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3:50 PM ET, October 1, 2014

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Showing Concern for the President, Even While Criticizing Him  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days.  As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting …
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Ronald Kessler / Politico:
Something Is Rotten in the Secret Service  —  And Obama's life is in danger because of it.  —  Behind the rotten culture is arrogance.  After uniformed officers failed to take out 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez when he hopped over the fence and ran into the White House …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Piles On The ‘Politically Correct’ Secret Service (VIDEO)
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Boston Magazine:
EARLIER:  —  A political cartoon in Wednesday's Boston Herald is raising eyebrows and has people calling the newspaper “racist.”  —  The cartoon depicts President Barack Obama brushing his teeth in the bathroom of the White House, as the man recently accused of storming the building …
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Suffolk University:
Kansas Poll Shows Independent Greg Orman Leading Incumbent Pat Roberts in U.S. Senate Race  —  Independent businessman and political enigma Greg Orman (46 percent) is leading three-term Republican incumbent Pat Roberts (41 percent) in the race for U.S. Senate in Kansas, with 11 percent undecided …
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Susan Page / Associated Press:
Poll: For the GOP — What's the matter with Kansas?  —  Greg Orman, an independent candidate who has never won political office, now leads veteran Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas by 46%-41% in the most surprising Senate race of the year, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll finds.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff  —  The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
College GOP: Democrats Are Like a Bad Wedding Dress  —  The College Republican National Committee launched on Wednesday a nearly $1 million digital ad campaign across 16 states, aiming to draw young voters to the GOP with what the group's chief calls “culturally relevant” ad campaigns.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Obama is winning on a foreign policy issue — for a change  —  Get ready to pop the champagne, White House.  For the first time since January, President Obama is polling a 50 percent approval rating on an issue: his handling of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Joseph Miller / The Daily Caller:
Pentagon Official: The President Is Lying To America — About Us, And About ISIS
Discussion: Power Line, VodkaPundit and Hot Air
Justin Sink / The Hill:   WH huddles as ISIS advances toward Turkey
Matt Campbell / Matt Campbell's Blue Hog Report:
BREAKING: Leslie Rutledge's Voter Registration Canceled; Candidacy Now In Question  —  And you thought the DHS rumors were troubling.  —  According to multiple reports — the veracity of which I have no reason to doubt, but the confirmation of which I will have to wait until 8am tomorrow to confirm …
Ari Phillips / ThinkProgress:
35,000 Walrus Converge On Alaska Beach As Sea Ice Retreats  —  In this aerial photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014, and provided by NOAA, some 35,000 walrus gather on shore near Point Lay, Alaska.  Pacific walrus looking for places to rest in the absence of sea ice are coming to shore in record numbers on Alaska's northwest coast.
Discussion: TheAustralian and Guardian
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Are Liberals Fund-Raising Hypocrites?  —  Let's imagine that Republicans swept the 2012 elections and were now in control not merely of the House but of the presidency and the Senate, too.  —  Now let's take it one step further and say that by using the filibuster the Democratic minority …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
USA Today:
Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola  —  DALLAS — Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday.
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
Ebola Is Diagnosed in Texas, First Case Found in the U.S.
Thomas K. Lindsay / The Hill:
Two years after college, too many grads are still ‘adrift’  —  The higher-education world was rocked three years ago by the publication of the landmark study of collegiate learning, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.
Discussion: National Review
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
On Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg Was Right  —  The great Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that important Supreme Court decisions “exercise a kind of hydraulic effect.”  Even if the authors of such decisions assert that their rulings will have limited impact, these cases invariably have a profound influence.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats make risky bet against GOP Leader Mitch McConnell  —  Democrats in Washington are taking a risky bet by quadrupling their investment in Alison Lundergan Grimes, a young and largely unproven challenger, who is running against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
Jaime Fuller / Washington Post:
Here is a video of a congressman pretending to be Bruce Lee  —  You can cross, “witnessing a congressman wear the same yellow jumpsuit that Uma Thurman wore in Kill Bill” off your bucket list, thanks to Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott.  He is a Seattle legislator who is very excited …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
Salon:
Gun nuts' tragic confusion: Why “open carry” groups don't get police brutality  —  To their credit, some gun groups were upset when John Crawford was shot by cops.  The problem is their odd reasoning  —  After finally being allowed to view the video of the police shooting of a man in an Ohio Wal-Mart …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
GAO says Obama administration can't bail out insurers without Congress  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE JEFF SESSIONS GAO CMS LAW FRED UPTON HHS RISK CORRIDORS  —  The Department of Health and Human Services cannot legally bail out the insurance industry for excessive losses …
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Mother Faces Jail For Giving Her Son Marijuana That Stopped His Seizures  —  County prosecutors won't let up on charging a Minnesota mom with child endangerment for giving her sick child medical marijuana.  Angela Brown is headed for trial in a case that could send her to prison for two years …
Discussion: West Central Tribune and Raw Story
 
 
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Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Brown signs phase-out of single-use plastic bags in stores
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Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
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Discussion: The Nation
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Scott Brown missed all border security hearings in Senate, records suggest
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Richard Wilson / Dayton Daily News:
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Discussion: Yahoo! News
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
How Gary Hart Became the First Political Sex Scandal Casualty