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3:50 PM ET, September 26, 2014

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Michael Lewis / Bloomberg View:
The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes  —  Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties.  Most people would probably also agree on two reasons those difficulties seem only to be growing: an ever-more complex financial system …
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This American Life Updates:
536: The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra  —  An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country.  The NY Federal Reserve is supposed to monitor big banks and prevent another financial crisis.  But when Carmen Segarra was hired …
ProPublica:
Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Hullabaloo
Ilya Shapiro / Cato Institute:
Eric Holder's Tenure  —  Eric Holder's tenure marked one of the most divisive and partisan eras of the Justice Department.  From his involvement in the bizarre guns-to-gangs operation ("Fast & Furious"), for which he has been cited for contempt by the House and referred to a federal prosecutor …
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New York Times:
Eric Holder's Legacy
Joshua DuBois / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder: ‘We Finally Started to Turn This Aircraft Carrier Around.’
Discussion: Hit & Run
Washington Post:
Attorney general confirmation process is fractious even before it's begun
Discussion: Hot Air, The Hill and New York Times
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
From Good to Great  —  When it came to civil rights …
KFOR-TV:
Police: FBI looking into Moore beheading after suspect tried to convert others to Islam … MOORE, Okla. - Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Democrats' ‘war on women’ falling flat in Colo. Senate race  —  Colorado Democrats are fretting that Sen. Mark Udall's (D-Colo.) “war on women” battle cry against Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is starting to sound like a broken record.  —  After a series of polls this past month have shown …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: A Troubling Trend For Democrats In Colorado  —  The battle for Senate control has been close all year, but also remarkably consistent.  Way back in March, we described Republicans as slight favorites to pick up the chamber.  And since FiveThirtyEight officially launched …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Associated Press:
Outside Groups' Planned Spending by the Numbers
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Why This Conservative Lawyer Thinks He Can Still Cripple Obamacare  —  The top lawyer arguing a case to overturn Obamacare subsidies believes he can succeed at crippling the law even if it's upheld in every district and appellate court.  —  A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit invalidated the federal exchange subsidies in June.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Why You Can't Trust The Supreme Court, In Three Quotes  —  Lawyers who are hoping to bring a case to the Supreme Court typically claim that the law is on their side, and they generally rely on citations to legal authorities and doctrines to prove this point.
Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson public relations representative was convicted of reckless homicide  —  • By Stephen Deere sdeere@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8116 and Steve Giegerich sgiegerich@post-dispatch.com 314.725.6758  —  Devin Sean James, who is overseeing public relations for Ferguson after the Michael Brown shooting …
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Adam McDonald / KMOV-TV:
Ferguson representative fired for deadly past
Discussion: Daily RFT and Talking Points Memo
Salon:
“American dream” is now a myth: How bad policies and worse ideology ruined us  —  Over the past few years of economic torpor and social despair there's been a lot of discussion about the death of the American dream.  This shouldn't be surprising.  In a time when people feel they can't keep …
Discussion: The Mahablog and Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones  —  FBI Director James B. Comey sharply criticized Apple and Google on Thursday for developing forms of smartphone encryption so secure that law enforcement officials cannot easily gain access to information stored on the devices — even when they have valid search warrants.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Show-Off Society  —  Liberals talk about circumstances; conservatives talk about character.  —  This intellectual divide is most obvious when the subject is the persistence of poverty in a wealthy nation.  Liberals focus on the stagnation of real wages and the disappearance …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Why We're Talking About Mitt Romney  —  I've been mostly ignoring the various “Romney 2016!” trial balloons floated by various parties over the last six months or so (including by some of my dear friends, alas), but now that someone as sober and well-informed as Byron York has weighed in with a …
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Golden Bowl  —  Amy Chozick covers Hillary Clinton for the New York Times.  She is an enterprising and dedicated reporter, and many of her stories have annoyed the 2016 presidential frontrunner.  This week Chozick covered a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.  It was her turn to be annoyed.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Bill in a Box  —  Hillary Clinton's biggest asset is also her …
Discussion: National Review
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Prospective Republican presidential candidates are promoting religious liberty at home and abroad at a gathering of evangelical conservatives, rebuking an unpopular President Barack Obama while skirting divisive social issues that have tripped up the GOP.  —  The annual Values Voter Summit opened Friday …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Bill Gross Leaves Pimco, Reportedly Under Pressure, to Join Janus
Discussion: Mashable
Amanda Albright / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC residents mailed incorrect voter registration information
Discussion: Gawker, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
1 in 4 Americans 25-54 Not Working
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Milo Yiannopoulos / BREITBART.COM:
THE UN'S RISIBLE #HEFORSHE CAMPAIGN: POINTLESS SELF-FLAGELLATION FOR SEX-STARVED BETA MALES
Discussion: alicublog and The Federalist
 Earlier Items: 
Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
U.S. second-quarter GDP growth revised up to 4.6% from 4.2%
Discussion: msnbc.com
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Ohio police given ‘pep talk’ on shooting scenarios ahead of Walmart encounter
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
450,000 in Va. may lack proper ID needed to vote
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Associated Press
Jim O'Sullivan / The Boston Globe:
Martha Coakley dragged down by national trends
Ben White / Politico:
Crunch time for Jeb Bush