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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Goes to War with Trump And It Is Glorious  —  Liberals may die tonight because there are limited supplies of those injections they give you for acute schadenfreude toxicity.  Ann Coulter has been Donald Trump's biggest New York City white nationalist supporter.  She's transformed toadying into a militant act.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Coulter mocks Trump's immigration muddle  —  Ann Coulter revealed her sense of disgust with Donald Trump's latest comments on immigration in which he suggested an openness to changing his hard-line stance on illegal immigration.  —  Speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity in a town hall event …
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump's ‘softening’ on immigration remark a panic move  —  “panicked” when he said he was open to softening his immigration policies, according to conservative pundit and Trump ally Ann Coulter.  —  “It's just rhetoric but it's still annoying,” Coulter told The Hill Wednesday night.
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Donald Trump Openly Weighs a Massive Immigration Reversal  —  Trump Reaches Out to Black, Latino Voters as Poll Numbers Show Numbers Falling 2:03  —  In what would be a stunning reversal on an issue central to his candidacy, Donald Trump floated a possible process to allow undocumented immigrants …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump ‘softening’ on immigration? Many of his supporters don't seem to mind.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Sen. Sessions: I can ‘be supportive’ of Trump's immigration move
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Chelsea Clinton Plans to Stay on Board of Family Foundation  —  Clinton Health Access Initiative might also continue to accept foreign government and corporate funding  —  The Clinton Foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations …
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CNN:
Clinton blasts Trump attacks on foundation  —  Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump and issued a strong defense of the Clinton Foundation Wednesday amid the Republican nominee's claims that she used public office for personal gain.
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Ethicists scoff at Clinton Foundation transition plan
Discussion: The Hill and Hot Air
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
GOP FAIL: Donald Trump Not Listed on Minnesota Ballot  —  Just days after his supporters and motorcade were attacked by protesters in Minneapolis at a GOP fundraiser, the Minnesota Republican party has not submitted the names of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee Mike Pence …
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Tegna / KARE-TV:
Trump, Pence not yet on MN ballot … ST. PAUL, Minn. - Don't plan to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?  You'll have options on the Minnesota ballot this November.  —  Tuesday was the deadline for non-major party candidates for President and Vice President to file the necessary paperwork to be on the ballot in Minnesota.
Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING.  Donald Trump Is Not On the Ballot In Minnesota  —  Hard to believe, but its true.  As of today, the GOP has no candidate for president on the ballot in Minnesota.  —  It might be sheer incompetence or it might be a clever ploy by Trump to avoid a Mondale-esque 50 state blow …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton aims to deny Trump's pass at normalcy  —  RENO, Nev. — For months, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have aimed their pitches at distinct sets of voters, each candidate operating under the belief that a November win will be determined singularly by base turnout.  —  That changes Thursday.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump camp brushes aside ‘alt-right’ association
Discussion: ABC News and The Hill
Jon Miltimore / intellectualtakeout.org:
Univ. of Chicago pushes back on trigger warnings, safe spaces  —  Letters sent to the incoming class of 2020 make it clear the University of Chicago isn't a fan of trigger warnings or safe spaces.  —  Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings …
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Fox News:
U. of Chicago to frosh: No ‘safe spaces’ here
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and Mediaite
Lucia Graves / Guardian:
Trump and Farage are playing the same dangerous game  —  The would-be president is harnessing nationalism and bigotry.  Like the former Ukip leader, he is more interested in channelling anger than he is in governance  —  onald Trump's movement has often been compared to that of a rightwing European party.
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Reuters:
Biden says expects Guantanamo prison to close before Obama leaves office
Discussion: Political Wire
Annie Garau / Esquire:
Mike Pence Used to Draw Cartoons.  We Found Them.  They're Strange.  —  Behold the VP nominee's alter ego, Law School Daze  —  Before his P was penetrated by Donald's T, before thousands of women called him to chat about their menses, even before he lost Indiana more than $60 million …
Discussion: Mediaite
mprnews.org:
Mississippi ISIS recruit gets 8 years in prison  —  A Mississippi man who tried to travel to Syria with his fiancee to join the Islamic State group was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison on federal terrorism charges.  —  U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced Muhammad Dakhlalla …
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Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Minneapolis bridge collapse survivor faces terror charge
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Associated Press
John Sides / Washington Post:
How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign?  A lot.  —  Stories about the ramshackle nature of the Trump campaign are abundant.  A recent article called Donald Trump's organization “more concert tour than presidential campaign.”
Discussion: New York Magazine
NBC News:
Where will the Republican Party go after 2016?  —  The future of the Republican Party — with or without Donald J. Trump — is weighing heavily on the party's top elected officials, thought leaders and activists.  It's a topic sure to be dissected once the results on Election Day, November 8, 2016, are tallied.
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Debate Commission faces new challenge in selecting moderators  —  The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is in just over a month, and yet neither candidate knows who the moderator will be.  —  They won't know until after Labor Day, sources with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney.
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
On Immigration Policy, Partisan Differences but Also Some Common Ground  —  Relatively few express negative views of undocumented immigrants  —  The public is divided over many aspects of U.S. immigration policy.  However, when asked about the priorities for policy toward illegal immigration …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Washington Post:
Is Rudy Giuliani okay?  —  WE ARE a little worried about Rudy Giuliani, the Republican former mayor of New York.  Is “America's mayor” okay?  —  During his 15-minute speech at the GOP convention last month in Cleveland, it was notable that when he said Donald Trump loves “all people …
Discussion: The Resurgent and TalkLeft
Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Black Lives Matter Has Officially Cost Mizzou 2,100 Students  —  The University of Missouri's (MU) flagship Columbia campus has officially lost a staggering 23 percent of its freshman class this year, an even worse figure than administrators initially predicted in the wake of major racial strife.
U.S. Soccer:
Hope Solo Suspended from U.S. WNT for Six Months  —  U.S. Soccer has suspended goalkeeper Hope Solo from the U.S. Women's National Team for six months for conduct that is counter to the organization's principles.  —  The suspension for Solo, who was previously suspended for 30 days early …
Kori Schake / Wall Street Journal:
The Disconnect Beneath the Praise for U.S. Military  —  Kori Schake is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.  She is co-editor, along with retired Gen. Jim Mattis, of “Warriors and Civilians: American Views of Our Military.”  She is on Twitter: @KoriSchake.
Fox News Insider:
Megyn Kelly Julian Assange Interview Preview Wikileaks Hillary Clinton Emails  —  Will new developments force the Clinton Foundation to close?  Laura Ingraham and Mike Huckabee have powerful insight on On The Record.  —  VP candidate Mike Pence, enters the No Spin Zone on a must-see O'Reilly Factor.
 
 
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
What's the alt-right? A primer
Discussion: Mother Jones, Fusion and Hot Air
Kristina Rebelo / New York Times:
Veteran Kills Himself in Parking Lot of V.A. Hospital on Long Island
Edie Ousley / Florida Chamber of Commerce:
Politicians, Parties and Plaintiff Trial Lawyers are Unknown or Unliked in New Florida Chamber …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
A Conflicted Donald Trump Tries a New Tactic: Sticking to the Script
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Jews are ‘adept at working the American political system’ …
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