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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Puerto Rico is all our worst fears about Trump coming real  —  A real crisis comes and Trump can't handle it.  —  For the first nine months of his administration, observers have had occasion to wonder — and wonder, and wonder, and wonder — how exactly Donald Trump would manage to handle …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Baldwin returns to SNL as confused Trump responding to Puerto Rico  —  Actor Alec Baldwin resumed his impersonation of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” this week for the season premiere, appearing in the cold open as a confused Trump responding to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.
Discussion: RedState
Tobin Harshaw / Bloomberg:
No, Trump Didn't Botch the Puerto Rico Crisis  —  A Q&A with former Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix on smart preparations the White House and Pentagon made for the looming storm.  —  “Send in the cavalry.”  —  That was the advice retired Army General Russel Honore gave President Donald Trump …
Chris Gillette / Associated Press:
In hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, a stunning silence
Discussion: Axios and New York Times
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Dem senator compares Trump to Marie Antoinette
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Full text: Homeland security adviser's update on Puerto Rico
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fellow Puerto Rico Mayor Rips San Juan Mayor — 'She's Not Participating In Any Meetings'
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Neighboring mayor praises Trump, says San Juan mayor playing ‘politics,’ AWOL at meetings
Discussion: RedState and CNN
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump's Behavior
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:   General Defends San Juan Mayor: She's ‘Living on a Cot...Hope the President Has a Good Day at Golf’
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Lin-Manuel Miranda to Trump: 'You're going straight to hell'
Washington Post:
Trump called San Juan's mayor a weak leader. Here's what her leadership looks like.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., the Longtime Owner of The New Yorker and Chairman of Condé Nast, Has Died at Eighty-Nine  —  Forty -eight years ago, Gardner Botsford, a longtime editor at this magazine, wrote an obituary and appreciation in these pages of his stepfather, Raoul Fleischmann …
Discussion: WTVR-TV
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Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
Graydon Carter Remembers S.I. Newhouse, Jr., the Magazine Visionary Who Modernized Condé Nast  —  S.I. Newhouse, Jr., the Chairman Emeritus of Condé Nast, died today in New York, the city he was born in and the one that gave foundation to the empire he built.
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Trump Tax Cut Already In Trouble  —  Don't believe the unrestrained enthusiasm coming from the White House and congressional leaders: The tax cut they announced last Wednesday is already in trouble and isn't going to be enacted quickly.  —  Of course the party line coming from the Trump administration …
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Time's up: As CHIP expires unrenewed, Congress blows a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children  —  Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price voted twice against expanding CHIP as a George state legislator.  —  Advocates for children's health started worrying months ago …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner  —  Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain's hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies.
Discussion: Slate
New York Times:
At Trial, a Focus on the Facts, Not the Politics, of Benghazi  —  WASHINGTON — Almost from the moment that Islamist militants overran the American consulate and assaulted a C.I.A. annex in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012, politics consumed the deadly attacks.
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Mulvaney: Too early to judge Trump tax plan  —  Mulvaney: Trump tax plan not fully crafted yet  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)White House budget director Mick Mulvaney dismissed critics of the Trump administration's proposed tax overhaul, saying a detailed analysis wouldn't be possible until the full plan is crafted.
Discussion: The Week
Associated Press:
The Latest: Barcelona soccer game played without fans  —  https://apnews.com/7cd3046388ac4ca59d44 3c2ea9cb6936  —  Link copied!  —  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on Catalonia's plans to hold a referendum Sunday on breaking away from Spain (all times local):  —  5 p.m.
Discussion: RedState, BBC, CNN, Forbes and Reuters
Alexandra Zabjek / CBC News:
Edmonton police investigate ‘acts of terrorism’ after officer stabbed, pedestrians run down  —  5 people were injured and 1 person is in custody  —  ‘We are urging Edmontonians to be vigilant’ 3:11  —  A man who stabbed a police officer with a knife and deliberately plowed into pedestrians …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, WTVR-TV and NBC News
 
 
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Rebecca Everett / New Jersey Online:
For NJ.com  —  Medford survivalist Joseph Badame with some of …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
‘The New Washington’: Though Out of Power, Democrats Are Winning the Fight, Pelosi Says
Discussion: Political Wire
Taylor Gee / Politico:
Could America's Socialists Become the Tea Party of the Left?
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump: Strange gained in polls because of my endorsement
Discussion: Washington Monthly and RedState
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Ex-Medicare head says Trump ‘purposely’ raising insurance premiums
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Steven Crowder Infiltrates Antifa At Ben Shapiro Event
Adam Coleman / Houston Chronicle:
Local high school football players kicked off team after protest during anthem
Discussion: Raw Story, Splinter and Mashable
Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
Garcetti is increasingly traveling outside California, raising eyebrows back in L.A.
 

 
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