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6:30 PM ET, September 30, 2014

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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
White House intruder was tackled by off-duty Secret Service agent  —  The man who jumped over the White House fence and sprinted through the main floor of the mansion could have gotten even farther had it not been for an off-duty Secret Service agent who was coincidentally in the house and leaving for the night.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta  —  A security contractor with a gun and three prior convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident.
Susan Crabtree / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Secret Service missed man with gun in elevator with Obama
Discussion: Business Insider
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Agent Pens WaPo Op-Ed Urging Allen West To Lead Secret Service
Discussion: Raw Story
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Republican Judge Orders Obamacare Defunded  —  Much of the Affordable Care Act must be defunded and millions of Americans must lose their health insurance, according to an opinion issued Tuesday by Judge Ronald A. White, an Oklahoma federal judge appointed to the bench by George W. Bush.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
7 Charts That Prove Obamacare Is Working  —  One year after healthcare.gov crashed, things are looking up for the president's signature achievement  —  Obamacare is not popular.  In the latest tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 47 percent of respondents said they have an unfavorable opinion …
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Judge rules against White House on Affordable Care Act  —  A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that Obamacare subsidies cannot go to residents of states that are not running their own insurance exchanges, a second blow to the Obama administration on a issue that threatens a key element of the health law's coverage expansion.
Javier E. David / CNBC:
CDC confirms first Ebola case diagnosed in US  —  The United States has its first confirmed case of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, marking the first domestic appearance of the deadly virus that has ravaged swaths of continental Africa.
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Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas:
CDC Confirms Patient In Dallas Has The Ebola Virus  —  DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Officials with the Centers for Disease Control have confirmed that a person in Dallas definitely has the Ebola virus.  Tuesday's official determination makes the Dallas patient the first diagnosed Ebola case in the United States.
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria Appears to Be Contained
Discussion: CNN, ABC News and Outside the Beltway
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Mitt Isn't Ready to Call It Quits  —  “Hey, Ann, can you come here a sec?”  Mitt Romney called out, sinking into the cushions of a walnut-colored easy chair, his legs outstretched on a matching ottoman.  Romney's blue work shirt was tucked into faded jeans; sockless ankles peeked out from his New Balance sneakers.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Romney '12 in Two Paragraphs  —  Buried near the end of a soft-focus Mark Liebovitch piece on a visit with Ann and Mitt Romney, mainly preoccupied with determining whether the Mittster is serious about running again, is this fascinating snippet: … Liebovitch was interested in the …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Mitt Romney's Latest Excuse for His 47 Percent Remarks Is a Doozy  —  You won't believe who he's blaming now.  —  Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23.  —  During a recent sit-down with the New York Times' Mark Leibovich, the former GOP presidential nominee …
Discussion: Business Insider and Hullabaloo
Tod Palmerthe / Kansas City Star:
Referees flag Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah for celebration penalty after slide and prayer in endzone  —  Husain Abdullah is a devout Muslim.  He's also a safety for the Chiefs, and he made a promise to himself if he ever did find himself in the end zone.  —  “If I get a pick …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
NFL: Muslim Player Shouldn't Have Been Penalized For Touchdown Prayer
Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
NFL penalizes Muslim player for praying; league says it was wrong (updated)
Brooks Boliek / Politico:
FCC sacks NFL blackout rule  —  The FCC dumped the sports blackout rule Tuesday, dealing a blow to the NFL at a time of growing scrutiny for the league in Washington.  —  In a unanimous 5- vote, the commission eliminated the decades-old regulation, which prevents cable and satellite TV …
Discussion: Hit & Run
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FCC kills sports blackout rules
Discussion: Truth Revolt
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
This Is What's the Matter With Kansas  —  Sam Brownback tried to create a conservative utopia.  He created a conservative hell instead.  —  The midterm elections of 2010 were good for Republicans nearly everywhere, but amid the national Tea Party insurgency, it was easy to overlook the revolution that was brewing in Kansas.
The Hill:
Reid, Daschle feud erupts  —  Simmering tensions between Harry Reid and Tom Daschle are erupting into an all-out feud.  —  Daschle is expressing frustration with the Senate majority leader (D-Nev.) for refusing to endorse Rick Weiland, a former Daschle aide who is running for the South Dakota seat held …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and OnPolitics
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Derek Willis / New York Times:
Field Operations: Democrats Are Spending More on the Ground in Key Senate Races
Discussion: National Review
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths  —  The White House has acknowledged for the first time that strict standards President Obama imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes will not apply to U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq.
Jan Morgan Media:
My Gun Range is a Muslim Free Zone  —  The Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range is now a a MUSLIM FREE ZONE.  —  To understand why I arrived at this decision, you must first take in to consideration the nature of my business.  —  This is not a coffee and donut shop.  This is a live fire indoor shooting range.
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
How Americans' Lives Have Turned Into All Work And No Play, In 3 Charts  —  American workers are putting in more and more hours each week, as the supposedly 40-hour workweek has stretched to 47 hours.  At the same time, they're getting very little paid time off of work to recharge.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Margaret Wente / Globe and Mail:
The new campus sex puritans  —  Sixty years ago, sexual behaviour among the young caused deep alarm among the puritanical religious right.  Today, it causes deep alarm among the puritanical progressive left.  Like their forebears, they are doing their best to restrict and regulate it.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why it might be time to sell that Rand Paul stock  —  Sen. Rand Paul's best window for winning the 2016 Republican presidential nomination increasingly looks like it has passed.  —  A lot can happen over the next 18 months, but the renewed focus on foreign policy — and more specifically …
National Journal:
Large Oil Company Bolts From ALEC  —  Occidental Petroleum is cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council amid backlash against the organization's stance on climate change.  —  A large oil and natural-gas company is parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Discussion: Grist, ThinkProgress and BillMoyers.com
Camille Paglia / TIME:
The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil  —  Paglia is the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars.  —  Young women today do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature  —  The disappearance of University …
Brookings Institute:
Government Debt Management at the Zero Lower Bound  —  Abstract  —  This paper re-examines government debt management policy in light of the U.S. experience with extraordinary fiscal and monetary policies since 2008.  —  We first document that the Treasury's decision to lengthen …
 
 
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Dawinder S. Sidhu / The Atlantic Online:
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Lawyer Suing To Save A GOP Senate Seat Bungles His Case, Leaves His Client At Home
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
For ISIS, Slaughter Is an End in Itself
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Wynton Hall / BREITBART.COM:
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