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12:55 PM ET, November 12, 2015

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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP on Economics  —  The good, the bad, and the ugly at the fourth presidential debate.  —  Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate wasn't the most entertaining, but it was by far the most educational.  The two-hour session gave the candidates a chance to critique the Obama record …
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
Why GOP elites are totally ignoring a political reality that could destroy their party  —  For months now, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has actually been split into two races.  —  In the one that gets talked about the most by the professional political press …
Ken Shepherd / NewsBusters:
Chris Matthews Not Sure If Cruz, Rubio Really Hispanic; They're ‘Cuban Nationals’ Though  —  Share it Tweet it  —  According to Chris Matthews, it's uncertain whether the term Hispanic can properly be used to describe GOP presidential aspirants Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida).
NBC News:
Rubio Looks Like the GOP Frontrunner, But There's a Catch  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  The Rubio Paradox  —  After his strong debate performances …
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Just 8 percent of GOP likes GOP-controlled Congress.  That's bad for Paul Ryan and great for Trump and Carson.
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
Bill Scher / Politico:
Jeb Bush Is 2016's John Kerry
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
A Troubled G.O.P. Debate for Donald Trump and Jeb Bush
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Populism on the Rise in GOP Race for President  —  Candidates bash big banks, the Fed, corporations and international trade deals in their latest debate  —  The latest presidential debate vividly captured how the 2008 financial crisis has reshaped the Republican Party by unleashing …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Power Line
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How Cruz Wins Debates: An Inside Look
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Fight Now a Battle Over What Defines a Conservative
Discussion: Towleroad and Washington Post
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: GOP Enters Debate-Free Month
New York Times:
Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Maintaining Lead Over Bernie Sanders  —  Despite a month of sharpened attacks, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has failed to significantly dent Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Thursday.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Charles Koch: We are doling out welfare for the wealthy  —  Billionaire Charles Koch said Wednesday that the federal government is widening the gap between America's rich and poor.  —  “For most of this nation's history, our country has been characterized by opportunity …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:   How the Kochs launched Joni Ernst
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump talks Clinton's ‘massive’ new hairdo  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday he was shocked to see Hillary Clinton's latest hairdo, calling it “massive” in an interview on conservative talk radio.  —  Asked by host Mark Levin what Clinton's appeal to voters is, Trump simply said …
Discussion: Liberaland, Jezebel, The Frisky and The Week
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Cpotter / MARK-CM:
Trump: It Was Shocking To See Hillary's Hair
New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's bought-and-paid-for betrayal of charter schools
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Chris Christie: College unrest a product of ‘lawlessness’ that Obama allows  —  MUSCATAINE, Iowa — In his first campaign stops after a well-received performance in Fox Business's “undercard” GOP presidential primary debate, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) mixed raw talk about addiction …
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j.school:
Crying Wolfe Exposes Real Problem
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and Moe Lane
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Promised Bipartisanship, Obama Adviser Found Disappointment  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama first won the White House, he recruited Ray LaHood, a Republican congressman, to join his cabinet.  The appointment, Mr. Obama declared, “reflects that bipartisan spirit” that would distinguish his presidency.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ray LaHood: Obama Was Unable To Execute Bipartisan Approach
Discussion: The Week
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Mizzou, Yale and Free Speech  —  On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force.  —  One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways that damage everyone's education.
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Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Race and the Free-Speech Diversion
Discussion: Washington Post and Here & Now
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
FBI expands probe of Clinton emails, launches independent classification review  —  The FBI has expanded its probe of Hillary Clinton's emails, with agents exploring whether multiple statements violate a federal false statements statute, according to intelligence sources familiar with the ongoing case.
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Missouri student files complaint against professor who called for ‘muscle’  —  The University of Missouri student who filmed assistant professor Melissa Click call for “muscle” to eject him from a protest site on campus says he has filed a complaint with police alleging simple assault.
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Peter Hasson / Campus Reform:
Mizzou prof. resigns following outrage over his refusal to cancel exam
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's claim that she tried to join the Marines  —  “He looks at me and goes, 'Um, how old are you.  And I said, ‘Well I am 26, I will be 27.’ And he goes, ‘Well, that is kind of old for us.’ And then he says to me, and this is what gets me, ‘Maybe the dogs will take you,’ meaning the Army.”
CBS News:
Utah judge removes child from lesbian foster parents  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah state child welfare officials on Wednesday were reviewing a ruling by a juvenile court judge who ordered a baby to be taken from lesbian foster parents and instead placed with a heterosexual couple for the child's well-being.
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Cristina Flores / KUTV-TV:
Foster parents say child removed from their home because they are gay
Keith BieryGolick / Cincinnati.com:
Boehner resignation leads to election oddity  —  Scroll to the bottom of this story for a complete breakdown of important upcoming election dates.  —  It's unlikely to happen, but voters could elect two different congressmen to fill John Boehner's vacated seat in the March primary.
Reihan Salam / Slate:
The United States Doesn't Spend Enough on Its Military  —  Our future, and the future of our allies, depends on it.  —  At Tuesday's GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee, Rand Paul railed against Marco Rubio for calling for increases to the military budget: “How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures?
Agence France-Presse:
EU flag burned as tens of thousands join Warsaw nationalist demo  —  Organisers said that up to 50,000 were on the march which marked the anniversary of Poland's independence after the First World War  —  Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on Wednesday …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Chateau Heartiste
 
 
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
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Mark Konkol / DNAinfo Chicago:
Tyshawn's Dad Told Police Looking For Boy's Killer To ‘F— Off’: Sources
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WGN-TV
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Mizzou Demonstrators Segregate White Allies to Form ‘Black Only Healing Space’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Mireya Navarro / New York Times:
Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban
Washington Post:
Mr. Trump praises a grotesquely inhumane immigration plan from the 1950s
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
EPA seeks to block chief's deposition in coal lawsuit
Rafael Romo / CNN:
Human trafficking survivor: I was raped 43,200 times
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Rand Paul is right: The most economically unequal states are Democratic