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3:10 PM ET, December 9, 2015

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The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu set to meet Trump, as MKs urge candidate be shunned  —  Sources say December 28 powwow was scheduled two weeks ago, before GOP front-runner's call to ban Muslims from entering US; Arab-Israeli MK seeks to bar Trump from Israel  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spokeswoman Defends Muslim Ban: 'So What?  They're Muslim' (VIDEO)  —  While defending Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims visiting the United States during a debate with CNN's S.E. Cupp, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson dismissed Cupp's assertion that a ban on all Muslims goes too far.
Discussion: The Week and rubber hose
Peter J. Spiro / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful.  And Constitutional.  —  Philadelphia — DONALD J. TRUMP'S reprehensible call to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the United States tracks an exam question I've been giving my immigration law students since Sept. 11.  Would such a proposal be constitutional?
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Exclusive: Trump planning Temple Mount visit
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
HuffPost moves Trump to politics section after Muslim comments
Discussion: US News and Daily Wire
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Scalia: Affirmative Action Sends Blacks To Schools Too Advanced For Them  —  In the oral arguments Wednesday for a Supreme Court affirmative action case, Justice Antonin Scalia—a well known critic of affirmative action—suggested that the policy was hurting minority students by sending …
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Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
College quotas are actually destroying lives of minorities
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
University Affirmative Action Questioned at Supreme Court
Discussion: Vox and Politico
Daniel Nasaw / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court University Affirmative Action Hearing — Live Blog
Hayley Munguia / FiveThirtyEight:
Here's What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions
Discussion: Mother Jones and Refinery29
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
San Bernardino Suspects Spoke of Attacks in 2013, F.B.I. Says  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said Wednesday that the couple who waged a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, Calif., last week had been talking of an attack as far back as two years ago …
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NBC News:
San Bernardino Shooters Practiced for Attack a Year in Advance  —  San Bernardino terror couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent at least a year preparing for their terror attack, NBC News has learned, practicing at a local gun range and making financial plans for their family after their deaths.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Proves That Liberals Have Been Right All Along  —  The left nailed the pathology of the conservative movement years ago.  The Donald is just making that impossible to deny.  —  If you've been following Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and his effect on the Republican primary closely …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Republicans fear Trump could jeopardize control of Congress  —  Republicans have spent many years and hundreds of millions of dollars wresting control of the House and Senate from Democrats.  —  Now they say Donald Trump is putting it all in jeopardy.  —  With the Iowa caucuses just 55 days away …
Steven Ginsberg / Washington Post:
“I. Will.  Never.  Leave.  This.  Race.”  —  Donald Trump came down the stairs, stopped in the middle of the clubhouse restaurant, thrust his arms out and proclaimed: “How great is this?”  —  It was his way of saying hello and also a declaration of how America's boss planned to try to own the room …
Austin American-Statesman:
Gun rights groups to stage mock mass shooting at UT  —  Gun rights groups say they will conduct a mock mass shooting this weekend at the University of Texas campus as they try to end gun-free zones.  —  The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event will involve actors “shot” …
Henry Olsen / The Atlantic:
The Polls May Be Underestimating Trump's Support  —  Donald Trump's persistent lead in the GOP presidential-preference polls has been a great source of confusion for the chattering classes.  But Trump is actually just the latest manifestation of a more global trend: Data suggests the appeal …
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post
Wired:
Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius  —  Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.
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CNN:
Poll: Donald Trump nearly doubles lead in New Hampshire  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has a growing lead among likely primary voters in New Hampshire, and both he and Marco Rubio have gained ground in the state since September, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
Clinton intervened for firm after request to son-in-law  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm's investors …
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis  —  Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist.  He's just like Hitler.  Or Jimmy Carter.  —  During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran.  Among these, Iranians were banned …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Know Your Fascist Dictators  —  As long as we're on to the subject of fascist dictators and Donald Trump is now being compared to Adolf Hitler in major urban newspapers, I thought I should speak up on behalf of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as the true proto-Trump.  —  Mussolini wasn't just a fascist dictator.
Discussion: First Draft and Mashable
Wendy Davis / Politico:
Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas  —  I am a lifelong Democrat.  I proudly boast an “F” rating from the NRA.  And, yet during my 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, I supported the open carry of handguns in my state.  —  It is a position that haunts me.
The White House:
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 12/8/15  —  MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody.  Nice to see you all.  Before we get started, I actually wanted to follow up on one piece of business from yesterday.  I was asked at the end of the briefing — Francesca …
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
John Kerry should recognize Christian genocide  —  Secretary of State should call what ISIL is committing by its true name.  —  In October, Islamic State militants in Syria demanded that two Christian women and six men convert to Islam.  When they refused, the women were publicly raped and then beheaded along with the men.
Discussion: Vlad Tepes
 
 
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Wspa-Tv / WNCN:
‘Want to P— Off Obama? Buy a Gun,’ SC shop sign reads
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Washington Post:
The “winners”  —  Famous last names.  Enviable poll numbers.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Bloomberg View
Jeffrey Schogol / Air Force Times:
Air Force Academy football players court controversy by praying in public
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People.com:
Who's a ‘Gifted Rap Artist,’ Who Loves Jalapeños and Who Went to See Adele on Date Night …
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Wayne Covil / WTVR-TV:
Woman jailed after fleas kill her dog left tied-up and crying for help
Discussion: KTLA
Max Paul Friedman / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump's ban on Muslims echoes earliest days of Nazi propaganda: expert
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Cruz Won't Criticize Trump But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees
Los Angeles Times:
American Muslims raise more than $100,000 for families of San Bernardino shooting victims
Eric Stidman / WTHI-TV:
ISP: No arrests made in Hymera town marshal fight; investigation continues
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