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9:25 AM ET, December 16, 2015

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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The 13 biggest moments of the GOP debate  —  The Republican presidential candidates went after each other right from the start of the CNN debate Tuesday night.  Here are the most memorable and important moments:  —  1. Trump rules out independent bid  —  Moderator Hugh Hewitt asked Donald Trump …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Cruz Blusters and Trump Sulks at Tense Republican Debate  —  Someone needs to explain carpets to Ted Cruz.  —  They're continuous stretches of material, usually rectangular, sometimes round.  They're not staggered, interrupted, with stops, starts, holes and sharp jags so that they smother …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Chris Christie just made the GOP race a lot more interesting  —  After being in the minors for two debates, Chris Christie graduated to the main stage of the Republican clash for the presidential nomination Tuesday night.  And he made the most of it.  —  The governor of New Jersey …
Bloomberg Business:
Terrorism Dominates Republican Debate But So Do Personal Attacks  —  Terrorists aren't the only targets in the last Republican presidential debate of 2015.  —  michaelcbender  —  McCormickJohn  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump joined President Barack Obama …
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Fifth Republican Presidential Debate: 7 Moments That Mattered  —  Less than 200 miles away from the scene of this month's ISIS-inspired attack in San Bernardino, California, the nine leading Republican presidential candidates used the final presidential debate of the year to loudly beat the drums of war.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Winners and Losers in Tonight's CNN/Salem Debate  —  This was, in many respects, the best debate of the season.  The moderators kept the focus for the largest part on the most meaningful conflict of the night - which was on the differences between Cruz and Rubio.
Michael Crowley / Politico:
How Cruz and Rubio exposed the GOP's rift on foreign policy  —  Tuesday night's Republican debate revealed a deep rift in the Republican party over how to deal with Middle East dictators a decade after George W. Bush's neoconservative call for aggressively promoting American-style democracy in the region.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Ted Cruz Has a Problem  —  Up until last night, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%'s refusal to attack Donald Trump was defensible.  Without question, it was smart politics, as his rise in the polls would attest.  But it was also defensible on the merits as a guy who is a solid conservative in good standing …
Paola Chavez / ABC News:
Best Lines of the Final GOP Debate of 2015
Discussion: abc7.com
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush vowed that Donald Trump would be in decline by Dec. 15. That didn't happen.
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
Donald Trump and the ugliness in Las Vegas  —  LAS VEGAS — There was a lot of rancor and ugliness on display at Donald Trump's rally Monday night at the Westgate Casino.  There were fights between protesters and an unforgiving hotel security team, accompanied by cries of “Sieg Heil” directed at Black Lives Matter protesters.
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David Neumark / Wall Street Journal:
The Evidence Is Piling Up That Higher Minimum Wages Kill Jobs  —  President Obama says there is ‘no solid evidence.’ Yes there is—lots of it.  —  The movement to raise the federal minimum wage has become ever more ambitious.  In 2013 proponents deemed $9 an hour acceptable; today the demand is for $15.
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Washington Post:
5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant  —  Nine Republican candidates are participating in tonight's 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), former Florida governor Jeb Bush, former tech executive Carly Fiorina …
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Republican chickenhawk Huckabee speaks to youth: ‘Get off your butt’ and defeat ISIS  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) used a question about US military involvement in Syria to denounce not only Hillary Clinton, but young people during a Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee To Lazy, Pot-Smoking Youth: 'We Aren't Gonna Give You Anything!'
Discussion: Business Insider
The Hill:
Ryan unveils sweeping $1.6T deal on government funding, taxes  —  Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced to the House Republican Conference on Tuesday night that leaders have reached a sweeping year-end deal on taxes and funding the government after days of intense negotiations.
Jenna Morton / WQAD-TV:
Muscatine man fights panhandlers who refuse his offer of a job  —  It's a picture that's been shared around the world.  Two boys panhandling in Muscatine, another man holding a sign telling people not to give them money.  —  In Muscatine, Iowa you can find panhandlers several times a week.
Discussion: WGN-TV
Andrew McCarthy / National Review:
Why People Hate the Media, Chapter 732,851,997 ...  The Washington Examiner headline had me doing a double-take: “North Carolina town rejects solar farm, fears it will deplete sun's energy.”  —  Seriously?  —  So I read the report, which inauspiciously begins with correspondent Don Hawkins getting wrong …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Obamas have dog problem in White House  —  Michelle Obama says White House dogs Bo and Sunny will be getting “lots of new toys and treats” for Christmas despite some bad habits.  —  “They have been very good dogs,” Obama said of the pair of Portuguese Water Dogs.  “I mean, Sunny can be naughty.
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Daily Mail:
‘The Obamas treat Air Force One like an Uber ride’: Chief of spending watchdog says president's …
 
 
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Erin Kelly / USA Today:
Congress reaches deal on 2016 spending bill to fund federal government
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
How Hillary Clinton Says the US Can Stop Domestic Terrorism
Discussion: Associated Press and abc13.com
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: Doing Brain Surgery On Children Has Prepared Me For War
Discussion: Raw Story
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Rick Santorum ‘Islam Is Different’ When It Comes To Religious Freedom
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Chuck Todd on LA: 'This Was a Successful Terrorist Attack, It Wasn't Blood, It Was Fear'
Discussion: Truth Revolt and Hullabaloo
Associated Press:
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MyKayla Hilgart / KIMT-TV:
Suspected bank robber in custody
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 Earlier Items: 
Hailey Branson-Potts / Los Angeles Times:
Teen killed crossing street after L.A. schools closed over threat was ‘awesome student’
Discussion: KTLA, LAist and Washington Post
Jeff Patterson / WFLA-TV:
VIDEO: Boy arrested 20+ times, arrested again for stealing 89-year-old man's car
Discussion: FOX21News.com and WJTV
Camille Paglia / Spiked:
Feminist trouble  —  It's doubtful whether Camille Paglia …
Discussion: Althouse
Sophia Rosenbaum / Page Six:
Paris Hilton moving to Switzerland for millionaire beau
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care