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3:40 PM ET, July 23, 2015

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The Hill:
Exclusive: Trump threatens third-party run  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will “absolutely” increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season.  —  “The RNC has not been supportive.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Trump Card  —  When I opened my favorite news aggregator this morning, nine of the top ten items were about Donald Trump.  That's right: 90% of the top stories involved the bloviating real estate tycoon and reality TV star.  —  No, I'm not going to write 90% of my 12 posts today on The Donald …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Poll shows Trump with slim lead, Walker in second  —  Businessman Donald Trump holds a slim two-point lead over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a 2016 Republican presidential primary poll released Wednesday by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP).  —  Trump takes 19 percent support in the poll, with Walker at 17 percent.
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Trump: Stewart is ‘begging’ me to appear on his final show
Discussion: Mediaite
Edward Luce / Financial Times:   Donald Trump leaves indelible mark on Republicans
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Bye Bye J-J!  —  Executive Office of the President/Wikimedia Commons (left), Executive Office of the President/Wikimedia Commons (right)  —  You had to figure this was coming (per the Connecticut Post's Neil Vigdor): … As briefly discussed here in response to an essay from Jonathan Chait suggesting …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Neil Vigdor / Connecticut Post:
Democrats drop Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson names from annual fundraising dinner  —  Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are history in Connecticut.  —  Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
GOP's Favorability Rating Takes a Negative Turn  —  Republicans Less Positive About Their Party  —  The Republican Party's image has grown more negative over the first half of this year.  Currently, 32% have a favorable impression of the Republican Party, while 60% have an unfavorable view.
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Jeb Bush pushes to ‘phase out’ Medicare  —  Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush appeared at a New Hampshire event last night sponsored by the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, and the former governor raised a few eyebrows with his comments on the future of Medicare.
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush Quietly Suggests ‘Phasing Out’ Medicare
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chelsea Rarrick / WTVR-TV:
‘Just stay behind me’ Construction worker helps teen escape I-95 abduction  —  HENRICO COUNTY, Va — Kevin Huntington knows things can get hectic along Interstate 95, especially in Northern Virginia.  The construction worker said what he saw last week, was like nothing he's ever experienced.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Shakesville and WNEP-TV
Hector Garza / PO Box 2363 Laredo, TX 78044:
National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 statement  —  After careful consideration of all the factors involved in this event and communicating with members of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) at the National level, it has been decided by Local 2455 to pull out of all events involving Donald Trump.
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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Bison attacks woman who was trying to take selfie with it in Yellowstone Park  —  Yellowstone: Our first national park 9 photos  —  Yellowstone: Our first national park - Old Faithful Geyser may be the most-famous “resident” of Yellowstone National Park, but park ranger Dan Hottle …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:   Bison selfies are a bad idea: tourist gored in Yellowstone as another photo goes awry
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner got a job fixing PR messes — seriously  —  If you find yourself in a p.r. nightmare, there's a swashbuckling new hero you can turn to — Carlos Danger.  —  A top “crisis” public-relations firm with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired the last person in the world …
Politico:
IPAB's on the horizon — House Republicans vow to subpoena Planned Parenthood official — Casey takes on foster children's health insurance  —  With help from Paul Demko, Rachana Pradhan and Brett Norman  —  GET READY: IPAB COULD BE TRIGGERED BY 2017 — Implementation of the Independent …
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The Hill:
Fears on the left growing for Planned Parenthood
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Increasingly divided Democrats causing problems for their party  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  America's two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51 percent coalition in a nation that has always been — not just now, but from the beginning …
Discussion: Moe Lane
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Joe Dinkin / The Nation:
Bernie Sanders Blew a Huge Opportunity at Netroots Nation
Discussion: Eclectablog
Daily Breeze:
Reality show star Loredana Nesci found slain in Redondo Beach home, boyfriend arrested  —  Reality show star Loredana Nesci, an LAPD officer turned attorney, was found slain today at the Redondo Beach home she shared with her boyfriend, who called police to report the death and was arrested when officers arrived.
Discussion: Hollywood Life and KTLA
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Toxic Worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates  —  Moses gave us the Ten Commandments.  Paul gave us the epistles.  And Ta-Nehisi gave us, Between the World and Me.  —  Get POLITICO Magazine in your feeds  —  The new book by Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the form of a letter to his son …
Discussion: American Power
J. Christian Adams / Rule of Law:
Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Texas: 611,234 Crimes, 2,993 Murders  —  The murder of Kathryn Steinle on the Embarcadero in San Francisco by an illegal alien is the most familiar example of a crime committed by an alien.  But an unreleased internal report by the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals …
David / Crooks and Liars:
Ex-cop Tells CNN: Sandra Bland Would Be Alive If She Wasn't ‘Arrogant From The Very Beginning’  —  CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck argued on Tuesday that a Texas woman would not have died in police custody if she had not been “arrogant from the very beginning.”
Los Angeles Times:
A homeless woman picked up an LAPD nightstick during the skid row shooting — and could get life in prison  —  Millions of people viewed video of the fatal police shooting March 1 of an unarmed black man known as “Africa” outside his skid row tent.  —  Police said the man …
Discussion: The Week
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
NASA May Have Discovered An Earth-Like Planet  —  NASA announced this week that it will shares news on Thursday from the Kepler Space Telescope project hinting that NASA may have found an earth-like planet.  —  “The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995.
Discussion: The Week and WREG-TV
Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman / The Trentonian:
Hamilton Councilman Ed Gore explains his ‘Muslim scum’ comment  —  HAMILTON >> When gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez shot and killed five U.S. military service members July 16 in Chattanooga, Tenn., a Hamilton councilman went to Facebook to voice his sentiments.  —  “Murdering bastard.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
New York Times:
Socialism, American-Style  —  THE great 20th-century conservative economist Joseph Schumpeter thought the left had overlooked a major selling point in pressing the case for public — i.e., government — control over productive capital.  “One of the most significant titles to superiority,” …
 
 
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