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11:50 AM ET, November 23, 2015

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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.
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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 …
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.”
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Trump on Terrorism
New Jersey Online:
Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that'
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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed  —  THE BIG IDEA:  — Democrats felt very good about winning the Louisiana governor's race until the Paris attacks happened on Friday the 13th.  —  Republican Sen. David Vitter, trailing by double digits in the polls …
Kevin Litten / NOLA River:
John Bel Edwards calls Medicaid expansion ‘among the highest priorities’  —  Governor-elect John Bel Edwards called expanding Medicaid “among the highest priorities” of his new administration, though he said Sunday (Nov. 22) he may not be able to approve an expanded program on Day One.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
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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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   GOP Front-Runner Donald Trump Was Once A Pro-Obama Blogger
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 …
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.
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, author of book about the Constitution, incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson crafted it  —  It's a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the United States Constitution in 1787.  But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric …
Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion  —  'I'm terrified to cross the street now,' woman says  —  A Muslim woman is speaking out after she says she was called a terrorist and almost run over by an angry man in Clifton Monday night.
Discussion: Raw Story and LiberalAmerica.org
Chad Kiewiet De Jonge / ABC News:
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Steals From His Attacks on Jeb Bush to Hit Hillary Clinton's ‘Stamina’
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
In U.S., 51% Say Government Should Ensure Healthcare Coverage  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. adults are slightly more likely to say it is the responsibility of the federal government to ensure all Americans have health insurance coverage (51%) than to say it is not the government's responsibility (47%).
Discussion: Politico, Fusion and Wonk Wire
 
 
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The GOP-ISIS nightmare coalition: Islamic extremists and the anti-immigrant right have the same goal …
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