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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
GOP preparing for contested convention  —  Republican officials and leading figures in the party's establishment are now preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as Donald Trump continues sit atop the polls and the presidential race.  —  More than 20 of them convened Monday …
Fred Bever / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Trump's Call To Ban Muslims Not Hurting His Prospects In N.H.  —  Donald Trump's divisive plan for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. sure isn't hurting his prospects in New Hampshire.  —  A new WBUR poll (topline, crosstabs) shows him with his strongest lead yet among likely …
New York Times:
Fear of Terrorism Lifts Donald Trump in New York Times/CBS Poll  —  Americans are more fearful about the likelihood of another terrorist attack than at any other time since the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, a gnawing sense of dread that has helped lift Donald J. Trump to a new high among …
New York Times:
Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump's ‘Judgment’ to Be President
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Lindsey Graham: Trump Leading Because 40% Of GOP Voters Think Obama Is Kenyan Muslim
Discussion: Political Wire
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Could Trump Lead to Apocalypse for Republicans?
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Carson Threatens To Leave Party If GOP Officials Keep Plotting Over Convention
Discussion: Daily Kos
CBS News:
Poll: Solid opposition to ban on Muslims entering U.S.
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll Shows Voters Split on Trump's Muslim Ban
Los Angeles Times:
San Bernardino shooters planned bigger attack, investigators believe  —  An FBI dive team on Thursday searches for electronic devices or other evidence possibly left in Seccombe Lake, about two miles north of the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.  —  An examination of digital equipment recovered …
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Fox News Insider:
Whistleblower Says He Could Have Prevented CA Attack If Gov't Didn't Cut DHS Funding  —  A former Homeland Security employee says he likely could have helped prevent the San Bernardino terror attack if the government had not pulled the plug on a surveillance program he was developing three years ago.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
A former Department of Homeland Security agent says that an investigation …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: I will mandate death penalty for killing police officers  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to issue an executive order to mandate the death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer.  —  “One of the first things I'd do in terms of executive order …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump endorsed by police union after proposing Muslim ban  —  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the endorsement of a New England union that represents police and corrections officers Thursday evening, and said that, as president …
Michael Walsh / Yahoo Politics:
Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump: 'I no longer think he's funny'  —  Hillary Clinton isn't laughing anymore.  —  In an appearance on NBC's “The Tonight Show with Seth Meyers,” the Democratic presidential frontrunner says that Donald Trump is no longer funny and that he's gone too far.
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
Is Affirmative Action Finished?  —  “If this Court rules that the University of Texas can't consider race, or if it rules that universities that consider race have to die a death of a thousand cuts for doing so, we know exactly what's going to happen,” Gregory Garre, the lawyer for the University of Texas …
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Black lawmakers excoriate Scalia over ‘disgusting’ remarks
Discussion: National Review and PoliticusUSA
Mark Bowden / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump Really Doesn't Want Me to Tell You This, But ...  Over a long weekend on assignment for Playboy magazine, Mark Bowden found that behind the garish Trump façade lies only more ugliness.  —  I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump in November 1996 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michele McPhee / ABC News:
US Intel: ISIS May Have Passport Printing Machine, Blank Passports
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Empowering the Ugliness  —  We live in an era of political news that is, all too often, shocking but not surprising.  The rise of Donald Trump definitely falls into that category.  And so does the electoral earthquake that struck France in Sunday's regional elections, with the right-wing …
Discussion: Salon and Vox Popoli
Camille Paglia / Hollywood Reporter:
Camille Paglia Takes on Taylor Swift, Hollywood's #GirlSquad Culture  —  Can group selfies advance women's goals?  In an essay for The Hollywood Reporter, the famed feminist urges social media packs to skip the “tittering, tongues-out mugging of Taylor Swift” — whose “twinkly persona …
Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Colorado ACLU Board Member: Shoot Trump Voters ‘Before Election Day’  —  Loring Wirbel, board member of the American Civil Liberties Union's Colorado chapter and co-chair of the ACLU's Colorado Springs chapter, called for supporters of GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be shot before they vote for the billionaire businessman.
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Video shows customer hit worker, break glass in NYC restaurant as he rails against Muslims; man kicks woman, calls her ‘trash’ in separate crime  —  A customer at a Herald Square restaurant burst into an anti-Muslim tirade, slapping one worker than busting glass partitions with a chair …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
America's Immigration Challenge  —  On Wednesday, FBI director James Comey alleged that the San Bernardino shooters were already plotting a mass-murder attack on the United States before Tafsheen Malik received the K-1 visa admitting her to the United States.  Her husband-to-be, Syed Farook, was born a U.S. citizen.
kff.org:
Survey of Kentucky Residents on State Health Policy  —  Liz Hamel, Mira Norton, and Mollyann Brodie  —  Executive Summary  —  Kentucky has received national attention as the only Southern state to fully embrace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by creating its own state-based health insurance marketplace …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump has gone too far for French far-right leader Marine Le Pen  —  Donald Trump has been frequently compared (including by me) to “far-right” populist movements in Europe.  Indeed, scholarly experts on fascism say that this — rather than fascism — is the correct comparison to make about Trump.
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Priest paid his male ‘sex master’ from collection plate: lawsuit  —  A Catholic priest swiped collection-plate donations to pay for drug-fueled sex romps with a heavily muscled S&M “master,” a new lawsuit charges.  —  Parishioners claim the Rev. Peter Miqueli has stolen at least $1 million since 2003 …
Discussion: Gothamist and PinkNews
David Kopel / Washington Post:
President Obama signs three constructive gun measures  —  The day before Thanksgiving, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), S.1356.  The primary purpose of the act was to provide funds for operation of the U.S. military.  However, the act also includes several …
 
 
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
American Nazi Party Chairman: Trump's Muslim Ban Is Unrealistic
Awr Hawkins / Breitbart:
Police Chief: ‘Revolution’ Coming if Obama Tries to Disarm American People
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Charles Barkley bashes CNN, Donald Trump
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Adam Vaughan / Guardian:
Paris climate conference: Ban Ki-moon tells governments to compromise on deal - live
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Harry Davies / Guardian:
Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users
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New York Times:
The Court Takes Up One Person, One Vote
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
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Thematic Convergence, or Real Old Testament Stuff...
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