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Democrats Look at Plan B: Biden as a One-Term President, with Warren as His VP — Joe Biden had good reasons to huddle privately with Elizabeth Warren on Saturday at his official residence. The Massachusetts senator may have chosen not to run next year, but her populist rhetoric and agenda dominate the 2016 Democratic contest.
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Power Line, Hot Air, Guardian, Raw Story and Washington Monthly
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Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run — Vice President Joe Biden is increasingly leaning toward entering the 2016 race, if it is still possible he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date, people familiar with the matter said.
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NBC News:
First Read: How a Biden Run Could Actually Help Hillary Clinton
First Read: How a Biden Run Could Actually Help Hillary Clinton
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CANNONFIRE, No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh and Politico
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting
Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting
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ABC News, Politico and Common Dreams
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Belmar diners leave waitress taunting note and no tip — BELMAR — A 20-year-old Rutgers University student who is waiting tables at D'Jais Bar & Grill this summer to help put herself through school, got an unwelcome lesson in the humanities this past week.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Can the Republican Party Survive Trump? — What is happening to the Republican Party? I put that question to Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina and basement-dwelling presidential candidate, who was getting ready to hold a campaign event in Hooksett, New Hampshire.
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Fox News and Booman Tribune
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David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Puts ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ on Notice
Donald Trump Puts ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ on Notice
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Politico, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, New York Sun, No More Mister Nice Blog, American Spectator and Bloomberg View
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
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Addicting Info and The Week
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Banners hung at home near ODU prompt response from University President: “I am outraged about the offensive message...” — Norfolk, Va. - Old Dominion University officials took time from their weekend to respond to some banners hung up at an off-campus home that are upsetting many.
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Pat Robertson: Market swoon is God's punishment — Televangelist Pat Robertson says he believes the Dow Jones Industrial Average's massive sell-off this morning was God's way of punishing the Obama administration for supporting abortion rights and funding Planned Parenthood, not the reverberations of China's stock-market crash.
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Political Wire
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Donald Trump seizes on stock-market plunge
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Daily Kos, New York Times and The Atlantic
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Stocks about 2% lower, tech stocks give back slight gains
Stocks about 2% lower, tech stocks give back slight gains
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NBC News and Washington Free Beacon
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DHS has no record of State Dept. giving info for Clinton server audit, despite rules — The State Department does not appear to have submitted legally required information regarding Hillary Clinton's secret computer server to the Department of Homeland Security during her term as secretary, FoxNews.com has learned.
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Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Hillary Clinton in 2011: ‘Hackers Break Into ... Personal Email Accounts’
Hillary Clinton in 2011: ‘Hackers Break Into ... Personal Email Accounts’
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Power Line and BizPac Review
Steve Coll / New Yorker:
Keeping Secrets — Hillary Clinton, in her memoir “Living History …
Keeping Secrets — Hillary Clinton, in her memoir “Living History …
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Bloomberg View
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Restaurant customer receives offensive message on receipt — DENVER — A woman arrives hungry at a Denver restaurant Friday and leaves with an inappropriate message that feeds her anger. — We've seen this happen before across the country: restaurant staff write ugly words on customer receipts.
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Daily Mail, Raw Story, KFOR-TV and Addicting Info
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Fox's Gentry: Black Lives Matter Need To Clean Up Their Community — Yep, it's time for another installment of self-loathing. This time, we get a double dose with Fox ‘News’ resident Uncle Ruckus, Charles Payne and returning champion, Minister Jonathan Gentry who are both appalled at the Black Lives Matter movement.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Martin Luther King III ‘perplexed’ by Huckabee comments
Martin Luther King III ‘perplexed’ by Huckabee comments
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The Week and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Louisiana trooper dies after being shot, taunted — A Louisiana state trooper died Monday after authorities say he was shot in the head and then taunted when he stopped to provide aid to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch. — Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the State Police …
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The Gateway Pundit
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Johnathan Manning / KPLC-TV:
Daigle has lengthy criminal history, including previous charge of battery of a police officer
Daigle has lengthy criminal history, including previous charge of battery of a police officer
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Boston Police Foil Potential Massacre at Pokemon World Championship — Two men drove from Iowa to Massachusetts with a trunk full of ammo and guns, boasting about ‘killing the competition’ on Facebook. — BOSTON — Police said Sunday they thwarted what could have been a massacre …
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TARANTINO … THIS INTERVIEW was condensed and edited from two conversations, the first conducted July 29 and the second August 7. — We've got a little bit more than an hour finished right now. I just got back from seeing an hour of the movie cut together. — Are you happy with it?
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story, The Week, Mediaite, Entertain This! and The Huffington Post
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Controversial flier causes outrage in Southfield — A single piece of paper with a powerful message of hate. — Tamiko Denson grew up in Southfield and her mom still lives in the city but recently the place she's called home for many years has seemed a little less inviting.
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Talking Points Memo, WXYZ-TV and Raw Story
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Walker Calls On Obama To Cancel Chinese President's Trip Amid Market Woes — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called on President Obama to cancel Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. next month after a tough day for global markets. — In a statement released late Monday …
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TIME
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Twitter cuts off Diplotwoops and Politwoops in all remaining 30 countries — Popular web service that tracked politicians' deleted tweets shut down in 30 countries … On Friday night, August 21, Open State Foundation was informed by Twitter that it suspended API access to Diplotwoops …
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Rand Paul: Trump's message is ‘empty anger’ — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump represents rage without any solution. — “His message is empty anger,” Paul told NBC anchor Chris Jansing during a humanitarian visit to Haiti.
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Red Alert Politics
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Moveable Glut — What caused Friday's stock plunge? What does it mean for the future? Nobody knows, and not much. — Attempts to explain daily stock movements are usually foolish: a real-time survey of the 1987 stock crash found no evidence for any of the rationalizations economists …
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Washington Post, Campaign for America's Future, Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
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WATCH: Trump Attack Video Uses The Words Of Jeb's Mom Against Him — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a video on Monday that attacked Jeb Bush by using the words of his mother and former First Lady, Barbara Bush, against him. — Trump's video, which was posted to Instagram …
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The Week
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Mark Cuban on how Donald Trump ‘fashioned himself a Killer of political correctness;’ how to understand the politician — Dallas owner Mark Cuban pumps his fist as Dallas pulls away in overtime of their 111-101 win during the Portland Trail Blazers vs. the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball game …
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BizPac Review, Business Insider and Red Alert Politics
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Howard Stern predicts Trump will win GOP nod: ‘People dig him’ — Howard Stern is predicting that Donald Trump will be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee. — “I'll tell you why I think he's going to be the nominee: He's proven that no matter what he says, people dig him,” the SiriusXM radio host told listeners on Monday.
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Political Wire
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Why salad is so overrated — As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic. Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture.
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Guardian, New York Magazine, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Althouse