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Jeb Bush using Paris attacks to pitch broad military buildup

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is calling for a broad military buildup and says the U.S. armed forces have been left ill-prepared to defeat the Islamic State, blamed for the Paris attacks that killed at least 129 and wounded hundreds more. The former Florida governor is projecting himself as a potential commander in chief able to handle such challenges, as his presidential bid tries to gain traction in a primary campaign likely to be shaken up after the Paris attacks.…

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Jeb Bush open to letting in properly vetted Syrian Muslims

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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is making it clearer that his call for the U.S. refugee program to give preference to Christians fleeing Syria does not exclude Muslims. His campaign says Bush supports accepting women and children regardless of their religion and does not exclude Syrian Muslims broadly, as long as the refugees can be effectively vetted. President Barack Obama has rebuked what he called a “shameful” religious test in the refugee policies of some Republican candidates. Both Bush and…

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Mitch Perry Report for 11.17.15 — No Syrian refugees, please

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The revelation that one of the men involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris entered Europe with a Syrian passport was enough evidence to convince 23 governors (all Republican, with the exception of New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan, involved in a tight bid for re-election) yesterday to say that they don’t want the federal government to expatriate any Syrian refugees into their respective states. The Syrian war has gone on since 2011, and has been a tragedy from the start, with over…

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Ron DeSantis holds forth on Barack Obama’s “risky refugee gambit”

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In a prepared statement Monday, Republican Senate hopeful Ron DeSantis questioned President Obama’s “risky refugee gambit,” in casting doubt on the wisdom of allowing Syrian refugees into the United States in the wake of the Friday attacks in Paris. DeSantis poses the question exactly as one might expect. “Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want the United States to take tens of thousands of Syrian refugees despite the terrorist attacks in Paris and the government’s inability to screen them for terrorist…

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Marco Rubio seeks aggressive approach to Russia

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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio called for a more aggressive approach to Russia on Friday, including new sanctions against major officials and companies. During an appearance at a national security forum in Iowa, the Florida senator called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “gangster and a thug,” adding “I stand by that phrasing.” Rubio said if he’s elected, he’ll seek additional visa bans and asset freezes, provide more assistance to Ukraine and limit diplomatic engagement with Moscow “on issues not essential…

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Sour grapes: Alan Grayson calls Syria intel ‘faked’ because House didn’t trust him enough to see it

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Alan Grayson seems to have a knack for alienating many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill. Of course, the brash Orlando liberal – who is now running for the U.S. Senate – has no one else to blame but himself, something he would never admit. So he does the next best thing: accuse them all of lying. The latest example of an extreme lack of self-awareness comes from Marc Caputo of POLITICO, reporting on an undercover video of Grayson’s appearance…

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Mitch Perry Report for 9.15.15 — Bernie Sanders does Liberty University

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No, Hillary Clinton is not losing the race for the Democratic Primary, not if you take the Real Clear Politics average of the national spread between her and Bernie Sanders. She’s up overall by 21 percentage points. But in the first in the nation voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire? It’s a completely different story. A CBS/YouTube poll taken over the weekend has him up by 10 points over Clinton in Iowa, and a stunning 22 percent in N.H. In one of…

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