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6:00 PM ET, August 4, 2014

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Sam Levine / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Accuses Democrats Of Waging A ‘War On Whites’  —  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) doesn't think that the hardline stance Republicans have taken on immigration could hurt the party's standing with Hispanic voters.  Instead, he thinks Democrats are hurting their prospects with white voters.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   House Republican: Democrats Have Launched ‘War On Whites’
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: McDaniel Team Strikes ‘Black’ References From Press Release  —  Still refusing to concede, Chris McDaniel's team issued a press release late last week saying that the Mississippi GOP is “prohibited from recognizing Thad Cochran as their nominee for U.S. Senate in accordance …
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Steve LaTourette / Politico:
The grifting wing vs. the governing wing  —  While the Tea Party is busy lining their pockets, the rest of the Republicans are actually trying to get things done.  —  Vocabulary.com defines a grifter as: A grifter is a con artist—someone who swindles people out of money through fraud.
The Hill:
Lott: Miss. GOP could use shake-up
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
Islamic State ‘now controls resources and territory unmatched in history of extremist organizations’  —  It's a pattern of territorial expansion that has now become familiar.  After the Islamic State captured Sinjar on Sunday, came the executions.  Then arrived the orders to convert or die …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
ISIS advances as Kurds run out of ammunition
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Islamic State seizes town of Sinjar, pushing out Kurds and sending Yazidis fleeing
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Rand Paul says he never proposed ending aid to Israel — even though he did Yahoo News 1 hr ago  —  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Monday denied that he once supported ending federal aid to Israel—an idea he proposed as recently as 2011.  —  “I haven't really proposed that in the past,” …
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
TMZ.com:
In Drunken Rage  —  CNN is being sued by 2 EMTs who claim one of the network's reporters bit them in a drunken rage.  —  Arwa Damon — the Beirut-based senior international correspondent for CNN — was in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad back in July.  According to the lawsuit — obtained by TMZ …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Republicans Remain Slightly Favored To Take Control Of The Senate  —  If Americans elected an entirely new set of senators every two years — as they elect members of the House of Representatives — this November's Senate contest would look like a stalemate.
Philip Gourevitch / New Yorker:
An Honest Voice in Israel  —  Shortly before the announcement Thursday night of the ceasefire in Gaza that went into effect Friday morning and was immediately broken, the Deutsche Welle, the German radio station, posted the transcript of an interview with the Israeli novelist Amos Oz.  Here's how it started:
Discussion: Hot Air, CANNONFIRE and Unfogged
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:   How This War Ends  —  RAMALLAH, West Bank — I HAD held off coming …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House Whip Sends Bible To Every Hill Office For ‘Decision-Making’ Guidance  —  A Republican congressman recently sent a copy of the Holy Bible to every member of Congress “to help guide you in your decision-making,” according to a letter obtained by TPM.  —  Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) …
Discussion: The Raw Story
Hunterzl / IDF Blog:
Captured Hamas Combat Manual Explains Benefits of Human Shields  —  IDF forces in the Gaza Strip found a Hamas manual on “Urban Warfare,” which belonged to the Shuja'iya Brigade of Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades.  The manual explains how the civilian population can be used …
Brendan Bordelon / The Daily Caller:
Dem.  Lawmaker Uses German Luftwaffe Uniform To Portray U.S. Navy In Campaign Mailer  —  Democratic lawmaker Julia Brownley sent a political mailer to her constituents in late July featuring a woman wearing fake military attire and a German Luftwaffe insignia — apparently unaware that the costume …
Discussion: America Rising
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
‘Torture report’ delayed in redaction fight  —  The Obama administration's attempt to redact some portions of an upcoming report on “enhanced interrogation techniques” is drawing ire from Capitol Hill and could delay the release of the detailed analysis for months.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Politico:
Barack Obama to reporters: 'I'll take a question'  —  President Barack Obama had just done the unthinkable.  —  He took questions last week from the White House press corps — not just once, but twice.  He didn't call only on the reporters who were selected ahead of time by his senior aides.
Discussion: CNN and American Spectator
Colleen Curry / ABC News:
Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary, James Brady, Dies … James Brady, the former White House press secretary who survived being shot in the head during the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, died today at age 73.  —  Brady was seriously injured by the assassination attempt …
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Business Insider
CNN:
Experimental drug likely saved Ebola patients  —  (CNN) — Three vials containing an experimental drug stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment.
Maurice Possley / Washington Post:
New evidence revives concerns that a man was wrongly put to death in 2004  —  CORSICANA, Tex. — For more than 20 years, the prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his three young daughters has insisted that the authorities made no deals to secure the testimony …
Guardian:
World's top PR companies rule out working with climate deniers  —  Ten firms say they will not represent clients that deny man-made climate change or seek to block emisson-reducing regulations  —  Some of the world's top PR companies have for the first time publicly ruled out working …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The PJ Tatler
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Exclusive: Powerhouse GOP group snared in money scheme  —  Since the Republican State Leadership Committee burst into national politics, it's become one of the most influential outside players on the right: It spent tens of millions of dollars to flip state legislative chambers and redraw …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Tannya Joaquin / Hawaii News Now:
HAWAII POLL: Hanabusa up over Schatz in Senate showdown  —  HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the Senate showdown between Democrats Brian Schatz and Colleen Hanabusa, Representative Hanabusa has a 50 to 42 percent lead over Senator Schatz in our new Hawaii News Now/Star Advertiser Hawaii poll.
Discussion: Washington Post and Fox News
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Cantor in the Land of the Lilliputians  —  Last week when Eric Cantor announced he would not after all serve out his current House term, his official explanation was that he wanted to give his successor (which he presumed to be his primary vanquisher, Dave Brat) a leg up with an early access to office.
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Pregnant Worker: This Is How Walmart Treated Me  —  Candis Riggins has a new baby.  But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or her house.  —  In March, Walmart quietly changed its policy for accommodating pregnant workers so that they were covered by its existing disability protections.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Anne Applebaum / The New Republic:
How “Hard Choices” predicts her presidential campaign  —  Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)  —  Even while Hard Choices was still wafting its way across the Atlantic Ocean— and long before it landed on my desk in central Europe, an entire twenty-four hours …
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
As Gays Prevail in Supreme Court, Women See Setbacks
Steve Rothaus / MiamiHerald.com:
Broward judge rules gay-marriage ban unconstitutional
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
Jacob Fenton / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
GOP commissioners quash FEC dark money probe
Joseph J. Kolb / Fox News:
Jailed Marine Andrew Tahmooressi back in Mexican court
Discussion: National Review
Terry Jeffrey / CNSNews:
$7,060,259,674,497.51— Federal Debt Up $7 Trillion Under Obama
New York Times:
Questions of Weapons and Warnings in Past Barrage on a Gaza Shelter
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Kentucky's GOP Bromance Deepens, Even Without True Love
 Earlier Items: 
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Demographic Divide: House Deportation Vote Unlikely to Hurt G.O.P. in Election
Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and The Dish
Danielle Kurtzleben / Vox:
The amazingly rapid suburbanization of poverty
Discussion: Daily Kos
Peter Hamby / CNN:
First on CNN: Romney and Christie teaming up for GOP fundraiser
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Brandon Darby / BREITBART.COM:
LEAKED CBP REPORT SHOWS ENTIRE WORLD EXPLOITING OPEN US BORDER
Discussion: ABC News, Pat Dollard and The PJ Tatler
Lee Enterprises / Missoulian:
MISSOULIAN EDITORIAL: Walsh should drop out of Senate race
Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Military eradicates Hamas's crown jewel
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Holder exclusive — ‘Proud to be an activist’
Rebecca Younger / Mirror.co.uk:
Ebola fears: A passenger died at Gatwick after getting off a glight fromm Sierra Leone
 

 
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Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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