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12:45 PM ET, September 3, 2015

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Mike Allen / Politico:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump will sign GOP loyalty pledge  —  The Donald made the stunning decision to avoid complications in getting listed on primary ballots.  —  A close associate tells POLITICO that Donald Trump plans to sign a loyalty pledge Thursday that would bind him to endorse the Republican nominee, and would preclude a third-party run.
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Jonathan Merritt / The Atlantic:
Why Do Evangelicals Support Donald Trump?  —  Donald Trump is immodest, arrogant, foul-mouthed, money-obsessed, thrice-married, and until recently, pro-choice.  By conventional standards, evangelical Christians should despise him.  Yet somehow, the Manhattan billionaire has attracted their support.
Discussion: Hot Air and Boing Boing
Max Abelson / Bloomberg.com:
Inside the empire … Photographer: Evan Ortiz … Trump Las Vegas
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Staffer who worked on Clinton's private e-mail server faces subpoena  —  A former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail server tried this week to fend off a subpoena to testify before Congress, saying he would assert his constitutional right not to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself.
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CNN:
Former Clinton aide expected to plead the 5th in response to email inquiries  —  (CNN)A former State Department employee who worked on Hillary Clinton's private email server has informed Congress that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before the House Select Committee …
NBC News:
Ex-Hillary Clinton Staffer Who Set Up Email Server Plans to Plead the Fifth
Discussion: Washington Post
timesfreepress.com:
Judge declines divorce case, citing gay marriage ruling … A local judge contends the U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage has derailed Tennessee's ability to determine what constitutes divorce — leaving one Signal Mountain couple married against their will.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Clerk: I am prepared to go to jail  —  Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis listens to a customer following her office's refusal to issue marriage licenses at the Rowan County Courthouse in Morehead, Ky. Although her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied, Davis still refuses to issue marriage licenses.
Ottawa Citizen:
Family of children found on Turkish beach were trying to come to Canada  —  UPDATE — Immigration minister Chris Alexander suspends campaign after news that Canada rejected family's refugee bid before boy drowned.  —  The two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach Wednesday …
Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, Daily Mail and NPR
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Helena Smith / Guardian:
Shocking images of drowned Syrian boy show tragic plight of refugees
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Aylan's story: How desperation left a 3-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Keep Calm And Ignore The 2016 ‘Game Changers’  —  If you were to rank the most exciting presidential nomination contests, the 1996 Republican race would be near the bottom.  Bob Dole, the “next-in-line” GOP candidate and the Senate majority leader, built up a huge lead in polls and endorsements early …
Michael Getler / PBS Ombudsman:
More Self-Inflicted Wounds  —  This column is not about me, but I start by acknowledging that I am something of a technological dinosaur.  I still read printed newspapers and I don't have a Twitter account or Facebook page.  But the reason I don't engage in social media is only in part because I'm a little challenged technologically.
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Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Mocks Israeli PM Netanyahu After Democrats Support Obama Iran Nuke Deal
Discussion: Algemeiner.com
RADAR:
Exposed!  Libya Security Briefs, Algeria Hostage Info & More — Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton's ENTIRE UNRELEASED Private Emails For $500K … PICS OF  —  HILLARY  —  Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming …
John Croman / KARE-TV:
Lawmakers deny park ranger's “making out” report  —  Lawmakers question deputy's nuisance report  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two Minnesota lawmakers Wednesday vehemently denied a Dakota County park ranger's report that they were “making out” in a car in Eagan.  —  Rep. Tim Kelly of Red Wing …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Donald Trump isn't rich because he's a great investor.  He's rich because his dad was rich.  —  “It takes brains to make millions,” according to the slogan of Donald Trump's board game.  “It takes Trump to make billions.”  It appears that's truer than Trump himself might like to admit.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP circulates loyalty pledge to box Trump in  —  <p>The GOP is taking its most aggressive step yet to force Donald Trump's hand.</p><p>The Republican National Committee on Wednesday privately reached out to GOP presidential candidates to ask whether they'd be willing to sign a pledge stating …
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Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Populist Revolt Against Brain-Dead Politics  —  Take a deep breath.  It won't help you understand what's happening in the contest for the presidency, but it won't hurt either.  —  By contrast, many media analyses of the state of the race have reached the breathless level.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Treason of the Professors [Updated]  —  William Bradford is an Associate Professor of Law, National Security, and Strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and at the National Defense College in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  He has a Ph.D. from Northwestern and an LL.M. from Harvard.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Mika to Huckabee: Why Do You Hate Hillary Lawbreaking, But Support KY Clerk?  —  MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski challenged Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee Thursday morning on why he supported the lawbreaking of the Kentucky clerk refusing to issue marriage licenses, but not Hillary Clinton.
Discussion: Liberaland and Raw Story
Seth Lipsky / New York Post:
Why there's Ground Zero steel in West Point graduates' class rings  —  Cadets march into Michie Stadium before a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point.  —  When graduates of West Point's Class of 2016 go into their years of service as officers of the Army …
Discussion: Fox News Insider
New York Times:
Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and All Too Common  —  If mass incarceration is one of modern America's deepest pathologies, solitary confinement is the concentrated version of it: far too many people locked up for far too long for no good reason, at no clear benefit to anyone.
TMZ.com:
'Can't Buy Me Love' Star Amanda Peterson — Cause of Death ... Massive Overdose  —  Amanda Peterson — who starred in “Can't Buy Me Love” died from an accidental overdose of a deadly combination of drugs.  —  The 43-year-old disappeared just before the 4th of July and her body was found on July 5th.
 
 
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
News Guild starts $500,000 campaign to organize digital newsrooms
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Former Obama adviser Axelrod joining CNN as senior political commentator
Discussion: TVNewser and Poynter.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH staffer indicted on assault charges resigns
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
Can Jeb Bush break the Trump spell?
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
ABC News:
Watch President Obama Do a Native Alaskan Dance With Kids
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
‘The Triumph of Backward-Looking Economics’
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
Exclusive — Donald Trump Fires Back at Jeb Bush: He Should Lead by ‘Speaking English’ While in the United States'