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10:40 AM ET, December 11, 2015

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
GOP preparing for contested convention  —  Republican officials and leading figures in the party's establishment are now preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as Donald Trump continues sit atop the polls and the presidential race.  —  More than 20 of them convened Monday …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll Shows Voters Split on Trump's Muslim Ban  —  Nearly six-in-10 Americans oppose Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States, but Republicans are evenly divided, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
New York Times:
Fear of Terrorism Lifts Donald Trump in New York Times/CBS Poll  —  Americans are more fearful about the likelihood of another terrorist attack than at any other time since the weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, a gnawing sense of dread that has helped lift Donald J. Trump to a new high among …
New York Times:
Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump's ‘Judgment’ to Be President  —  Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who has carefully avoided public criticism of Donald J. Trump, said this week at a private fund-raiser that the real estate developer was facing a “challenging question” about whether he has the “judgment” to be president.
Fred Bever / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Trump's Call To Ban Muslims Not Hurting His Prospects In N.H.  —  Donald Trump's divisive plan for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. sure isn't hurting his prospects in New Hampshire.  —  A new WBUR poll (topline, crosstabs) shows him with his strongest lead yet among likely …
CBS News:
Poll: Solid opposition to ban on Muslims entering U.S.  —  Nearly six-in-10 Americans say the United States should not temporarily bar Muslims from other countries from entering the U.S., and two-thirds say such a ban would go against the founding principles of this country, a CBS News poll shows.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Attacks on Trump just make these voters like him more
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
McConnell warns that trade deal can't pass Congress before 2016 elections
Discussion: New York Times
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Fox News Insider:
Whistleblower Says He Could Have Prevented CA Attack If Gov't Didn't Cut DHS Funding  —  A former Homeland Security employee says he likely could have helped prevent the San Bernardino terror attack if the government had not pulled the plug on a surveillance program he was developing three years ago.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
A former Department of Homeland Security agent says that an investigation …
Discussion: The Federalist
Lauren French / Politico:
Democrats demand end to ban on gun violence research  —  House Democrats are adding a controversial new demand to the government funding talks: ending a 19-year old ban on gun violence research by the federal government.  —  Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday …
Discussion: The Trace, WSLS-TV and Moe Lane
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Chris Enloe / TheBlaze.com:
Actor Kurt Russell Fiercely Pushes Back Against Anti-Gun Hollywood Interviewer: 'What Are You …
KFOR-TV:
Jury: Former Oklahoma City police officer found guilty on 18 counts  —  OKLAHOMA CITY - After listening to several weeks of testimony and four days of deliberating, a jury has found a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of sex crimes guilty on 18 counts.
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Molly Redden / Guardian:
Daniel Holtzclaw: former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of rape
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Empowering the Ugliness  —  We live in an era of political news that is, all too often, shocking but not surprising.  The rise of Donald Trump definitely falls into that category.  And so does the electoral earthquake that struck France in Sunday's regional elections, with the right-wing …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: I will mandate death penalty for killing police officers  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to issue an executive order to mandate the death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer.  —  “One of the first things I'd do in terms of executive order …
Camille Paglia / Hollywood Reporter:
Camille Paglia Takes on Taylor Swift, Hollywood's #GirlSquad Culture  —  Can group selfies advance women's goals?  In an essay for The Hollywood Reporter, the famed feminist urges social media packs to skip the “tittering, tongues-out mugging of Taylor Swift” — whose “twinkly persona …
Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Colorado ACLU Board Member: Shoot Trump Voters ‘Before Election Day’  —  Loring Wirbel, board member of the American Civil Liberties Union's Colorado chapter and co-chair of the ACLU's Colorado Springs chapter, called for supporters of GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be shot before they vote for the billionaire businessman.
New York Times:
The Court Takes Up One Person, One Vote  —  On its face, the constitutional doctrine of “one person one vote” seems about as clear as they come: no one's vote should count more than anyone else's.  —  In practice this means all state legislative districts must contain roughly equal numbers of people.
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
Is Affirmative Action Finished?  —  “If this Court rules that the University of Texas can't consider race, or if it rules that universities that consider race have to die a death of a thousand cuts for doing so, we know exactly what's going to happen,” Gregory Garre, the lawyer for the University of Texas …
Bloomberg Business:
Putin's Quagmire in Syria Proves Obama Prescient  —  Officials in Moscow no longer talking about war lasting months  —  Russia's mid-November surge doubled cost of military campaign  —  U.S. President Barack Obama, facing criticism at home over his Islamic State strategy …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Thematic Convergence, or Real Old Testament Stuff...  Rare is the day when we find a smidgen of insight at Vox.  Rarer still is the day that the Voxsplainers and Glenn Reynolds are aligned in agreement.  —  This is that day.  Glenn, picking up a theme noted by Sen. Ben Sasse in San Bernardino …
Discussion: New York Times and Vox
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Are Democrats Trying to Establish a Right To Immigrate to US?  —  Foreigners have no right to emigrate to the United States.  How many immigrants we want to take in, and who those immigrants should be, are issues decided by us in our sole discretion, through our political process.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Congresswoman: “Between 5 And 20%” Of Muslims Willing To Use Terrorism To Institute Caliphate  —  “We know that there is a small group, and we don't know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20%, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion …
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
House report: Obama officials misled public on Bergdahl swap  —  A yearlong investigation by the House Armed Services Committee has concluded that the Obama administration broke the law in swapping five Taliban members for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — and went out of its way to hide the negotiations as they were happening.
Dan Pfeiffer / Medium:
Empowering People to Help People: Why I am Joining GoFundMe  —  In late 2006, I found myself unexpectedly unemployed and looking for a job.  That's when I met Barack Obama who was starting to put together a team to launch an improbable run for the White House.
 
 
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Call it terrorism, says father of hero who helped stop stabber at Calif. college
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Doug Finke / State Journal Register:
State pension contribution next year up by $291 million
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
While media rages, Trump sees path to victory
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
On Republican Campaign Trail, Slow and Steady May Win the Race
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Nshira Turkson / The Atlantic:
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