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12:40 AM ET, August 20, 2013

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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the dangers reporters now face  —  As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing  —  In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly with a four-letter expletive …
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Pedro Fonseca / Reuters:
Glenn Greenwald To Publish UK Secrets After Britain Detains Partner  —  The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will be “sorry” for detaining his partner for nine hours.
Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate'  —  Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport  —  David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner
Bill Keller / New York Times:
War on the Core  —  I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party.  There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings.  —  I understand the urge to take what looks …
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Paul Krugman:
Stupid Is A Strategy  —  Bill Keller has a strong …
Discussion: Diane Ravitch's blog
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash
Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com:   Business Tries to Tame Tea-Party Conservatives It Helped Elect
Washington Post:
Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship.  —  “Now the Dallas Morning News …
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Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same  —  Can a master debater who wore a paisley bathrobe to creepily stroll by the women's wing of the dorm be the next president?  Patricia Murphy talks to Ted Cruz's college roommates about his stint at Princeton.
Dallas Morning News:
Canada-born Ted Cruz became a citizen of that country as well as U.S.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970.  It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.
Hannah August / White House.gov Blog:
Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy  —  Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny!  —  Sunny, the new Obama family dog, on the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 19, 2013.  (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)  —  Pin
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:   New member of the Obama family introduced
Andrew Kaczynski:
This Video Of A Pro-Bob Filner Rally Has To Be Seen To Be Believed  —  The event was officially called “Time to Heal, Forgive & Get Back to Moving City Forward With Mayor Filner” according to a Facebook group organizing the event.  As of Monday, the San Diego Mayor has been accused …
Discussion: Post Politics
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Mitch Blacher / KGTV-TV:
Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation
Discussion: Hot Air, NPR, National Review and cbs8.com
R. Stickney / KNSD-TV:
Filner Is More Than Sloppy Kisses: Supporters
Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden's son evaluated at Houston hospital  —  (CNN) - Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, was evaluated on Monday at a Houston hospital after an “episode of disorientation and weakness,” the vice president's office said.
Discussion: Politico
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Wall Street Journal:
Confident Biden Team Sows Seeds For 2016
Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:
LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’  —  Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week.  —  Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.
Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:
Map: What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With?  —  A breakdown of Congress' religious makeup.  One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.  —  BuzzFeed has mapped out the religions of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives by their districts …
TIME:
School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys  —  And efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail  —  As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome?  A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and disinformation
Andrew Kaczynski:
The New Fad Taking The Country By Storm: “Overpasses For Obama's Impeachment”  —  The group “Overpasses For Obama's Impeachment” held rallies around the country this weekend calling for Obama's impeachment.  The group lists 12 reasons for Obama's impeachment on their website and has quite the following on Facebook.
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Lee Daniels to Piers Morgan: Americans Are ‘Angry’ That Obama's President, Showing ‘True Colors’  —  Oprah Winfrey has been facing sharp criticism for her comments on race in recent weeks, but tonight on CNN, the director of her new film The Butler sat down with Piers Morgan and was faced …
The Atlantic Online:
Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie?  —  Inequality explained in pie charts (made of actual pie)  —  When one of you asked, “Are the rich getting too much of the economic pie?” the team behind Economics in Plain English got pretty excited.  Because you said “pie.”
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Analyst: Most Arabs Supported Bin Laden's Efforts To Kill Americans  —  On Monday, during a panel discussion about the launch of Al Jazeera America, a Fox News political analyst explained the channel's popularity in the Arab world by claiming that most Arabs sympathize with Osama bin Laden's efforts to kill Americans.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems have an ace in the hole in coming battle  —  Most observers expect Congress will somehow pass a measure this fall funding the government temporarily at current levels, pushing the real fights over the sequester, spending and the size of government into the new year.
Reid Wilson / GovBeat:
Democrats push back on voting rights  —  After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that's as old as the republic itself.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Public School Promotes 5 Pillars of Islam  —  Parents at a Wichita, Kan. elementary school were shocked to discover a giant wall display inside the building promoting the five pillars of Islam.  —  FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVE CONVERSATION!  CLICK HERE!
Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews's ‘Hardball’ to 7 p.m.  —  MSNBC's Ed Schultz will return to weekdays later this month after a brief hiatus as weekend host, signalling a reversal of fortunes for the bombastic television personality who has become a champion to union workers and blue-collar liberals.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad  —  A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted conservatives during the Obama years — the feeling that they are beset by a combination of false accusations of racism and actual anti-white racial animus that they dare …
 
 
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Kenric Ward / Watchdog.org:
Aide in union contribution swap hosts California fund-raiser for McAuliffe
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