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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Boxing out Biden — At fundraiser, Clinton and Obama supporters revel in unity and hope the vice president will take a pass. — Getty — EDGARTOWN, Mass. - As Joe Biden considers a possible run for president, the donors he'd need to be viable appear to be ruling him out.
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Washington Post:
It's too late for Democrats to start rethinking Clinton's 2016 viability — Dear Democrats: It's too late to start over. — As in, there's no replacing Hillary Rodham Clinton as your party's front-runner for the presidential nomination. Not with Vice President Biden — even if he runs.
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Washington Monthly, Hot Air, RedState, Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Seeks to Connect With Iowans, but Celebrity Gets in Way
Hillary Clinton Seeks to Connect With Iowans, but Celebrity Gets in Way
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Althouse
Thomas Lake / CNN:
‘I am Batman,’ Trump tells boy on helicopter ride — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)A helicopter landed here just after noon on Saturday, causing a short but violent windstorm. Large trees shivered; small ones bent nearly sideways. Dust swirled up from the parking lot, stinging the eyes of the onlookers.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Scott Walker struggles for the Iowa prize
Scott Walker struggles for the Iowa prize
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Jennifer Shutt / Politico:
Carson suggests Obama is ‘anti-Semitic’ with Iran deal
Carson suggests Obama is ‘anti-Semitic’ with Iran deal
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Israel Matzav, The Moderate Voice and BuzzFeed
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Lord Mandelson's failed ‘mass resignation’ bid to attempt to stop Jeremy Corbyn winning Labour leadership — It also emerged that Liz Kendall urged Yvette Cooper to stand down because Andy Burnham is the only candidate who can win - but Miss Cooper refused.
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David Miliband / Guardian:
Corbyn offers only angry defiance. What we need is Kendall's clarity and courage
Corbyn offers only angry defiance. What we need is Kendall's clarity and courage
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Telegraph and LabourList
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Against Retirement — Something strange is happening in the Republican primary — something strange, that is, besides the Trump phenomenon. For some reason, just about all the leading candidates other than The Donald have taken a deeply unpopular position, a known political loser, on a major domestic policy issue.
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Ana Marie Cox / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Has Heard About That Hashtag — What is your elevator pitch for socialism? My elevator pitch is that the United States has a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality where the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent …
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads … The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a report this weekend on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos.
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James Quinn / Telegraph:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: With Jeremy Clarkson, we're entering a new golden age of television
Amazon's Jeff Bezos: With Jeremy Clarkson, we're entering a new golden age of television
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New York Times:
With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots Life After Presidency — WASHINGTON — The dinner in the private upstairs dining room of the White House went so late that Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire, finally suggested around midnight that President Obama might like to go to bed.
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Washington Post:
Route 29 Batman is killed after his Batmobile breaks down along a Md. highway — The Route 29 Batman, whose roadside encounter with Montgomery County police three years ago made him a viral sensation around the world, has died. — Lenny B. Robinson, the 51-year-old Maryland man who drove …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President — The birther movement has come home to roost as the Republican presidential primary heats up. — In a column published last week on the conspiracy theory website WND, author Jack Cashill noted that questions had been raised …
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Christie Obama / New Jersey Online:
Chris Christie's presidential run: Time to call it a day, Guv | Mulshine — President Obama and Chris Christie after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 - and right before Obama's re-election: Rand Paul reminded voters of this moment during the first debate. It's as close to president as Christie will ever get.
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Wall Street Journal and New Jersey News …
Melinda Henneberger / Bloomberg Business:
How Trump Is Winning Over Conservatives Without the Bona Fides — No one plays the music of conservatism better than Trump, which allows him to make crowds go wild without mentioning issues like taxes, the deficit, profligate spending, or abortion. — “Keep dropping the truth bomb!” …
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Liberaland and Political Wire
BBC:
Bangkok bomb: Deadly blast rocks Thailand capital — A bomb has exploded close to a shrine in the centre of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more. — A second bomb has been found in the area and made safe, officials say.
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New York Times, Daily Kos, PerezHilton and The Week
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Price for TSA's failed body scanners: $160 million — How bad are the machines at catching threats? So bad that Sen. Ron Johnson suggests adding metal detectors. — Getty — It's now becoming clear exactly how many tens of millions of dollars the TSA spent on body scanners …
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The Week
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Mocks Warren's Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish — Swede and low. — Win Mcnamee / Getty Images — Donald Trump, who on Saturday mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren for making unsubstantiated claims that she had Cherokee and Delaware Native American heritage …
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Liberaland, Vanity Fair and New York Times