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1:45 AM ET, September 5, 2014

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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
National G.O.P. Moves to Take Over Campaign of a Kansas Senator  —  WASHINGTON — National Republicans on Thursday moved to take control of the campaign of Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas by sending a longtime party strategist to the state to advise him, a day after his hopes for re-election …
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Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kobach: Democrat Chad Taylor's name will remain on ballot for U.S. Senate  —  Chad Taylor doesn't want to be in the race for U.S. Senate, but he's going to remain on the ballot.  —  Taylor, the Democratic nominee for Senate and district attorney of Shawnee County, submitted a formal letter …
Discussion: Hot Air, National Review and The Hill
Kansas City Star:
Kobach says Taylor stays on ballot for U.S. Senate in Kansas  —  Chad Taylor filed paperwork Wednesday to pull his name off Kansas ballots for U.S. Senate.  On Thursday, Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach said the Democrat's name must remain.  —  Kansas law means “we now have no choice” …
Discussion: Fox News and Daily Kos
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Senate Race In Kansas Just Got Crazy
Nathan L. Gonzales / The Rothenberg Political Report:
Pat Roberts is the Most Vulnerable Republican Senator in the Country
Washington Post:
Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 corruption counts  —  RICHMOND — A federal jury Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruption — sending a message that they believed the couple sold the office once occupied by Patrick Henry …
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Former Governor in Virginia Guilty in Bribery Case  —  RICHMOND, Va. — Former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of corruption in federal court on Thursday, after a trial that shattered the political career of the onetime Republican star and peeled back the couple's private life to the bone.
Fox News:
Ex-Virginia governor, wife found guilty on corruption charges  —  Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen have been convicted on a range of corruption, fraud and bribery charges, after the couple accepted more than $165,000 of gifts and loans from a businessman.
Alexander Burns / Politico:   Bob McDonnell in limbo: ‘Remarkably at peace’
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Withdraws Decision Defunding Obamacare  —  In July, two Republican judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit handed down a decision defunding much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  This effort to implement Sen. Ted Cruz's …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: Appeals Court Scraps Gay Marriage Bans In Wisconsin, Indiana  —  The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana.  —  “The discrimination against same-sex couples is irrational, and therefore unconstitutional even if the discrimination …
ABC News:
Court Grants Obama Plea to Re-Hear Health Case
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
A Louisiana Judge Takes Aim at Gay Marriage—and Justice Kennedy
Discussion: The Dish, ACS Blog and SCOTUSblog
Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Breached HealthCare.gov Insurance Site  —  A hacker broke into the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software, but there was no evidence consumers' personal data was taken.
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Brett Norman / Politico:   GOP on attack over health site hack
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Joan Rivers, a Comedic Stiletto, Dies at 81  —  Joan Rivers, the raspy loudmouth who pounced on America's obsessions with flab, face-lifts, body hair and other blemishes of neurotic life, including her own, in five decades of caustic comedy that propelled her from nightclubs to television …
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Economist:
Blood cotton  —  The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.  By Edward Baptist.  Basic Books; 498 pages; $35.  Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.com  —  “FOR sale: a coloured girl, of very superior qualifications...a bright mulatto, fine figure, straight …
Discussion: Gawker and Talking Points Memo
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
DNC chief walks back Scott Walker ‘words’  —  Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she used words she “shouldn't have” in her attack against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in which she said he “has given women the back of his hand.”
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Apple CEO Denies a Lax Attitude Toward Security Allowed Hackers to Post Nude Photos of Celebrities  —  Apple Inc. said it plans additional steps to keep hackers out of user accounts but denied that a lax attitude toward security had allowed intruders to post nude photos of celebrities on the Internet.
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking News and Analysis: Federal Court Grants Injunction Restoring Early Voting in Ohio  —  I have now had a chance to give an initial read the 71-page federal district court opinion in Ohio State Conference of the NAACP v. Husted.  This is a significant case, which could potentially make it to the Supreme Court.
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Associated Press:
Judge orders expanded Ohio early voting schedule
Sen. Rand Paul / TIME:
Rand Paul: ‘I Am Not an Isolationist’  —  If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS  —  Some pundits are surprised that I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily.  They shouldn't be.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Pursuing ISIS to the Gates of Hell  —  Over the past two weeks, the American foreign-policy debate has dramatically changed.  The key to understanding why lies in a book.  —  The book is called Special Providence.  Published 13 years ago by Walter Russell Mead, it remains, for my money …
Darren Goode / Politico:
Harry Reid: Kochs are ‘enemies of progress’  —  LAS VEGAS — Industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch and “their cronies” are “enemies of progress” in developing green energy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday at the start of his annual energy conference.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
 
 
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Tea Party Unloads on ‘Complete Imbecile’ Rick Perry
New York Times:
The Race Gap in America's Police Departments
Michael Beckel / The Center for Public …:
GOP's Senate hopes energized by Koch network ad blitz
Discussion: NOLA River and Washington Post
Shakara Robinson / WDJT-TV:
Congresswoman Gwen Moore arrested during minimum wage protest
USA Today:
Reports of missing Libyan planes raise 9/11 terror fears
Discussion: NewsBusters and TPNN
New York Times:
BP May Be Fined Up to $18 Billion for Spill in Gulf
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Margaret Talbot / New Yorker:
An Old Contempt in Rotherham
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The Greatest Threat to Our Liberty Is Local Governments Run Amok
Discussion: The Federalist and Washington Post
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Collapse of Obama's Foreign Policy
Discussion: Israel Matzav and The Hill
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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