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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Trump Struts in His Own Pageant — Washington — SOME blondes have all the fun. — As Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush get more testy, Donald Trump gets more chesty. And more blond. — It's mind-boggling to contemplate a President Trump trying to make peace between North and South Korea …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality and Althouse
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Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Donald Trump attended big-donor fundraiser last month — Despite his prior pledge to self-fund his campaign, the billionaire businessman now appears to be embracing big donors. — Donald Trump has boldly touted his independence from big donors, in June proclaiming “I'm using my own money” …
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Orlando Sentinel, Gothamist and Mediaite
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Harry Reid endorses Iran deal, boosts chances Congress won't block it — Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid gave a forceful endorsement Sunday to the nuclear deal with Iran, a key boost that provides continued momentum for preventing Congress from blocking President Obama's pact.
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Politico, NPR, Business Insider and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Amy Wallace / Wired:
Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters — Since 1953, to be nominated for a Hugo Award, among the highest honors in science fiction and fantasy writing, has been a dream come true for authors who love time travel, extraterrestrials and tales of the imagined future.
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Scott Walker Takes His Third Position On The Hottest Issue In The Republican Primary — Presidential candidate's Scott Walker's journey to find a position on birthright citizenship, enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, took another unexpected turn.
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Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Two Arrested in Alleged Pokemon Championship Threat — Two Iowa men are under arrest on weapons charges after Boston police were alerted to alleged threats of violence against participants at the Pokemon World Championship, police said today. — Security officers at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston …
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Hillary's e-mail defense is ‘total BS’: former State Dept. officials — Former State Department security officials don't buy Hillary Clinton's latest alibi that she couldn't tell that government e-mails — which she improperly, if not illegally, kept for several years on an unsecured home server …
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BizPac Review and Scared Monkeys
Barbara Boland / Washington Examiner:
Satan worshipers drown women with milk in Planned Parenthood counter-protest — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Satan worshipers launched a counter-protest against pro-lifers outside the Detriot and Ferndale, Michigan Planned Parenthood locations Saturday.
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The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
Leonard Pitts Jr / miamiherald:
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why ‘Black lives matter’ resonates … This is a column about three words of moral cowardice: — “All lives matter.” — Those words have risen as a kind of counter to “Black lives matter,” the movement that coalesced in response to recent killings and woundings …
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RedState
Will Leitch / Bloomberg Business:
Trumpus Maximus Goes to Mobile — About two hours before gates opened for Donald Trump's out-of-nowhere, only vaguely explicable rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, a gaggle of us journalists began to work the line. The line—already 1,500 deep two hours out—was a dream …
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New York Times and No More Mister Nice Blog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition — Sorry about sparsity of posts; on the road for family reasons, with real life getting in the way of digital. But I did see a number of people praising remarks from Charlie Munger declaring himself “flabbergasted” by low interest rates …
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
What Does Joe Biden Have to Lose by Jumping In to the Presidential Race? — It's the silly season of August, and political reporters can only write so many articles about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. So we get treated to the spectacle of a meeting between Vice President Joe Biden …
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The Moderate Voice, Booman Tribune, The Hill and Politico
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
National Fronts — Trump's rise is mirrored on the European right. — From Malmö comes the news that the Sweden Democrats, scrubbed-up neo-fascists who have forsaken the Roderick Spode uniforms, have become Sweden's most popular political party, commanding the allegiance of a quarter of Swedish voters.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Alabama tried a Donald Trump-style immigration law. It failed in a big way. — ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — Kim and Renee Byrd had wanted to see Donald Trump's speech in Mobile, but there were vegetables to sell. The Byrds are third-generation farmers, and the traffic down Route 90 …
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Washington Monthly and Talking Points Memo
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rand Paul sells Kentucky GOP on presidential caucus — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) avoided a major headache Saturday after Kentucky Republican Party approved a rule change that would allow him to run for president while seeking reelection to his Senate seat. — “I applaud the Republican Party …
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Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Outside the Beltway, Courier-Journal, Raw Story, Roll Call and The Huffington Post
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Kentucky GOP greenlights joint Senate, presidential run for Rand Paul
Kentucky GOP greenlights joint Senate, presidential run for Rand Paul
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Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run and RedState