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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Why People Like Marianne Williamson — On some level, we all seem to know that Marianne Williamson shouldn't exactly be on the debate stage. Even she seems to know it, because she operates like she's performing a commentary on the rest of the stage, speaking from a different stage about the debate taking place.
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Reason and Spectator USA
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Here's Who Won (and Lost) the Second Democratic Debate, Night One — Days after a heavily armed sociopath unleashed hell on yet another American community — and the president directed yet another racist tantrum at his nonwhite constituents — ten of the Democratic Party's top 2020 hopefuls gathered …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Axelrod: “Large Numbers Of People” Oppose Medicare For All, Healthcare For Illegals, Decriminalizing Border — Former chief strategist for former President Obama's presidential campaign and advisor to the president David Axelrod said the agenda presented by Democratic presidential candidates …
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Townhall
John F. Harris / Politico:
It's a center-left party after all
It's a center-left party after all
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Washington Post, One America News Network, Axios, NY State of Politics, Breitbart and The Hill
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate
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Fox News, National Review and Mediaite
New York Times:
Marianne Williamson Has Her Moment. And Republicans Are Gleefully Trumpeting It.
Marianne Williamson Has Her Moment. And Republicans Are Gleefully Trumpeting It.
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Mediaite, Daily Wire and Breitbart
New York Times:
Sanders and Warren Battle Accusations of ‘Fairy Tale’ Promises as Intraparty Rift Flares
Sanders and Warren Battle Accusations of ‘Fairy Tale’ Promises as Intraparty Rift Flares
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, The Week, Outside the Beltway, Politico and New Republic
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate
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Power Line, Washington Post, Fox News, Politico and Wall Street Journal
Eric Bradner / CNN:
7 takeaways from the Democratic debate's first night
7 takeaways from the Democratic debate's first night
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ImmigrationProf Blog and The Wrap
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Delaney says Warren's put-down of him on the debate stage was ‘dishonest’ and ‘lazy’
Delaney says Warren's put-down of him on the debate stage was ‘dishonest’ and ‘lazy’
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Winners and losers from the first night of the CNN debate
Winners and losers from the first night of the CNN debate
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Mediaite, Vox, Washington Post and Splinter
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Marianne Williamson's fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign
Marianne Williamson's fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign
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Townhall, Breitbart, The Federalist, Washington Times and Political Wire
Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:
It's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren v the 'No We Can't' Democrats
It's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren v the 'No We Can't' Democrats
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KTLA and Washington Post
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Elizabeth Warren's Big Night
Elizabeth Warren's Big Night
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National Review, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos and The Guardian
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Marianne Williamson supporters organize ‘occult task force’
Marianne Williamson supporters organize ‘occult task force’
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The Guardian, Breitbart and The Stranger
Cary Aspinwall / Dallas Morning News:
'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life — Tony Timpa wailed and pleaded for help more than 30 times as Dallas police officers pinned his shoulders, knees and neck to the ground. — “You're gonna kill me! You're gonna kill me!
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The Independent
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. has intel that Osama bin Laden's son and heir Hamza is dead, say officials — The officials would not provide details of how Hamza bin Laden died, or if the U.S. played a role. It is unclear if the U.S. has confirmed his death. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. has obtained intelligence …
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National Review, The Independent and Big League Politics
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Ratcliffe questioned intelligence community's role in Russia investigation — CNN security analyst sounds the alarm on Trump's pick 03:47 — (CNN) — President Donald Trump's pick to be the next director of national intelligence, which has oversight over the CIA, has pushed …
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time Since 2008 Crisis — WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in more than a decade, an effort to guard the record-long economic expansion against mounting global risks. — The widely expected quarter-point move …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How Long Can Real Conservatives Make Excuses for Trump? — Republicans who made the so-called transactional case for Trump didn't anticipate the full cost. — During each week of the Donald Trump presidency, but especially the last few, liberals and conservatives have been splitting further apart on race.
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Baltimore Sun:
HUD Sec. Ben Carson decries Baltimore ‘animosity’ after church boots news conference from property — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson came to Baltimore Wednesday to tout the Trump administration's efforts to improve urban areas.
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together. Then an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion came between them. — For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida.
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The Week
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Nunes Ally Kash Patel Who Fought Russia Probe Gets Senior White House National Security Job — Patel was one of the leading staffers pushing back against FBI investigations of Trump-Russia. He's now senior director of the National Security Council's terrorism directorate.
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Politico
John Archibald / al.com:
George Wallace's daughter: 'I've never seen anything like it' — This is an opinion column. — Peggy Wallace Kennedy went to political rallies with her dad - George Wallace - as he ran for president in the '60s and '70s. — She saw hate and anger that a child should not have to see.
Associated Press:
Trump ‘rodent’ tweets ring true at Kushner-owned apartments — BALTIMORE (AP) — Davon Jones doesn't have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump's tweets that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” His apartment owned by the president's son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago.
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The Resurgent, New York Times, PJ Media Home and The Guardian
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Heartland Is Moving in Different Directions — The Midwest remains undecided, but conflicting trends point alternately toward victory for Trump or his eventual opponent. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
Deena Prichep / Washington Post:
Even one of Trump's favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection — It's high summer — hamburger season. The char, the fat, the squishy perfection of processed bread sopping up the overflowing juices — doesn't it somehow seem like Americans' birthright?
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Washington Free Beacon
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Ex-McConnell staffers lobbied on Russian-backed Kentucky project — Two former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department on the development of a new Kentucky aluminum mill backed by the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, according to a new lobbying disclosure.
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez says marginalized communities ‘have no choice but to riot’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said this week during an appearance on Ebro in the Morning that marginalized communities have “no choice but to riot.” — “Once you have a group that is marginalized. …
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The Daily Caller
San Francisco Chronicle:
Search of Gilroy gunman's home finds items suggesting massive attack, white supremacy materials — Investigators who searched the Nevada home of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter found the makings of a massive attack, including a gas mask, bulletproof vest and empty boxes of ammunition …
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American Greatness and UPI
Yahoo:
Mario Lopez: It's ‘dangerous’ for parents to support transgender kids — Mario Lopez claims that parents who allow their children to live according to their — self-identified genders are setting a “dangerous” example. — Lopez, a father of three, shared his opinions during a June interview …
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Washington Examiner:
Democrats just purged white party staffers, and it's a bigger deal than anyone wants to admit — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats' powerful campaign arm, has just abruptly purged half a dozen staffers. Why? Because they are white.
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Instapundit
Page Six:
A-listers flock to Google summit in private jets, mega yachts to talk climate change — The world's rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process. — The billionaire creators of Google have invited …
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