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4:55 PM ET, August 6, 2014

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WOOD-TV:
Amash after win: Ellis is 'what's wrong with politics'  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD/AP) — After Republican U.S. Rep. Justin Amash beat challenger Brian Ellis in the Third Congressional District primary, he said Ellis's campaign was “disgusting” and “despicable.”
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Washington Post:
Justin Amash's absolutely amazing victory speech  —  Politicians who win campaigns, no matter how dirty, will almost always kiss and make up with their political opponents in their election-night speeches.  —  Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), of course, is not your average politician.
Dave Spencer / Fox17:
Rep. Justin Amash says Challenger Brian Ellis ‘owes an apology’ and calls Rep. Pete Hoekstra a ‘disgrace’  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - While wrapping up his victory speech in a win during the primary election, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan's 3rd District called former Rep. Pete Hoesktra of Holland …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
America's Fed Up: Obama Approval Rating Hits New Low  —  Yet because this discontent differs - among Democrats, Republicans, and independents - Hart cautions that Americans still aren't likely to be storming the polls on Election Day in November.  —  “We're unhappy, but we aren't coalescing around an issue,” he said.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Modest Proposal  —  WASHINGTON — Enough with all the phony impeachment talk.  —  Onward to a real impeachment!  —  In the absurdist capital we live in, it would be good for all sides — in ways you may not have considered.  —  President Obama's threat to bypass obstinate Republican lawmakers …
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  August 6, 2014 - Clinton Blooms Over Christie …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and CNN
George Packer / New Yorker:
A Friend Flees the Horror of ISIS  —  A humanitarian crisis that could turn into genocide is taking place right now in the mountains of northwestern Iraq.  It hasn't made the front page, because the place and the people are obscure, and there's a lot of other horrible news to compete with.
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Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst  —  BAGHDAD — Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst.
Steve Deace Show:
Deace Show Podcast 08-04-14  —  Mike Huckabee previews his trip to the first-in-the-nation caucus state.  Big update on the Mississippi Senate scandal with Chris McDaniel.  Open borders and Ebola, what could possibly go wrong?  —  PODCAST  — 4 AUG -  —  LET ILLEGAL MINORS STAY...IN YOUR HOUSE.
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:   Mike Huckabee: Obama ‘Acting Like God,’ ‘Worthy Of Impeachment’
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Mike Huckabee: Obama ‘Worthy Of Impeachment’ (AUDIO)
Discussion: Mediaite and National Review
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Michelle Obama: ‘Women are smarter than men’  —  First Lady Michelle Obama engaged in a battle of the sexes Wednesday, claiming that women are more intelligent than their male counterparts.  —  “We can't waste the spotlight.  Time is short.  Change is needed.
Discussion: CNN
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Cassie Spodak / CNN:   George W. Bush calls on Africa's ‘first spouses’ to break down stigmas in fighting cancer, AIDS
Andrew Levison / The New Republic:
Democrats Have a White Working Class Problem—and Not Just in the South  —  Whenever elections approach, there is always a flurry of concern among Democrats regarding the white working class.  Despite a steady and gradual decline in its size over the last several decades …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Hollywood Life:
Hillary Clinton Launching Presidential Campaign In New York City?  —  It appears Hillary Clinton has launched her 2016 presidential campaign.  HollywoodLife.com can exclusively report that Hillary has leased office space on a high-level floor of a corporate New York City office building …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Battle of the brag: Hillary Clinton vs. Stephen Colbert
Discussion: CNN
Justin Levitt / Washington Post:
A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31 credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast  —  A Madison, Miss., precinct worker offers a voter a “I voted” sticker after voting in party primaries on Tuesday, June 3, 2014.  Mississippi's new voter ID law was put to its first test in Tuesday's primaries.
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:
McDaniel staffer drawn into Fielder controversy (UPDATE)  —  Stephen Fielder, the self-proclaimed pastor from Meridian, says a member of Chris McDaniel's campaign paid him $2,000 to give an interview in which he accused a Thad Cochran campaign staffer of asking him to pay people to vote for the GOP incumbent.
Evan Perez / CNN:
(CNN) — U.S. intelligence agencies fear Edward Snowden has achieved celebrity as a leaker and could be inspiring others to disclose classified national security information.  —  One indication of that may be in new documents published this week by the Intercept, the website begun by Glenn Greenwald, who published Snowden's leaks.
Discussion: Mediaite
Reuters:
NATO says Russia could be poised to invade Ukraine  —  (Reuters) - Russia has amassed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine's eastern border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian or peace-keeping mission to invade, NATO said on Wednesday.  —  Stating the conflict in Ukraine …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Hot Air and Los Angeles Times
Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Intellectual hubris hampers presidential geniuses  —  It's now two and a half years to the can't-come-too-soon end of President Obama's adventure, but his legacy seems to be settled already; he is the smartest man in all of U.S. history to screw up so many big things.  —  That he is brilliant is something we already knew.
Radley Balko / Washington Post:
Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows  —  Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state's roads.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New Washington Post project discloses fabrications from a source  —  The Washington Post's “Storyline” project has posted a bruising editor's note on a story about black men and HIV: … As laid out in its initial posting, “Storyline” hovers where people and policy mingle: “We care about policy as experienced by people across America.
Politico:
How Pat Roberts beat Milton Wolf  —  The Republican establishment's latest triumph over tea party activists in a Senate primary this year — Pat Roberts' narrower-than-expected win over challenger Milton Wolf on Tuesday night — came with a big lift from party headquarters in Washington.
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Washington Post:
Sen. Pat Roberts takes early lead in primary fight
James Carville / The Hill:
Are we facing a GOP takeover in 2014?  —  Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise, and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine …
 
 
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Jason Delisle / EdCentral:
Number of Borrowers Using Income-Based Repayment Doubles in One Year
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Pope Francis urges young not to waste time on Internet and smartphones
Adam Snider / Politico:
Foxx holds online town hall today …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Daily Kos
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Is New York the Next Detroit?
ABC:
Train rescue: Commuters use people power to free man trapped against platform at Perth's Stirling station
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats throw kitchen sink at Republicans ahead of midterms
Washington Post:
Former Va. governor's trial: McDonnell staffers called Williams the ‘tic tac man’
Discussion: National Review and The PJ Tatler
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: Ted Cruz is burning bridges in Washington. Does it matter?
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Anatomy of a Power Grab
 

 
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