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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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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 …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate  —  THE BIG IDEA: CNN treated Bernie Sanders like a front-runner and took the senator's policy proposals seriously during Tuesday night's debate in Detroit.
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
Sanders and Warren Battle Accusations of ‘Fairy Tale’ Promises as Intraparty Rift Flares  —  DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful promises …
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.
Discussion: Reason and Spectator USA
Jonathan Merritt / Washington Post:
I've worked for Marianne Williamson.  She is no kook.  —  In a surprise twist on the first evening of the second Democratic debate, spiritual writer and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson received some of the night's largest applause lines.  She ably argued for paying financial reparations …
Discussion: Mediaite and Quartz
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate
Eric Bradner / CNN:
7 takeaways from the Democratic debate's first night
Discussion: The Wrap and ImmigrationProf Blog
John F. Harris / Politico:
It's a center-left party after all
Peter Suderman / Reason:
Medicare for All Is Defining the 2020 Democratic Race
Discussion: Boston Globe and twitchy.com
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Delaney says Warren's put-down of him on the debate stage was ‘dishonest’ and ‘lazy’
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Marianne Williamson's fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign
Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:
It's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren v the 'No We Can't' Democrats
Discussion: KTLA and Washington Post
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Marianne Williamson makes the case for reparations in her breakout debate moment
Discussion: Breitbart, Althouse and The Federalist
Axios:
A progressive win: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders own the first Democratic debate
Discussion: Political Wire and Townhall
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
John Delaney Had One Good Point on Medicare for All
Discussion: Spectator USA and Quartz
Washington Post:
In contentious Democratic debate, deep divisions on health care separate liberals and moderates
Noah Berlatsky / NBC News:
Marianne Williamson's Democratic debate performance raised eyebrows.  But she's no friend of the left.
Discussion: Grist, Vanity Fair and Quartz
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!
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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New York Times:
Trump's Pick for Top Intelligence Post Overstated Parts of His Biography  —  Aides revised old claims about Representative John Ratcliffe's role in prosecuting a prominent terrorism case.  —  WASHINGTON — Aides to the congressman chosen by President Trump to lead the nation's intelligence agencies …
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
North Carolina gun shop puts up ‘4 Horsemen’ billboard to slam progressive congresswomen  —  A gun shop in western North Carolina is facing backlash for using a billboard to insult “the Squad,” four progressive minority congresswomen, as “idiots,” calling them the “four horsemen” of the apocalypse.
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Election Fraud in North Carolina Leads to New Charges for Republican Operative
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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.
Tim Naftali / The Atlantic:
Ronald Reagan's Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon  —  The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People's Republic of China, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States.
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.
Discussion: Instapundit
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Jonathan S. Tobin / New York Post:   Why The Squad is setting the House's agenda
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 …
Discussion: American Greatness and UPI
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.
Associated Press:
More than 900 children separated from families at U.S.-Mexico border despite judge's order that the practice be curtailed, ACLU says … More than 900 children, including babies and toddlers, were separated from their parents at the border in the year after a judge ordered the practice be sharply curtailed …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ACLU: U.S. has taken nearly 1,000 child migrants from their parents since judge ordered stop to border separations
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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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump administration may end protected status for Syrians, leaving many fearing ‘a death sentence’
Washington Post:
White House races to come up with health-care wins for Trump's campaign
Discussion: Mother Jones
Nick Juliano / Politico:
DOJ investigating Zinke's use of personal email, inspector tells lawmakers
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Pompeo Says Senate Run Is ‘Off the Table.’ His Actions Are Suggesting Otherwise
Wall Street Journal:
The 99% Get a Bigger Raise  —  New data show much faster growth in wages and incomes.
 Earlier Items: 
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
Donald Trump at the Overton Window
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Joe Biden needs to atone’: Ex-veep braces for debate pile-on
Discussion: NBC News and Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Regulators Found High Risk of Emergency After First Boeing MAX Crash
Axios:
Pete Buttigieg quotes scripture to attack Republicans on minimum wage
Discussion: Breitbart and ABC News
Daily Mail:
Ilhan Omar leaves restaurant with mystery man after ‘holding hands’
Discussion: Power Line
 

 
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