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5:45 PM ET, September 9, 2015

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Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Watch Mike Huckabee's ‘Biblical’ Support For Kim Davis Get Dismantled On Live Television  —  Tuesday afternoon, former Arkansas governor and current Republican candidate for president Mike Huckabee stood on a stage in Kentucky and held hands with Kim Davis, a county clerk who was released …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Same-Sex Marriage Returns As 2016 Issue, Worrying Some Republicans  —  Just when they thought they were out, Kim Davis pulled them back in.  —  Republican strategists are worried that the return of same-sex marriage as a presidential campaign piñata could hurt the party in the 2016 general election …
Bob Barr / Townhall.com:
Be Careful What You Wish For In the “Kim Davis” Case  —  Imagine waking up to the news that a Quaker county sheriff is denying concealed carry permits to citizens because of his religious objection to violence; or, a Muslim DMV supervisor in Dearborn, Michigan has ordered his staff to refuse …
Discussion: American Spectator
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Stop Comparing Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders  —  A lot of people are linking the candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump under headings like “populist” and “anti-establishment.”  Most of these comparisons are too cute for their own good — not only because it's too early to come …
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
What's behind Republican voters' support of Trump? Anger at Republicans
Discussion: Daily Kos
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Filibuster Opponents Have Gone Quiet Since Democrats Lost the Senate
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's Bungled Reboot  —  It's a bad sign when your presidential campaign needs a reboot.  It's a worse sign when your advisers announce that reboot publicly.  —  That's exactly where Hillary Clinton finds herself this week.  In an attempt to right what is universally seen …
Discussion: ABC News, Fox News, Guardian and Mediaite
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Hillary Clinton / Facebook:
I wanted you to hear this directly from me:  —  Yes, I should …
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
CIA: Yes, Hillary's Email Contained ‘Top Secret’ Intelligence; Campaign ‘Disagrees’
The Hill:
House GOP to postpone vote on Iran after member revolt  —  House Republican leaders are delaying a vote on the Iran nuclear deal scheduled for Wednesday because of a rebellion from rank-and-file conservatives.  —  The House was to hold a procedural vote to begin 11 hours of debate …
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Wayne Coffey / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: James Blake, former tennis star, slammed to ground and handcuffed outside midtown hotel by white NYPD cops who mistook him for ID theft suspect  —  Former tennis great James Blake was slammed to the ground, handcuffed and detained by five plainclothes city cops Wednesday outside …
Kylee Wierks / Fox 59:
Man shares photos with gorilla on smart phone and the gorilla's reaction is priceless  —  He was visiting the zoo's gorilla sanctuary for the first time with his daughter when he noticed another visitor showing his iPhone to a gorilla named Jelani.  —  Jelani looked very intrigued …
Discussion: WHNT-TV
Justin Kroll / Variety:
Ronda Rousey to Star in ‘Road House’ Reboot (EXCLUSIVE)  —  UFC fighter Ronda Rousey is starring in MGM's reboot of the 1980s cult classic “Road House.”  Rousey will step into the role Patrick Swayze made famous.  —  Sources say MGM is currently meeting with screenwriters, with production set to begin in 2016.
Fars News Agency:
Supreme Leader: Israel Not Alive in 25 Years  —  TEHRAN (FNA)- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described Israel as a “fake” regime, and said there won't be any Israel in 25 years from now.  —  “Some of the Zionists have said that given the results …
Discussion: Reuters, The PJ Tatler and Power Line
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iran's Supreme Leader Says Israel Won't Exist in 25 Years
The Times of Israel:
Khamenei: Israel won't survive next 25 years
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Pamela Geller
Jeb Bush / Wall Street Journal:
My Tax Overhaul to Unleash 4% Growth  —  Three income-tax rates: 10%, 25% and 28%, plus a 20% corporate rate and immediate expensing on new investment.
Candace McCowan / WFLA-TV:
St Pete teen kills masked intruder who turns out to be his dad  —  ST PETERSBURG, FL (WFLA) - Investigators now tell us a teen who killed his father Tuesday morning is a case of justifiable homicide.  Malachi Heisler tells us he woke up to cries for help early Tuesday morning.
Discussion: FOX31 Denver and Daily Mail
Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
3 Boys Found Dead Inside SUV; Suspect Believed to Be in Custody: LAPD  —  In what LAPD Chief Charlie Beck described as a “gruesome” scene, three boys were found dead and a man was discovered with stab wounds inside an SUV in South L.A. on Wednesday morning.  —  The bodies of three elementary …
Discussion: WGN-TV and Fox 59
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Hillary Clinton lectured.  Donald Trump hectored.  —  <p>Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton converged in the same city on the same day to talk about the same topic: the deal with Iran.  But they arrived in Washington with opposite trajectories — Clinton slipping in a Democratic primary …
Discussion: ABC News
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump: I'd bring Mike Ditka on board
Discussion: ABC News
Henry Allen Michael / CBS Detroit:
Police: Man Finds Wife Naked In Bed With Her Dad, Gets Stabbed By Father-In-Law  —  PONTIAC (WWJ) - Police in Oakland County say a man was stabbed by his father-in-law after finding the 47-year-old nude in bed with his wife — the man's own daughter — and the older man is now behind bars.
Discussion: WGN-TV and theGrio
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
National Geographic magazine shifts to for-profit status with Fox partnership  —  The National Geographic magazine, a nonprofit publication since its founding in 1888, will shift to for-profit status under a new partnership with 21st Century Fox, the entertainment company controlled by the family …
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Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
California Assembly approves right-to-die legislation  —  The state Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow California physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, sending the proposal to the Senate, which had previously approved a similar bill.
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo:
Trump: I ‘always felt that I was in the military’ at military school  —  Republican frontrunner Donald Trump reportedly told the author of a forthcoming biography that while he never served in the military, he “always felt” that he had because he attended a military-themed prep school that gave him …
WGNO:
Very rare pink dolphin spotted again (and she may be pregnant)  —  CALCASIEU PARISH, La. (WGNO) - Captain Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service first spotted the mysterious pink dolphin they affectionately call, “Pinky” in 2007 out while fishing on his boat with his company Calcasieu Charter Service.
 
 
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
SC Republicans to Graham: Drop Out
Discussion: Slantpoint and The Last Refuge
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Patrick Murphy: America Tops The World In ‘Greed And Selfish Behavior’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Andrew Wender Cohen / Politico:
When Americans Loved Taxes
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Body Count  —  One day last fall, Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor …
Zachary Mider / Bloomberg Business:
PAC Built by Ted Cruz Mega-Donors Gets Evangelical Leader
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Nick Vlahos / Journal Star:
Peoria council approves $125,000 Twitter settlement with no discussion
Discussion: FOX2now.com
For The / Daily Mail:
Now Chrissie Hynde attacks today's lewd pop stars branding them ‘sex workers’ who have created a ‘pornography culture’
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Are Super PACs Hurting Their Candidates More Than Helping?
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Jill's dilemma  —  <p>A month ago, Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: ABC News
 

 
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