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David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
The Congressional Map Has A Record-Setting Bias Against Democrats  —  When Democrats think about their party's problems on the political map, they tend to think of President Trump's ability to win the White House despite losing the popular vote and Republicans' potent efforts to gerrymander congressional districts.
Discussion: Althouse
CNNMoney:
Kayleigh McEnany appears in pro-Trump ‘news’ video after leaving CNN  —  Kayleigh McEnany appears in Pro-Trump ‘newscast’ after leaving CNN  —  Former CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany is now hosting campaign-style videos for President Trump's Facebook page.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ex-CNN commentator hosts video ‘news’ segment on Trump Facebook page
Discussion: RedState
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Fight over Trump wall could lead to shutdown  —  Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, says the Trump administration has clear expectations for the fall: “We get tax reform and we also complete funding of the government which includes rebuilding of the military and securing our border.”
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Trump's Trade Pullout Roils Rural America  —  EAGLE GROVE, Iowa — On a cloud-swept landscape dotted with grain elevators, a meat producer called Prestage Farms is building a 700,000-square-foot processing plant.  The gleaming new factory is both the great hope of Wright County …
Fox News:
Rod Rosenstein addresses efforts to stop White House leaks  —  This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” August 6, 2017.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace.  —  The Russia investigation hits up as the Trump White House deals with a barrage of leaks.
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Rod Rosenstein: Mueller needs to come to me if he wants to chase any crime outside scope of Russia probe
Discussion: Townhall.com
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Someone in the White House is working overtime to drive a wedge between the president and his national security adviser.  —  The war on White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster continues, with allies of Steve Bannon using sympathetic media outlets to push a narrative that McMaster …
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Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
Tax writers see peril in Trump's Obamacare persistence  —  Republicans acknowledge that the aggressive timeline they have set up for overhauling the tax code this fall leaves them little room for error.  —  There could be one problem with that: Obamacare isn't going away.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Glenn Smith / Post and Courier:
Emails: South Carolina AG coordinated with key figure in statehouse probe on letter booting special prosecutor off case  —  S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson criticizes his appointed special prosecutor, 1st Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe, during a March 2016 press conference regarding the Statehouse corruption probe.
Discussion: Political Wire
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Many Politicians Lie.  But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.  —  WASHINGTON — Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant here, likes to tell his clients that there are “three keys to credibility.”  —  “One, never defend the indefensible,” he says.  “Two, never deny the undeniable.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Jason Chaffetz, Who Bailed Early From Congress, Rips Congress For Bailing Early  —  The irony of this one did not escape us.  —  Monday morning on Fox Business, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz was incensed over the idea that the Senate would leave early with such a lengthy list of things to do.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Joe.My.God.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Here Is The Alias Email Account Loretta Lynch Used As Attorney General  —  Like her predecessor, Eric Holder, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used an email alias to conduct government business, The Daily Caller has confirmed.  —  Several of Lynch's emails were included in 413 pages …
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Diplomats Question Tactics of Tillerson, the Executive Turned Secretary of State  —  WASHINGTON — Several times a week the State Department sends a greeting to a foreign country on the occasion of its national day.  By tradition, the salutations have been written by low-level diplomats and routinely approved by their superiors.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Former DNC chair criticizes ‘whiny’ left … Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean ripped what he called the “whiny” portion of the Democratic Party on Saturday in response to criticism of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) by a number of progressives.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Dem campaign arm mocks GOP for ‘spectacular failure’ of 200-day agenda  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in a memo mocked the House Republicans' “spectacular failure” to accomplish their 200-day agenda.  —  “After 100 days of unified control of Washington …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
New York's Subways Are Not Just Delayed.  Some Trains Don't Run at All.  —  The nation's most crowded subway line is jammed every morning with a crush of people waiting to board trains.  Angry riders often have to let a train or two pass before they can wedge themselves inside.
Discussion: Gothamist
Stan Collender / Forbes:
These 3 Federal Debt Ceiling Nightmares Should Keep You Awake At Night  —  This easily got lost amid all of last week's other Washington-related craziness: Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that Democrats should provide the votes the Trump administration …
Discussion: NBC News
Amy Held / NPR:
Two Chinese tourists posing for cell phone pictures in front of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, wound up under arrest Saturday for making the Heil Hitler gesture, according to multiple media reports citing German police.  —  The two men, ages 36 and 49, have been released after each posting close to $600 bail.
Discussion: CNN, twitchy.com, AOL and The Daily Caller
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Alison Smale / New York Times:
Chinese Tourists Arrested Over Nazi Salutes
Discussion: Mashable
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
‘Apply by fax’: Before it can hire foreign workers, Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club advertises at home — briefly  —  President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club needs to hire 35 waiters for this winter's social season in Palm Beach, Fla.  —  Late last month, the club placed an ad on page C8 of the Palm Beach Post …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
What's It Like to See a Democracy Destroyed?  —  What's it like to watch a country implode?  To see a democracy destroyed and an economy crater?  —  Since 2014, American journalist Hannah Dreier has documented just that in Venezuela, once one of the world's wealthiest nations and still home …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
America's Whiniest ‘Victim’  —  Donald Trump is the reigning king of American victimhood.  —  He is unceasingly pained, injured, aggrieved.  —  The primaries were unfair.  The debates were unfair.  The general election was unfair.  —  “No politician in history — and I say this with great surety …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John Fritze / Baltimore Sun:
Amid immigration battles, College Park considers giving noncitizens voting rights  —  Officials in College Park are weighing a plan that would make their city the largest in Maryland to give undocumented immigrants a right to vote in local elections, a long-standing practice elsewhere …
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Fight over right to sue nursing homes heats up  —  Consumer groups are making a last ditch effort to stop the Trump administration from stripping nursing home residents and their families of the right to take facilities to court over alleged abuse, neglect or sexual assault.
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Greg P. / twitchy.com:   If the nursing home rule libs are so angry about was so important, why did Obama wait until Sept. 2016 to implement it?
 
 
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Breaks From Vacation to Tweet Criticism of Media and Rally His Base
John Hendel / Politico:
How Trump's FCC aided Sinclair's expansion
Discussion: Shareblue
Ross Pomeroy / RealClearScience:
What If Nazi Germany Had Built the Atomic Bomb?
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Troops Train in Eastern Europe to Echoes of the Cold War
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Trump Embraces a Senseless Immigration Proposal
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Regulators' Penalties Against Wall Street Are Down Sharply in 2017
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Flake extends his attacks on Trump and the GOP — all the way back to the dawn of birtherism
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Vox and Politico
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
How can Kelly save Trump when he was a human-rights disaster at Homeland Security?
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Chance to be governor lures members from House
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's unprecedented hands-on messaging carries risks
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
With rising homicides in big cities, Republican governors intensify police patrols
Discussion: Power Line
Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
Trump's malignant pattern: He woos people, rips them off and then abandons them — and he won't stop