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9:45 AM ET, November 23, 2015

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Christie on Trump's claims about New Jersey after 9/11: 'I don't recall'  —  Chris Christie does not remember the 9/11 attacks the way Donald Trump remembers them.  —  At a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday, the Manhattan business mogul recounted how he saw “thousands of thousands of people …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Washington Post's Fact Checker Doesn't Read the Washington Post  —  I wrote earlier today about the liberal media attacking Donald Trump's statement that on 9/11, “thousands and thousands” of American Muslims in Jersey City celebrated the successful terrorist attacks.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You raised some eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at your latest rally.  I want to show them, relating to 9/11. … TRUMP: “It did happen.  I saw it.”
Discussion: Power Line and JustOneMinute
New Jersey Online:
Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that'  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com By Matt Arco |  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday said Donald Trump's claim that “thousands and thousands of people” cheered in Jersey City as the Twin Towers fell …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government  —  Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas  —  Overview  —  A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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CBS News:
Do Americans think President Obama has a clear plan for ISIS?  —  Just over a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, only 23 percent of Americans think President Barack Obama has a clear plan for dealing with the militant group ISIS, the lowest number yet recorded in the CBS News Poll.
Chad Kiewiet De Jonge / ABC News:
No Clear Advantage in Trust on Terrorism (POLL)
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news
CBS News:
Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
We Found Where Donald Trump's “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From  —  So today, this happened.  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (yes, him again) re-tweeted the following blatantly racist graphic: … Not only is this racist, it's completely false.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Reform Lives!  —  To the right's dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage.  Still, Obamacare's opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral” of low enrollment and rising costs.
Discussion: Washington Post
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New York Post:
ObamaCare's imploding even without repeal  —  It's looking like ObamaCare won't survive even if Congress can't manage to repeal it.  —  The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, said last week that it's losing too much — $425 million — from policies sold on the health exchanges, and may have to pull out by 2017.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa  —  On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks.  When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile.  They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Anti-Muslim Is Anti-American  —  There seems to be no bottom to the cesspool of Islamophobic rhetoric coming from Republican candidates.  —  The tone of anti-Muslim musings post-Paris attack has become so poisonous that it cannot portend anything positive.
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:   The Objectification of Muslims in America
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist  —  On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, mounted a small stage at the Elks Lodge in Boulder City, Nevada, a popular retirement spot near Las Vegas.  In his twenties, as an obscure Republican state legislator, Rubio exhibited such innate political skill …
Discussion: Political Wire
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’  —  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says GOP primary front-runner Donald Trump is doing a “great service” by taking on the media and political correctness in his presidential campaign.  —  “Donald Trump is, I think, doing a great service,” Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt
 
 
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
In U.S., 51% Say Government Should Ensure Healthcare Coverage
Discussion: Politico and Wonk Wire
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Obama to Hollande: Stay the course against Russia
Janet Daley / Telegraph:
When will our leaders face up to the truth that the EU is a gigantic sham?
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Shocker: Avis Car Rental Bars Israeli Executive from Renting
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Andrew O'Hehir / Salon:
The GOP-ISIS nightmare coalition: Islamic extremists and the anti-immigrant right have the same goal …
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Rex Murphy / National Post:
Hillary's hypocrisy  —  It's an odd world.  Glamour magazine …
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