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10:40 AM ET, November 25, 2015

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Chris Perez / New York Post:
Austrian jihadi bride beaten to death after trying to escape ISIS: friend  —  One of the two teens who fled Austria last year to become a “poster girl” for ISIS has been beaten to death after trying to escape the group's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, reports say.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Scared Monkeys
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The Local:
Missing Vienna girl ‘beaten to death’ by Isis
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Hundreds protest as Chicago releases video of cop shooting teen 16 times  —  In Chicago, a white police officer who fatally shot a black teenager has been charged with his murder.  The charges come just a day ahead of the city's release of the squad-car video of the killing.  Wochit
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Jeremy Gorner / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke charged in shooting death of Laquan McDonald
New York Times:
Chicago Protests Mostly Peaceful After Video of Police Shooting Is Released
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
A Definitive Debunking of Donald Trump's 9/11 Claims  —  How alarmed were New Jersey officials by reports of Muslims dancing in the streets of Jersey City and Paterson on Sept. 11, 2001, to celebrate the destruction of the World Trade Center?  —  They feared riots would break out and were ready …
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
US Planes Left ISIS Fuel Tankers Unharmed Because ‘They Ran Out of Ammunition’ … (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. military conducted a second wave of attacks on (parked) ISIS oil tankers in Syria on Sunday, Nov. 22, but the attack fell short of its goal:  —  “The goal was to destroy every truck there.
Discussion: Erick on the Radio
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama 2013: Assad must go. Obama today: Hopefully Assad won't run for president again.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Thanksgivingmanship: Your Guide to Surviving The Progressive Imbeciles Who Have Spent a Week Cramming on How to Survive You  —  Oxford Don Stephen Potter introduced the world to the principles of Gamesmanship, the way to win at games by resort to cheap ploys which were very close to cheating without being technically cheating.
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Rubio budget win is dealing heavy blow to ObamaCare  —  Sen. Marco Rubio may have dealt the biggest blow in the GOP's five-year war against ObamaCare.  —  A 2014 budget measure inspired by the Florida senator and presidential hopeful is pushing some insurers to drop out of the ObamaCare exchanges, experts say.
Gordon J. Davis / New York Times:
What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather  —  OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that the university confront the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as its president before becoming New Jersey's governor and the 28th president of the United States.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Clinton promises never to say ‘illegal immigrants’ again
Michael Allen / Opposing Views:
Christians Outraged By Google Evolution Doodle Celebrating Scientific Discovery  —  On Nov. 24, Google celebrated the 41st anniversary of the archeological discovery of “Lucy,” a fossil from 3.2 million years ago.  The web giant posted an evolutionary doodle of the March of Progress …
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
German Professor: NASA Has Fiddled Climate Data On ‘Unbelievable’ Scale  —  A German professor has confirmed what skeptics from Britain to the US have long suspected: that NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies has largely invented “global warming” by tampering with the raw temperature data records.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
Newborn boy left at nativity scene in Queens church, umbilical cord still attached  —  RICHMOND HILL, Queens — A newborn boy was left in the manger of an indoor nativity scene at the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens Monday afternoon, police say.  —  The baby boy was found around 1:30 p.m. inside the Richmond Hill church.
Discussion: KTLA, FOX31 Denver and WGN-TV
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Covering Up a Painful Mural  —  Responding to concerns of black students, U of Kentucky will shroud a fresco on the state's history.  —  By  —  In 1934, Ann Rice O'Hanlon painted a fresco — then the largest one ever painted by a woman — in the University of Kentucky's Memorial Hall.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Brown University's $100 Million Inclusivity Plan  —  Every university responds to student protests in its own way.  —  Earlier this month, scores of Brown undergraduates formed a circle on a quad and listened as black classmates expressed pain, anger, and frustration with campus life …
Discussion: Instapundit
Jonathan Haidt / HeterodoxAcademy.org:
The Yale Problem Begins in High School  —  A month before the Yale Halloween meltdown, I had a bizarre and illuminating experience at an elite private high school on the West Coast.  I'll call it Centerville High.  I gave a version of a talk that you can see here, on Coddle U. vs. Strengthen U.
Christopher J. Scalia / Weekly Standard:
Antonin Scalia, Bogeyman of the Liberal Imagination  —  Are you watching Scream Queens?  Me neither.  But I did catch a scene of the FOX slasher-comedy and was surprised to see that my father, Justice Antonin Scalia, made a cameo appearance.  Sort of.  —  The show, set on a college campus …
Discussion: Liberaland
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A brief theory of Trump's outrageousness  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Donald Trump says a lot of things a lot of people consider outrageous.  What is he doing?  —  The first thing to remember is that many of Trump's supporters, and a large part of the American public in general …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Police Arrest Suspects In Shooting Of Black Lives Matter Protesters  —  Authorities said they arrested two suspects Tuesday in connection with a shooting that left five Black Lives Matter protesters injured Monday night in Minneapolis.  —  The Minneapolis Police Department took …
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Star Tribune:
Police arrest suspect in shooting at 4th Precinct Black Lives Matter protest
Donald Tusk / Fox News:
Turkish F-16s shoot down Russian fighter jet near Syria border  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Turkey's decision to shoot down a Russian warplane near Turkey's border with Syria is a “stab in the back” and it would have “significant consequences” for its relations with Turkey …
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Associated Press:
Turkey shoots down Russian jet it says violated its airspace
 
 
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Marco Rubio Is Using a Convicted Felon to Help Him Win Florida
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
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New York Times:
Iranian Hackers Attack State Dept. via Social Media Accounts
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds ask Supreme Court to hear immigration case this term
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Infowars
Josh Haskell / ABC News:
Mike Huckabee to Have Knee Surgery Over Thanksgiving Holiday
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Obama: Paris Climate Summit Will Be ‘Powerful Rebuke’ To Terrorists