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Robert M. Gates / Wall Street Journal:
Sizing Up the Next Commander-in-Chief — Neither candidate has seriously addressed how he or she thinks about the military or the use of force. — You wouldn't know it from the presidential campaigns, but the first serious crisis to face our new president most likely will be international.
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Fox News Insider and Politico
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
‘Mr. Trump Is Beyond Repair’ — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates writing in the Wall Street Journal: — Mrs. Clinton has time before the election to address forthrightly her trustworthiness, to reassure people about her judgment, to demonstrate her willingness to stake out one or more positions …
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Politicus USA
Natasha Geiling / ThinkProgress:
Former Secretary of Defense: Trump ‘unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief’ — Robert Gates had strong words for both candidates in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. — Former Defense Secretary Bob Gates is not a big fan of either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton's ideas about foreign policy.
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Hullabaloo
David Goldstein / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
2 Clinton supporters in '08 reportedly shared Obama ‘birther’ story — WASHINGTON — Two supporters of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign reportedly shared the claim that then-rival Barack Obama was not born in the United States and thus was not eligible to be president.
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Fox News, Sputnik International, Hot Air, BizPac Review, Independent Journal Review, Mother Jones, Weekly Standard, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, CANNONFIRE, Da Tech Guy Blog, Talking Points Memo, The Last Refuge, Mediaite, Viking Pundit, Slate, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and Breitbart
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Last Gasp of Birther-Mania — Donald Trump is going around …
Last Gasp of Birther-Mania — Donald Trump is going around …
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Washington Times, Breitbart, Media Matters for America and The Daily Caller
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Dem senator to Trump: ‘Blood will be on your hands’ if Clinton killed — of suggesting his supporters kill Hillary Clinton — , tweeting furiously that “blood will be on your hands.” — “Hey @realDonaldTrump, if you keep suggesting your supporters kill @HillaryClinton, someone will listen.
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Joe.My.God., BizPac Review, heave-ho.org, TheStreet.com, CBS Philly, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Dem Senator To Trump: If Someone Kills Clinton The Blood Is ‘On Your Hands’
Dem Senator To Trump: If Someone Kills Clinton The Blood Is ‘On Your Hands’
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump: Clinton's bodyguards should ‘disarm immediately’ and ‘see what happens to her’
Trump: Clinton's bodyguards should ‘disarm immediately’ and ‘see what happens to her’
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Guardian, Jihad Watch and New York Magazine
Logan Churchwell / Breitbart:
Black Dallas Cop Sues Black Lives Matter, Soros for Inciting Race War — The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.
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Marc Ramirez / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas Police sergeant files federal lawsuit accusing Black Lives Matter leaders of inciting anti-cop violence — A Dallas Police sergeant has filed suit against Black Lives Matter leaders and others, blaming the movement for race riots and violence against police officers.
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The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Liberty Unyielding
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
DSCC shifts dollars out of Florida and Ohio — The top group helping Democrats win Senate seats is canceling advertising in Florida and Ohio to invest more heavily in Missouri and North Carolina. — The financial rejiggering by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spells …
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Hot Air
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Here's who's playing Tim Kaine in GOP debate prep — In Mike Pence's prep sessions for the vice-presidential debate, the role of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is being played by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a top GOP source told POLITICO on Saturday. — The first mock debate has already been held.
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Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Police officers shot in Philly, Fort Worth — Police officers were shot in separate incidents Friday night in Philadelphia and Fort Worth, Texas. — Two officers were injured — one critically — and the suspect was killed in Fort Worth, while two officers and four civilians were hit in Philadelphia before the suspect was killed.
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Hot Air, NBC News and The Gateway Pundit
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Robert Moran / Philly.com:
2 cops shot, suspect and bystander killed in West Philly rampage
2 cops shot, suspect and bystander killed in West Philly rampage
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USA Today, The Week, Washington Post and Fox News Insider
Chris Kahn / Yahoo:
Race tightens in projected U.S. Electoral College vote: Reuters/Ipsos — NEW YORK (Reuters) - An election analysis conducted in the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project shows that the race has tightened considerably over the past few weeks, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump projected …
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The Week
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
How Roger Ailes used ‘key man clauses’ for his stars to protect himself — Contracts with most of the biggest stars on Fox News contain something unusual: A “key man clause” giving them an escape hatch if the company's “key man,” CEO Roger Ailes, exited. — In July, Ailes resigned under pressure amid sexual harassment allegations.
Discussion:
Liberty Unyielding and BizPac Review, more at Mediagazer »
Daily Mail:
‘LES DEPLORABLES!’ Trump floors cheering Miami crowd as he enters to Broadway anthem and speaks in front of giant ‘Les Mis’ video screen art — It read ‘Les Deplorables’ - and replaced French revolutionary flags with the Stars and Stripes - and a ‘TRUMP’ flag
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BizPac Review, Vox Popoli, The Gateway Pundit and AOL
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Just 5.7 Percent Of Clinton Foundation Budget Actually Went To Charitable Grants — Just 5.7 Percent Of Clinton Foundation Budget Actually Went To Charity — Media Outraged After Trump Tricks Them Into Covering Endorsements From Military Heroes — Clinton Campaign Event Erupts Into ‘FOUR MORE YEARS’ Chant For Obama
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Infowars and Clayton Cramer
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Travel Back to an Early Clinton Scandal — Voters have the impression Hillary isn't trustworthy. She's been reinforcing it since 1993. — The question came up this week at a political panel: Why don't people like Hillary Clinton? — Why do they always believe the worst?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The Intellectual Yet Idiot — What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league …
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AMERICAN DIGEST
New York Daily News:
Meat cleaver madman, a Palestinian, was in Midtown to appeal deportation order before he sliced cop — The meat cleaver maniac who hacked an off-duty cop is a Palestinian busted two months ago while screaming in Arabic outside a Brooklyn synagogue. — Suspect Akram Joudeh was only in New York …
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Jihad Watch, Gothamist, twitchy.com, Independent Journal Review and The Daily Caller
Michael Klare / Mother Jones:
Why a Donald Trump Victory Could Make Climate Catastrophe Inevitable — This story first appeared at TomDispatch.com. — In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, ratification of the December 2015 …
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TomDispatch and Informed Comment