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8:20 PM ET, November 17, 2015

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Mother Jones:
Liberals Should Knock Off the Mockery Over Calls to Limit Syrian Refugees  —  Chris Cillizza on the post-Paris push among Republicans to keep Syrian refugees out of the country: … Cillizza has some poll numbers to back this up, but he's right in more ways than just that.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump: Obama sending refugees to Republican states  —  The Obama administration is deliberately sending Syrian refugees to states led by Republican governors, Donald Trump alleged Tuesday.  —  Trump, who was speaking to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, said of the refugees …
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Splits With Republicans Over Syrian Refugees  —  In an interview for Bloomberg's “With All Due Respect,” the Republican candidate stressed the United States shouldn't allow in refugees “if there's any kind of concern.”  —  michaelcbender  —  Jeb Bush said he wouldn't ban Syrian refugees …
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values  —  As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world.
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Christie on refugees: Not even 5-year-old orphans  —  (CNN)Chris Christie says the U.S. should not accept any new Syrian refugees, not even young orphans.  —  “I do not trust this administration to effectively vet the people who are proposed to be coming in,” the New Jersey governor …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees
Laura Koran / CNN:
How do Syrian refugees get into the U.S.? Explaining the process
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Ian McKellen: Syrian refugees ‘should be looked after’
Discussion: Raw Story and Instapundit
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush open to allowing some vetted Syrian refugees
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say  —  Ben Carson's remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed …
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Pamela Engel / Business Insider:
Ben Carson's campaign slams bombshell New York Times report as ‘affront to good journalistic practices’  —  One of Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson's foreign-policy advisers questioned the candidate's grasp of Middle East events in an interview with The New York Times, prompting a quick rebuke from the campaign.
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Kerry sees ‘rationale’ in Charlie Hebdo murders, unlike Friday's attacks in Paris  —  Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Tuesday that there was a “rationale” for the assault on satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, unlike the more recent attacks in Paris.
Discussion: The Week and The Gateway Pundit
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Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
Kerry in Paris: Charlie Hebdo Attack Had ‘Rationale’ to ‘Aggrieve One Particular Sense of Wrong’
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
John Kerry Justifies Charlie Hebdo Slaughter
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bobby Jindal drops out of White House race  —  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday said he was ending his presidential bid, saying “this is not my time.”  —  Jindal had struggled to gain traction as he centered his campaign on Iowa, a state with a large pool of evangelical voters, to whom the governor aggressively sought to appeal.
Will Dobbs-Allsopp / Morning Consult:
Republican Leaders: Planned Parenthood Could Get Dropped From Reconciliation  —  Two of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) top lieutenants opened the door Monday to dumping language attached to an Obamacare repeal attempt that would defund Planned Parenthood.
Discussion: RedState
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood cleared of wrongdoing in key state
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate GOP presses ahead with Planned Parenthood defunding
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher  —  Donald Trump said Monday he is capable of turning on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in their competition for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination.  —  “If he catches on, I guess we'll have to go to war,” he told host Joe Kernen on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”
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Morning Consult:
New Poll: American Voters' Security Concerns Grow Following Terror Attacks in Paris
Discussion: Political Wire
Bobby Jindal / Facebook:
I cannot tell you what an honor it has been to run for President of the United States of America.  My parents came to this country 45 years ago searching for freedom and a chance.  —  When I was born, we lived in student housing at LSU, and never in their wildest dreams did they think their son …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II … The results of the poll, illustrated above by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion, were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938.  Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed …
Kurt Schlichter / Independent Journal Review:
What Defeating ISIS Would Look Like  —  Kurt Schlichter is a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, California.  A retired U.S. Army infantry colonel, he is the author of Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041.  —  ShareTweetEmail  —  The Journal by IJReview …
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Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
How to Beat ISIS: The President Is Partly Right
Discussion: Washington Post
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Charlie Sheen reveals he's HIV positive in TODAY Show exclusive  —  Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer.  —  “It's a hard three letters to absorb.  It's a turning point in one's life,” the 50-year-old actor said.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Gawker to Retool as Politics Site  —  Gawker.com, a site that pioneered the knowing and snarky tone that has come to define web journalism, will switch from covering New York and the media world, as it has done since its founding in 2003, to focus on politics.
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Says Its Jet Was Bombed Over Egypt and Intensifies Syria Airstrikes  —  MOSCOW — Russia said for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb aboard a Russian charter jet full of vacationers had destroyed the aircraft that crashed more than two weeks ago on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula …
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Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Committee Member: Clinton Made Hearing Long So GOP Would “Look Cruel”  —  “[W]e should have known that she was going to go on and just stall, debate, filibuster, on these answers to make it go as long as possible, so we would look cruel.”  —  Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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EXCLUSIVE The woman saved by ‘hero of La Belle Equipe’ …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE The pot-smoking Paris suicide bomber: Ex-wife reveals ‘blood brother’ …
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Clinton charities refile six years of tax returns to amend errors
Discussion: Infowars, Fox News and Politico
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Cruz's vulnerability
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