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Last Year (Winds of Winter) — The last post from the Lost Post, and the one you've all been waiting for. — Back when this was one long long long post, before Live Journal sent it to the cornfield, I mentioned opening with Dickens' line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
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Tiffany Ap / CNN:
Al-Shabaab recruit video with Trump excerpt: U.S. is racist, anti-Muslim — Trump has called for a ban on all Muslims traveling to the U.S. and surveillance on Muslim communities — Hillary Clinton claimed earlier that Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric was being used by ISIS to recruit fighters
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BBC, Friendly Atheist, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
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Liam Stack / New York Times:
Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting — Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia released a recruitment video on Friday that criticized racism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and contained footage of the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump announcing …
New York Post:
Why America is right to think Obama's losing the War on Terror — After the holidays, President Obama will no doubt resume his campaign to educate the American public about the brilliance of his anti-terrorism strategy. He'll even have some facts on his side — just not most of them.
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Global outcry after Saudi Arabia executes Shi'ite cleric, 46 others — Shi'ite Muslims and others around the world are outraged after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric as part of a mass execution of 47 prisoners Saturday. — Nimr al-Nimr was an outspoken critic …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric — Iranian protesters ransacked and set fire to part of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday after Saudi Arabia executed an outspoken Shiite cleric who had criticized the kingdom's treatment of its Shiite minority.
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NBC News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother's Suffering — One evening in the 1960s, Donald J. Trump, still in college but eager to make it big, met his older brother, Freddy, for dinner in a Queens apartment complex built by their father. — Things went bad fast.
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The Last Tradition, alan.com and Althouse
New York Post:
Elevator hero wished woman ‘Happy New Year’ before being crushed to death — A 25-year-old man wished “Happy New Year” to a woman just before he saved her life by shoving her from a faulty elevator that suddenly took a plunge — but the brave act cost him his own life, witnesses said.
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Bob Owens / Bearing Arms:
RADICAL IDEA: Maybe Obama Admin Should Try Prosecuting Gun Crimes — Barack Obama talks tough to Press Corps cameras about “gun violence” when the mood strikes him (which it never seems to do when the perpetrators and victims are black) and cries crocodile tears about how “something needs to change.”
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RedState and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama plans curbs on guns
Obama plans curbs on guns
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Telegraph, Hot Air and Al Jazeera English
Sopan Deb / CBS News:
Meet the man behind the “Trump is disgusting” skywriting — PASADENA — A millionaire real estate developer — who also happens to be a donor to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign - is behind the aerial messages at the Rose Bowl calling GOP front-runner Donald Trump “disgusting” and he says that there's more to come.
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Bob Price / Breitbart:
Texans Celebrate Open Carry with ‘Uncovering’ of Handguns at Capitol — AUSTIN, Texas - Nearly two hundred open carry advocates gathered on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol to celebrate “uncovering day” for gun owners who are licensed to carry. — The rally, sponsored …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Fox News Insider
Stephen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Dale Bumpers, Defender of Clinton in Impeachment, Dies at 90 — Dale Bumpers, the former U.S. senator from Arkansas who capped an almost 30-year political career by delivering the closing statement in President Bill Clinton's impeachment defense in 1999, has died.
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Politico
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
How Jeb Bush Hopes to Save His Candidacy — HIALEAH, Fla. — Jeb Bush and his supporters still have a pile of money to spend — remnants of $100 million raised when he seemed early this year to be a sure bet. They have an expansive ground operation in New Hampshire. And allies have just began a new ad campaign in Iowa.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Thirty days to Iowa: Candidates make final sprint — Presidential candidates are in an all-out sprint in Iowa with the caucuses only 30 days away. — Campaigns are sharpening their attacks, doubling down on time and resources spent in the state, and placing their final bets on the ad buys …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders give their top predictions for 2016
Insiders give their top predictions for 2016
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