memeorandum: Sen. Tom Cotton: Social Security benefits cause people to ‘spiral downward’ into heroin addiction (David Edwards/Raw Story)

10:25 PM ET, November 9, 2015

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How the Missouri football team just took down its university president — For the past week, a graduate student at the University of Missouri has been on a hunger strike, hoping to force the school system's president to resign his position over a perceived failure to address racist incidents on campus.

Discussion: Daily Wire, The Mahablog, Common Dreams, No More Mister Nice Blog, Fusion, ABC News and Columbia Missourian

Columbia Daily Tribune:

Deans, faculty members call for Loftin's dismissal — The same day University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe announced his resignation, the deans of nine different MU colleges requested the dismissal of Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin. — In a letter sent Monday to Wolfe and the UM Board of Curators …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The Week

Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
‘Justice is worth fighting for’: A Q&A with the graduate student whose hunger strike has upended …

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New York Times:
University of Missouri President and Chancellor Step Aside Amid Protests

Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Four Reasons the Missouri Football Strikers are Cowardly Liberal Lazy Douchebags

Discussion: Esquire, The Daily Caller, The Right Scoop, Mediaite and ThinkProgress

Brett McMurphy / ESPN:
Missouri player says many on team don't support practice boycott

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NBC News:
Mizzou President, Chancellor Resigning Amid Racial Turmoil

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Advancing Missouri:
Statement from University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Deadspin, Jezebel, The Week, NPR, Outside the Beltway, Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Missourian, New York Times, NBC News and Governor Jay Nixon

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Yale Classmate: We Did The Prank Test That Ben Carson's Talking About — A former staff member of the Yale Record says that he recalls many of the details of a prank that Dr. Ben Carson wrote about in an autobiography. — The incident has been the subject of media coverage in recent days …

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Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:

My Ben Carson Days — I attended a three year high school from 1978 to 1981. I took the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test ("PSAT") in tenth grade, and I checked off a box in the PSAT application inviting colleges to send me their literature. I was contacted by the United States Military Academy …

Discussion: Hot Air and Instapundit

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
The Biggest Holes In Ben Carson's Yale Psychology ‘Hoax’ Story

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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Chris Christie: 'I Don't Have A Lot Of Sympathy' For Ben Carson (VIDEO)

Discussion: Hit & Run, Mediaite, Little Green Footballs and Mock Paper Scissors

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration actions — A federal appeals court has rejected President Barack Obama's effort to move forward with a series of executive actions he announced last year seeking to give quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Workplace Report

Kevin McGill / Associated Press:

Appeals court rules against Obama immigration plan — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Barack Obama's plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Fox News Insider and The Right Scoop

The Huffington Post:

Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’ — “You gotta step up, man.”

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The Huffington Post:
Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would!’

Discussion: The Federalist, Vox, Hot Air, Mediaite and Business Insider

Lori Weisberg / The San Diego Union-Tribune stories:

SeaWorld to end theatrical killer whale show — SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding theatrical killer whale show at its San Diego park next year as part of a comprehensive strategy unveiled Monday to re-position the embattled company amid persistent criticisms of how it treats its orcas.

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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:

Clinton making gender a focus of her presidential bid — As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for their second debate next weekend, a disputed moment of alleged sexism from the first exchange has come to symbolize a sharper and more personal confrontation between Hillary Rodham Clinton …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Daily Wire and National Review

Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Hillary Clinton rebukes charter schools

Discussion: Education Reform Now, The Workplace Report and Washington Post

Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
League of Conservation Voters Action Fund to endorse Clinton

Discussion: lcv.org, BuzzFeed, Booman Tribune, ThinkProgress and Slantpoint

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Despair, American Style — A couple of weeks ago President Obama mocked Republicans who are “down on America,” and reinforced his message by doing a pretty good Grumpy Cat impression. He had a point: With job growth at rates not seen since the 1990s, with the percentage of Americans covered …

Discussion: Horizons, Raw Story, The Mahablog and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Charts of the Day: Americans Seem to Be About As Happy As Ever

Discussion: Hullabaloo

T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:

U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone — The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an article in 2014 that alleged a freshman was gang raped at the house during a party.

Discussion: Poynter., The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Jezebel and Moe Lane, more at Mediagazer »

Ian Simpson / Reuters:
Virginia fraternity sues Rolling Stone over rape story

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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

Sotomayor rips Supreme Court for letting cops get away with a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to violence — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — In a powerfully written dissent, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the thinking of some of her fellow justices …

Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Liberaland

Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Texas Trooper

Discussion: Hot Air and Liberaland

Jason Horowitz / New York Times:

Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz's Father's Story of Fighting for Castro — MATANZAS, Cuba — Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said, all he wanted to do was “fight for liberty” — a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father's tales of fighting as a rebel leader …

Discussion: Liberaland, addictinginfo.org, The Right Scoop and Raw Story

Jonathan Ferziger / Bloomberg Business:

Obama Tells Netanyahu Their Differences Must Be Narrowed — He says split is mostly on ‘narrow issue’ of the Iran deal — Netanyahu says shared goals will keep the alliance strong — President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that while their differences …

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, Bloomberg.com news and The Hill

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama and Netanyahu Seek to Move Past Rift Over Iran Nuclear Deal

Discussion: Mondoweiss, The Week and Towleroad

Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Obama Starts Personal Facebook Page

Discussion: The Hill, BuzzFeed, Progressives Today, NPR and The Week

Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:

Vitter Addresses Prostitution Scandal — Sen. David Vitter addresses his past indiscretions with a prostitute in a new ad: “I failed my family.” — TwitterFacebookLinkedin

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Nicholas Kusnetz / The Center for Public …:

Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk — Trouble in America's statehouses: secrecy, questionable ethics and conflicts of interest — In November 2014, Arkansas voters approved a ballot measure that, among other reforms, barred the state's elected officials from accepting lobbyists' gifts.

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Here's Hillary Clinton's big 2016 challenge, in one chart — As many have already observed, one of the big questions that will help decide whether Hillary Clinton wins the White House next year is this: Can Clinton turn out the coalition that helped power Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 wins at the same levels that the president did?

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David Edwards / Raw Story:

Sen. Tom Cotton: Social Security benefits cause people to ‘spiral downward’ into heroin addiction — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability.

Discussion: addictinginfo.org and Mock Paper Scissors

Caleb Howe / The Right Scoop:

Hugh Hewitt Tries To Explain Media Bias To Morning Joe — This morning there were some minor fireworks on Morning Joe, as Hugh Hewitt and Joe Scarborough duked it out over Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton and media bias in general. — Joe argues that there is simply no way that the press …

Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times