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Rasmussen Reports:
Has ‘The Donald’ Peaked? — Donald Trump remains the leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his support has fallen by a third over the past week-and-a-half. Carly Fiorina is now near the front of the pack. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Trump …
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Weekly Standard, Guardian, Political Insider blog, Hot Air and National Review
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Bristol Palin: Erickson Wasn't Worried About Sexism When It Came To My Mom — Bristol Palin hammered RedState editor Erick Erickson on Monday for criticizing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's sexism despite engaging in his own sexism when it came to her mother.
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Refinery29
Susan Page / USA Today:
Iowa poll: Trump leads the field, but his standing in GOP dented by debate — Businessman Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican field in Iowa, a new Suffolk University Poll finds, but his performance in last week's opening debate has dented his standing among GOP partisans and cost …
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The Huffington Post and National Review
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ted Cruz: ‘Foolish’ for GOP to criticize Trump — He says that it is dangerous to dismiss a candidate with this type of drawing power. — FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday warned that the Republican presidential candidates who are slamming Donald Trump do so at their political peril.
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler and Independent Journal Review
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Donald the Whiner — Donald Trump is given to superlatives, so let's do him the honor of pronouncing him the most fabulous whiner in all of American politics. — By Trump's own account, he's the baddest, smartest thing going, except if you ask him a challenging question …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: ‘I am the most fabulous whiner’ — Businessman Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday that he is a whiner. — Trump said he agreed with conservative author Rich Lowry that the celebrity real estate tycoon-turned GOP presidential candidate is “the most fabulous whiner in all of American politics.”
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Hit & Run, Taylor Marsh and The Week
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
How Roger Ailes Picked Trump, and Fox News' Audience, Over Megyn Kelly — Ailes had to mute his defense of his star anchor after the GOP debate. — Shares — In the fallout since the first GOP debate, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has found himself caught between Donald Trump …
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump: ‘I keep whining and whining until I win’
Donald Trump: ‘I keep whining and whining until I win’
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RedState, Weekly Standard, LifeNews.com and Althouse
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Hillary Defends ‘Incredibly Impressive’ Megyn Kelly from ‘Outrageous’ Trump
Hillary Defends ‘Incredibly Impressive’ Megyn Kelly from ‘Outrageous’ Trump
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Boston Herald, LifeNews.com, American Spectator, Addicting Info, Hot Air and New York Magazine
Nancy Scola / Politico:
Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig exploring White House bid — Another Democrat is stepping into the presidential ring. — Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is exploring a bid for the White House, according to a website announcing the plan. He aims to crowdsource enough money …
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Weekly Standard, Outside the Beltway, Above the Law, The Week, The Daily Caller and Election Law Blog
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First Draft / New York Times:
Lawrence Lessig to Explore a Run for President as a Democrat
Lawrence Lessig to Explore a Run for President as a Democrat
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president — in a most unconventional way
Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president — in a most unconventional way
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Bloomberg View and Common Dreams
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Larry Lessig Believes Democracy Is Screwed. So He's Running For President To Save It.
Larry Lessig Believes Democracy Is Screwed. So He's Running For President To Save It.
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Mediaite and Slantpoint
Cassandra Vinograd / NBC News:
Armed ‘Patriot’ Group Roams Ferguson With Assault Rifles — Heavily-armed members of a controversial right-wing “patriot” group added an extra dose of unease to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, early Tuesday. — The Oath Keepers organization says its members — all former military …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
More Than 20 Arrested In Ferguson; Armed ‘Oath Keepers’ Walk Streets
More Than 20 Arrested In Ferguson; Armed ‘Oath Keepers’ Walk Streets
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Salon, Mother Jones, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and NBC News
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Heavily armed ‘Oath Keepers’ inject new unease to riot-hit Ferguson
Heavily armed ‘Oath Keepers’ inject new unease to riot-hit Ferguson
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Talking Points Memo, Infowars and Raw Story
Abbas Milani / The Atlantic:
What the Iran-Deal Debate Is Like in Iran — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani casts his vote as a candidate during the 2013 election. (Yalda Moayeri / Reuters) — The nuclear deal with Iran has sparked a vigorous debate not only in the United States, but in Iran as well.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Schumer: Go back and get better Iran deal
Schumer: Go back and get better Iran deal
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Townhall.com, Washington Post, New York Post, CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Nancy Reagan invites 16 candidates to CNN debate — Washington (CNN)Former First Lady Nancy Reagan is inviting 16 Republican presidential candidates to participate in the CNN/Reagan Library presidential debate on September 16. — Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, who participated in the debate …
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OnPolitics and Talking Points Memo
Walter Russell Mead / The American Interest:
The Nihilistic Populism of Donald Trump — Is The Donald a populist candidate? Our friend Glenn Reynolds argued in Sunday's USA Today that the rise of Donald Trump is best understood as a populist event—"an indictment of the GOP establishment and, for that matter, of the American political establishment …
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USA Today, Washington Post, Bloomberg View, Fox News and Hot Air
Kathryn Jeffries / WJXX-TV:
Lost dog from Texas travels 900 miles, found in Orange Park — Lost dog from Texas found in Orange Park — ORANGE PARK, Fla. — The last week has been an incredible journey for a miniature Australian Shepherd named Bell. — The 11-month-old pup is from a home just North of Houston, but went missing last week.
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New York Times:
After 2 Killers Fled, New York Prisoners Say, Beatings Were Next — Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him, took him into a broom closet for questioning, and then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last week, the beatings began.
Greg Lukianoff / The Atlantic:
The Coddling of the American Mind — Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.
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Power Line, Hit & Run and Instapundit
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Anger Outruns the Facts in Ferguson — A year after Michael Brown's death, protesters remain as furious as ever at police and refuse to say if a cop can ever be justified in using force. — FERGUSON, Missouri—If there is any growing national sense of weariness over the unrest and protests in Ferguson …
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sanders pulls crowd of 27,500 in LA — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) attracted another huge crowd at a rally for his presidential campaign in Los Angeles on Monday night. — The Sanders campaign, citing Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena officials, said 27,500 people were inside the venue …
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Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Liberaland, Yahoo Politics, Booman Tribune, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Liberal Values, American Power, Politico and Oregonian
Jamil Smith / The New Republic:
BlackLivesMatter Activists Plan to Disrupt Hillary Clinton Event — Activists from Boston's #BlackLivesMatter chapter plan to disrupt a Hillary Clinton event in Keene, New Hampshire, on Tuesday afternoon, asking her questions specifically about her platform on drug enforcement.
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Vox, The Daily Caller and Boston Globe