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Barbara Boland / Washington Examiner:
Satan worshipers drown women with milk in Planned Parenthood counter-protest  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Satan worshipers launched a counter-protest against pro-lifers outside the Detriot and Ferndale, Michigan Planned Parenthood locations Saturday.
Amy Wallace / Wired:
Who Won Science Fiction's Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters  —  Since 1953, to be nominated for a Hugo Award, among the highest honors in science fiction and fantasy writing, has been a dream come true for authors who love time travel, extraterrestrials and tales of the imagined future.
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Burning Down The Field in Order to Save It  —  So, I thought I didn't care about the result of the Hugos, because in making the establishment lose their collective sh*t at the “non approved” nominations, we'd proven our point: that there is a political color bar in SF/F …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition  —  Sorry about sparsity of posts; on the road for family reasons, with real life getting in the way of digital.  But I did see a number of people praising remarks from Charlie Munger declaring himself “flabbergasted” by low interest rates …
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
The Fed looks set to make a dangerous mistake  —  Raising rates this year will threaten all of the central bank's major objectives  —  Will the Federal Reserve's September meeting see US interest rates go up for the first time since 2006?  Officials have held out the prospect that it might …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Harry Reid endorses Iran deal, boosts chances Congress won't block it  —  Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid gave a forceful endorsement Sunday to the nuclear deal with Iran, a key boost that provides continued momentum for preventing Congress from blocking President Obama's pact.
Will Leitch / Bloomberg Business:
Trumpus Maximus Goes to Mobile  —  About two hours before gates opened for Donald Trump's out-of-nowhere, only vaguely explicable rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, a gaggle of us journalists began to work the line.  The line—already 1,500 deep two hours out—was a dream …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
A Tale of Two Rallies: My Summer With Bernie and Trump
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Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Two Arrested in Alleged Pokemon Championship Threat  —  Two Iowa men are under arrest on weapons charges after Boston police were alerted to alleged threats of violence against participants at the Pokemon World Championship, police said today.  —  Security officers at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston …
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Dean: Hillary email answers too ‘lawyerly’  —  Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday that Hillary Clinton's response to her email issues had been too “lawyerly.”  —  “One of the problems is that Hillary Clinton is an incredibly smart lawyer,” …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Scott Walker Completes The Journey Back To Not Repealing The 14th Amendment  —  Days after saying he wanted to end birthright citizenship, the Wisconsin governor says he doesn't.  —  WASHINGTON — Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) affirmed on Sunday that he would not seek to end birthright citizenship …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Scott Walker Takes His Third Position On The Hottest Issue In The Republican Primary
Discussion: Guardian and New Republic
Leonard Pitts Jr / miamiherald:
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why ‘Black lives matter’ resonates … This is a column about three words of moral cowardice:  —  “All lives matter.”  —  Those words have risen as a kind of counter to “Black lives matter,” the movement that coalesced in response to recent killings and woundings …
Discussion: RedState
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 and Scared Monkeys
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Donald Trump attended big-donor fundraiser last month  —  Despite his prior pledge to self-fund his campaign, the billionaire businessman now appears to be embracing big donors.  —  Donald Trump has boldly touted his independence from big donors, in June proclaiming “I'm using my own money” …
 
 
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The GOP could be angering Asian voters with its latest nativist turn and dooming itself to a repeat of 2012.
CBS News:
Donald Trump: “The hedge fund guys are getting away with murder”
Discussion: Business Insider
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Alabama tried a Donald Trump-style immigration law. It failed in a big way.
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
National Fronts  —  Trump's rise is mirrored on the European right.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rand Paul sells Kentucky GOP on presidential caucus
 

 
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