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3:15 AM ET, August 18, 2015

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
CNN Forgets to Mention Op-Ed Writer Is a Million Dollar Bundler For Hillary  —  CNN carried an op-ed today in its Opinion section titled, “Hillary Clinton revived America's reputation in world.”  The piece, by Eleni Kounalakis, was a paean to Hillary's wonderfulness as Secretary of State.
Discussion: CNN
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magazine.good.is:
Hillary Clinton to #BlackLivesMatter in Video, “I Don't Believe You Change Hearts...”  —  “...you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.”  by Gabriel Reilich  —  As recently reported by various news outlets, Hillary Clinton held a closed-door session …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Raw Story and msnbc.com
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Here's Audio And Video Of Carly Fiorina's Forceful Praise Of Hillary Clinton In 2008
New York Daily News:   Lupica: Time for Joe Biden to enter the race for President
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Group targets Democrats on Iran deal — Mowrer to run in IA-03 — Redistricting updates  —  The following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score.  For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's …
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Scott Walker tries to make hay out of heckling incident  —  Scott Walker turned a heckling incident at the Iowa State Fair on Monday into an opportunity to hawk his book and slogan — that he's a man, “unintimidated.”  —  “I am not intimidated by you, sir, or anyone else out there,” Walker said.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Jeb Bush, seemingly perfect on paper, just hasn't caught on with GOP voters
Discussion: Liberal Values
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Scott Walker Says The U.S. Needs A Border Fence Like Israel's
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker Being Trumped by The Donald in Crucial State of Iowa
Washington Post:
Route 29 Batman is killed after his Batmobile breaks down in Maryland … The Batmobile pulled into a gas station Sunday night and, as usual, the children who spotted it gawked.  —  Lenny B. Robinson was used to that.  The Maryland man, better known as the Route 29 Batman …
Peter Dukes / Customer:
Big News for the Beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte  —  We have been trying to keep a lid on some big news for the beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte, but with recipes and ingredients starting to ship to our stores, the buzz is building.  —  What's the big deal?  —  After hearing from customers …
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
State Department Finds Thousands of Philippe Reines Emails It Claimed Did Not Exist  —  Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news outlets …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
New Clinton email count: 305 documents with potentially classified information
Kitty Bennett / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Megadonor Identified as Cellphone Executive  —  Senator Ted Cruz of Texas posed at the Americans for Prosperity's Road to Reform event last week in Las Vegas.  —  A New York cellphone executive has emerged as a mystery megadonor behind the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Republican Party doesn't want to believe its voters agree with Trump.  But they do.  —  Does Donald Trump's appeal have anything to do with his policy positions?  Republican political consultant Matthew Dowd says it doesn't — Trump's rise, he argues, is all personality, no policy:
Family Studies:
Red Families vs. Blue Families: Which Are Happier?  —  Blue families are stronger and more stable than red families.  Until recently, this was the conventional wisdom in the media and the academy.  But this belief has been challenged by new reports in Family Studies and the New York Times.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Lawmakers ask DOJ for enforcement info on fetal tissue  —  Republican leaders on the House Judiciary Committee are asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) for information on the enforcement of fetal tissue laws, as part of its investigation into Planned Parenthood.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
HHS to Congress: No violations of fetal tissue laws
Chaédria LaBouvier / Matter:
I Watched 14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ  —  And nobody could stop them.  —  Last week I was on my way to visit Medium's headquarters in San Francisco to discuss a project that I'm working on, mainly focused around police brutality.
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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Bernie Sanders takes Black Lives Matter activist up on offer to talk racial justice
Discussion: The Week
NLRB:
Board Unanimously Decides to Decline Jurisdiction in Northwestern Case  —  Washington, D.C. - - In a unanimous decision, the National Labor Relations Board declined to assert jurisdiction in the case involving Northwestern University football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships.
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Brian Flood / TVNewser:
HuffPost on Trump: 'We're Still Not Taking The Bait'  —  Last month, The Huffington Post decided they weren't going to cover Donald Trump as if he were an actual presidential candidate.  This decision prompted Trump to call the HuffPost a “glorified blog,” while saying he …
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Ashifa Kassam / Guardian:
Four more gored to death across Spain as surge in bull-run casualties continues  —  This year's fiesta season has produced an unusually high death toll, with downturn in number of bullfights and rise of social media offered as explanations  —  At least 10 people have been fatally gored …
Discussion: The Week and Mashable
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Carson: ‘Stop Listening to These People Who Tell Us That We Cannot Talk About God’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson won an enthusiastic response from an audience at the Iowa State Fair Sunday as he called for Americans to unify to confront problems facing the nation …
 
 
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Glenn Reynolds: Fast moving bad news builds prosperity
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Ildefonso Ortiz / BREITBART.COM:
Previously Deported Child Rapist Caught Sneaking into Texas
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Race and the Storm  —  In April, 1927, after spring thaws …
Sig Christenson / MySanAntonio.com:
America's oldest known veteran, Emma Didlake, dies at 110
Discussion: ABC News, Mashable and Slantpoint
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The Real Argument
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Tea Party could lose Senate for GOP
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court's Free-Speech Expansion Has Far-Reaching Consequences
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President
Discussion: Hullabaloo, WND and Liberaland