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12:30 PM ET, July 30, 2015

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Quinnipiac University:
Release Detail  —  July 30, 2015 - Trump Tops Republican Pack By Wide Margin, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Dems Trump Trump In General Election  —  With 20 percent of Republican voters, Donald Trump is the clear leader in the crowded Republican presidential primary field …
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Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Former Marco Rubio Donors Turning to Others in Presidential Race  —  After U.S. Senator Marco Rubio decided to run for president, he asked donors to transfer their contributions from his aborted re-election campaign to his bid for the White House.  More than 260 didn't.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Clinton's habit of dodging key issues draws Democrats' fire  —  Could an excess of caution hurt Hillary Clinton?  —  This query is coming to the fore again after she dodged a question on Tuesday over whether she supports or opposes building the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC raises more than $11 million
Discussion: OnPolitics
Associated Press:
Court bars anti-abortion group from releasing new videos of Calif. company officials  —  LOS ANGELES - A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers.
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The Daily Beast:
Why Dems Don't Want to Talk About Planned Parenthood  —  While Republicans are celebrating Planned Parenthood's PR disaster, Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic hopefuls are scrambling to respond.  —  Over the last three weeks, Planned Parenthood has been the subject of three sting videos …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
For Democrats, there's no right answer on Planned Parenthood  —  The surprise of today's Republican press conference on Planned Parenthood came when one of the freshman class's stars praised Hillary Clinton.  Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa.) described how undercover videos had found …
David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
Planned Parenthood VP Says Fetuses May Come Out Intact, Agrees Payments Specific to the Specimen
Cecile Richards / Washington Post:
Planned Parenthood president: These extremist videos are nothing short of an attack on women
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Judge explodes over Hillary email delays  —  An irritated federal judge Thursday put the Hillary Clinton email scandal into stark terms, grilling the State Department on a pattern of delayed document releases that has turned a possible bureaucratic logjam into a major problem for the leading Democratic presidential contender.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Facts in Clinton's ‘secret’ emails came from five intelligence agencies
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Rachael Bade / Politico:   Hillary Clinton's former spokesman turns over 20 boxes of emails
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Clinton must be joking  —  Those Clinton campaign strategists are so clever: trying to just lighten up this whole process, appeal to the young, show they get the joke and turn Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign into a late-night comedy punch line.  —  In just days, Clinton …
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Wall Street Journal:
UBS Deal Shows Clinton's Complicated Ties  —  Donations to family foundation increased after secretary of state's involvement in tax case  —  A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter.
Discussion: The Week, Fox News and Washington Post
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Why the Naysayers Are Wrong About the Iran Deal  —  Mike Huckabee says President Obama is using his nuclear deal to “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”  Mitt Romney describes it as a “generational calamity.”  And while polls diverge, one recently taken by CNN suggests …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Israel: U.S. Officials Are Withholding Major Parts And Details Of Iran Deal From Us
David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
New Hampshire Voters Explain the Appeal of Donald Trump  —  A Bloomberg Politics focus group of Donald Trump supporters in the Granite State helps illuminate the billionaire's rise in the polls.  —  t writerknowles  —  Donald Trump is a brand, and his New Hampshire supporters are itching to buy it.
Ken Goldstein / Bloomberg Business:
Many Republican Polls Are Measuring a Unicorn Electorate  —  Recent elections around the world have not been kind to pollsters.  In contests in Israel and Britain, and in a referendum in Scotland, pre-election polls all showed tight races that ended up being, well, not so tight.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump amuses us to death  —  All right then, let's do this.  If we have to talk about Donald Trump, because apparently the subject will not just go away on its own, then let's talk about him, even if it means going back on a vow I made 16 years ago.  —  This was back in 1999 …
Sam Fragoso / Movie Interviews : NPR:
At 79, Woody Allen Says There's Still Time To Do His Best Work  —  Woody Allen is a prolific filmmaker — he's been releasing films pretty much every year since the mid-1960s.  (His latest, Irrational Man, is now in theaters.)  But Allen isn't exactly prolific as an interview subject.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Just Jared
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
White Flight Never Ended  —  Nearly 50 years ago, after a string of race-related riots in cities across America, President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a panel of civic leaders to investigate the underlying causes of racial tension in the country.  —  The result was the Kerner Report …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Will Dana, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor, to Depart  —  Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted.  —  Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug. 7 …
Forbes:
The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture  —  Consumers of organic foods are getting both more and less than they bargained for.  On both counts, it's not good.  —  Many people who pay the huge premium—often more than a hundred percent-for organic foods do so because they're afraid of pesticides.
Discussion: Moonbattery and Rush Limbaugh
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump's immigration plan: Deport the undocumented, ‘legal status’ for some  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)Donald Trump, the Republican presidential hopeful who shot up to the head of the pack over his controversial comments about illegal immigrants, is finally starting to lay out an immigration policy.
 
 
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Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Salma Hayek Blasts Donald Trump For Immigration Comments: I Won't Even Say His Name
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Cincinnati.com:
John Kasich vs. pop culture
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Political Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Structure of Gratitude  —  I'm sometimes grumpier when I stay at a nice hotel.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Citing IRS targeting, Cruz compares Obama to Nixon
Drew Altman / Wall Street Journal:
How to Think About Higher Growth in Health-Care Spending
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Jindal: Gun rights extend to movie theaters
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Tarini Parti / Politico:
‘Dark money’: ALEC wants image makeover
Washington Post:
Trump's presence in first GOP debate makes prep challenging for candidates
Discussion: alicublog and Bloomberg Business
Jeet Heer / The New Republic:
National Review's Bad Conscience
Olivia / Right Wing Watch:
Louie Gohmert: Gay Islanders Would Die Out, Proving Gay Marriage Is Wrong
Discussion: Towleroad
New York Post:
‘Law & Order’ director busted on child porn charges
Discussion: EW.com and Daily Mail
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Ted Cruz stands by calling President Obama a sponsor of terrorism
 

 
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Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
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