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11:10 AM ET, December 14, 2015

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Nomiki Konst / The Hill:
Ted Cruz isn't just surging — he's winning  —  Every show has an end.  Just like “The Apprentice” — gripping the first few few seasons, tired and contrived in the last — Donald Trump's campaign is aging toward death, one reckless outburst at at time.  Although the casual political junkie …
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC Poll: Clinton Would Trounce Trump But Lose to Rubio, Carson  —  Hillary Clinton would defeat Ted Cruz and trounce Donald Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head general election matchup, but she would lose to Marco Rubio or Ben Carson, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Poised to Steal Even More Trump Supporters in Iowa  —  The crosstabs of the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll reveal some encouraging findings for the Texas senator.  —  JoshuaGreen  —  Ted Cruz shot to a 10-point lead over Donald Trump in the latest Bloomberg …
Tony Leys / Des Moines Register:
Clinton builds lead over Sanders, new Iowa Poll shows
Eli Stokols / Politico:   GOP contenders prep for loud, ugly holiday season
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Report: Calif. attacker's posts went unnoticed during screening  —  Tashfeen Malik cleared an extensive immigration vetting for a U.S. visa even though she was already opening discussing her support for terrorism on social media, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
Amber Jamieson / New York Post:
Plumber's old truck spotted in ISIS video  —  A Texas plumber who was flooded with threats after his old truck — still emblazoned with his company's name — was seen driven by ISIS thugs in Syria has armed himself and is suing a Ford dealer.  —  Mark Oberholtzer of Mark-1 Plumbing …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Fox News Insider
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Obama eyes Cuba visit, says Castro not ‘an ideologue’  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  President Obama is hopefully planning a visit to Cuba and sees longtime co-dictator Raul Castro, who has taken over for ailing brother Fidel, as a pragmatist, not “an ideologue.”
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Cruz campaign credits psychological data and analytics for its rising success  —  URBANDALE, Iowa — As Cecil Stinemetz walked up to a gray clapboard house in suburban Des Moines last week wearing his “Cruz 2016” cap, a program on his iPhone was determining what kind of person would answer the door.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Week and Althouse
Elizabeth Kolbert / New Yorker:
The Siege of Miami  —  The city of Miami Beach floods on such a predictable basis that if, out of curiosity or sheer perversity, a person wants to she can plan a visit to coincide with an inundation.  Knowing the tides would be high around the time of the “super blood moon,” in late September …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Patrick Foster / Telegraph:
Jedi church says new Star Wars film leading to boom in followers  —  More than a thousand people a day are signing up as members of the Church of Jediism, leading figures in the organisation said  —  The new Star Wars film may have already broken all records for advance ticket sales …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Negotiating the Whirlwind  —  John Kerry, the sixty-eighth Secretary of State of the United States, was born to a temperament of wintry rectitude.  He is descended from the Winthrops, who helped found the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Forbeses, a Brahmin clan that made its money in railways …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Diversity: Seven notes  —  Scott's six notes on “mismatch” add a much needed clarity to the discussion of race-based preferential admissions to college.  I want to add seven notes on the concept of diversity, which Scott discussed.  —  Note 1: The ideology of diversity is, as Scott says, relatively new.
 
 
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New York Post:
ACLU leader resigns after threatening to shoot Trump supporters
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
The Kochs' war on poverty
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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
More than 700,000 evacuated as Typhoon Melor batters Philippines
Discussion: WAVY-TV
Michael Safi / Guardian:
Sydney woman found cash ‘meant for Islamic State’ in son's shorts
Discussion: ABC and abc13.com
Rebecca Leber / New Republic:
The Paris talks have given us a long-shot chance to save the planet.
Discussion: New York Times
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Rubio is still insured under Obamacare: report
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'Libtard'-hating ex-police chief accused of pointing gun at woman who passed his Hummer
Discussion: alan.com
Evan Hoopfer / timesfreepress.com:
Police ask community for video footage of man killed by officer after endangering child, officer
Discussion: Guardian
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Obama: Chessmaster, not Pawn
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Donald Trump: Hillary ‘killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity’
Discussion: LiberalAmerica.org and alan.com
Free Thought Project / Raw Story:
Missouri police chief resigns after caging family's lost puppy at a gun range and shooting it
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Rubio Outlines Plan To End Marriage Equality
 

 
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