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3:55 AM ET, July 23, 2015

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New York Times:
Donald Trump, Stealing Spotlight With Caustic Comments, Eclipses His Rivals  —  The month of July once held great potential for Republican presidential candidates hoping for momentum to carry them into the first primary debates.  —  Instead, the summer campaign has been dominated by Donald J. Trump …
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The GOP Only Has Itself to Blame for Weaponizing Donald Trump  —  The candidate's campaign circus keeps gaining steam because of the fault lines within his own party.  —  Shares … Donald Trump's lead in the polls has been called “the classic pattern of a media-driven surge,” …
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Financial Disclosure — What We Learned  —  Republican Donald Trump's federal financial disclosure provides a window into his sprawling network of real-estate and entertainment companies, marking his first-ever public tally of his holdings.  Here are some things we learned:
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Still Leads GOP Field But Descent May Be Beginning  —  PPP's newest national poll finds that Donald Trump is likely facing at least some fallout from his comments about John McCain over the weekend.  Nevertheless we do find him narrowly leading the national field in our survey, which went into the field on Monday.
Discussion: Hot Air
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
To Trump or Not to Trump?  —  Bob Kerrey served in the Senate with John McCain, is also a Vietnam veteran and has run for president, so he has been asked incessantly over recent days to appear on television and weigh in on Donald Trump's vile besmirching of McCain's military record.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Poll: Clinton trails top Republicans in battleground states  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton trails three top Republican presidential candidates in head-to-head matchups in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, a new survey shows.  —  The latest Quinnipiac University swing state polling released Wednesday shows …
Charlie Gasparino / Fox Business:
Trump is Digging His Own Grave...Literally  —  GOP presidential contender and real estate mogul Donald Trump wants to live in the White House but he's planning to be buried on a golf course—his own.  —  The flamboyant billionaire has received approval to build a private cemetery …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Richard Rubin / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump's Financial Disclosure Form Has Landed—And It's Huge
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Slantpoint
St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:
Officials: Sandra Bland spoke of previous suicide attempt  —  The 28-year-old woman who died in the Waller County jail three days after police arrested her in a controversial traffic stop told jailers during her intake that she previously had tried to commit suicide, authorities said Wednesday.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
Ashton Kutcher Unloads on NYC Mayor in Facebook Post: ‘Destroying Innovation’  —  Taking to Facebook, actor Ashton Kutcher blasted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's stance on the car service Uber, calling de Blasio's opinion “corrupt shortsighted politics.”
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EBONY.com:
Fundraiser for ‘Baltimore 6’ to Feature Blackface Performance  —  A FORMER BALTIMORE POLICE OFFICER WHO PERFORMS AS AL JOLSON IS RAISING FUNDS SUPPORT THE OFFICERS CHARGED WITH THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY  —  I received a photo of an invite to a fundraiser for the six Baltimore Police officers charged …
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Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Former cop and blackface performer planning fundraiser for officers in Freddie Gray case
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
DOJ to review Planned Parenthood videos  —  Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday her department is going to review all information surrounding the controversial videos of Planned Parenthood officials taken by an anti-abortion group.  —  “I'm aware of those matters generally from the media …
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Henry Farrell / Washington Monthly:
A Brief Theory of Very Serious People  —  Tyler Cowen argues that the concept of “Very Serious People” refers to people who “realize that common sense morality must, to a considerable extent, rule politics.”  I'm not either the originator nor the popularizer of the term, but I think that's wrong.
Discussion: The Mahablog and Progress Pond
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:   What makes the Very Serious People so very serious?
Daily Mail:
Don't play the race or skinny cards, Ms Minaj - you're just a stroppy little piece of work whose video wasn't as good as Taylor Swift's  —  Superstar rapper Nicki Minaj once worked at a Red Lobster restaurant in the Bronx.  —  She was fired for ‘discourtesy to customers’.
Eliza Griswold / New York Times:
Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? … There was something about Diyaa that his wife's brothers didn't like.  He was a tyrant, they said, who, after 14 years of marriage, wouldn't let their sister, Rana, 31, have her own mobile phone.  He isolated her from friends and family, guarding her jealously.
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Los Angeles Times:
Dead man with cache of 1,200 guns identified — ‘He was just a loner’  —  A man found dead in a vehicle in a Pacific Palisades neighborhood and later tied to a home where police found a massive cache of firearms was a 60-year-old longtime Los Angeles County resident who mostly kept to himself, according to interviews.
Discussion: KTLA and Daily Mail
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Watch the Reaction Defiant Vet Gets for His Anti-Obama Demonstration During President's Speech on Veterans' Issues  —  A pair of military veterans were captured on video taking down a fellow vet who demonstrated against President Barack Obama during the commander-in-chief's Tuesday speech …
CBS New York:
Thousands Of Protesters Rally In Times Square Against Iran Nuclear Deal  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Times Square Wednesday evening in protest over the recent landmark nuclear deal with Iran.  —  As CBS2's Jessica Schneider reported …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Rupert Murdoch Wants to Stop Donald Trump, But First He's Got to Rein In Roger Ailes  —  Has Fox News spun out of the media mogul's control?  —  Shares … The mounting problem Donald Trump poses to Republicans is also a mounting problem for the country's most powerful conservative media mogul: Rupert Murdoch.
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Obama: New citizens can skip pledge to take up arms and defend the U.S.  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it will no longer require incoming U.S. citizens to pledge that they will “bear arms on behalf of the United States” …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
More Than Four in 10 Americans Say They Have Tried Marijuana  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Oregon becomes the fourth state to make recreational marijuana use legal, 44% of Americans say they have tried marijuana.  This is the highest percentage Gallup has found since it began asking the question in 1969.
 
 
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Sean Coughlan / BBC:
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