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6:35 PM ET, July 21, 2015

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Politico:
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.
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Obama and Trump: Two of a Kind
Discussion: alicublog
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump calls The Des Moines Register ‘sophomoric’
Discussion: CBS DC, Washington Post and NBC News
Des Moines Register:
Trump should pull the plug on his bloviating side show
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 …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama lowers White House flag  —  President Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other public buildings to fly at half-staff after mounting criticism over the delay in honoring five armed forces members killed last week by a gunman.  —  Obama's proclamation calls for the flags …
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
President Obama on Iran deal critics: They were wrong on Iraq, too  —  The administration has presented the negotiations with Iran as a choice between peacefully preventing a nuclear Iran and going to war with the Islamic Republic.  —  Getty  —  As he stepped up efforts to sell …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Second secretly recorded Planned Parenthood video fuels storm  —  A second secretly recorded video released by an anti-abortion rights group appears to show an official from Planned Parenthood negotiating prices for selling fetal tissue.  —  The new video from the Center for Medical Progress highlights …
Discussion: The Daily Signal
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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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
John Kasich Enters Crowded 2016 Race Facing Job of Catch-Up
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town  —  The shrubbery stirs in the breeze, which carries the odor of crushed asphalt.  —  Yellow paint is chipping off the curbs.  —  A single orange traffic cone sits in the revolving door that no longer revolves …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Apple Reports 38% Rise in Profit as iPhone Sales Surge  —  Apple's profit soared 38 percent and revenue rose 33 percent in its fiscal third quarter, as sales of iPhones continued to surge.  —  On Tuesday, the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., reported net income of $10.7 billion …
Discussion: Re/code, Engadget, Mashable and The Verge
Claire Webb / RadioTimes:
Emma Thompson: the acting industry is more sexist today than it was in my youth  —  “I don't think there's any appreciable improvement and I think that for women, the question of how they are supposed to look is worse than it was even when I was young.  So, no, I am not impressed at all”
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Week
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 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Washington Post
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.
Matt McGrath / BBC:
Arctic ice ‘grew by a third’ after cool summer in 2013  —  The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013.  —  Researchers say the growth continued in 2014 and more than compensated for losses recorded in the three previous years.
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.
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: ABC News and ThinkProgress
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
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.
Discussion: Washington Times, KTLA and Slantpoint
 
 
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