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7:35 AM ET, August 30, 2015

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Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near … Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race. — She's the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Fox News, Scared Monkeys, Wall Street Journal, The Moderate Voice, PoliticusUSA, The American Mirror, Liberal Values, The Daily Caller and Weekly Standard

John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:

Ben Carson Edging Close to Front-Runner Trump in Latest Iowa Poll — Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has emerged as a leading Republican presidential candidate in Iowa and is closing in on frontrunner Donald Trump in the state that hosts the first 2016 nomination balloting contest.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Power Line

Jackie Kucinich / The Daily Beast:

Hillary Clinton Really Is Coming For Your Guns — Some politicians talk about gun control once in a while. Clinton has been pushing to curb firearms for decades. No wonder the NRA has vowed to bring her down. — “Something is deeply wrong,” Hillary Clinton told the audience at the Democratic National Committee on Friday.

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, PoliticusUSA, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Moe Lane

Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:

Sanders Within Striking Distance of Clinton in Iowa — Hillary Clinton's once-prohibitive advantage in Iowa has slipped enough to jeopardize her front-runner status and Bernie Sanders has moved to within striking distance, revealing a Democratic presidential field in unexpected flux …

Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Clinton resets campaign strategy

Discussion: RedState, The PJ Tatler, America Rising and Washington Post

Houston Chronicle:

Capital murder charges files in deputy's death — A 30-year-old Cypress man has been charged with capital murder in the Friday killing of a 47-year-old Harris County Sheriff's deputy who had stopped at a gas station he frequented in northwest Harris County.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review and NOLA River

BREITBART.COM:

Texas Deputy Executed Days After Black Radical Group Calls for Killing Cops — HOUSTON, Texas — A Harris County Sheriff's Deputy was shot execution style at a gas station while reportedly in full uniform. The deputy was filling up his patrol car. Witnesses told Breitbart Texas …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

New York Times: Texas Deputy Killed ‘Because He Wore a Uniform,’ Sheriff Says

Fox News:
Man suspected of killing Texas county sheriff's deputy reportedly arrested

Discussion: The Daily Caller, KHOU-TV, The PJ Tatler, ABC News, Patterico's Pontifications, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit and American Power

Faith Karimi / CNN:
Man held in killing of Texas sheriff's deputy

Discussion: Click2Houston.com, Scared Monkeys, KTLA, New York Times, Raw Story, FOX2now.com, Talking Points Memo, NBC News, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit

Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:

Wasserman Schultz blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting: report — Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz blocked consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting that would have praised President Obama and backed the his nuclear deal with Iran …

Discussion: Moe Lane

Washington Post:

Dems say party chair blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting — MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz prevented consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting here that praised President Obama and offered backing for the nuclear agreement with Iran, according to knowledgeable Democrats.

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Make A $15 National Minimum Wage An Establishment Principle

Discussion: Addicting Info

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

Donald Trump: ‘This is a movement’ — <p>Donald Trump says it's not all about him. No, seriously. </p><p>Campaigning in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump on Saturday paid homage to his supporters — claiming they are a part of “a movement” and using colorful language to beg for their support. </p><p …

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'm winning because Americans are ‘tired of being the patsies’

Discussion: Liberaland

Marc Caputo / Politico:
Top Jeb fundraisers leave campaign amid troubling signs

Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times, Vox, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, American Spectator, Business Insider and Hullabaloo

Tim Devaney / The Hill:

Enraging industry, labor board asserts its power under Obama — The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has become a lightning rod for controversy under President Obama, with its aggressive actions fueling sustained warfare between business and labor. — From the labor board's bitter fight …

Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:

‘Django’ actress gets community service after judge calls apology to LAPD ‘insincere’ — When an actress and her boyfriend pleaded no contest to charges stemming from an arrest last fall, there was a catch: They had to apologize to the Los Angeles police officers they accused of mistreating the actress because of her race.

Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and CBS Sacramento

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:

Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer — At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming — U.S. Inflation Developments — I am delighted to be here in Jackson Hole in the company of such distinguished panelists and such a distinguished group of participants.

Discussion: Economist's View, Marginal REVOLUTION, New York Times and Washington Post