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8:50 PM ET, January 4, 2016

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Will Kraus / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over “our southern border.”  —  The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!  Donald Trump's first TV ad shows migrants ‘at the southern border,’ but they're actually in Morocco  —  In a new television ad — his campaign's first …
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NBC News:
Trump Ad Fact Checked for Border Footage, Campaign Says ‘No Sh—’  —  LOWELL, Mass. - Donald Trump may have some explaining to do about footage used in his new campaign advertisement.  —  Released Monday, the much-anticipated TV ad shows migrants on what the narrator claims is the southern border, scattering.
ABC News:
Bill Clinton Brushes Off Trump Attacks  —  We're exactly four weeks away from the Iowa caucuses — and the 2016 presidential race is switching into high gear.  Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is holding a rally in Massachusetts tonight after releasing his first television ad of his 2016 campaign …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Clinton: Aliens may have visited us already  —  Hillary Clinton says that aliens may have already visited humanity.  —  “I think we may have been [visited already].  We don't know for sure,” the Democratic presidential front-runner told The Conway Daily Sun during a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's provocative first TV ad raises the temperature of GOP race
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton Promises She'll Investigate Area 51, UFOs
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House calls Oregon standoff a ‘local law enforcement matter’  —  The White House on Monday referred to an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon as a “local law enforcement matter.”  —  Spokesman Josh Earnest's comments come even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation …
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Washington Post:
Armed men, led by Bundy brothers, take over federal building in rural Oregon  —  BURNS, Ore. — A group of armed anti-government activists remained encamped at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Sunday evening, vowing to occupy the outpost for years to protest the federal government's treatment …
NBC News:
Ted Cruz Calls for Oregon Armed Protesters to ‘Stand Down’  —  Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Monday called for armed protesters who occupied a federal building in Oregon to “stand down peaceably.”  —  “Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds,” Cruz told reporters in Iowa.
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
The Absurdly Harsh Penalties That Sparked the Oregon Rancher Protest
Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Watch: Oregon militants post new video from refuge, plead for help to ‘prevent bloodshed’
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama moves to require background checks for more gun sales  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama moved Monday to require all gun sellers to register as dealers — even those who sell at gun shows and online — and to run background checks on all prospective purchasers …
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill, WJTV, abc13.com and CNN
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Speaker.gov:
Statement on Potential Executive Action to Restrict 2nd Amendment Rights  —  Speaker Ryan Press Office  —  WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response to reports that the president intends to take executive action to restrict gun ownership in America:
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama rolls out gun control strategy  —  The White House unveiled President Barack Obama's executive actions on gun violence on Monday as part of a multiday rollout meant to contain the political fallout and to cast Obama as the voice of common sense in a raging culture war.
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
The Left May Come to Loathe Obama  —  As we glide with trepidation into another presidential election year, the American mood might be best characterized as apprehensive.  The right, which has for nearly seven years eagerly anticipated the last moments of Barack Obama's presidency …
Eric Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:
Why I joined the NRA  —  After 20 years of evading joining the NRA …
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Times:
Obama to Expand Gun Background Checks and Tighten Enforcement
Discussion: CNN and Business Insider
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Obama Claims Executive Action on Gun Control Within His Authority
Discussion: The Agonist
Jessica Diehl / Vanity Fair:
Blowhards Beware: Megyn Kelly Will Slay You Now  —  The brightest star at Fox News, Megyn Kelly is a newly minted role model for women who sees her gender as irrelevant, and a conservative champion who transcends politics with her skillful skewering of windbags of both parties, most notably Donald Trump.
Matt Adams / Fox 59:
Indianapolis bar's response to customer's complaint about ‘ruined’ New Year's Eve goes viral  —  Missing Attachment Missing Attachment  —  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Jan. 4, 2015) - A woman suffered a heart attack during a New Year's Eve celebration at a downtown Indianapolis bar …
Discussion: WTKR-TV, The Daily Caller and KFOR-TV
Elianayjohnson / National Review:
Exclusive: Rubio PAC to Hit Christie in New Hampshire  —  Marco Rubio has his eyes on Chris Christie, who is increasingly viewed as the dark horse who could, with an impressive showing — even a victory — in New Hampshire, become the GOP's surprise establishment favorite.
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Pro-Rubio super PAC aims attack ads at Christie
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama has ‘deliberately weakened America’
Discussion: Washington Post, RedState and Daily Kos
BBC:
Saudi Arabia's allies Bahrain, Sudan and UAE act against Iran  —  A number of Saudi Arabia's allies have joined diplomatic action against Iran after the Saudi embassy in Tehran was attacked amid a row over the execution of a Shia Muslim cleric.  —  Bahrain and Sudan have both severed relations with Iran …
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David P. Goldman / Asia Times:
Saudi Arabia stews in policy hell: Spengler
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Power Line
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush Has “Mistaken And Conflated” Story About Receiving NRA Award, Campaign Admits  —  Bush has repeatedly claimed that he received the NRA's “statesman of the year” award.  —  A spokesman for Jeb Bush's campaign told BuzzFeed News on Monday that Bush had “mistaken and conflated” …
Discussion: Washington Post and alan.com
Tom Nichols / The Daily Beast:
How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump  —  By assailing sensible conservatives as sexists, racists, and imbeciles, they paved the way for a jackass who embodies their worst fears.  —  The American left created Donald Trump.  —  When I say “the left,” I do not mean the Democratic Party—or, solely the Democratic Party.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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The Huffington Post:
Thinking Harder about Political Correctness
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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GlobalPost:
Khamenei says US faces ‘punch in mouth’ in upcoming Iran elections
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Jihad Watch
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Academics And Politics  —  Via Noah Smith, an interesting …
Discussion: TaxProf Blog
Charlie Hebdo / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo anniversary edition cover released: ‘the assassin is still out there’
Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Deadliest year in Baltimore history ends with 344 homicides
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Harlan Elrich / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Fighting My Teachers Union
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
LA Renters Rat Out Airbnb Users, Get Evicted Instead
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Moe Lane
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Elections Have Consequences
Discussion: Vox and addictinginfo.org
Antoinette Ramseur / WTKR-TV:
Woman shot to death in apartment while mother and children were inside
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

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