memeorandum: End gerrymandering, Kasich says (Jim Siegel/The Columbus Dispatch)

1:55 PM ET, December 27, 2015

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Dean Balsamini / New York Post:

Stabbing of 9-year-old boy eyed as ISIS tryout — An alleged jihadist arrested in June on charges that he plotted to blow up Times Square may also be the fiend who stabbed a 9-year-old Staten Island boy in the neck five months earlier in what some investigators now believe was a botched ISIS audition.

Discussion: National Review and New York's PIX11

Wills Robinson For / Daily Mail:

Student who 'plotted a terrorist attack on Times Square and tried to kill an FBI also stabbed a boy, 9, in the neck in a botched audition for ISIS' — A student who allegedly plotted a bomb attack on Times Square may have stabbed a nine-year old boy in the neck as part of a botched audition to join ISIS, police have claimed..

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Jihad Watch

Michael Walsh / New York Post:

Elites and media really hate Donald Trump's voters — To hear the patronizing wise men of the Republican Party tell it, anyone who would vote for Donald Trump for president must be deranged. “Trumpkins,” they call them, mental midgets and xenophobic troglodytes who've crawled …

Discussion: Instapundit

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:

Trump fires back, hitting Bill Clinton's ‘penchant for sexism’ — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump late Saturday blasted the announcement that former President Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton. — The real estate mogul said the former president has a “penchant for sexism” in a tweet.

Discussion: Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice and Althouse

Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking

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Eli Stokols / Politico:

The GOP's New Hampshire nightmare — BERLIN, N.H. — Chris Christie is mocking Marco Rubio for not showing up. An hour's drive up the road, Jeb Bush is hammering away at Donald Trump — oh, and there he goes attacking Christie, too. Just a few blocks up the road, Rubio is quietly lashing Ted Cruz …

Discussion: ABC News and Boston Herald

Ross Douthat / New York Times:

Cracks in the Liberal Order — IN the twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the architecture of liberal modernity has looked relatively stable. Not flawless or wonderful or ideal, to be sure; not free of discontents and decadence. But it's been hard to imagine …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Instapundit

Alexander Mallin / ABC News:

Supreme Court Justice Doubts Mass Internment Would Happen Again in US — In a rare sit-down interview with ABC News, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said he doubts mass internment would happen again in the U.S. Even though the Supreme Court has never technically overturned …

Discussion: Althouse

Natalie Pompilio / Washington Post:

Pornographic email scandal roils Pennsylvania politics — PHILADELPHIA — Over the past 15 months, beleaguered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has released a steady stream of messages retrieved from a state email server that show state officials and employees trading pornographic, racist and misogynistic messages.

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

Trump's fans are excited to rally — but they're not sure they'll show up to vote — DES MOINES — When Donald Trump held one of his boisterous rallies at the state fair grounds this month, Bonnie and Randy Reynolds arrived two hours early to make sure they could snag some seats.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Althouse

Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:

End gerrymandering, Kasich says — Gov. John Kasich says he wants to change the way Ohio draws congressional districts, but other supporters of the idea say it will take a change of heart by Ohio's federal lawmakers to make it happen. — Ohio's congressional districts are currently drawn …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Scripting News

Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:

Ted Cruz: Republicans Love Him in Iowa, Loathe Him in D.C. — Gap in perception fuels Texas senator's 2016 outsider strategy — Sen. Ted Cruz is getting rock-star treatment at his 2016 presidential-campaign events. In Iowa, the state he has visited more than any other …

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

The Real Victims of Victimhood — BACK in 1993, the misanthropic art critic Robert Hughes published a grumpy, entertaining book called “Culture of Complaint,” in which he predicted that America was doomed to become increasingly an “infantilized culture” of victimhood.