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7:50 AM ET, November 23, 2015

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Erin Edgemon / al.com:
Donald Trump says maybe Birmingham protester ‘should have been roughed up’  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Fox News on Sunday morning that a Black Lives Matter protester thrown out of his Birmingham rally perhaps deserved to be “roughed up” for being “obnoxious.”
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics  —  Donald Trump, the leading candidate in the Republican presidential primary, tweeted a graphic with fake statistics about murders in the United States.  —  The statistics are also racist and wildly inaccurate.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’
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.
Discussion: Pew Research Center and Politico
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
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:   Trump doubles down: Thousands in NJ cheered on 9/11
Andrew O'Hehir / Salon:
The GOP-ISIS nightmare coalition: Islamic extremists and the anti-immigrant right have the same goal — the death of democracy  —  Terrorists and the far right both see democracy as a decadent failure; at least ISIS admits they want to destroy it  —  Amid all the terror and panic …
Discussion: The Mahablog
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
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.
Jeff Jacoby / BostonGlobe.com:
At 60, National Review's battle of ideas is as spirited as ever  —  IF GRATITUDE IS the quintessential conservative virtue, then Thanksgiving must be the quintessential conservative holiday.  And with Thanksgiving 2015 comes an additional reason for gratefulness on the right …
CBS News:
Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH  —  Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place.  Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third.  —  While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready …
VICE:
Coming Soon: Eagles of Death Metal Speak Out for the First Time Since the Paris Attacks  —  While reporting on last week's horrific terror attacks in Paris, we realized with shock that the band playing at the Bataclan, the venue where 89 rock fans had their lives taken, was Eagles of Death Metal.
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.
Discussion: Power Line and Pamela Geller
Janet Daley / Telegraph:
When will our leaders face up to the truth that the EU is a gigantic sham?  —  The ideas behind the European project look even more hollow in the wake of the devastating terrorist attack in Paris  —  What is left of the European idea?  Whatever indeterminate reassurances emerge from however many EU …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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New York Post:
Al Sharpton gives himself 71% raise thanks to de Blasio, Obama
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
The Objectification of Muslims in America
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
DHS chief: No credible threat of terrorist attack in US
Rex Murphy / National Post:
Hillary's hypocrisy  —  It's an odd world.  Glamour magazine …
Discussion: Instapundit
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Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:
Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.