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DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON PREVENTING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION  —  (New York, NY) December 7th, 2015, — Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
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Michael Scherer / TIME:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Says He Might Have Supported Japanese Internment  —  Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told TIME that he does not know whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
This is a Brilliant Move by Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump just trumped all the Republican candidates for President.  —  The day after the mom jeans wearing squat to pee President came out to assure us that tolerance, gun control, and climate change would save us from ISIS …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
A Note on Trump: We Are No Longer Entertained  —  Earlier today, the candidate currently leading in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”  That was, of course, Donald Trump.
Nia-Malika Henderson / CNN:
After call to ban Muslims, is the GOP ready to unite against Trump?  —  (CNN)Donald Trump has done it again.  —  Less than 24 hours after President Barack Obama aimed to set the tone for the country on a response to the threat of terrorism with an Oval Office address, Trump only needed …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan condemns Trump's Muslim ban  —  Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday condemned presidential front-runner Donald Trump's call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, according to a source in the room at a closed-door GOP meeting.  —  “This is not who we are as a party or a country …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump basks in latest controversy  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump defiantly made his case for barring all Muslims from entering the country before a rowdy crowd in South Carolina on Monday night, dismissing his critics as putting political correctness before national security.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump May Not Get the Nomination, But He Has Already Won  —  The triumph of anti-Muslim bigotry.  —  In his speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Obama took care to urge his fellow citizens not to equate the extremism of ISIS with the beliefs of Muslims as a whole.
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Philly Daily News Likens Donald Trump to Hitler With “Furor” Cover  —  “Remind you of someone?”  —  The Philadelphia Daily News will run a front page on Tuesday that likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.  —  The cover shows a picture of Trump speaking with his hand in the air …
BBC:
Why people are calling American businessman Donald Trump Voldemort
Discussion: Guardian, Raw Story and Mashable
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump calls for ‘shutdown’ of Muslims entering US
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:   Donald Trump has a base: 76% of Republicans think Islam is un-American
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Trump warns: ‘Many more World Trade Centers’
Discussion: Political Wire
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S.
Fox News:
Bank records show $28,500 deposit to Syed Farook's account two weeks before the shooting, source says  —  EXCLUSIVE - A $28,500 deposit was made to Syed Farook's bank account from WebBank.com on or about Nov.18, some two weeks before he and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino massacre …
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Los Angeles Times:
Editorial Should people on the no-fly list be able to buy guns?  Yes.  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) holds up her passport last month during a news conference about Democratic legislative proposals to combat terrorism.  —  It seems simple enough: If the federal government …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
President Obama Just Offered Two Bad Ideas for Fighting Gun Violence
Discussion: Hit & Run, US News and Salon
Florida Today:
Alligator kills Barefoot Bay burglary suspect … CONNECT  —  Brevard County deputies have determined that Matthew Riggins, 22, was killed by an alligator in Barefoot Bay lake on Nov. 23 while possibly hiding to avoid law enforcement.  —  Investigators say that Riggins had told his girlfriend …
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court takes up ‘one person, one vote’  —  Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court will take on a case on Tuesday that could upend the way that states draw their legislative lines.  —  At issue is the “one person, one vote” doctrine dating back to the 1960s when the Supreme Court held …
Michael Matza / Philly.com:
Severed pig's head left at N. Phila. mosque  —  Philadelphia police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission launched investigations Monday after a worker at a North Philadelphia mosque found a severed pig's head outside its door.  —  Surveillance video outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society …
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
CBO projects 2 million fewer jobs under ObamaCare  —  ObamaCare is expected to cost the U.S. workforce a total of 2 million jobs over the next decade, Congress's nonpartisan scorekeeper said Monday.  —  The total workforce will shrink by just under 1 percent as a result of the new coverage expansions …
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Avik Roy / Forbes:
Obama Administration: Obamacare Has Driven Health Spending Up, While Covering Fewer Than Expected
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Ted Cruz is even less electable than Donald Trump  —  The Republican Party establishment has a bad case of Trump-Induced Terror these days, but there's an even more plausible candidate in the race who's running on an even more unelectable agenda.  —  May I introduce to you Texas Sen. Ted Cruz …
Discussion: ABC News
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
U.S. Strategy Seeks to Avoid ISIS Prophecy  —  As the debate on how best to contain the Islamic State continues to rage in Western capitals, the militants themselves have made one point patently clear: They want the United States and its allies to be dragged into a ground war.
 
 
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Glenn Evans / Longview News-Journal:
East Texas police chief urges residents to arm themselves
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Dana Rubinstein / Politico:
Working Families Party endorses Sanders ‘overwhelmingly’
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Duane Patterson / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Vice President Dick Cheney On San Bernardino, Obama's Foreign Policy, And Setting History Straight
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
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