics through too narrow a lens. Whatever problems the GOP could be facing in the coming months and beyond …

Discussion: New York Times

Coral Davenport / New York Times:

Obama's Legacy at Stake in Paris Talks on Climate Accord — WASHINGTON — At a joint news conference here Tuesday with President François Hollande of France, President Obama veered from his focus on the terrorist attacks in Paris to bring up the huge international gathering beginning …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, JustOneMinute, RedState, President Obama and John Hawkins' Right Wing News