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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Likely GOP Primary Voters Back Trump's Muslim Ban — More than a third say it makes them more likely to vote for him, according to an online PulsePoll conducted by Purple Strategies on Tuesday. — McCormickJohn
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spokeswoman Defends Muslim Ban: 'So What? They're Muslim' (VIDEO) — While defending Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims visiting the United States during a debate with CNN's S.E. Cupp, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson dismissed Cupp's assertion that a ban on all Muslims goes too far.
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Peter J. Spiro / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional.
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Scalia: Affirmative Action Sends Blacks To Schools Too Advanced For Them — In the oral arguments Wednesday for a Supreme Court affirmative action case, Justice Antonin Scalia—a well known critic of affirmative action—suggested that the policy was hurting minority students by sending …
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Hayley Munguia / FiveThirtyEight:
Here's What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions — Affirmative action in higher education is back in the Supreme Court, with oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin being heard Wednesday. The topic has been contentious in Texas …
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Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
College quotas are actually destroying lives of minorities — Today the US Supreme Court hears a constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions. These preferences obviously hurt whites and Asians turned down to make room for less qualified minorities, but ironically …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
University Affirmative Action Questioned at Supreme Court
University Affirmative Action Questioned at Supreme Court
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Daniel Nasaw / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court University Affirmative Action Hearing — Live Blog
Supreme Court University Affirmative Action Hearing — Live Blog
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The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu set to meet Trump, as MKs urge candidate be shunned — Sources say December 28 powwow was scheduled two weeks ago, before GOP front-runner's call to ban Muslims from entering US; Arab-Israeli MK seeks to bar Trump from Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set …
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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Exclusive: Trump planning Temple Mount visit
Exclusive: Trump planning Temple Mount visit
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Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: London Cop Confirms Donald Trump UK Radicalisation Claims - BBC, Cameron, Boris Johnson Sneer
EXCLUSIVE: London Cop Confirms Donald Trump UK Radicalisation Claims - BBC, Cameron, Boris Johnson Sneer
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo Politics:
Trump's Muslim ban sparks international outrage
Trump's Muslim ban sparks international outrage
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
San Bernardino Suspects Spoke of Attacks in 2013, F.B.I. Says — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said Wednesday that the couple who waged a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., last week had been talking of an attack as far back as two years ago …
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Fox News:
Investigators believe Syed Farook may have planned attack prior to San Bernardino shooting — Federal investigators believe San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook may have planned an attack prior to last week's assault on a social service center that left 14 dead and 21 others injured, Fox News has learned.
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NBC News:
San Bernardino Shooters Practiced for Attack a Year in Advance — San Bernardino terror couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent at least a year preparing for their terror attack, NBC News has learned, practicing at a local gun range and making financial plans for their family after their deaths.
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
San Bernardino shooters began plotting attack before their marriage, FBI chief says
San Bernardino shooters began plotting attack before their marriage, FBI chief says
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Proves That Liberals Have Been Right All Along — The left nailed the pathology of the conservative movement years ago. The Donald is just making that impossible to deny. — If you've been following Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and his effect on the Republican primary closely …
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Austin American-Statesman:
Gun rights groups to stage mock mass shooting at UT — Gun rights groups say they will conduct a mock mass shooting this weekend at the University of Texas campus as they try to end gun-free zones. — The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event will involve actors “shot” …
NPR:
Scientific Evidence Doesn't Support Global Warming, Sen. Ted Cruz Says — There's a huge partisan divide on the issue of global warming in the U.S. Steve Inskeep talks to the Texas senator and GOP presidential candidate about his views on climate change. — STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Cruz Won't Criticize Trump But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees
Cruz Won't Criticize Trump But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees
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Wendy Davis / Politico:
Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas — I am a lifelong Democrat. I proudly boast an “F” rating from the NRA. And, yet during my 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, I supported the open carry of handguns in my state. — It is a position that haunts me.
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Steven Ginsberg / Washington Post:
“I. Will. Never. Leave. This. Race.” — Donald Trump came down the stairs, stopped in the middle of the clubhouse restaurant, thrust his arms out and proclaimed: “How great is this?” — It was his way of saying hello and also a declaration of how America's boss planned to try to own the room …
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Henry Olsen / The Atlantic:
The Polls May Be Underestimating Trump's Support — Donald Trump's persistent lead in the GOP presidential-preference polls has been a great source of confusion for the chattering classes. But Trump is actually just the latest manifestation of a more global trend: Data suggests the appeal …
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Numbers / Pew Research Center's Social …:
The American Middle Class Is Losing Ground — No longer the majority and falling behind financially — After more than four decades of serving as the nation's economic majority, the American middle class is now matched in number by those in the economic tiers above and below it.
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Jonathan Marks / Commentary Magazine:
The Troubling Climate at Yale — In October, Erika Christakis, a Yale University instructor, wrote a mild email to students in Silliman College, the house for which she serves as associate master. A little over a month later, amid accusations of racial insensitivity, Erika Christakis …
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis — Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He's just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter. — During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned …
Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
Clinton intervened for firm after request to son-in-law — WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm's investors …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Know Your Fascist Dictators — As long as we're on to the subject of fascist dictators and Donald Trump is now being compared to Adolf Hitler in major urban newspapers, I thought I should speak up on behalf of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as the true proto-Trump. — Mussolini wasn't just a fascist dictator.
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Walmart's Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs, a Study Says — Imports from China by Walmart, the nation's largest retailer and biggest importer, eliminated or displaced over 400,000 jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2013, according to an estimate by the Economic Policy Institute …
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