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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump's Polls  —  Lately, pundits and punters seem bullish on Donald Trump, whose chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination recently inched above 20 percent for the first time at the betting market Betfair.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying  —  Donald Trump's interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week (above) is a great distillation of why covering the Republican frontrunner is proving so difficult for mainstream press outlets.  —  On the one hand, he demands coverage.
Shaquille Brewster / NBC News:
Carson Now Says He Didn't See U.S. Muslims Cheer 9/11
Discussion: The Week and Joe.My.God.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Peter Kinder / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” …
Avi Selk / Irving Blog:
Letters demand $15 million, say Irving officials worked to smear Ahmed Mohamed after clock arrest  —  Former Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school.  (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
Discussion: KDFW and National Review
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Ahmed ‘Clock Kid’ Mohamed's Family Demands $15 Million From City of Irving, School District — and That's Not All
The Independent:
This TV presenter's life was saved by a viewer who spotted a cancerous lump in his neck  —  A TV presenter who was diagnosed with cancer after a viewer spotted a lump in his neck has described how his life has changed since his cancer went into remission.  Tarek El Moussa co-hosts HGTV's …
Discussion: WGN-TV and Independent Journal
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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
Discussion: Slantpoint and Fox News
Rosemary Barton / CBC News:
Canada's Syrian refugee plan limited to women, children and families  —  Unaccompanied men not included because of ongoing security concerns  —  Canada's Syrian refugee plan: No single men 1:36  —  The federal government's much-anticipated Syrian refugee plan will limit those accepted …
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German Lopez / Vox:
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
Discussion: Big Think and Bloomberg Business
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access  —  Network TV news representatives will confer Monday to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after Trump officials last week threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media …
Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and TVNewser
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Committee Member: My Wife Gave Me An “F” On My Second Set Of Questions To Clinton  —  Mike Pompeo — and his family — reviewed the game tape.  —  Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images  —  Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Select Committee On Benghazi …
Discussion: Liberaland
Nick Gass / Politico:
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority  —  White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party.  —  According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans say Trump Most Likely to Ruin Thanksgiving Dinner; GOP Opposes Obama on Turkey Pardons  —  Donald Trump leads PPP's newest poll by a wide margin...on which candidate Americans think would be the most likely to say something inappropriate at the table and ruin Thanksgiving Dinner.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders is top contender in Time's Person of the Year poll  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) currently leads online polling for Time magazine's 2015 Person of the Year, with less than two weeks to go before voting ends.  —  The Democratic presidential candidate, a self-described democratic socialist …
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands  —  Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to “cut it out,” Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands …
Ted Johnson / Variety:
NBC Reaches Agreement on Equal Time After Trump's ‘SNL’ Gig  —  NBC has come to an agreement with the campaigns of John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, James Gilmore and Lindsey Graham for equal time following Donald Trump's “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig on Nov. 7, the network said.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Verge
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘N****rs gotta learn how to read’: White Pennsylvania police chief uses racial slur in book drive fundraiser  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A newly sworn in police chief in Farrel, Pennsylvania said that he planned to make a public apology on Monday after he was caught using the N-word during a book drive fundraiser.
Guy Benson / Hot Air:
New RNC ad: Can these Democratic weaklings be trusted to keep America safe?  —  Consider this the RNC's pointed riposte to Democrats' moronic ad painting Republican presidential candidates as a bunch of unhinged bigots for naming “radical Islam” as our enemy — a fringe stance with which only two-thirds of voters agree.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Endangered White Rhino Nola Dies at San Diego Zoo Safari Park  —  Nola, one of only four known northern white rhinoceroses, died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, the park said in a statement.  The park said that Nola, 41, had a bacterial infection, as well as age-related health issues …
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.
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were “Coddled,” Given “Free Stuff” As Refugees  —  Rand Paul said on Friday that the Boston bombers came to America as refugees and were “coddled” and given “free stuff,” before they “decided to attack us.”  —  “The Boston bombers came here and as refugees …
Discussion: Mediaite
Erik Baard / Gothamist:
Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars?  —  Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Princeton's Snowflake Fascists Get a Scalp  —  We have yet to find a term for the student protests going on across the country that beats Mona Charen's “snowflake fascists” and last week the precious little Maoists at Princeton got the biggest scalp since Tim Wolfe: They brought down Woodrow Wilson himself.
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Vindicator:
UPDATE |  YSU students meeting now to repaint iconic rock  —  YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University students are working now to repaint the rock outside of Kilcawley Center with the American flag.  —  YSU senior Jordan Wolfe organized the Facebook page to repaint the rock with an American flag …
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
$4.9-million settlement in death of mentally ill homeless man Kelly Thomas
Discussion: KTLA and Hit & Run
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
How GOP campaigns are strategizing for Super Tuesday delegate bonanza
Lee Stranahan / Breitbart:
CU-Boulder Anti-Racism Rally Canceled Because Organizers Are White
Washington Post:
Mauricio Macri elected president of Argentina
Discussion: Hot Air
Dana Treen / Florida Times Union:
Costumed Dark Lord overcome by the ‘force’ of a jar of salad dressing in Jacksonville Beach
Discussion: WJXX-TV, Slantpoint and NOLA River
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it
Yossi Melman / Jerusalem Post:
Report: Russian ground troops arrive in Syria in unprecedented military action
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Oliver Milman / Raw Story:
Ronald Reagan's EPA chief mocks Republicans for ignoring climate science for political gain
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates
Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion
Discussion: Raw Story
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa
Discussion: National Review and BillMoyers.com
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist  —  On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio …
 

 
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