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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Coulter Goes to War with Trump And It Is Glorious  —  Liberals may die tonight because there are limited supplies of those injections they give you for acute schadenfreude toxicity.  Ann Coulter has been Donald Trump's biggest New York City white nationalist supporter.  She's transformed toadying into a militant act.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Coulter mocks Trump's immigration muddle  —  Ann Coulter revealed her sense of disgust with Donald Trump's latest comments on immigration in which he suggested an openness to changing his hard-line stance on illegal immigration.  —  Speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity in a town hall event …
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Donald Trump Openly Weighs a Massive Immigration Reversal  —  Trump Reaches Out to Black, Latino Voters as Poll Numbers Show Numbers Falling 2:03  —  In what would be a stunning reversal on an issue central to his candidacy, Donald Trump floated a possible process to allow undocumented immigrants …
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Coulter: Trump's ‘softening’ on immigration remark a panic move  —  “panicked” when he said he was open to softening his immigration policies, according to conservative pundit and Trump ally Ann Coulter.  —  “It's just rhetoric but it's still annoying,” Coulter told The Hill Wednesday night.
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Ann Coulter Is Not Happy With Trump's Softening on Immigration
Wall Street Journal:
Chelsea Clinton Plans to Stay on Board of Family Foundation  —  Clinton Health Access Initiative might also continue to accept foreign government and corporate funding  —  The Clinton Foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations …
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CNN:
Clinton blasts Trump attacks on foundation  —  Hillary Clinton slammed Donald Trump and issued a strong defense of the Clinton Foundation Wednesday amid the Republican nominee's claims that she used public office for personal gain.
Reuters:
Biden says expects Guantanamo prison to close before Obama leaves office
Discussion: Political Wire
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Ethicists scoff at Clinton Foundation transition plan
Discussion: The Hill and Hot Air
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump camp brushes aside ‘alt-right’ association
Discussion: ABC News and The Hill
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton aims to deny Trump's pass at normalcy
New York Times:
A Conflicted Donald Trump Tries a New Tactic: Sticking to the Script
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Jon Miltimore / intellectualtakeout.org:
Univ. of Chicago pushes back on trigger warnings, safe spaces  —  Letters sent to the incoming class of 2020 make it clear the University of Chicago isn't a fan of trigger warnings or safe spaces.  —  Academics around the country are embracing the relatively new trend of using trigger warnings …
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Fox News:
U. of Chicago to frosh: No ‘safe spaces’ here
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and Mediaite
Annie Garau / Esquire:
Mike Pence Used to Draw Cartoons.  We Found Them.  They're Strange.  —  Behold the VP nominee's alter ego, Law School Daze  —  Before his P was penetrated by Donald's T, before thousands of women called him to chat about their menses, even before he lost Indiana more than $60 million …
Discussion: Mediaite
Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
GOP FAIL: Donald Trump Not Listed on Minnesota Ballot  —  Just days after his supporters and motorcade were attacked by protesters in Minneapolis at a GOP fundraiser, the Minnesota Republican party has not submitted the names of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee Mike Pence …
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Debate Commission faces new challenge in selecting moderators  —  The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is in just over a month, and yet neither candidate knows who the moderator will be.  —  They won't know until after Labor Day, sources with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney.
NBC News:
Where will the Republican Party go after 2016?  —  The future of the Republican Party — with or without Donald J. Trump — is weighing heavily on the party's top elected officials, thought leaders and activists.  It's a topic sure to be dissected once the results on Election Day, November 8, 2016, are tallied.
Lucia Graves / Guardian:
Trump and Farage are playing the same dangerous game  —  The would-be president is harnessing nationalism and bigotry.  Like the former Ukip leader, he is more interested in channelling anger than he is in governance  —  onald Trump's movement has often been compared to that of a rightwing European party.
John Sides / Washington Post:
How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign?  A lot.  —  Stories about the ramshackle nature of the Trump campaign are abundant.  A recent article called Donald Trump's organization “more concert tour than presidential campaign.”
Washington Post:
Is Rudy Giuliani okay?  —  WE ARE a little worried about Rudy Giuliani, the Republican former mayor of New York.  Is “America's mayor” okay?  —  During his 15-minute speech at the GOP convention last month in Cleveland, it was notable that when he said Donald Trump loves “all people …
Discussion: The Resurgent and TalkLeft
Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Black Lives Matter Has Officially Cost Mizzou 2,100 Students  —  The University of Missouri's (MU) flagship Columbia campus has officially lost a staggering 23 percent of its freshman class this year, an even worse figure than administrators initially predicted in the wake of major racial strife.
Kori Schake / Wall Street Journal:
The Disconnect Beneath the Praise for U.S. Military  —  Kori Schake is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.  She is co-editor, along with retired Gen. Jim Mattis, of “Warriors and Civilians: American Views of Our Military.”  She is on Twitter: @KoriSchake.
Kristina Rebelo / New York Times:
Veteran Kills Himself in Parking Lot of V.A. Hospital on Long Island  —  A 76-year-old veteran committed suicide on Sunday in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Long Island, where he had been a patient, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
U.S. Soccer:
Hope Solo Suspended from U.S. WNT for Six Months  —  U.S. Soccer has suspended goalkeeper Hope Solo from the U.S. Women's National Team for six months for conduct that is counter to the organization's principles.  —  The suspension for Solo, who was previously suspended for 30 days early …
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is Making More States Competitive.  Red States.  —  Donald Trump has upended much of what we thought we knew about U.S. electoral politics.  Maybe Republican voters aren't as conservative as we thought.  Maybe candidates can make seemingly crazy statements without harming their prospects.
Discussion: The Resurgent and BizPac Review
Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Jews are ‘adept at working the American political system’ aided by ‘the memory of the Holocaust’ - extraordinary claim made by journal where Huma Abedin was assistant editor  — Huma Abedin, Hillary's top aide, was named as assistant editor on the masthead at the Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs for 12 years
BBC:
Colombians celebrate as peace deal is reached with Farc rebels  —  Hundreds of Colombians have celebrated an historic peace accord between the government and left-wing Farc rebels, signed after 52 years of conflict.  —  The announcement was broadcast live on Wednesday from Havana, Cuba …
Edie Ousley / Florida Chamber of Commerce:
Politicians, Parties and Plaintiff Trial Lawyers are Unknown or Unliked in New Florida Chamber of Commerce Statewide Poll  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (August 24, 2016) - The latest Florida Chamber Political Institute (FCPI) statewide poll shows Floridians either don't know or don't like politicians …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump gnaws at shorter leash  —  Donald Trump, after several straight days delivering a more scripted message, loosened the rhetorical shackles tightened by his new campaign manager and went off-script several times Wednesday afternoon, offering a more passionate but at times self-contradicting case for his candidacy.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Elle Hunt / Guardian:
Fisherman hands in giant pearl he kept under the bed for 10 years
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