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12:20 PM ET, December 6, 2015

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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Hysteria About Refugees, but Blindness on Guns  —  LESBOS, Greece — For three weeks American politicians have been fulminating about the peril posed by Syrian refugees, even though in the last dozen years no refugee in America has killed a single person in a terror attack.
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New York Post:
Now even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism  —  Now that the FBI's declared the San Bernardino attack to be a terrorism case, the White House will presumably shut up about how it might've just been “workplace violence.”  —  Not in the wake of news that Tashfeen Malik had pledged …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Christie: San Bernardino shows female Syrian refugees should be barred
Discussion: Liberaland and Hot Air
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
From Trump, Ryan, Cruz and Rubio, clues to the Republican Party's identity  —  Early next year, when Republican voters begin to select their 2016 presidential nominee, they will not just be choosing one individual from among a large field of candidates.  They will also be choosing among competing theories …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:   Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie warns Iowans against Trump
Discussion: Independent Journal
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: Terrorists' Family Members 'Know What's Happening' When They Attack  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he would “go after” family members of terrorists because they “know what's happening” when their loved ones commit acts of terrorism.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Trump: Islamic terrorism will get solved when Obama ‘gets the hell out’  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the country's “tremendous problem” with radical Islamic terrorism will get solved once President Barack Obama “gets the hell out” of office.
New York Daily News:
Stasi: San Bernardino killers were radical, ISIS-loving monsters — but one of their victims was just as bigoted  —  They were two hate-filled, bigoted municipal employees interacting in one department.  Now 13 innocent people are dead in unspeakable carnage.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Carter: Cancer is gone  —  Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone.  —  Carter, 91, made the announcement near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, a close friend and fellow church member said.
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Nevada lawmaker posts Christmas card showing family armed with guns  —  A Republican assemblywoman in Nevada this week shared her 2015 Christmas card on Facebook — which shows family members outfitted with a gun, including her young grandson.  —  “It's up to Americans to protect America …
Discussion: Eschaton
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Quayle glad Bush didn't tap Trump for VP  —  Dan Quayle says he's glad President George H.W. Bush picked him to be his vice president instead of Donald Trump.  —  Quayle discussed how Trump let Bush's camp know that he was interested in becoming the vice president in the 1988 campaign …
Melissa Gray / CNN:
3 stabbed at London tube station in terror attack, police say  —  (CNN)A man stabbed three people at an east London tube station Saturday before police subdued him with a stun gun and made an arrest, London's Metropolitan Police said.  —  Police said they were treating the stabbing at Leytonstone station as a terrorist incident.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lynch cautious on ISIL link to California attacks  —  Attorney General Loretta Lynch warned Americans Sunday not to assume that the apparent terrorist attack that killed 14 people in California last week was linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant group that that was behind the even-deadlier attacks in Paris last month.
Discussion: The Hill
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
Former Congressman Unleashes on Attorney General in Rant Against Islam: 'Go Ahead and Prosecute Me.
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON DECEMBER 6, 2015 and it will be updated.  —  ANNOUNCER: Starting right now, a special edition of THIS WEEK, act of terrorism in the homeland — the brand new details about the killer couple …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Top Jeb Bush political donor in Miami: I'll vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump
Discussion: The Daily Banter and Slantpoint
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Kasich: Keep guns from those on no-fly list  —  Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) says he is in favor of preventing people on the “no-fly list” from being able to purchase guns.  —  “Well, on the no-fly list, we probably could keep them from getting guns and ought to ban them,” Kasich said on CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Iowa GOP seeks to prevent repeat of botched 2012 caucus  —  Republicans in Iowa are working overtime to prevent a repeat of the botched 2012 caucuses when scores of unaccounted ballots caused Mitt Romney to be wrongly declared the winner over Rick Santorum.  —  State party officials …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Political Wire
Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton: I Don't Say ‘Radical Islam’ Because It 'Doesn't Do Justice' to Good Muslims  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton really doesn't like using the term “radical Islam.”  —  This Week host George Stephanopoulos called out the former U.S. Secretary of State …
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Jerry Falwell Jr.: If more good people had concealed guns, ‘we could end those Muslims’  —  The president of Liberty University, a popular pilgrimage site for presidential candidates, urged students during the school's convocation Friday to get their permits to carry concealed weapons.
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Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
University President to Students: ‘Get Your Permit,’ Prevent Next San Bernardino
Discussion: BizPac Review, CNN and Raw Story
 
 
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Planned Parenthood was ‘right wing terror,’ but with Islam suddenly 'motives don't matter'
Discussion: Politico
New York Post:
California killers' link to controversial New York mosque
Discussion: Gothamist
Reuters:
Taliban releases audio message to show leader alive
Discussion: The Long War Journal
Andy Parker / New York Daily News:
NRA-controlled politicians have committed treason by nixing gun control legislation …
Discussion: Raw Story and addictinginfo.org
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Forges New Blue-Collar Coalition Among Republicans
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Times Goes Gaga Over Guns
Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
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New York Times:
95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, From Donald Trump's Tongue
 

 
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