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11:10 AM ET, August 30, 2015

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Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Trump blazes to lead; Carson quietly rises … Donald Trump has built up tremendous support in Iowa — he's very wealthy, he loves the Bible and he'd be just terrific as president of the United States.  And he's very handsome.  —  That's according to interviews with some likely GOP caucusgoers in Iowa.
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Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near … Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race.  —  She's the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers …
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Ben Carson Edging Close to Front-Runner Trump in Latest Iowa Poll  —  Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has emerged as a leading Republican presidential candidate in Iowa and is closing in on frontrunner Donald Trump in the state that hosts the first 2016 nomination balloting contest.
Discussion: Power Line and Outside the Beltway
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Bobby Jindal  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  —  MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC CORRESPONDENT: Our thanks to John.  Let's go to straight to Senator Bernie Sanders.  Senator, good morning.  You saw those new poll numbers.  Is Hillary Clinton's campaign in trouble?
Jackie Kucinich / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton Really Is Coming For Your Guns  —  Some politicians talk about gun control once in a while.  Clinton has been pushing to curb firearms for decades.  No wonder the NRA has vowed to bring her down.  —  “Something is deeply wrong,” Hillary Clinton told the audience at the Democratic National Committee on Friday.
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Sanders Within Striking Distance of Clinton in Iowa
Gregory Cowles / New York Times:
Oliver Sacks Dies at 82; Neurologist and Author Explored the Brain's Quirks  —  Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain's strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” using his patients' disorders …
Washington Post:
Dems say party chair blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz prevented consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting here that praised President Obama and offered backing for the nuclear agreement with Iran, according to knowledgeable Democrats.
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting: report  —  Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz blocked consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting that would have praised President Obama and backed the his nuclear deal with Iran …
Discussion: RedState
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Make A $15 National Minimum Wage An Establishment Principle
Discussion: Addicting Info
Houston Chronicle:
Capital murder charges files in deputy's death  —  A 30-year-old Cypress man has been charged with capital murder in the Friday killing of a 47-year-old Harris County Sheriff's deputy who had stopped at a gas station he frequented in northwest Harris County.
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BREITBART.COM:
Texas Deputy Executed Days After Black Radical Group Calls for Killing Cops
New York Times:   Texas Deputy Killed ‘Because He Wore a Uniform,’ Sheriff Says
Reuters:
Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages  —  Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said on Saturday that if he were elected president he would combat illegal immigration by creating a system to track foreign visitors the way FedEx tracks packages.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Raw Story
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Enraging industry, labor board asserts its power under Obama  —  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has become a lightning rod for controversy under President Obama, with its aggressive actions fueling sustained warfare between business and labor.  —  From the labor board's bitter fight …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Artificial Unintelligence  —  In the early stages of the Lesser Depression, those of us who knew a bit about the macroeconomic debates of the 1930s, and realized how relevant the hard-won insights of Keynes and Hicks were to the post-financial crisis world, often felt a sense of despair.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump: ‘This is a movement’  —  <p>Donald Trump says it's not all about him.  No, seriously. </p><p>Campaigning in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump on Saturday paid homage to his supporters — claiming they are a part of “a movement” and using colorful language to beg for their support. </p><p …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'm winning because Americans are ‘tired of being the patsies’
Discussion: Liberaland
 
 
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