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3:00 PM ET, November 9, 2015

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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Four Reasons the Missouri Football Strikers are Cowardly Liberal Lazy Douchebags  —  UPDATE: Mizzou's President has apparently resigned, proving that some people think negotiating with terrorists is a good idea, even when those terrorists are 1-5 in the SEC.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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: Fusion and Columbia Missourian
Advancing Missouri:
Statement from University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe
Lori Weisberg / The San Diego Union-Tribune stories:
SeaWorld to phase out killer whale show … SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding 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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Hugo MartinContact / Los Angeles Times:
SeaWorld to phase out killer whale show  —  SeaWorld intends to phase out its longstanding killer whale show at its San Diego park next year as part of a strategy to re-position the embattled company amid persistent criticisms of how it treats its orcas.  —  In its place would be a new orca …
Discussion: KTLA, WGN-TV and fox13now.com
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
How A Conservative Radio Host Inspired Ben Carson To Apply To Yale  —  Ben Carson told reporters a story on Friday that he has written about several times: as a high school senior, he could only afford to apply to one college, and he decided he would apply to the school that won a face off …
Discussion: Liberaland
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Christie on Carson scrutiny: 'I don't have a whole lot of sympathy'
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Chris Christie Vetoes Legislation Making It Easier To Vote In New Jersey  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed legislation Monday that would have added 1.6 million new voters to the state's rolls and made New Jersey the third state in the country to adopt automatic voter registration.
Discussion: The Bob and Chez Show
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Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:
My Ben Carson Days
Discussion: Instapundit
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: Raw Story and The Mahablog
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Charts of the Day: Americans Seem to Be About As Happy As Ever  —  The new Case/Deaton paper about the rise in white deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drug overdoses has inspired a lot of discussion about why Americans are apparently so despondent these days.  Paul Krugman goes so far as to call it “existential despair.”
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
League of Conservation Voters Action Fund to endorse Clinton
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 …
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Erick Erickson / RedState:   Why Republican Candidates Must Always Be Better Than Their Democratic Opponent
Nick Gass / Politico:
White House launches Obama Facebook page
Discussion: ABC News
Hadas Gold / Politico:
For debate, Fox Business aims to be the anti-CNBC  —  Fox Business Network, the host of Tuesday's GOP debate, has its claws out — not for the candidates, as its moderators vow to stick closely to the issues, but for its more famous competitor CNBC.  —  Tuesday's encounter …
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Fox Business Channel Star Maria Bartiromo to GOP Candidates: Grow Up
Discussion: Vox, Political Wire and Politico
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Bachmann: Jesus is ‘coming soon’  —  Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) calls in an interview for converting as many people as possible to Christianity because Jesus is “coming soon.”  —  The 2012 Republican presidential candidate made the comments in a radio interview last week with Tony Perkins …
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: Liberaland
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Texas Trooper
Discussion: Liberaland
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Sets Sights on ‘Moderate’ Marco Rubio  —  With the two Republican presidential hopefuls on the rise, the Texas hardliner is subtly trying to undermine his rival.  —  For Ted Cruz, the single biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination may not be outsider candidates Donald Trump …
Discussion: Politico
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Heritage Action presidential scorecard rates Cruz near-perfect
Discussion: The Week and whorunsGov
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: Mediaite and Jezebel
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Bernie Sanders, Lover of Genocidal Tyrants, Is Anything But Cute  —  In a reality show election starring Hillary Clinton, it takes real effort to be the most appalling, disgusting, and morally bankrupt character in the cast.  Enter stage left Bernie Sanders, the “democratic” socialist.
Discussion: Instapundit
Ward Baker / The Hill:
GOP will hold the Senate in '16  —  In almost every democracy in the world, political parties who lose landslide elections respond by deposing their leaders and conducting autopsies on their strategies.  But Senate Democrats, routed in 2014, have instead doubled down on failure and that's why they will fail …
BBC:
Jordan policeman kills American and South African trainers  —  A Jordanian policeman has opened fire at a police training centre outside Amman, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian, officials say.  —  The Jordanian embassy in Washington said the assailant wounded five others …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller
 
 
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Anne Bayefsky / National Review:
How Much Will Obama Extract from Israel in His Last Year?
Discussion: Mondoweiss
Tova Dvorin / Arutz Sheva:
Scandal: Jews not invited to Swedish Kristallnacht commemoration
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg Business:
Saudi Vice Oil Minister Sees Price Surge After Cutbacks
Discussion: VodkaPundit and Fuel Fix
Richard J. Lazarus / Harvard Law Review:
Back to “Business” at the Supreme Court: The “Administrative Side” of Chief Justice Roberts
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Forget Trump, Let's Talk About the Media
Free Thought Project / Raw Story:
Florida cop shows up too ‘wasted’ to accept award for DUI arrests from Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Milo Yiannopoulos / Breitbart:
Only Conservatives Can Save The American Campus-But Should We?
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Inside the abandoned plans of Ted Cruz's super PACs
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Democratic Group Called iVote Pushes Automatic Voter Registration
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

New York Times:
OAN retracts a story that said Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen had an affair with Stormy Daniels, apologizes as part of a settlement with no monetary damages

 
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