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8:15 AM ET, November 19, 2015

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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Poll: Most Americans Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement  —  Americans agree with Republican presidential candidates on refugees, but are divided on whether to send U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State, according to the poll.  —  margarettalev
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Wins on Personality, Trump on Action in Bloomberg Poll  —  Republicans and Republican-leaning voters are not so enthusiastic about mass deportations, the survey shows.  —  McCormickJohn  —  Republicans overwhelmingly pick Ben Carson over Donald Trump for having the better temperament …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Cruz to Obama: Insult me to my face  —  GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) challenged President Obama on Wednesday for attacking Republicans who oppose plans to admit thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S.  —  “It is utterly unbefitting of the president to be engaging …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
An angry Obama upbraids critics who want to block refugees from Syria
Discussion: KXAN-TV
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
George Takei has the perfect response to a mayor who praised Japanese internment  —  On Wednesday, the mayor of Roanoke, VA, wrote a controversial letter explaining why his administration won't be welcoming Syrian refugees.  The letter from Mayor David Bowers invoked America's history …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Yahoo Politics
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George Takei / Facebook:
Earlier today, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, Mr. David A. Bowers, in the attached letter, joined several state governors in ordering that Syrian refugees not receive any government assistance, or be relocated to their jurisdiction.  Apart from the lack of legal authority to do so …
Natalie DiBlasio / Associated Press:
Va. mayor suggests internment camps over Syrian refugees  —  A Roanoke mayor is getting national attention after citing the use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II to justify suspending the relocation of Syrian refugees to his city in Virginia.
Discussion: WPRI-TV and Newsalert
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
ISIS New York video: Terror group releases warning of Times Square attack  —  NEW YORK - Terror group ISIS released a propaganda video Wednesday that makes threats against New York.  —  The video shows several scenes in Manhattan including Times Square, a Gap in Herald Square, T.G.I. Friday's and yellow taxi cabs on city streets.
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CNN:
ISIS video threatens New York City; mayor says city won't be intimidated
Discussion: Truth Revolt, FOX 61 and Boing Boing
Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Honduras detains five Syrians said headed to U.S. with stolen Greek passports  —  Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week's attacks in Paris, police said.
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Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Honduras detains Syrians bound for U.S. with doctored Greek passports
Discussion: New York Post and BizPac Review
People.com:
Carly Simon Says 'You're So Vain' Is About Warren Beatty - Well, Only the Second Verse: ‘He Thinks the Whole Thing Is About Him!’  —  For 44 years, the subject of “You're So Vain” has remained one of pop music's most enduring mysteries.  —  But at long last, Carly Simon has solved the mystery - well, sort of.
Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE — REPORT: 8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo  —  Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector.
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Ben Carson's campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place … Happy Geography Awareness Week!  Recognizing that “too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens,” …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump rules GOP race in New Hampshire, Sanders by 1 over Clinton  —  Donald Trump leads the race for the Republican nomination in New Hampshire, while Bernie Sanders edges Hillary Clinton among Democrats.  —  That's according to the latest Fox News poll, released Wednesday …
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Associated Press:
Syrian family diverted after Indiana changes refugee policy  —  Two Syrian refugee families who had been approved to be moved to the United States and were scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis on Thursday have been officially told they are not welcome in the Hoosier State.
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
11th-Hour Detour Puts Family in Connecticut as Indiana Bars Syrian Refugees
Judicial Watch:
Clinton Goes after Laugh Factory Comedians for Making Fun of Her  —  In what appears to be a first for a serious presidential contender, Hillary Clinton's campaign is going after five comedians who made fun of the former Secretary of State in standup skits at a popular Hollywood comedy club.
Sky News:
Jewish Teacher Stabbed By ‘IS Supporters’  —  Police on the streets of Marseille this week  —  A Jewish teacher has been stabbed in Marseille by three people claiming to be Islamic State supporters, say prosecutors.  —  Three people on two scooters approached the teacher in the street …
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Jerusalem Post:
Jewish teacher stabbed in Marseilles by purported ISIS supporters
David Axe / The Daily Beast:
Russia Pounds ISIS With Biggest Bomber Raid in Decades  —  Putin's air force just used its nuclear bombers to lay waste to the capital of the ‘Islamic State.’  —  The Russian air force just pulled off one of the biggest and most complex heavy bomber missions in modern history …
Ben Carson / Washington Post:
My plan to defeat the Islamic State  —  Make no mistake about it: We are at war, and we can't win it with a strategy of containment.  — By Ben Carson-  —  Columns  —  Columns … The Post's View  —  The Post's View … PostEverything  —  PostEverything  —  Paris is a city.
Marissa Payne / Washington Post:
Turkish soccer fans disrupt moment of silence for Paris attack victims  —  Turkish soccer fans disrupted a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Paris attacks before their team drew, 0-0, against Greece in a friendly on Wednesday. … This is at least the second time this year …
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Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
Turkey fans BOO during pre-match minute's silence for the victims of Paris attacks and chant …
Barney Frank / Politico:
The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of 'Government Doesn't Work'  —  It's easy to see American politics as a situation in which voters are all innocent victims of mistreatment at the hands of elected officials — easy, but wrong.  Sure, politicians often fall short, and I'm convinced that the negative bias …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Our Bitter and Graceless President  —  We all know people of towering arrogance and we all know people of staggering incompetence, but Barack Obama is quite possibly the perfect package.  No one on the scene today combines these two qualities in quite the same way as Mr. Obama.
 
 
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump has big plans for ‘radical Islamic’ terrorists, 2016 and ‘that communist’ Bernie Sanders
Reuters:
Sarajevo gunman commits suicide after killing two soldiers
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Right Scoop
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Martin O'Malley Likely To Accept Public Funding, Campaign Says
Katie Yoder / NewsBusters:
Whoopi Goldberg on Christian Syrian Refugees: ‘Hitler Was a Christian’
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Ted / Walid Shoebat:
Don't Pray For France, France Is A Godless Nation That Deserved To Be Attacked. …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bobby Jindal's presidential campaign was unrecognizable from the Bobby Jindal I knew
Discussion: NOLA River, Guardian and Booman Tribune
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Our two Americas, in 1 map  —  Want to understand the bifurcated nature of our politics?
Discussion: Erick on the Radio and Newsalert
Washington Post:
2 terror suspects dead after French police raid north of Paris