memeorandum: Obama Appointee And Bundler Blocks More Video Releases By Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting (Mollie Hemingway/The Federalist)

11:35 AM ET, August 1, 2015

Top Items:

Why Jeb Bush played nice with Hillary Clinton in Florida — She ripped his ‘right to rise’ campaign slogan. He thanked her for being there. — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Appearing Friday at the National Urban League Conference here in the country's most important swing state …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and The Week

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush First, and Hard, in Speech on Race

Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, Guardian, Daily Kos and Post On Politics

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bush at Urban League: Obama was ‘speaking the truth’ after shooting

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Marist Poll:
7/31: Trump as Independent Gives New Meaning to Name “Billary”

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
The astonishing weakness of Hillary Clinton

Discussion: Power Line

S.V. Dáte / National Journal: Can The Black Vote Win Jeb Bush The Presidency?

Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch: Federal Judge Orders State Department to Ask Hillary Clinton to Account for Government Records and Email Use, Turn Over All Government Records — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the U.S. State Department …

Discussion: Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Wall Street Journal

Washington Post:

Top Clinton aide accused of receiving overpayments at State Department — State Department investigators concluded this year that Huma Abedin, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest aides, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick leave during her tenure as an official in the department.

Discussion: Fox News, Hot Air, BizPac Review and The Right Scoop

ABC News:
Bill and Hillary Clinton Made $140 Million Over Last 8 Years

Discussion: Associated Press and abc13.com

Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:

Obama Appointee And Bundler Blocks More Video Releases By Group Behind Planned Parenthood Sting — A federal judge late Friday granted a temporary restraining order against the release of recordings made at an annual meeting of abortion providers. The injunction is against the Center for Medical Progress …

Discussion: The Right Scoop, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, RedState, Washington Post and CNN

Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Fetal Tissue Gives Hope for One of the Worst Diseases

Discussion: Washington Examiner, LifeNews.com and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House threatens to veto bill blocking Planned Parenthood's funding

Discussion: The Other McCain, LifeNews.com, Addicting Info, Washington Post, Politico, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RedState, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, National Review, Washington Monthly, National Journal, AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos

Topeka Capital-Journal:

Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate, won't rule out employing U.S. troops, FBI to stop abortion — Berkeley law professor: Huckabee's reference to precedents ‘way off-base’ — justin.wingerter@cjonline.com celia.llopisjepsen@cjonline.com samantha.foster@cjonline.com

Discussion: Washington Post, Liberaland, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Liberal Values, Hot Air and Daily Kos

Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Floats Plan To Deploy U.S. Troops To Stop Women From Getting Abortions

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors

Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mike Huckabee Won't Rule Out Using Federal Troops To Stop Abortions

Discussion: Dame Magazine, Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo

Roxane Gay / New York Times:

Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion — LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing. — The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy …

Discussion: Prairie Weather

Anne Saker / Cincinnati.com:
Tensing, through union, demands his UC job back

Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Balloon Juice and Fox News Insider

TMZ.com:

‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper — Dies at 61 from Cardiac Arrest — Wrestling legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper has died at the age of 61 ... TMZ Sports has learned. — Piper — born Roderick George Toombs — died from cardiac arrest in his sleep at his home in Hollywood on Thursday night. He was discovered on Friday.

Discussion: New York Daily News, Mashable, SBNation.com, KTLA, Washington Post, susiemadrak.com, fox8.com, The Big Lead, The Jawa Report and Joe. My. God.

Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:

Turns out Obamacare is a government takeover — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — During the legislative debate over the passage of President Obama's healthcare law, supporters of the program were sensitive to any suggestion that it represented a government takeover of the healthcare system.

Discussion: Bloomberg View and Newsalert

Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Daily News:

EXCLUSIVE: Gay Staten Island man says cops beat him outside of home, shouting homophobic slurs (VIDEO) — A gay Staten Island caterer says cops who were captured on video taking him down in his front yard, beat him while shouting homophobic slurs, the Daily News has learned.

Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story, Hit & Run and Towleroad

Allen West / Allen B. West:

What's happening to this heroic Navy officer from the Chattanooga shooting will make your blood BOIL — I never like to be reactionary and follow anything that may just be hyperbole or conspiracy theory. That's why I held off on addressing this issue until I got confirmation — which came Friday afternoon via text message.

Discussion: timesfreepress.com, The Gateway Pundit and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Washington Post:

Cecil the lion's killer may have trouble avoiding extradition, experts say — Walter Palmer, the wealthy big-game hunter who killed a famous lion, could be headed back to Africa — if the Zimbabwe government has its way. — On Friday, officials in Zimbabwe said they intended to press ahead …

Farai Mutsaka / Associated Press:
Zimbabwe: American lion killer's extradition being sought

Discussion: Associated Press, 6abc.com, ABC News, NPR and abc13.com

Steven Rattner / New York Times:

We're Making Life Too Hard for Millennials — TO some, millennials — those urban-dwelling, ride-sharing indefatigable social networkers — are engaged, upbeat and open to change. To others, they are narcissistic, lazy and self-centered. — I'm in the first camp, but regardless of your opinion …

Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal:

Japanese Police Arrest Mark Karpelès of Collapsed Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox — Police allege he manipulated the company's computer system to inflate its assets — TOKYO—Japanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpelès, the head of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox …

Discussion: The Verge, New York Times and Guardian

Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:

Dem: Obama Ready To Ignore Congress If Veto On Iran Deal Is Overridden — WASHINGTON — California Rep. Brad Sherman warns that even if Congress were to override Barack Obama's veto of the Iran deal, the president could still get the deal he wants. — Sherman, a Democrat who serves …

Discussion: Hot Air

Ashley Southall / New York Times:

Award in Lead Paint Lawsuit Can't Be Tied to Ethnicity, Judge Rules — A federal judge in Brooklyn explained in a court memo released on Wednesday why he rejected a landlord's attempt to use a child's Hispanic ethnicity to argue for reduced damages in a lead poisoning case.

Discussion: Addicting Info and Raw Story