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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (R) said on Monday that he won't respond to clerk Kim Davis' recent motion asking the governor to release her from jail while she appeals the contempt of court ruling that landed her behind bars.
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz to Visit Jailed Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis … The 2016 presidential campaign is coming to the jailhouse steps in Kentucky Tuesday, as GOP contender Ted Cruz is travelling there to visit Kim Davis, the clerk who has been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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John Culhane / Politico:
Kim Davis Is No Rosa Parks — <p>Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk sitting in jail for refusing to issue same-sex couples marriage licenses, appears content to play the martyr's role. But contrary to her own, self-aggrandizing description, she's no Rosa Parks.
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CNN:
Kim Davis asks Kentucky governor to free her in same-sex marriage case
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox News panel concludes that Kim Davis' lawyer is ‘ridiculously stupid’
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Ryan T. Anderson / New York Times:
We Don't Need Kim Davis to Be in Jail
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Associated Press, The Huffington Post and BizzyBlog
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton's Email — WASHINGTON — A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea's nuclear weapons program …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say — There will be no more flip jokes about her private email server. There will be no rope lines to wall off crowds, which added to an impression of aloofness. And there will be new efforts to bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious.
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Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Clinton says no email apology: ‘What I did was allowed’
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Scared Monkeys and Liberal Values
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Boehner's future as speaker in doubt — <p>Something has changed for John Boehner.</p><p>Figures in his close-knit circle of allies are starting to privately wonder whether he can survive an all-but-certain floor vote this fall to remain speaker of the House.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Countdown to shutdown begins — <p>Congress returns from its long summer vacation Tuesday to an all-out, three-week sprint to avert a government shutdown - and no apparent plan yet to quell the conservative rebellion over Planned Parenthood that has dramatically increased the odds …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Get ready for a second GOP debate with even more fireworks — The rapidly shifting dynamic of the 2016 presidential campaign will probably turn the second Republican debate into a far more contentious event than the first. — The month since the first debate in early August has seen …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Hillary In The Hot Seat — NOTABLES —ABC's DAVID MUIR TO INTERVIEW HILLARY CLINTON: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clintons sits down for an interview today with ABC's DAVID MUIR to discuss the Iran deal, her private e-mail server and the state of the race.
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Geoffrey Skelley / Politico:
The Truth About the 2016 Race — <p>The rise of Donald Trump …
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New York Times
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican — VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes …
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Political Wire
Ashley Michels / FOX31 Denver:
Aurora police on alert after threatening call to 911 dispatch … AURORA, Colo. — The Aurora Police Department was on high alert Monday after a dispatch operator received an alarming and anonymous call. It is a concern for police and something the community should be aware of as well.
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Whitney Wild / KUSA-TV:
Warning for CO police after threat, shots fired
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Joe Biden's hope-and-pray South Carolina strategy — <p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Biden thinks he can win South Carolina. And that victory, he believes, would hurtle his campaign into a rally toward the Democratic nomination no matter who has already taken Iowa and New Hampshire.</p><p> He thinks …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
PITTSBURGH — The calls of encouragement could be heard …
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New York Times:
The Pointless Banishment of Sex Offenders — It's a chilling image: the sex predator skulking in the shadows of a swing set, waiting to snatch a vulnerable child. — Over the past two decades, that scenario has led to a wave of laws around the country restricting where people convicted …
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Simple Justice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump Likens His Schooling to Military Service in Book — Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, National Review and Betsy's Page
Hans Bader / Liberty Unyielding:
Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX — The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, is gradually turning Title IX into a license to lie about sexual harassment and assault. And it is thumbing its nose at federal court rulings in doing so.
Owen Boss / Boston Herald:
Marco Rubio ‘open to’ U.S. taking in refugees... with safeguards — GOP prez hopeful wants to ensure no terrorism ties — Photo by: — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio says he's “open to” the United States taking in some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been flooding into Europe …
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