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9:05 PM ET, March 9, 2019

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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Not even in the race, Joe Biden leads herd of Democrats; Bernie Sanders close behind  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders lead the pack among likely Iowa caucusgoers, according to a new Iowa Poll in March 2019.  Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker also chart.
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Iowa Poll: Biden and Sanders stand out among likely caucusgoers  —  Washington (CNN)The field of Democrats seeking the party's nomination for president in 2020 is one of the largest the party has seen, but for Iowa's most likely caucus attendees, two names stand above the rest …
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders-Style Politics Are Defining 2020 Race, Unnerving Moderates  —  IOWA CITY — The sharp left turn in the Democratic Party and the rise of progressive presidential candidates are unnerving moderate Democrats who increasingly fear that the party could fritter away its chances …
Discussion: Mother Jones
David Corn / Mother Jones:
A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  The latest Trump political donor to draw controversy is Li Yang, a 45-year-old Florida entrepreneur from China who founded a chain of spas and massage parlors that included the one where New England …
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miamiherald:
Massage parlor magnate helped steer Chinese to Trump NYC fundraiser, attendee says  —  A Chinese-American massage-parlor entrepreneur arranged for a group of Chinese business executives to attend a paid fundraiser for President Donald Trump in New York City at the end of 2017, according to a source who was present at the event.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
It Exists: DOJ Finds Letter Ordering Scrutiny of Uranium One, Hillary Clinton  —  Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions wrote the letter on Nov. 22, 2017 for Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber.  Read it here.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  After it claimed no such document existed …
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Clark Pettig / American Oversight:
Sessions Letter Shows DOJ Acted on Trump's Authoritarian Demand to Investigate Clinton  —  American Oversight has uncovered the signed directive from former Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructing a federal prosecutor to carry out President Trump's authoritarian demand to investigate Hillary Clinton.
Liam Quinn / Fox News:
CNN to be sued for more than $250M over ‘vicious’ and ‘direct attacks’ on Covington High student: lawyer  —  CNN is likely to be hit with a massive lawsuit worth more than $250 million over alleged “vicious” and “direct attacks” on Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his lawyer has told Fox News.
Washington Post:
Is Paul Manafort's sentence too light?  He fared worse than many fraudsters, data shows.  —  Paul Manafort's prison sentence of less than four years on bank- and tax-fraud charges Thursday sparked outrage from commentators who said it was too light a punishment for his crimes.
Discussion: RedState
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Ken White / The Atlantic:
6 Reasons Paul Manafort Got Off So Lightly
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Manafort's Judge Gave This Jamaican Woman More Time for Similar Crimes
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Manafort's 47 Months: A Sentence That Drew Gasps From Around the Country
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
John Avlon / CNN:
A look back at Clinton's impeachment reveals the GOP's searing hypocrisy  —  John Avlon is a CNN senior political analyst and anchor.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author's own.  View more opinion articles on CNN.  —  (CNN)There's an old saying in American politics …
Washington Post:
Trump invokes new demand for extracting billions of dollars from U.S. allies  —  In private discussions with his aides, President Trump has devised an eye-popping formula to address one of his long-standing complaints: that allies hosting U.S. forces don't pay Washington enough money.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What you do and don't do when one party loses its mind and the other might, too  —  We have gone from a robust two-party democracy to one in which the Republican Party has lost moral legitimacy, intellectual honesty and fidelity to the Constitution, while the Democratic Party flirts with socialism, tribalism and isolationism.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Yes, the Republican Party has changed since 2016. You think the Democratic Party hasn't?
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Democrats are weirdly unified these days
Discussion: Daily Kos
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Unloads on Fox News ‘Journalists’ at SXSW: ‘They Chose to Work at Fox’  —  ‘The fact is they work at a place that has done tremendous damage to this country,’ the CNN president said at SXSW.  —  Matt Wilstein  —  AUSTIN, Texas—After the Democratic National Committee …
Discussion: Mediaite and TheBlaze
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Springing forward to daylight saving time is obsolete, confusing and unhealthy, critics say  —  The annual time change is under legislative challenge in states and in Congress.  —  This weekend, Americans will once again navigate their complex relationship with the chronically confusing and arguably misnamed daylight saving time.
Discussion: Slate
David Siders / Politico:
'It's a bit much': Beto drags out his 2020 tease at South by Southwest  —  The Texas Democrat confirmed more than a week ago that he'd made his decision on a potential run for president.  He just won't say what it is.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Beto O'Rourke took his 2020 campaign tease to South …
Washington Post:
Howard Schultz's ‘nightmare’: How his first big gamble outside Starbucks ended in defeat  —  When Howard Schultz bought the Seattle SuperSonics in 2001, his friends told the Starbucks chief he was overestimating what he could do to save the struggling basketball franchise.
Discussion: Splinter and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Mueller vs Barr, and the battle to indict Trump … A good rule in journalism is, or ought to be: Never predict.  (Just report.)  So Cockburn has some explaining to do, having quoted one source saying that Robert Mueller would hand in his report yesterday.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Aristocracy of Victimhood  —  If anti-Semitism is wrong, it's no less wrong no matter how bad Ilhan Omar's childhood was. … Dear Reader (including Paul Manafort, who will finally have the time to catch up on back issues of this “news"letter),  —  Imagine a semi-prosperous middle …
CREW:
Presidential Profiteering: Trump's Conflicts Got Worse in Year Two  —  INTRODUCTION  —  President Trump's January 11, 2017 announcement that he would not divest from his interests in the Trump Organization while serving as president caused an ethics uproar.
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Amazon's Tax Breaks and Incentives Were Big.  Hudson Yards' Are Bigger.  —  At Hudson Yards, the expansive real estate development that is about to open in Manhattan, seven floors of retail are occupied by Fendi, Dior, Neiman Marcus and other high-end shops.
NBC News:
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising, data shows  —  More than 960 people crossed into the U.S. illegally from the northern border with Canada last year, according to data released from CBP.  —  DERBY LINE, Vermont — More than 960 people crossed into the U.S. illegally …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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Presidential hopefuls make appearances at South by Southwest Festival
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
As residents flee New York's high taxes, state uses intrusive audits to get cash from defectors
Discussion: Breitbart and CNBC
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Arrests in domestic terror probes outpace those inspired by Islamic extremists
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Richmond's new FBI chief was lead agent in Mueller's office
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos effort to delay special-ed regulations rejected by court
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Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
Alabama's Roy Moore is ‘seriously considering’ a 2020 Senate run
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
In another blow to Trump, judge rules in favor of ACLU in family separations case
Discussion: ACLU, Splinter, POLITICUSUSA and USA Today
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Workers suddenly have more power to demand higher pay and better jobs
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Ex-Mercenary CEO Erik Prince Admits To Trump Tower Meet With Donald Jr. And Saudi Emissary
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Teen Fiction and the Perils of Cancel Culture
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg:
Russian Trolls Shift Strategy to Disrupt U.S. Election in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Ross / Bloomberg:
U.K. Dismisses EU's Brexit Concession as a ‘Disappointing’ Joke
Discussion: Politico and Coffee House
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
The more we learn about Brexit, the more crooked it looks
Discussion: Byline Times