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Lisa Graves / Slate:
I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About  —  Much of Washington has spent the week focusing on whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court.  After the revelations of his confirmation hearings, the better question is whether …
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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times  —  Formerly confidential emails have been released that show the Supreme Court nominee contradicting statements he made under oath to the Senate.  —  You can forgive Democratic senators for saying “I told you so.”
John Wagner / Washington Post:
‘Unusual behavior’: McConnell says Booker could face Ethics Committee scrutiny  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview that aired Friday that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) could face scrutiny from the Senate Ethics Committee for violating a rule that prohibits the release of confidential material.
Discussion: Breitbart, Axios and Political Wire
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:   Democrats bring in their closer against Kavanaugh: Felon and ‘master manipulator’ of Watergate, John Dean
Al Franken / USA Today:
Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings showcase Republican partisanship, hypocrisy
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Booker to McConnell on ethics charges: ‘Bring it!’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Jenavieve Hatch / HuffPost:
Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’ At Confirmation Hearing
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:   Theater of the Absurd Has Taken Over the Senate
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
My Wife Has a Good Theory on Who the White House Mole Is  —  The family is in agreement.  —  As every room in the White House echoes with the sound of cocks crowing, I am going to subcontract the job of guessing who the Anonymous Op-Ed writer is to my wife, Margaret Doris—journalist,
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William Saletan / Slate:
The Obvious Suspect  —  The quest to unmask the New York Times op-ed writer has been filled with speculation.  But the article's prose points to one person in particular.  —  Who wrote the anonymous op-ed against President Trump in Wednesday's New York Times?
Discussion: NPR, New York Times and CBS Pittsburgh
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Wants Attorney General to Investigate Source of Anonymous Times Op-Ed  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the source of an anonymous Op-Ed piece published in The New York Times, intensifying his attack on an article …
Washington Post:
Trump: Justice Department should investigate anonymous op-ed author  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump called Friday for the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous author of an op-ed depicting a “resistance” inside the government and said he is considering taking legal action …
Discussion: Politico, Balloon Juice and The Root
Axios:
Trump calls on Justice Department to investigate anonymous NYT writer
Discussion: Hit & Run and AOL
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:   Flashback: Obama prosecuted staff leakers, gave lie-detector tests, ‘paranoid’
Washington Post:
Trump says Justice Department should investigate who wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama delivers full-throated rebuke of Trump's presidency  —  URBANA, Ill. — The night before the 2016 election, Barack Obama said Donald Trump was “uniquely unqualified” on the economy, “temperamentally unfit” on foreign policy, couldn't be trusted with the nuclear codes and had …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Takes on Trump in Debut of 2018 Campaign Role  —  URBANA, Ill. — Former President Barack Obama assailed President Trump on Friday as a “threat to democracy” as he emerged from a period of political silence to kick off a campaign blitz intended to help Democrats take control of Congress in the November midterm elections.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mark Penn / The Hill:
White House in chaos — what's new?  —  The president decided the entire staff was working against him, running their own agenda, not his or the nation's.  Poll ratings had plummeted, with job approval in the 30s.  Leaks were commonplace as staffers hyped their own policy positions, even brazenly floated them in trial balloons.
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Former president Barack Obama, saying President Trump is capitalizing on 'fear and anger …
Discussion: Politico and twitchy.com
New York Times:
'I Don't Talk' That Way, Trump Says.  Except When He Does.  —  President Trump said he has never used terms like “mentally retarded” or “dumb Southerner,” as he is quoted in Bob Woodward's new book.  But the record shows he has.  —  Numerous Trump officials denied writing the anonymous Op-Ed published by The New York Times.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
'I don't talk the way I am quoted': Trump offers fresh criticism of Woodward book
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   Crazytown: A Bob Woodward Book, an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, and a Growing Crisis for the Trump Presidency
U.S. Department of Justice:
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition Of Alleged Russian Hacker Responsible For Massive Network Intrusions At U.S. Financial Institutions, Brokerage Firms, A Major News Publication, And Other Companies  —  Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York …
The Guardian:
Tesla shares crash after Elon Musk smokes joint on live web show  —  Two senior executives quit electric carmaker as market value falls 8%  —  Play Video  —  Tesla shares crashed 8% on Friday as two of its senior executives quit, just hours after the electric carmaker's chief executive …
David Crow / Financial Times:
Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment  —  A billionaire pharmaceuticals executive who has been blamed for spurring the US opioid crisis stands to profit from the epidemic after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts.  —  Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma …
Discussion: STAT, Vox, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Requests VFW Hall Take Down American Flags Before His Rally There  —  Ted Cruz's Challenger, Beto O'Rourke has made a name for himself by saying that he can think of “nothing more American” than kneeling during the National Anthem.  We can now add stripping American flags …
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Beto's Campaign Tries to Get a VFW Hall to Take Down Their American Flags
Discussion: The Navasota Examiner
Bryan Lowry / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Fearful mother in ad attacking Sharice Davids is a Kansas GOP official  —  A fearful mother stares into a camera and warns that Democratic candidate Sharice Davids will put her four children at risk.  —  In a new ad from a super PAC linked to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Alana Roethle of Leawood …
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Scott Walker's Anthem-Flag Bitmoji Is Republicanism Under Donald Trump  —  To understand what has happened to the Republican Party, consider the trajectory of the Wisconsin governor.  —  To understand what has happened to the Republican Party under Donald Trump, consider the case of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Foreign Policy:
State Widens Probe Into Trump Administration's Alleged Retaliation Against Career Officials  —  Mari Stull, a wine blogger-turned-Trump appointee, is the subject of two investigations into allegations of reprisals and bullying at the State Department.  —  The U.S. State Department's Office …
David Fickling / Bloomberg:
The Trade Slowdown Has Already Begun  —  As tariffs pile up, the world economy is starting to look holed below the waterline.  —  One of the paradoxes of this year's trade tensions is that in many parts of the world, it doesn't yet feel like a crisis.  —  For all the turmoil …
NBC News:
Yes, Democrats do have a legitimate path to win back the Senate  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — The takeaway from the trio of NBC/Marist polls we released this week is that …
Sam Tanenhaus / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Tired of America Wasting Our Blood and Treasure”: The Strange Ascent of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince  —  Since the 1970s, the DeVos family has been quietly advancing a plan to make government act more like a private business.  Now, they appear ready to take the next step.
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Eagles Bring Out “Philly Special” To Win But NFL Kickoff Ratings Down From 2017  —  The Heavens did not seem well disposed to the official beginning of the NFL season last night as rain and possible lightening in the City of Brotherly Love pushed back the start of the Philadelphia Eagles gridiron battle against the Atlanta Falcons.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
As Germans Seek News, YouTube Delivers Far-Right Tirades  —  CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official who oversees municipal marketing and development, began to get strange phone calls from reporters.
Hannah Allam / BuzzFeed News:
For A Lot Of Muslim Republicans, Their Party's Over  —  Anwar Khalifa is about as Texan as you can get.  He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front.  He never skips “worship day,” he taught his three daughters to shoot, and …
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom's political ascent  —  Gavin Newsom wasn't born rich, but he was born connected — and those alliances have paid handsome dividends throughout his career.  —  A coterie of San Francisco's wealthiest families has backed him at every step …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Mike Schneider / Muck Rack Blog:
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Civil servants can't stop Trump. Stop asking them to.
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Alan Dershowitz's Deep Ties to Trump's Biggest Donors
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Washington Post:
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A Security Expert Tied to WikiLeaks Vanishes, and the Internet Is Abuzz
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Record-breaking 100 women may be elected to the House in 2018
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Wall Street Journal:
Russia-Linked Money-Laundering Probe Looks at $150 Billion in Transactions
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