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11:25 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 …
Discussion: whorunsGov and The Week
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:
Discussion: PunditFact, Raw Story and CANNONFIRE
New Jersey Online:
Christie on Trump saying ‘thousands’ in N.J. cheered on 9/11: 'I don't recall that'
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Chad Kiewiet De Jonge / ABC News:
Clinton Leads Trump in Trust to Handle Terrorism
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news
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
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 …
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.
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: Liberaland and Hullabaloo
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt
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 …
Discussion: JustOneMinute, OnPolitics and Mediaite
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
Shocker: Avis Car Rental Bars Israeli Executive from Renting  —  Upper West Side clerk and manager defy company policy, decline Israel passport and license  —  UPDATE (6:33 pm): This story has been updated to add comment from Avis.  —  On Saturday evening, Dov Bergwerk arrived at the Avis branch on West 76th Street and Broadway.
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
Post correspondent Jason Rezaian sentenced to prison term in Iran  —  Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter who has been held by the government of Iran for the past 16 months and was convicted on unspecified charges last month, has been sentenced to a prison term, the state news agency announced Sunday.
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist  —  On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio …
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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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