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3:20 PM ET, December 7, 2015

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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton Thumps Trump in Latest Head-to-Head Poll  —  Hillary Clinton leads the Republican presidential field in hypothetical general-election match-ups, with Ben Carson and Marco Rubio running the closest to her, according to a new national MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Cruz surges to first in Iowa  —  Stoked by evangelical and tea-party support, Ted Cruz has surged to first place in Iowa, according to the results of a Monmouth University poll released Monday surveying voters likely to participate in the Republican caucus on Feb. 1.
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news and The Week
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The far-right position that could doom Marco Rubio in the general election
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Ben Carson Responds to Falling Poll Numbers
Discussion: OnPolitics
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Cruz surges ahead of Trump and Carson in Iowa
The White House:
Address to the Nation by the President  —  **Please see below for a correction, marked with an asterisk.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening.  On Wednesday, 14 Americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays.  They were taken from family and friends who loved them deeply.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
How Obama Thinks About Terrorism  —  At the core of Barack Obama's terrorism speech on Sunday night lay a contradiction.  He gave the address to convince an increasingly fearful nation that he takes the terrorist threat seriously.  But he doesn't, at least not in the way his political opponents do.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Obama Actually Thought He Was Being Reassuring Last Night  —  President Obama's Sunday night speech was about three-quarters of what the cynics and his critics expected.  The lone bits of good news were the president's belated acknowledgement that the Fort Hood shooting was terrorism - not …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lynch recalibrates message on hateful speech
Brian Ross / ABC News:
Sarah Begley / TIME:
TIME Announces Shortlist for 2015 Person of the Year  —  Meet the eight final contenders  —  A shortlist of candidates chosen by TIME magazine's editors for the 2015 Person of the Year was revealed on NBC's TODAY show Monday morning.  The eight contenders are, in alphabetical order:
Discussion: OnPolitics, WNCN and U.S. Uncut
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump makes shortlist for Time's Person of the Year
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
A House Divided  —  On July 28th, Mark Meadows, a Republican representative from North Carolina, walked to the well of the House and filed a motion to vacate the chair.  It's an obscure parliamentary tool that allows any member of the House to trigger a vote to oust the Speaker.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox and Washington Post
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Brings Sharply Different Leadership Style to House
Discussion: Political Wire
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
ISIS has targeted refugee program to enter US, Homeland Security chairman says  —  Intelligence officials have determined that Islamic extremists have explored using the refugee program to enter the United States, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Monday.
Discussion: Pamela Geller
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court lets local ban on assault weapons stand  —  The Supreme Court in Washington.  —  In a victory for gun-control advocates, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected a 2nd Amendment challenge to laws that forbid the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Gun Advocates Rejected by Supreme Court on Assault Weapons
Discussion: Politico
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge to Assault Weapons Ban in Chicago Suburb
Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
How I'd Rein In Wall Street  —  SEVEN years ago, the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin.  Over five million people lost their homes.  Nearly nine million lost their jobs.  Nearly $13 trillion in household wealth was wiped out.  —  Under President Obama, our economy has come a long way back.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Zombie nativity scene draws $500 a day fine from town as Christian protesters descend  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  An Ohio man is under fire from local authorities for setting up a zombie nativity scene against town wishes, Fox 19 reports.
Discussion: Chicagoist and addictinginfo.org
Speaker.gov:
Statement on The President's Oval Office Address  —  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement tonight in response to President Obama's Oval Office address on terrorism:
Discussion: Tom Cotton, WBTW-TV and Washington Post
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
How the Democrats Flubbed San Bernardino  —  The response of President Obama and his media allies to the terror attack in California should have liberals worried.  —  Has there ever been a better example of liberal overreach than the coverage that followed the shooting in San Bernardino?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Marco Rubio's ‘water thing’  —  In May 2008, when Marco Rubio retired as Florida's House speaker, he bid his colleagues farewell with a passionate defense of American exceptionalism.  Standing on the floor in front of the speaker's rostrum, Rubio invoked boatloads of refugees washing up on American shores …
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Rand Paul has decided to be a message candidate, with an anti-Rubio message
DNAinfo New York:
VIDEO: Woman Eats Pizza While Walking Away From Fatal Fort Greene Crash  —  FORT GREENE — Surveillance video appeared to capture a woman calmly munching on a slice of pizza moments after an unlicensed driver hurtled onto a curb and fatally struck a 30-year-old woman Sunday on Fulton Street.
Talking Points Memo:
“This guy is such a total pussy, it's stunning,” Peters continued.  —  True, if you mean “pussy” in the sense that pussy makes the world go 'round.  In the sense that it's the most powerful weapon on the planet to have ever existed.  Most wars have been started over little more than pussy.
Discussion: Truth Revolt
 
 
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Baptist pastor commands wives to ‘submit’: The ‘feminist rebellion’ is destroying America
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Steve Schmadeke / Chicago Tribune:
Alvarez balks at charges in Ronald Johnson police shooting, says video shows gun
Discussion: CityLab, Raw Story and The Week
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
President Obama asks: “What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Betsy's Page
David H. Gans / New Republic:
Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans
Discussion: Raw Story
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. / Breitbart:
Migrants on Video: Paris Attacks ‘Good,’ ‘by 2025 All of France Will Become Muslim’
Beth Landman / New York Post:
People are faking disabilities to fly with their pets
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Bennet Omalu / New York Times:
Don't Let Kids Play Football
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Adam Serwer / BuzzFeed:
Trump Adviser Doesn't Get How Judaism Works
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