memeorandum: Congress to Consider Easing Passage into U.S. for Immigrants (Adam Kredo/Washington Free Beacon)

11:25 AM ET, December 10, 2015

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Poll: Donald Trump back on top, with Ted Cruz climbing into second — The Republican Race — Thirty-five percent of Republican primary voters support Trump, up 13 points since October, and his highest level of support in CBS News polling. Ted Cruz (16 percent) has moved into second place …

Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Wire, The Last Tradition and OnPolitics

Megan Thee-Brenan / New York Times:

Donald Trump Solidifies His Lead, but Leaves Many Nervous — Donald J. Trump occupies his strongest position yet in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, yet nearly two-thirds of American voters say they are concerned or frightened about the prospect of a Trump presidency …

Discussion: RedState, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, OnPolitics, Fox News, The Week and Business Insider

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

White supremacist groups see Trump bump — The Ku Klux Klan is using Donald Trump as a talking point in its outreach efforts. Stormfront, the most prominent American white supremacist website, is upgrading its servers in part to cope with a Trump traffic spike.

Discussion: The Last Tradition, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Week and Balloon Juice

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / TIME:

What Donald Trump and ISIS Have in Common — TIME columnist Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is also a celebrated author, filmmaker and education ambassador whose life and career are the subject of Minority of One, a new documentary on HBO Sports.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, CBS Los Angeles, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, Infowars, Breitbart and Washington Post

Sarah Palin / Facebook:

Hey, Media, Try Again To Take Down Trump (and Cruz for Understanding the Trump Context) — Herd mentality running rampant with hypocritical and/or naive pundits trying to crush Donald Trump because he's committed to clobbering the bad guys, and putting the good guys first.

Discussion: The Hill, The Last Tradition, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, Independent Journal and The Right Scoop

Andrew Dugan / Gallup:

Donald Trump Well-Known, but Not Well-Liked — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2016 presidential candidates who are the most familiar to U.S. adults — Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush — also rank among the least-liked, in terms of their unfavorable rating exceeding their favorable rating.

Discussion: The Week and Politico

Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Trump: 'I'm doing good for the Muslims'

Discussion: New York Times, Hot Air, The Workplace Report, Washington Post, addictinginfo.org, TheBlaze.com, The Times of Israel, reverbpress.com, National Review, all, The Atlantic and The Week

New York Times:
The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads

Discussion: The Mahablog and NPR

W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
The coming Republican immigration civil war

Discussion: Instapundit

Daily Mail:
'Trump's not wrong - we can't wear uniform in our OWN cars': Five police officers claim Donald Trump …

Discussion: Breitbart, Walid Shoebat, Pamela Geller, Hot Air, BizPac Review, BBC, Vlad Tepes, The Last Tradition, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Moonbattery

Samantha Grossman / TIME:
Watch Donald Trump Dodge a Bald Eagle

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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Likely GOP Primary Voters Back Trump's Muslim Ban

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump won't rule out third-party bid

Discussion: CNN and RedState

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bush suggests Trump dealing to help Clinton win

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Political Wire, CNN and Daily Kos

Alex Isenstadt / Politico: Jeb taps Bush alumni for early-state push

Los Angeles Times:

Opinion No, Scalia's comment about ‘less-advanced’ schools wasn't racist — Justice Antonin Scalia wasn't saying all blacks should attend inferior colleges. — Wednesday's oral argument in the Supreme Court over affirmative action at the University of Texas had barely concluded …

Discussion: Poynter.

Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Media Jumps The Gun, Attacks Scalia For Perfectly Reasonable Question

Discussion: The Hill

Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument analysis: Now, three options on college affirmative action

Discussion: Althouse, Instapundit, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, NPR, theGrio and Vox

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justices' Comments Don't Bode Well for Affirmative Action

Discussion: RedState, Guardian, The Week, The Huffington Post, Power Line, The Hill, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Forbes, The Daily Signal, BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Outside the Beltway and FiveThirtyEight

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Scalia: Affirmative Action Sends Blacks To Schools Too Advanced For Them

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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at “Slower” Colleges

Discussion: Towleroad, Refinery29 and Politico

Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:

Congress to Consider Easing Passage into U.S. for Immigrants — Congress is set to vote on Thursday on what some have called an “unprecedented” right that would allow immigrants easier access to relocate to the United States, according to new legislation offered by a Democratic senator.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Rush Limbaugh, Erick on the Radio and Weasel Zippers

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump and Muslims, by the numbers

Discussion: Breitbart, Infowars, alicublog, Wall Street Journal, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon

M. Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Muhammad Ali Hits at Trump and ‘Misguided Murderers’ Sabotaging Islam

Discussion: Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Guardian, addictinginfo.org, ThinkProgress and The Week

Beau Yarbrough / sbsun.com:

Source: San Bernardino mass shooter Syed Farook had photos of a Rialto high school on cellphone — San Bernardino mass shooter Syed Farook had multiple photos of a Rialto high school on his cellphone, according to sources close to the investigation. — As a health inspector …

Discussion: Fox News, New York Post, Independent Journal, Truth Revolt, The Daily Caller, CNN, Daily Mail, Breitbart, National Review and Los Angeles Times

Sarah Koenig / Serial:

Welcome — Hello, everyone. We're back. Yes, at last! We've launched Season Two. — Our first season was about a murder case few people had heard about. Season Two is a story a gazillion people have heard about: the story of Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who walked off his post …

Discussion: New York Times, Mashable, The Week, Atlanta Buzz … and CBS Philly, more at Mediagazer »

KYTV-TV:

Large quantity of cellphones bought raises red flags — In the early morning hours on Saturday—around 3:50—two men buying a large number of cellphones at the Walmart in Lebanon set off some concern. — Local authorities were alerted. — “Somebody went in and bought 60 cellphones …

Discussion: FOX2now.com, fox4kc.com, New York's PIX11, WCMH-TV, Vlad Tepes and The Gateway Pundit

Thomas Joscelyn / The Long War Journal:

Ex-Guantanamo detainee now an al Qaeda leader in Yemen — Ibrahim al Qosi, an ex-Guantanamo detainee, now serves as a leader and spokesman for al Qaeda in Yemen. — Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released a new video featuring a former Guantanamo detainee, Ibrahim Qosi, who is also known as Sheikh Khubayb al Sudani.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, The Last Tradition, Truth Revolt, Scared Monkeys, RedState, Jammie Wearing Fools, The Right Scoop, Weasel Zippers, Erick on the Radio and Moe Lane

Nick Gass / Politico:

Trump postpones Israel trip — Donald Trump will postpone his trip to Israel and reschedule his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Republican presidential candidate tweeted Thursday. — “I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @netanyahu …

Discussion: The Hill, ABC News, The Times of Israel, Guardian and Bloomberg Business

Alexander Burns / New York Times:

Jimmy McMillan, Rent Is Too Damn High Candidate, Is Retiring From Politics — Jimmy McMillan, the whiskered political showman who became a viral Internet star when he ran for governor of New York in 2010 as a candidate of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, has announced his retirement from the political arena …

Discussion: Politico and abc13.com

New York Times:

As It Fights ISIS, Pentagon Seeks String of Bases Overseas — WASHINGTON — As American intelligence agencies grapple with the expansion of the Islamic State beyond its headquarters in Syria, the Pentagon has proposed a new plan to the White House to build up a string of military bases in Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East.

Discussion: Washington Post, Defense One and The Week