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11:40 PM ET, August 13, 2016

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
“Always Correct” Election Predictor Has Donald Trump Defeating Sickly Hillary 51% to 48%  —  Alan Abramowitz's “Crystal Ball” model has Trump defeating sickly Hillary Clinton 51% to 48%.  —  The model gives Trump a 66% chance of winning the election this year.  —  The Examiner reported:
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Always correct election forecast model predicts Trump win, 51%-48%  —  Republican Donald Trump should win the presidency by a slim margin according to a model that has accurately predicted the popular vote since 1988.  —  Using several standards to make his prediction, Alan Abramowitz's …
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New York Post:
Imam killed execution-style walking from Queens mosque
Discussion: New York Magazine and Mondoweiss
Daily Mail:
Nancy Pelosi is flooded with ‘sick and obscene’ phone calls after ‘Russian’ hacker posted House Democrats' private numbers  — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone numbers and not let family members read their text messages
Discussion: WND
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Hackers Claim to Have Released House Democrats' Personal Information
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and BizPac Review
Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
App maker: Trump will win election  —  LOS ANGELES — Despite a majority of opinion polls showing the 2016 presidential election going to Democrat Hillary Clinton, a smartphone app developer says his data suggests challenger Donald Trump will be the victor.  —  “Based on the stats we see …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee  —  WASHINGTON — SPEAKING of crazy ...  All these woebegone Republicans whining that they can't rally behind their flawed candidate is crazy.  The G.O.P. angst, the gnashing and wailing and searching for last-minute substitutes and exit strategies, is getting old.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren't in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In  —  Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has once again blamed President Obama for something that happened years before he took office.  —  Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan's death in 2004?
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump Spokesperson Says Obama Invaded Afghanistan. He Didn't.
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
How Trump And Pence Are Doing Their Rallies Is “Totally Unprecedented”  —  CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — In the middle of Mike Pence's stump speech attacking Hillary Clinton and highlighting party unity, a woman near the front of the crowd inside the local civic center repeatedly yelled, “The polls are rigged.
Discussion: alan.com
Joe Concha / The Hill:
NBC News covers Trump with ‘sarcastic’ tweet  —  NBC Nightly News took a snarky approach to covering Donald Trump  —  's proclamation Friday that he can only lose Pennsylvania “if cheating goes on.”  —  The show's Twitter account tweeted: “NEW: Donald Trump says only way Hillary Clinton
Discussion: BizPac Review, CNN and Mediaite
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
De Niro compares Trump to his ‘Taxi Driver’ character  —  Award winning actor Robert De Niro on Saturday compared Donald Trump  —  to his mentally unstable character Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver,” calling the Republican nominee “totally nuts.”
Discussion: The Week
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Aida Cerkez / Associated Press:
Robert De Niro compares Trump with “Taxi Driver” character
Discussion: Associated Press
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Finally SOMEONE Who Agrees With Trump Claim That Obama Founded ISIS  —  Donald Trump has been taking a lot of flak for his claim that Barack Obama is the “founder of ISIS,” a claim he later doubled-down on (before later insisting it was sarcasm).  It's led to another string of bad media …
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
‘Winter Is Coming’ Warns The Solar Physicist The Alarmists Tried To Silence  —  Make the most of this summer because it could be your last decent one: winter is coming as the planet enters the most devastating cooling period since the 65-year Maunder Minimum of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Davida / Washington Monthly:
The Garland Pre-Compromise Is Already Sabotaging Clinton's First 100 Days  —  As confidence grows that Trump will lose in November, speculation is already beginning about the first 100 days of a new hypothetical Clinton administration.  Top of the list is filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by the passing of justice Antonin Scalia.
Nicola Slawson / Guardian:
Kenny Baker, actor behind R2-D2, dies  —  The 3ft 8in actor, who starred in six Star Wars films as well as Time Bandits and Flash Gordon, was 83  —  The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died at the age of 83 after a long illness.  —  Kenny Baker, who was 3ft 8in tall …
Bob Cesca / Salon:
Trump and the exploitation of right rage: It's not the economy, stupid, that's attracting angry white men to him  —  The brainwashing of Trump loyalists by right wing media is on display every day — and it's disturbing VIDEO  —  We've all seen the videos replayed over and over again on social media and cable news.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton's E-Mails  —  On Wednesday, the conservative group Judicial Watch released two hundred and ninety-six pages of e-mails that Hillary Clinton and her aides at the State Department had exchanged.  Judicial Watch's president has said that they came …
BBC:
Switzerland Salez attack: Knifeman sets fire to Swiss train  —  A knifeman has set fire to a train in north-eastern Switzerland, leaving six people in hospital with stab wounds and burns, police say.  —  The suspect, described as a Swiss man aged 27, was also taken to hospital …
Discussion: Mediaite
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CBS North Carolina / WNCN:
No gunshots confirmed inside Crabtree Valley Mall, police say
Discussion: WIAT-TV and WSPA-TV
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Bill Clinton: Email Classification Issues Are ‘Too Complicated To Explain To People’ [VIDEO]
Discussion: Infowars and BizPac Review
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Rise of the micro-dog: as British homes get smaller so do our pets
Discussion: Infowars
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Does Sean Hannity Want Hillary to Win?
Discussion: Mediaite and Townhall.com
The Hill:
‘Expedited Removal’ process as cold as ICE: Response to Jeh Johnson
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and Rewire
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview
Discussion: Hot Air and BizPac Review
Associated Press:
Frustration abundant, GOP could be near breaking point Trump
Discussion: alan.com
Mara Siegler / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner caught in new flirty online chat
New York Times:
Once Skeptical of Executive Power, Obama Has Come to Embrace It
Discussion: JustOneMinute
CNN:
Republicans question Trump's travel choices, tight purse strings
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Hope Solo, tolerated and excused in victory, exposes herself in Olympic defeat
Discussion: New York Times and USA Today
 

 
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