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11:30 PM ET, September 25, 2014

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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General  —  Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system …
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: Holder Ran The DOJ ‘Much Like The Black Panthers Would’  —  Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said Thursday during a discussion about Attorney General Eric Holder's reported resignation that he ran the Department of Justice “much like the Black Panthers would.”
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and The Mahablog
Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
GOP to Obama: Don't use lame-duck Congress to replace Holder  —  Conservatives are warning President Obama against using a lame-duck session of Congress to push through Attorney General Eric Holder's replacement, even as the White House signals its intention to fill the post quickly.
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next Attorney General  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is “engaged in immediate conversations” with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder quit  —  The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’  —  It's oddly fitting that Attorney General Eric Holder - a stubbornly independent career prosecutor ridiculed by Barack Obama's advisers for having lousy political instincts— would nail his dismount.
The National Interest:
Good Riddance, Eric Holder  —  “The most polarizing man in Barack Obama's administration—besides the president himself—is calling it quits.”  —  The most polarizing man in Barack Obama's administration—besides the president himself—is calling it quits.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight Over Successor
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
AG Holder to step down following six-year tenure
Discussion: Balloon Juice
David Nather / Politico:
Eric Holder's real legacy
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ABC News
Rush Limbaugh:
Eric Holder Resigns, Will Be Replaced by Al Sharpton or Some Other Obama Clone
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Hot Air
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
With Eric Holder's Exit, Obama Loses a Key Ally
Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
Eric Holder to resign
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Hot Air
Reuters:   U.S. Attorney General Holder, a close Obama ally, to step down
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Conservatives Launch ‘Unprecedented’ Campaign Against Pro-Marriage Equality Republicans  —  National Organization for Marriage, Family Research Council, and CitizenLink lash out against candidates “working to actively alienate the Republican base.”  —  Olaf Faeskorn/Tisei for Congress
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ferguson police chief tells CNN: I will not step down  —  Watch the full interview with Police Chief Tom Jackson on “Anderson Cooper 360°” tonight at 9 p.m. ET.  —  (CNN) — Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson — under fire for his department's handling of the Michael Brown shooting …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
SD Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Somehow Plagiarized Biographical Sentence  —  Mary Burke had her own policies plagiarized.  —  Susan Wismer For South Dakota / Via Facebook: SusanForSD  —  Democratic gubernatorial South Dakota nominee appears to have plagiarized parts of her issues page …
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Wisconsin's Dilettante  —  The daughter of Trek Bicycle founder …
Discussion: Hot Air and BuzzFeed
Politico:
How Sen. Kay Hagan's husband won stimulus cash  —  When Kay Hagan voted for President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package, the Democratic senator hailed it as “the best way forward for working families across North Carolina.”  —  One of the families that later benefited is her own.
Discussion: RedState
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Beating Brownback Would Redeem 2014  —  After reading Patrick Caldwell's very thorough explanation of why Gov. Sam Brownback's in danger of losing in November, I'm more convinced than ever that whether or not Republicans are kept from taking control of the Senate, it would be an important …
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Senate Races: What September Polling Trends Tell Us  —  About a month ago, I wrote a pair of articles about the 2014 elections, one regarding the Senate, and another focused on the House.  The goal of the articles was to try to reconcile two disparate sets of data tied to this election.
New York Post:
Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't hold onto the Staten Island Zoo's squirming groundhog.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio has groundhog blood on his hands!  —  A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2 …
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Gabby Giffords's Gun-Control Ads Are Being Criticized Because They're Working  —  Strange but true: getting shot in the head will make a person want to defeat political candidates who oppose gun control laws.  Actually, getting shot in the head is usually fatal.
Discussion: National Review
Daily Mail:
FBI says it has identified ‘Jihadi John’ seen in ISIS execution videos but will not reveal his identity or nationality  — Comey said he was ‘not confident at all’ the threat from Khorasan militant group was thwarted by this week's airstrikes  —  The FBI has identified the ISIS executioner …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Daily Banter
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
US: Immigrant Families Fail To Report To Agents  —  3 photos  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately.
Discussion: Daily Signal and Hot Air
Paul A. Offit / Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic  —  Whooping cough, mumps and measles are making an alarming comeback, thanks to seriously misguided parents.  —  Almost 8,000 cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, have been reported to California's Public Health Department so far this year.
Discussion: Washington Post
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation  —  South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert was arrested on Wednesday and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature after a video emerged of him shooting a driver named Levar Jones that he pulled over for a seat belt violation.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Shakesville and Daily Kos
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘60 Minutes’ lands Obama interview
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP poll: Dem trails in Alaska Senate race
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Incredibly Insipid War on Women 2.0
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘Meet the Press’ finishes third, again
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Colorado's Politics Are as Divided as They Get
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney rips Obama for ‘Ferguson’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
Discussion: Power Line and Bloomberg View
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
The Reeducation of Dinesh D'Souza
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Leslie SalzilloFollow / Daily Kos:
Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret ‘Facts’ About StopRush