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4:15 PM ET, July 21, 2015

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Donald Trump gives out Lindsey Graham's cell phone number  —  If Lindsey Graham has to change cellphone numbers, he has Donald Trump to thank.  —  On Tuesday, Trump ramped up his attacks on the South Carolina senator — who made headlines Monday for calling the Donald a “jackass” — and even gave out Graham's private phone number.
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CBS News:
Lindsey Graham to Trump: “Stop being a jackass”  —  Shares -  —  Presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has “had it” with Donald Trump.  —  After Trump undermined the military service of Graham's longtime colleague Sen. John McCain, Graham had a clear message for his GOP rival.
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
What Al Sharpton learned from James Brown that Donald Trump hasn't  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton perfectly assessed the character of Donald Trump's death-defying campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.  “What plays at Lincoln Center don't play at the Apollo,” Sharpton said about Trump.
Des Moines Register:
Trump should pull the plug on his bloviating side show  —  It's time for Donald Trump to drop out of the race for president of the United States.  —  People who run for public office typically perform a great public service, regardless of whether they win on Election Day.
Dylan StablefordSenior / Yahoo Politics:
Trump opens double-digit lead on GOP rivals as paper calls for end to ‘his bloviating side show’
Discussion: CNN, Rush Limbaugh and TalkLeft
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It  —  I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.  —  Though I hadn't touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting …
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Shock Video Catches Another Top Planned Parenthood Doctor Selling Body Parts of Aborted Babies  —  A second shocking video in as many weeks has been released showing a top Planned Parenthood official discussing and arranging the sale of body parts of aborted babies.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Second secretly recorded Planned Parenthood video fuels storm
Discussion: The Daily Signal
David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
Second Planned Parenthood Senior Executive Haggles Over Baby Parts Prices, Changes Abortion Methods
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
John Kasich: A Jeb Bush In Jon Huntsman Clothing  —  It reads like a dream résumé for a Republican presidential candidate: nine-term congressman, six-year Fox News host and now twice-elected governor of a crucial swing state.  His record puts him snugly in the mainstream of the Republican Party.
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Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Republicans' ‘Munich’ fallacy  —  You have to feel sorry for Munich.  Home to museums, universities, beer halls and one spectacular glockenspiel, it gets international recognition instead for a misbegotten 1938 summit conference in which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Alito: Gay Marriage Ruling Could Allow Judges To End Minimum Wage Laws  —  According to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the court's recent decision legalizing same-sex marriage laid the legal groundwork for a libertarian justice to eliminate minimum wage laws, or a socialist justice to say that there is a right to an annual income.
David Montgomery / New York Times:
New Details Released in Sandra Bland's Death in Texas Jail  —  HEMPSTEAD, Tex. — The authorities on Monday offered new details of the final hours of a Chicago-area woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Texas three days after she was arrested during a traffic stop.
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Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD finds 1,200 guns, two tons of ammo in dead man's Pacific Palisades home  —  It wasn't what police expected to find when they searched a man's Pacific Palisades home last week.  —  More than 1,200 guns were strewn about the Palisades Drive house and garage, police said.
The Hill:
House to vote on blocking federal grants to sanctuary cities  —  The House will vote this week on legislation that would deny funding to “sanctuary cities” that have policies designed to shelter illegal immigrants from deportation.  —  Sanctuary cities largely refuse to cooperate with federal immigration policies.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ABC News
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Great Lost Huckabee Constituency  —  Something I was vaguely aware of but hadn't really focused on came very much to my attention yesterday while we were taping this week's WaMo BloggingheadsTV/podcast with guest Matt Cooper of Newsweek.  Matt wrote a column that actually got Trump's personal attention …
Paul Bowers / Charleston City Paper:
Sousaphonist serenades Confederate flag supporters in Columbia  —  'I didn't really know how to show my opposition, so that was my way of doing it,' says musician  —  Saturday afternoon, as defenders of the Confederate flag assembled in Columbia to protest the flag's removal from Statehouse grounds …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Tim Arango / New York Times:
ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool  —  ISTANBUL — The Islamic State uses terror to force obedience and frighten enemies.  It has seized territory, destroyed antiquities, slaughtered minorities, forced women into sexual slavery and turned children into killers.
Reuters:
Kerry says Iran vow to defy U.S. is ‘very disturbing’  —  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday vowing to defy American policies in the region despite a deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme was “very disturbing”.
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Legendary SEAL Marcus Luttrell Seemingly Sends Clear, Four-Word Message to Obama Over Chattanooga Shooting  —  Retired Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, author and subject of “Lone Survivor,” responded tersely Monday to reports indicating officials have told U.S. Marine recruiters not to wear …
Jennifer Calfas / USA Today:
More children living in poverty now than during recession  —  A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday.  —  About 22% of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013 …
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Obama and Trump: Two of a Kind  —  Outwardly they couldn't be more different.  But take a closer look.  —  President Obama is said to feel liberated, in the sense that he can finally say what, and do as, he pleases — without much worry any more over political ramifications, including presidential and congressional elections.
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