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1:15 PM ET, August 14, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
The Poison of Identity Politics  —  The return of white nationalism is part of a deeper ailment.  —  As ever in this age of Donald Trump, politicians and journalists are reducing the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday to a debate over Mr. Trump's words and intentions.
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Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Merck CEO quits Trump council over Charlottesville  —  Trump addresses Charlottesville clashes (full)  —  One of America's most prominent black CEOs quit President Trump's manufacturing council on Monday over Trump's failure to condemn white supremacists.  —  Kenneth Frazier of Merck …
John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP is more likely to vent ‘personal disgust’ for Trump after Charlottesville  — Accusations that Trump is racist have never made Republican politicians abandon him in large numbers.  — The killing of an anti-supremacist protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, has generated rage toward white nationalists.
NBC News:
Pence Defends Trump From Critics of Charlottesville Remarks  —  Vice President Mike Pence on Monday continued to defend President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, telling NBC News the president “made it very clear” he condemns “the KKK and white supremacists.”
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Here's What Really Happened In Charlottesville  —  Who came ready for violence?  Was it on “many sides”?  The answers are clearer on the ground.  —  Reporting From  —  Yes, you can blame the Nazis.  —  The race-fueled chaos that wracked Charlottesville, Virginia, finally came to rest on Sunday night.
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New York Times:
The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of
Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
A.C. Thompson / ProPublica:
A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville
Discussion: Shakesville
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’ McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted  —  Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump, warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West Wing.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is Trump reluctant to condemn white supremacy?  It's his racism — and his megalomania.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  During a visit to Washington on Monday, President Trump will again address the deadly violence sparked by a rally of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, a White House aide tells CNN.
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Oklahoma man charged in anti-government bomb plot  —  The FBI has arrested an Oklahoma man on charges that he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb outside a bank, acting out of a hatred for the U.S. government and an admiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mc­Veigh, according to court papers.
Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago  —  Trump doesn't want to call out white supremacists.  The FBI already did.  —  The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in May warned that white supremacist groups had already carried out more attacks …
Pearce Tefft / INFORUM:
Letter: Family denounces Tefft's racist rhetoric and actions  —  My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed white nationalist who has been featured in a number of local news stories over the last several months.
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:   Father Denounces Son Identified As Participant In White Supremacist Rally
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing media provided home for white supremacist before he organized Charlottesville rally  —  Before he organized the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, Jason Kessler wrote for The Daily Caller and the white nationalist site VDare and appeared as a purported expert on Alex Jones' Infowars network.
New York Times:
North Korea's Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say  —  North Korea's success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Gizmodo and The Week
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Kaila White / Arizona Republic:
After months of criticism, GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer  —  GoDaddy, which is the largest internet domain-name seller in the world, announced Sunday evening it will no longer provide service to the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer.
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
GoDaddy bans neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer for disparaging woman killed at Charlottesville rally
Discussion: Axios, NBC News, NPR, The Week, Gizmodo and Mashable
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones: A lot of KKK protesters are “Jewish actors” who look like the “cast of Seinfeld” with their hoods off  —  ALEX JONES (HOST): Here's a little bit of audio of me like 18 years ago protesting the KKK.  There's no big crowd of Antifa there supporting me, and them threatening to kill me, everything else.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Here's how Republicans can atone for backing Trump  —  Donald Trump would not have become the Republican nominee and then the president if not for the support, excuse-making, intentional blindness, moral obtuseness and political cowardice of elected GOP officials and party insiders.
Discussion: CNN
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Sessions defends Trump's comments on Charlottesville, says car-ramming fits definition of domestic terror  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the incident of a driver ramming a car into a crowd of demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, which killed a young woman and sent 19 …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Conservatives Must Regulate Google And All of Silicon Valley Into Submission  —  Google's fascist witch-burning of an honest engineer for refusing to bow down at the altar of politically correct lies was the final straw, an unequivocal warning to conservatives that there's a new set of rules, and that we need to play by them.
Discussion: RedState
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“There was no police presence.  We were watching people punch each other; people were bleeding all the while police were inside of barricades at the park watching."  —  “It was essentially just brawling on the street and community members trying to protect each other.”
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PENCE does what Trump hasn't and disavows neo-Nazis and white supremacists …
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New York Times:
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Discussion: NewsBusters
CBS Boston:
'We Don't Want You,' Walsh Warns Ahead Of Planned Boston Free Speech Rally
Discussion: The Atlantic
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WSU College Republican President attends ‘Unite The Right’ rally in Charlottesville
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
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