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11:50 AM ET, November 25, 2015

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CNN:
Chicago protesters march as police release video of officer shooting teen  —  Chicago (CNN)Protesters took to the streets of Chicago late Tuesday after police released a graphic dash-cam video showing an officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.  —  McDonald was killed in October 2014.
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Jeremy Gorner / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke charged in shooting death of Laquan McDonald
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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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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New York Times:
The Case Against Woodrow Wilson at Princeton
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 …
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
Jared Keever / Opposing Views:
Oregon Police Officer Reassigned After Tweeting About Upcoming Black Lives Matter Event  —  A Portland, Oregon, police officer has been reassigned, pending an internal investigation, after he posted a message to social media complaining about a scheduled Black Lives Matter protest in the city.
Discussion: Liberaland
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Police Arrest Suspects In Shooting Of Black Lives Matter Protesters
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.
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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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.
Facebook chat con Hillary Clinton en:
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Clinton promises never to say ‘illegal immigrants’ again
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
FBI has lead in probe of 1.2 billion stolen Web credentials: documents  —  A hacker who once advertised having access to user account information for websites like Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) has been linked through a Russian email address to the theft of a record 1.2 billion Internet credentials …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dem rep: I will argue with your Republican relatives for you  —  Are you a Democrat eagerly awaiting a sparring match with a Republican relative during the holiday season?  If so, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) wants to help.  —  Grayson, running for Senate in a tough primary with fellow Democratic …
Discussion: Liberaland
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
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.
The White House:
Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Hollande, it has been an honor to welcome you to the White House before, in happier times than this.  But as Americans, we stand by our friends — in good times and in bad — no matter what.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama 2013: Assad must go. Obama today: Hopefully Assad won't run for president again.
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
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Marco Rubio Is Using a Convicted Felon to Help Him Win Florida  —  Clyde Fabretti, a white-collar criminal, holds a key position in Rubio's presidential campaign.  —  Earlier this month, when Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) named his top campaign representatives across Florida …
Discussion: RedState
Western Today:
From President Shepard: Western is Suspending All Classes Tuesday  —  [ Update: The suspension of classes applies to ALL of Western's campuses. ]  —  A message from President Bruce Shepard:  —  Yesterday, we observed social media being used for hate speech targeted at Western students of color.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds ask Supreme Court to hear immigration case this term
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Covering Up a Painful Mural
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Newborn boy left at nativity scene in Queens church, umbilical cord still attached
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Gerry Everding / Newsroom:
Obituary: Douglass C. North, Nobel Prize-winning economist, 95
 

 
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