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1:05 PM ET, December 7, 2015

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The White House:
Address to the Nation by the President  —  **Please see below for a correction, marked with an asterisk.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening.  On Wednesday, 14 Americans were killed as they came together to celebrate the holidays.  They were taken from family and friends who loved them deeply.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Obama Actually Thought He Was Being Reassuring Last Night  —  President Obama's Sunday night speech was about three-quarters of what the cynics and his critics expected.  The lone bits of good news were the president's belated acknowledgement that the Fort Hood shooting was terrorism - not …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
How Obama Thinks About Terrorism  —  At the core of Barack Obama's terrorism speech on Sunday night lay a contradiction.  He gave the address to convince an increasingly fearful nation that he takes the terrorist threat seriously.  But he doesn't, at least not in the way his political opponents do.
Discussion: Washington Post
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton Thumps Trump in Latest Head-to-Head Poll  —  Hillary Clinton leads the Republican presidential field in hypothetical general-election match-ups, with Ben Carson and Marco Rubio running the closest to her, according to a new national MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Ben Carson Responds to Falling Poll Numbers  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson acknowledged his slip in national polls Monday morning, pointing to his lack of foreign policy experience.  —  Carson dropped 8 percentage points since mid-October according to a CNN/ORC poll released last Friday.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The far-right position that could doom Marco Rubio in the general election
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Marco Rubio's ‘water thing’
Brian Ross / ABC News:
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Dad: San Bernardino shooter agreed with ISIL, ‘obsessed with Israel’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sarah Begley / TIME:
TIME Announces Shortlist for 2015 Person of the Year  —  Meet the eight final contenders  —  A shortlist of candidates chosen by TIME magazine's editors for the 2015 Person of the Year was revealed on NBC's TODAY show Monday morning.  The eight contenders are, in alphabetical order:
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Sam Frizell / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Wins Readers' Poll for TIME Person of the Year
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
Shane Ryan / Salon:
Just let the Republicans win: Maybe things need to get really bad before America wakes up
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
How the Democrats Flubbed San Bernardino  —  The response of President Obama and his media allies to the terror attack in California should have liberals worried.  —  Has there ever been a better example of liberal overreach than the coverage that followed the shooting in San Bernardino?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
How I'd Rein In Wall Street  —  SEVEN years ago, the financial crisis sent our economy into a tailspin.  Over five million people lost their homes.  Nearly nine million lost their jobs.  Nearly $13 trillion in household wealth was wiped out.  —  Under President Obama, our economy has come a long way back.
CNN:
Poll: Most Americans Say Send Ground Troops to Fight ISIS  —  Washington (CNN)With President Barack Obama set to address the nation on ISIS and terrorism tonight, a new CNN/ORC Poll finds Americans increasingly displeased with the President's handling of terrorism and more willing to send U.S. ground troops into the fight against ISIS.
Speaker.gov:
Statement on The President's Oval Office Address  —  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement tonight in response to President Obama's Oval Office address on terrorism:
Discussion: Tom Cotton, Washington Post and WBTW-TV
Beth Landman / New York Post:
People are faking disabilities to fly with their pets  —  Travel blogger Alyssa Ramos, 27, is preparing for a holiday trip to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and she has her system down.  In addition to one wheelie, she has a carrying bag for her 7-pound Pomeranian — Oscar de la Ramos …
Samantha Cowan / Yahoo! News:
Coca-Cola Pulls Offensive Ad, but the Damage Is Already Done  —  In an ad distributed by Coca-Cola Mexico, pretty, young white people do their holiday good deed by bringing bottles of soda to a remote village and build a wooden Christmas tree in the town square.
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Intel to Obama: ISIS Is Not Contained  —  A new report stands in stark contrast to earlier White House assurances that ISIS had been “contained.”  And it is already spurring changes in how the U.S. grapples with ISIS.  —  A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White House …
 
 
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President Obama asks: “What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect …
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New York Times:
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
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Politico:
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Associated Press:
Clinton Offers New ‘Exit Tax’ on US-Foreign Company Mergers
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Clinton explains why she won't say ‘radical Islam’