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11:55 AM ET, June 17, 2015

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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Witless Ape Rides Escalator  —  Donald Trump is in the race.  —  Donald Trump may be the man America needs.  Having been through four bankruptcies, the ridiculous buffoon with the worst taste since Caligula is uniquely positioned to lead the most indebted organization in the history of the human race.
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Chris Good / ABC News:
Trump Says He'd ‘Win Easily’ If He Ran With Oprah … According to Donald Trump, a 2016 ticket of Trump for president and Oprah Winfrey for vice president would be a lock for the White House.  —  “I think Oprah would be great.  I'd love to have Oprah,” Trump told ABC News.  “I think we'd win easily, actually.”
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Charles Krauthammer On Donald Trump: 'A Campaign That's Run On Know-nothing Xenophobia.'  —  Donald Trump likes Charles Krauthammer about as much as anyone would like a snake bite.  He's called the conservative columnist many things including being an overrated clown and a dummy …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Candidate Trump Means For The GOP … By MICHAEL FALCONE  —  NOTABLES  —DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE'D ‘WIN EASILY’ IF HE RAN WITH OPRAH.  According to Donald Trump, a 2016 ticket of Trump for president and Oprah Winfrey for vice president would be a lock for the White House, ABC's CHRIS GOOD notes.
Jason Newman / Rolling Stone:
Neil Young, Donald Trump Spar Over ‘Rockin’ in the Free World' Use  —  Young claims campaign was not authorized to use track, but Trump spokesperson says song was legally obtained  —  When Neil Young released his anthemic track “Rockin' in the Free World” off 1989's Freedom …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and NPR
P. J. O'Rourke / The Daily Beast:
Garish Tastes, Awful Hair: Donald Trump Is America  —  He's the king of bad taste in a country that loves bad taste.  And all the candidates (him included) are pygmies anyway.  Go, Donald!  —  Who are these jacklegs, highbinders, wirepullers, mountebanks, swellheads, buncombe spigots …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's festival of narcissism
New York Daily News:
Full transcript of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential announcement
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Neil Young: Donald Trump ‘not authorized’ to rock in the free world
Sui-Lee Wee / Reuters:
China rebuffs Trump comments on stealing U.S. jobs
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Blumenthal says he didn't write Libya intel he sent Clinton  —  Sidney Blumenthal did not write or know the source of any of the Libya intelligence he passed on to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Blumenthal told House Benghazi investigators on Tuesday, according to sources in the room.
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Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Issa escorted out of Benghazi deposition
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Ex-Clinton aide didn't write Benghazi memos
Discussion: Hot Air and Bloomberg Business
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Walker, Bush, Rubio lead GOP field; Clinton Still Dominant  —  PPP's newest national Republican poll continues to find a bunched up race at the top.  Scott Walker leads with 17% to 15% for Jeb Bush, 13% for Marco Rubio, 12% for Ben Carson, 11% for Mike Huckabee, 8% for Ted Cruz and Rand Paul …
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Rubio, Bush, Paul Are Clinton's Top Opponents in Swing-States Poll
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Naked Politics
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Why Marco Rubio scares all other presidential candidates
Camille Gear Rich / CNN:
Rachel Dolezal has a right to be black  —  NAACP official's race questioned 5 photos  —  Rachel Dolezal, 37, is the head of the local chapter of the NAACP and has identified herself as African-American.  But her Montana birth certificate says she was born to two people who say they are Caucasian.
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Gil Kaufman / MTV:
Meet The Valedictorian Who Turned Graduation Into A ‘Shake It Off’ Flashmob  —  Their parents had no idea what was coming.  —  The commencement speech arms race is no joke this year.  It takes something pretty special to grab attention during a season when one valedictorian got …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems give GOP 45-day highway deadline  —  Senate Democrats are giving Republicans 45 days to negotiate a long-term highway funding extension.  —  And while they aren't ruling out supporting another short-term fix when funding runs out at the end of July, they suggest it will be difficult …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Pope's Views on Climate Change Add Pressure to Catholic Candidates  —  WASHINGTON — As the steamy hurricane season descends on Miami, the city's Roman Catholic archbishop, Thomas G. Wenski, is planning a summer of sermons, homilies and press events designed to highlight the threat that a warming planet …
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Bjorn Lomborg / USA Today:
What Pope Francis should do to really help the poor: Bjorn Lomborg
Lenore Skenazy / Hit & Run:
Male Teen Has Consensual Sex with Female Teen.  He Gets 25 Years as Sex Offender, Banned from Internet.  —  Computer science student Zach Anderson, 19, met a girl, 17, on the “Hot or Not?” app.  He was from Elkhart, Indiana.  She was 20 minutes over the border in Niles, Michigan.  They hooked up.
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
Microsoft:
Satya Nadella email to employees on aligning engineering to strategy  —  As we approach a new fiscal year, I'd like to share with you how we are aligning our structure to our strategy and the changes to our Senior Leadership Team.  —  Over the past year, I have said that Microsoft aspires …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Senate votes to ban use of torture  —  The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to ban the U.S. from ever again subjecting prisoners to waterboarding, “rectal feeding” and other brutal interrogation practices widely condemned as torture.  —  In a 78-21 vote, lawmakers on both sides …
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
What I learned from covering the Bushes for more than 30 years  —  If anyone should be feeling an overwhelming sense of Groundhog Day this presidential election, c'est moi.  —  Frankly, I've been covering Bushes for so long, I feel like I ought to be parachuting out of airplanes.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Escaped tiger from flooded Tbilisi zoo ‘is liquidated’ after killing man … TBILISI, Georgia — A tiger that escaped a flood-ravaged zoo was shot dead in central Tbilisi on Wednesday after killing a man working on disaster relief.  —  The dramatic deaths — of man and predator …
Discussion: Guardian and The Week
 
 
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Bipartisan Group Urges Overhaul of General Election Debates
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post:
New NASA data show how the world is running out of water
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
The New Girl in School: Transgender Surgery at 18
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julieta Chiquillo / The Scoop Blog:
Woman in McKinney pool party fight denies using racist slurs
Discussion: Raw Story and The Last Refuge
Alicia W. Stewart / Nieman Lab:
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Discussion: New York Times
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig / The New Republic:
The Progressive Case for Teaching Shakespeare
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs and Bloomberg View
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton to Pitch Apprenticeships, But Not the Trump Kind
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
The Florida Ties Behind Jeb Bush's Rise
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Democratic Tea Party
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Eschaton
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Jeb Bush knocks Pope on climate change push