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3:50 AM ET, March 4, 2018

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CNN:
Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a “rigged system” that still doesn't have the “right people” in place to fix it …
New York Times:
Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.  He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration …
Discussion: KTLA and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.  —  These are the darkest days in at least half a year …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:   Live From the West Wing, Trump Pulls Back the Curtain
Teri Webster / TheBlaze:
Parkland student brags he hung up on Trump White House call, while classmate drops F-bomb on TV
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day.  —  Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trade War, What Is It Good For?  Absolutely Nothing  —  We've known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things).  But up to this point that hasn't mattered much.  He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Peter Wehner / New York Times:   Trump's White House Is a Black Hole
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Trump vows to tax European cars if the EU fights back with tariff on U.S. goods
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Prompt Global Threats of Retaliation
Discussion: IJR
Larry Kudlow / The Hill:
Trump must think twice about tariffs
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Jokes Melania Might Leave Him at Gridiron Dinner … Just a few hours after he suggested that perhaps America should follow China's lead with the whole “president for life” thing, President Donald Trump took the stage to tell some jokes at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
HuffPost:
Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast  —  Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies.  —  Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
The Right Can't Fight the Future … It seems axiomatic that the past and the future cannot exist at the same time.  Thanks to the space-time continuum, people from different centuries cannot live simultaneously.  The same goes for a nation, which cannot survive pulling toward the future and toward the past at once.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue  —  “We have a reached a tipping point.”  —  Fueled by anti-Trump backlash, a surge of women are putting their names on the ballot and running for office in Texas, with potentially momentous implications for the balance of power in the deep red state.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:   It's a gusher of candidates due to Trump resistance and frustration with Congress
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
When Should Cultural Institutions Say No to Tainted Funding?  —  On Monday afternoon, Jerry Saltz, the longtime art critic at New York Magazine, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has gone nearly once a week for three decades.  After two hours of taking in “Golden Kingdoms …
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Trump confidant Chris Ruddy on the president's ‘inner Democrat’  —  You don't just roll up for lunch at Mar-a-Lago.  It's a private members club.  And also, most winter weekends, it is the residence of the president of the United States.  As a result, Chris Ruddy suggests we meet at my hotel …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Mediaite
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EW.com:
M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers dies at 75  —  M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers died of cancer on Saturday, his agent confirmed.  He was 75.  —  “I am very sad to report that David died this morning March 3, 2018 peacefully at his home in Newport, Oregon after a courageous battle with bladder cancer …
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America  —  Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics?  I'd imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly.  The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Only 13 NRA members used Delta's discount. Ending it cost the airline a $40 million tax break.
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice  —  President Trump will face an obstruction of justice charge from special counsel Robert Mueller, former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted.  —  “You technically have an obstruction of justice case that already exists …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNNMoney:
Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel  —  Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories  —  Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels for far-right website InfoWars and its founder, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute  —  On July 27, 2017, near the end of the one of the most compelling hearings yet on the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered an extraordinary insight.  It shot through the proceedings like a comet.
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Ellsberg / CBS News:
Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates  —  A man apparently shot himself beyond the north fence line outside the White House Saturday, a law enforcement official told CBS News' Pat Milton.  U.S. Secret Service responded to the sound of shots fired.
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Associated Press:   Secret Service says man shoots himself outside White House
 
 
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New York Times:
The Toys They Carried: Syrian Children Under Siege
Lisa Miller / New York Magazine:
War Room  —  In the moment, the kids looked to their phones for comfort.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Southern Poverty Law Center:
Congressional, civil rights leaders gather at Civil Rights Memorial to honor movement's martyrs
Nick Sambides Jr / Bangor Daily News:
Woman's body found in trunk of car at Maine dealership
Discussion: FOX40
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump
Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
House of pane: Apple was warned of glass danger
Discussion: Gizmodo and AOL
Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 Earlier Items: 
Michelle Krupa / CNN:
Philando Castile charity wipes out kids' lunch debt in district where he worked
Discussion: Mother Jones
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters:
Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative
Discussion: twitchy.com and Politico
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Donations of deer semen make up majority of contributions in Texas candidate's race: report
Discussion: Breitbart
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Condé Nast's 26-Year-Old Man of the Moment
Discussion: Althouse
CNN:
Trump's week was not so crazy after all
Discussion: Althouse
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn't seem so preposterous
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
 

 
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