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Baton Rouge Shooter Gavin Eugene Long Was Nation Of Islam Member, Railed Against ‘Crackers’ On YouTube Channel [VIDEO] — A Youtube account operated by Gavin Eugene Long and discovered by The Daily Caller reveals key insight into what might have motivated the 29-year-old black man …

Discussion: National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Jawa Report, Jihad Watch, The PolitiStick, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Pamela Geller, The Last Refuge, Shot in the Dark, Mediaite, WBRZ, Power Line, The Week and Bearing Arms

NBC News:

Gavin or ‘Cosmo’? Baton Rouge Shooter Left Long, Twisted Digital Footprint — The suspect in the fatal shooting of three Baton Rouge cops maintained a robust social media presence and a website called Convos With Cosmo in which he describes himself as a “freedom strategist, mental game coach …

Discussion: Guardian, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, AOL and Business Insider

Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:

The Fire Spreads — Three cops dead in Baton Rouge, and the analogies to the 1960s deepen. — Public safety — Perhaps it will turn out that the latest assassination of police officers, this time in Baton Rouge, is unrelated to the hatred fomented by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Discussion: The White House, Power Line and Washington Post

The Advocate:
‘Humble, kind, sweet,’ new dad Montrell Jackson one of Baton Rouge officers killed in attack

Kansas City Star:
Suspect in killings of three Baton Rouge officers identified as Kansas City man

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, USA Today, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Argus Leader and Raw Story

CBS News:
Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday

John Eligon / New York Times:
Black Lives Matter Leader Calls for End to Violence

Discussion: Friendly Atheist, CBS Chicago, CBS Baltimore, Breitbart, alan.com, WREG-TV, Mediaite, CBS News, The Week and Hit & Run

Andrew Holleran / College Spun:
Facebook Post From Baton Rouge Police Officer Killed Today Is Going Viral

Discussion: WHNT-TV, WCTX-TV and The Hayride

Associated Press:
Obama Urges Americans to Tamp Down Inflammatory Rhetoric

Discussion: Politico, Power Line, Associated Press, Washington Post, KRQE-TV, Breitbart, BillMoyers.com, National Review, BizPac Review and CBS Pittsburgh

The White House:
Statement by the President — I condemn, in the strongest sense …

Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Victims Of The Baton Rouge Attack

Discussion: Washington Post, NPR, NBC News, New York Magazine and AOL

Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Slain Officer Had Written About Turmoil of Recent Days

Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and USA Today

NBC News:
Suspected Baton Rouge Shooter Hinted at Defense of ‘Justice’

Discussion: AOL, Independent Journal Review, ProFootballTalk, New York Times, The Week, NBC News, CBS New York, France 24, WQAD-TV, The Hayride, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones and Townhall.com

The Daily Beast:
Slain Baton Rouge Cop's Haunting Facebook Plea: 'Please Don't Let Hate Infect Your Heart.'

Discussion: The Week, CBS New York and Mediaite

New York Times:
Baton Rouge Shooting Jolts a Nation on Edge

Discussion: Shakesville, New York Magazine, Washington Free Beacon, Media Matters for America, Balloon Juice, Little Green Footballs, CityLab, CBS News and The Atlantic

Jane Mayer / New Yorker:

Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All — “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it. — Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz's sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale …

Discussion: ABC News, Vox, AOL, Raw Story and The Week

Lesley Stahl / CBS News:

The Republican Ticket: Trump and Pence — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, speak to Lesley Stahl in their first joint interview — The following is a script from “The Republican Ticket” which aired on July 17, 2016.

Discussion: Vox, Politicus USA, CNBC, Taylor Marsh, Althouse, Political Insider blog, Mother Jones, Towleroad, Guardian and Washington Post

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Donald Trump's answer on Mike Pence's Iraq vote is really something — One section of the first joint interview by the presumptive Republican ticket reveals a great deal about the man at its top. — CBS's Lesley Stahl asked Donald Trump if he would send troops to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Hit & Run, The Week, New York Times and alan.com

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:

Four times Donald Trump answered Mike Pence's questions on ‘60 Minutes’ — CLEVELAND — For their first lengthy public interaction, Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence opted for a sit-down interview with 60 Minutes. Trump did most of the talking during the 21-minute segment that aired on Sunday night …

Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire

2016 GOP Convention:

2016 GOP Convention Program Announced — CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jeff Larson, CEO of the 2016 Republican National Convention, today released an updated program for the “Make America Great Again” convention, July 18-21, in Cleveland. — Veterans, political outsiders, faith leaders …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Hit & Run, Politico, Gawker, Washington Free Beacon, Liberal Values and twitchy.com

Niall Stanage / The Hill:

Curtain goes up on Trump show — The curtain is about to rise on the most extraordinary political convention of modern times. — , a man who has never run for political office before, is about to become the Republican presidential nominee. — Trump has flouted every rule of campaigning known …

Discussion: ABC News

Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Cleveland police union asks for suspension of ‘open carry’ in wake of Baton Rouge, ahead of RNC

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump to roll out potential Cabinet picks at convention: report

Discussion: Politico, Joe.My.God., Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit

John Nichols / The Nation:

Republicans Will Nominate a Candidate Who Would Violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments — If the GOP had any respect for the Bill of Rights, they would reject Trump. — By , — Cleveland—As Republican Party “constitutionalists” prepare to nominate authoritarian billionaire Donald Trump …

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

Donald Trump stood on a — debate stage in downtown Detroit, surrounded by haters he was determined to dispatch: Liddle Marco to his right, Lyin' Ted to his left, Megyn Kelly at the moderator's table straight ahead, and — somewhere out there, in a darkened living room 1,500 miles away — me.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Week, Raw Story and National Review

Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:

Cleveland Police Association President Steve Loomis: Obama “Has Blood On His Hands” — Detective Steve Loomis said that the shootings of police officers, from Dallas to now, started with what he deemed as a completely false narrative that police are ‘racist.’

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Bearing Arms

Steven Shepard / Politico:

GOP insiders dreading Trump's convention — Forget about the balloons, the expressions of party unity and the quadrennial celebration of partisan pride. GOP insiders are dreading the Republican convention in Cleveland this week. — That's according to The POLITICO Caucus …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Marc Fisher / Washington Post:

Donald Trump doesn't read much. Being president probably wouldn't change that. — NEW YORK — As he has prepared to be named the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump has not read any biographies of presidents. He said he would like to someday. — He has no time to read, he said: “I never have.

Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire