Top Items:
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Poll: Public wants to avoid shutdown over Planned Parenthood — A huge majority wants Congress to keep the government open, regardless of whether that means providing funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday. — The poll finds that 71 percent of adults …
Discussion:
Addicting Info, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Politico:
McConnell's fall mandate: Keep calm, avert catastrophe — In a POLITICO interview, the Senate leader says the GOP can do big things — in 2017. Until then, his agenda is more modest. — Mitch McConnell wants his party playing the long game. — To hear the Senate majority leader tell it …
Discussion:
Washington Post, ABC News, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Addicting Info, New York Times, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law
GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law
Discussion:
Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner's so gross even PR flacks are disgusted by him — Anthony Weiner is so toxic that the powerhouse public-relations firm that hired him is losing top-flight talent, sources tell The Post. — Arthur Schwartz, one of the top executives at MWW, quit after the p.r. firm put …
Discussion:
Daily Mail, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon
David Kamp / Vanity Fair:
Why Late-Night Television Is Better than Ever — Late-night comedy has seen a disorienting—some feared fragmenting—shuffle over the last two years as Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart gave up their chairs. But, writes David Kamp, a mix of new faces, shows, and platforms has only revitalized the format.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Deadline, Jezebel, Mediaite and Addicting Info
TMZ.com:
Devo Co-Founder — 9/11 Themed Wedding ... Box Cutters Anyone? — 9/11 THEMED WEDDING — ... Box Cutters Anyone? — 9/14/2015 8:16 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE — The co-founder of Devo and his bride hung their faces off a Twin Towers cake to celebrate their marriage with the most bizarre …
RELATED:
Ashley Collman For / Daily Mail:
Devo band-member Jerry Casale sparks outrage for his Twin Towers-themed wedding cake
Devo band-member Jerry Casale sparks outrage for his Twin Towers-themed wedding cake
Discussion:
John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Mark Cuban: I could beat Trump AND Clinton — Mark Cuban to CNBC: I would crush Donald — Republican candidates will hit the stage Wednesday night in their next debate. CNBC's Eamon Javers reports Mark Cuban said he would crush Donald Trump if he were head to head with him in a race.
Discussion:
Hot Air and OnPolitics
RELATED:
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince
Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince
Discussion:
Liberaland
Raw Story:
Arnold Schwarzenegger to take over for Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — “You're terminated”? “You won't be back”? “Hasta la vista, job seeker”? — Arnold Schwarzenegger is to replace Donald Trump as the host of the NBC reality show …
Discussion:
Deadline, UPROXX and Progress Pond
RELATED:
James Hibberd / EW.com:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO REPLACE DONALD TRUMP AS CELEBRITY APPRENTICE HOST
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER TO REPLACE DONALD TRUMP AS CELEBRITY APPRENTICE HOST
Discussion:
BizPac Review, Full Feed and TMZ.com
Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Named New ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Host
Arnold Schwarzenegger Named New ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Host
Discussion:
Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and The Moderate Voice
Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump — Ben Carson is turning the other cheek. — The retired neurosurgeon explained his apology to Donald Trump in a new interview, saying that he was not questioning the real estate mogul's faith but rather talking about his own.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal
RELATED:
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
Discussion:
Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and Poynter.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Poll: Sharp erosion in Clinton support among Democratic women — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Rodham Clinton is suffering rapid erosion of support among Democratic women — the voters long presumed to be her bedrock in her bid to become the nation's first female president.
Discussion:
Townhall.com, Liberal Values, Business Insider, Mediaite, ABC News and Slantpoint
RELATED:
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why is the media more interested in Hillary's email than in Jeb's profoundly dishonest tax pitch? — The formative experience of my political life was the 2000 presidential campaign, in which the media mercilessly persecuted Al Gore over a series of trivial exaggerations and now-forgotten pseudo-scandals …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, New York Times and FiveThirtyEight
Timothy D. Easley / ABC News:
What Kim Davis Is Saying Now About Marriage Licenses — Shares- — Play
Discussion:
NPR, UPROXX, abc7ny.com and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Mike Wynn / USA Today:
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won't authorize licenses
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won't authorize licenses
Discussion:
The Atlantic, Religion News Service and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Kevin Conlon / CNN:
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
Discussion:
Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather, Patterico's Pontifications, NBC News and Scared Monkeys
Rebecca Jeschke / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit — Appeals Court Affirms That Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use in Online Takedowns — San Francisco - A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Democrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of ‘Super PACs’ — Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of “super PACs” that would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions …
Discussion:
BuzzFeed
RELATED:
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Perry Gets Winnowed
Perry Gets Winnowed
Discussion:
Off the Kuff, Texas Monthly and Addicting Info
Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: New State Department Documents Reveal Hillary Clinton Email Gap — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year.
Discussion:
Power Line, Daily Mail and Hot Air
RELATED:
Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Russia shipping tanks into Syria, in ‘first clear sign of offensive weapons’ — Russia's military build-up in Syria has grown to include the shipment of a half-dozen highly sophisticated battle tanks — and more troops — a defense official told Fox News, in what the source called the …
Discussion:
Michael J. Totten's blog
RELATED:
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration — Never marry again in slavery. — Margaret Garner, 1858 Wherever the law is, crime can be found. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973 Chapters “Lower-class behavior in our cities is shaking them apart.” “We are incarcerating too few criminals.”
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
A pregnant woman wanted her tubes tied. Her Catholic hospital said no. — It was painful to hear but ultimately seemed the best course to Jessica Mann and her family. Because of a dangerous tumor in her brain, her doctor gently suggested that she take steps to make sure that she could not get pregnant again.
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Inside Ethel Kennedy's cruel neglect of her troubled kids — Ethel Kennedy in 1969. — Since Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer. Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone.
Clayton Jenkins / The Daily Beast:
My Police Academy Teaches the ‘War on Cops’ Myth — In my rural red state police academy, instructors preach about ‘officers dying left and right’—even though the numbers show this isn't happening. — The trumpets of the thin blue line and right-wing news sources have been sounding, piping out warnings of a “War on Police.”