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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 even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism
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Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror
California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror
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Politico, Los Angeles Times, JustOneMinute, Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal and Fox News
(HAN-PR) War on Terror:
San Bernardino Terrorist To Jewish Victim: ‘You Will Never See Israel’
San Bernardino Terrorist To Jewish Victim: ‘You Will Never See Israel’
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Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch and The Right Scoop
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Christie: San Bernardino shows female Syrian refugees should be barred
Christie: San Bernardino shows female Syrian refugees should be barred
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Liberaland and Hot Air
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
White House: San Bernardino shooters not part of a terrorist cell
White House: San Bernardino shooters not part of a terrorist cell
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Politico
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.
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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.
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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.
Former Congressman Unleashes on Attorney General in Rant Against Islam: 'Go Ahead and Prosecute Me.
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Jihad Watch and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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 …
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ThinkProgress
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Cruz in Iowa ad: 'We'll kill the terrorists'
Cruz in Iowa ad: 'We'll kill the terrorists'
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Politico, Raw Story and Scared Monkeys
Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Top Jeb Bush political donor in Miami: I'll vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump
Top Jeb Bush political donor in Miami: I'll vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump
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The Daily Banter and Slantpoint
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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Washington Monthly and Scared Monkeys
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Alix Culbertson / Daily Express:
Machete ‘Syria revenge’ stabbing in London now treated as TERROR attack — A ‘MACHETE-WIELDING’ man has slashed a man's throat at a station in London as he shouted “this is for Syria”, witnesses claim. — A witness videoed the suspect getting arrested — A man was stabbed in the ticket hall …
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Mashable, Infowars, Guardian, Vlad Tepes, Jihad Watch, The Right Scoop and Pamela Geller
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 …
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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.
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Mediaite
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Planned Parenthood was ‘right wing terror,’ but with Islam suddenly 'motives don't matter' — Scenes from recent shooting events, including the Planned Parenthood attack by Robert Lewis Dear and the San Bernadino Massacre in California. Photo: Reuters (2); AFP/Getty Images; ABC News/Zuma Wire
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa — DAVENPORT, IA. — Donald Trump has a theory: The worse things get, the better he does. — Devoting much of his speech to dangers lurking in the world, the businessman suggested at a rally here Saturday that recent turmoil including terrorist attacks …
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 …
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 …
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Political Wire
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Clinton still confident in Rahm Emanuel — Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton says she still has confidence in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, amid controversy surrounding the delayed release of a video that showed Chicago police shooting a black teenager last year.
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Hot Air, WGN-TV, Bloomberg.com news, New York Times, Slantpoint and Chicago Tribune
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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ThinkProgress, addictinginfo.org and Hullabaloo
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Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
University President to Students: ‘Get Your Permit,’ Prevent Next San Bernardino
University President to Students: ‘Get Your Permit,’ Prevent Next San Bernardino
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BizPac Review, CNN, Raw Story and FOX2now.com
WLUK:
At least two people in custody after shots fired in Neenah — Here's a synopsis of what we know: — At least two people were injured after a shooting in Neenah. — A citizen and a police officer were injured. We know the officers injuries are non-life threatening. — We don't know the condition of the citizen.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Suspect taken into custody after active shooter situation in Wis.
Suspect taken into custody after active shooter situation in Wis.
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Steve Schuster / WBAY-TV:
Neenah hostage situation: 1 dead, 1 in custody, officer released from hospital
Neenah hostage situation: 1 dead, 1 in custody, officer released from hospital
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, RT and myfox8.com