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2:25 PM ET, August 23, 2015

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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
What Does Joe Biden Have to Lose by Jumping In to the Presidential Race?  —  It's the silly season of August, and political reporters can only write so many articles about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  So we get treated to the spectacle of a meeting between Vice President Joe Biden …
Discussion: The Hill and Booman Tribune
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CNN:
First on CNN: Biden meets with Warren in Washington  — The meeting between Biden and Warren is the biggest indication yet that he is feeling out influential Democrats about a possible 2016 run  — Biden is the leading figure Democrats believe they could turn to if they needed to find an alternative to Hillary Clinton
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Deez Nuts endorses Sanders in Dem primary
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
National Fronts  —  Trump's rise is mirrored on the European right.  —  From Malmö comes the news that the Sweden Democrats, scrubbed-up neo-fascists who have forsaken the Roderick Spode uniforms, have become Sweden's most popular political party, commanding the allegiance of a quarter of Swedish voters.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Trump Struts in His Own Pageant  —  Washington — SOME blondes have all the fun.  —  As Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush get more testy, Donald Trump gets more chesty.  And more blond.  —  It's mind-boggling to contemplate a President Trump trying to make peace between North and South Korea …
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Scott Walker Takes His Third Position On The Hottest Issue In The Republican Primary  —  Presidential candidate's Scott Walker's journey to find a position on birthright citizenship, enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, took another unexpected turn.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Amanda Marcotte / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Abortion and the myth of ‘protecting’ women  —  It's been a month since the antiabortion group Center for Medical Progress released an undercover video purporting to prove that Planned Parenthood is illegally selling fetal parts.  The charge was complete nonsense, and mainstream media sources quickly debunked it.
New York Times:
Why Donald Trump Won't Fold: Polls and People Speak  —  In the command centers of Republican presidential campaigns, aides have drawn comfort from the belief that Donald J. Trump's dominance in the polls is a political summer fling, like Herman Cain in 2011 — an unsustainable boomlet dependent …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie fades into darkness  —  Sinking in the polls and struggling to gain traction in New Hampshire, the New Jersey governor could be relegated to the “kiddie table” debate next month.  —  He was supposed to be the brash, blunt New York-area candidate who told it like it is.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Des Moines Register:
Animal rights activists interrupt Chris Christie speech
Discussion: Gothamist and Talking Points Memo
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Hillary's e-mail defense is ‘total BS’: former State Dept. officials  —  Former State Department security officials don't buy Hillary Clinton's latest alibi that she couldn't tell that government e-mails — which she improperly, if not illegally, kept for several years on an unsecured home server …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Kentucky GOP greenlights joint Senate, presidential run for Rand Paul  —  The Kentucky GOP's central committee voted Saturday to adopt a presidential caucus system next year, clearing the way Republican Sen. Rand Paul to run for president and reelection at the same time.
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Tom McCarthy / Guardian:
Here's why Donald Trump won't win the Republican presidential nomination  —  How meaningful is Donald Trump's impressive lead in the polls, really?  Not very meaningful, think most people in the know.  Here's why.  —  Donald Trump's authoritative lead in early polling in the 2016 Republican race …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
Surgeon who wrote of becoming killer is denied bail reduction  —  Long before he faced lawsuits and criminal charges, a North Texas neurosurgeon emailed one of his employees.  —  “I am ready to leave the love and kindness and goodness and patience that I mix with everything else that I am …
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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