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5:35 PM ET, September 30, 2014

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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
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 …
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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.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Republican Judge Orders Obamacare Defunded
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.
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  —  The NFL said Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah, a devout Muslim, shouldn't have been flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after kneeling in prayer post-touchdown during Monday night's game against the New England Patriots.
Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
NFL penalizes Muslim player for praying; league says it was wrong (updated)
New York Times:
Many Missteps in Assessment of ISIS Threat  —  WASHINGTON — By late last year, classified American intelligence reports painted an increasingly ominous picture of a growing threat from Sunni extremists in Syria, according to senior intelligence and military officials.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Obama wasn't passing buck with ISIS comment
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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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria Appears to Be Contained
Discussion: ABC News and Outside the Beltway
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.
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.
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 …
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
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 …
Joey Brown / WAVE-TV:
LMPD: Student shot at Fern Creek Traditional High School  —  LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The person who shot a student at Fern Creek High School fled the building, but a suspect was captured about three hours later, according to Louisville Metro Police.  —  One shot was fired inside …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette, Gawker and KFOR-TV
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Lawyer Suing To Save A GOP Senate Seat Bungles His Case, Leaves His Client At Home  —  Thomas Haney, a lawyer suing the Kansas Democratic Party in a suit that could save Sen. Pat Roberts' (R-KS) uphill bid for reelection, showed up to court on Monday missing a crucial element of his case — his client.
David M. Primo / Wall Street Journal:
A Political Attack on Shareholder Value  —  Rating corporate speech may achieve the opposite of its supposed aim.  —  By  —  Last week the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School released the annual “CPA-Zicklin Index …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Incumbent governors fear wipeout  —  Recognizing that many voters don't personally sense that their economic situation has meaningfully improved, Snyder slightly tweaked his messaging two weeks ago from calling Michigan “the comeback state” to saying that it is on “the road to recovery.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
For ISIS, Slaughter Is an End in Itself  —  LONDON — In a famous passage from “Survival in Auschwitz,” Primo Levi relates an incident upon arrival in the Nazi death camp that captures the intersection of the human with the inhuman.  He and other Italian prisoners have been held in a shed as they await their fate.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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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How Climate Change Helped ISIS
James Hohmann / Politico:
Liberal doves run as war hawks
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