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6:40 PM ET, August 19, 2015

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Act Two of the Trump Epic  —  We've gone far enough now with the Trump political phenomenon to know that it is no mere or momentary matter of name recognition which has placed him as the top contender for the Republican nomination, as bizarre an eventuality as that might appear.
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Edward J. Erler / National Review:
Trump's Critics Are Wrong about the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship  —  Donald Trump continues to bewilder political experts.  He unabashedly wades into politically dangerous territory and yet continues to be rewarded by favorable poll results.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz ‘absolutely’ backs ending birthright citizenship
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump to O'Reilly: The 14th Amendment is unconstitutional
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN and Hot Air
Cory Bennett / The Hill:
15,000 government emails revealed in Ashley Madison leak  —  Thousands of clients using the affair-oriented Ashley Madison website listed email addresses registered to the White House, top federal agencies and military branches, a data dump by hackers revealed.
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John Herrman / The Awl:
Early Notes on the Ashley Madison Hack  —  1. A data dump, which allegedly contains over 35 million email addresses, 33 million accounts with more detailed information (names and addresses), and every credit card transaction from the last seven years, is reported to have been posted online.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Polygamist MK Abu Arrar found on hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison's membership roll
CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Donald Trump now competitive in general election  —  Washington (CNN)Since announcing his campaign in late June, Donald Trump has quickly leapt to the top of the Republican field, leading recent polls nationally, in Iowa and in New Hampshire.  And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
There Goes the Electability Argument!  —  Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons (right)  —  One of my working hypotheses this year is the possibility that partisan polarization has made a hash of traditional “electability” arguments for this or that “moderate” presidential candidate for the simple reason …
Michael Ausiello / TVLine:
Good Wife to Pit Peter vs. Hillary in Season 7 Presidential Showdown
Discussion: Guardian and UPROXX
Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: Clinton losing ground to Sanders
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
Did Black Lives Matter Organizer Shaun King Mislead Oprah Winfrey By Pretending To Be Biracial?  —  An investigative blogger has accused Shaun King, a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, of misleading media icon Oprah Winfrey by pretending to be biracial in order to qualify for an …
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Candace Amos / New York Daily News:
Rachel Dolezal 2.0?  Shaun King, activist for the Black Lives Matter movement, outed as a white man  —  It's the second coming of Rachel Dolezal.  —  Shaun King, a prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, may have just been outed as a white man.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes On Civil Rights Generation Gap
Discussion: naked capitalism and Althouse
George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: UN to let Iran inspect alleged nuke work site  —  1 photo  —  VIENNA (AP) — Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work …
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Classified emails from Clinton aides kick-started FBI probe, candidate downplays controversy  —  EXCLUSIVE: An email from a top Clinton adviser containing classified military intelligence information, and one from a top aide containing classified information about the Benghazi terror attack …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Hillary's Problem: The Government Classifies Everything
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
7th Shocking Video Catches Planned Parenthood Harvesting Brain of Aborted Baby Who Was Still Alive  —  The organization that has released six videos exposing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies and their body parts has released a new undercover video today with another shocking discovery.
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Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton Aide Palmieri on E-Mail: 'She Didn't Really Think It Through'  —  “I've encountered this a lot in politics where people think that the answer is a lot more complicated than it really is,” the Democratic front-runner's spokeswoman says.  —  Hillary Clinton's communications director …
Yvonne Craig News:
A Word from Yvonne Craig's Family  —  For those who have known her personally, you already know what a down to earth, most exceptional person she was, so I'm sure you can understand this loss has touched all of our lives.  —  Yvonne was a very private person, so from the onset of her battle with cancer …
Discussion: NPR, NBC News, UPROXX and New York Times
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Peter Gosselin / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Has Republican ‘Reformicons’ Worried  —  A group of conservative policy wonks does not like the way the GOP primary is shaping up.  —  As the curtain rose on this presidential election cycle, Republicans promised a deep bench of candidates and a new generation of policy proposals.
Discussion: New York Times and National Review
Jamie Blynn / Us Weekly:
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green Split: Couple Has Separated After 11 Years Together  —  Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are going forward as solo acts.  After 11 years together, five of them as a married couple, “Megan has separated from Brian,” an insider reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.
Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Mike Huckabee blunders his way through Israel press conference  —  Republican presidential candidate calls Russia ‘the Soviet Union’ and implies that the West Bank borders a hostile state rather than Jordan  —  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee delivered a confused …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton aides' BlackBerrys likely destroyed  —  State Department BlackBerry devices issued to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin have likely been destroyed or sold off, the department said in a court filing on Wednesday.
Jonathan Flipollard / The Times of Israel:
Hamas claims to nab Israeli spy dolphin  —  Islamist group's naval unit says it captured mammal equipped with espionage equipment, including cameras  —  Hamas claims to have captured a dolphin that was spying for Israel, Army Radio reported Wednesday.  —  The dolphin was said to have been equipped …
Mark Mueller / New Jersey Online:
EXCLUSIVE: Priest admits sex with minor, says teen ‘wanted’ it  —  In an extraordinary admission of wrongdoing, a priest sought by authorities in New Jersey has acknowledged engaging in a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy, but he deflected blame for the incident by saying the teen “wanted” it and had “evil in his mind.”
 
 
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Mackenzie Ryan / Des Moines Register:
Iowa kid nailed by Rubio's football speaks out
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Ex-Virginia Cop Charged With Murder Collapses In Court After He's Denied Bail
Discussion: Daily Kos
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Tennessee courts reverse ban on ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Wall Street Journal:
Key Developments Around the World
Discussion: Weekly Standard and LewRockwell
Casey Harper / The Daily Caller:
United States Drops In Overall Freedom Ranking
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Leon H. Wolf / Washington Post:
BlackLivesMatter is wasting its time with Democrats
Isaac Avilucea / The Trentonian:
Weapon charge dismissed for man with no muscle control in arms
Discussion: Raw Story
Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
Bush Family Donors Gave Half of Jeb Bush's Presidential Cash
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Solemani / The Independent:
Voting for Jeremy Corbyn is deluded. For the love of Labour, pick Yvette Cooper
Discussion: Guardian and Telegraph
Liz Robbins / New York Times:
In Video, Immigrant Worker at Trump Hotel Criticizes Donald Trump's Views
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
PaulCraigRoberts.org:
FBI Evidence Proves Innocence of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Vox Popoli