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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Obama Brief  —  The President considers his judicial legacy. … “Of course I drink during the day—I'm way too tired to drink at night.”  —  BUY OR LICENSE »
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Clyburn challenger: Gay couples are ‘gremlins’  —  Rep. James Clyburn's (D-S.C.) Republican challenger referred to same-sex couples as “gremlins” and “bullies” in a Facebook post urging supporters to oppose gay marriage at the polls this fall.  —  Anthony Culler, the GOP nominee for Clyburn's seat …
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:   GOPer: Gay Couples Are ‘Gremlins’ That Will Destroy Our Way Of Life
Clare O'Connor / Forbes:
Monica Lewinsky Speaks: 'It's My Mission To End Cyberbullying'  —  Monica Lewinsky has broken a decade-long silence to announce her campaign to end cyberbullying and today's toxic culture of internet shaming.  —  In her first ever public address, the former mistress of President Bill Clinton revealed …
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Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Monica Lewinsky Gives Tearful Speech About Falling ‘In Love’ With Bill Clinton And Being Shamed Online
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Clare O'Connor / Forbes:
Full Transcript: Monica Lewinsky Speaks Out On Ending Online Abuse
Discussion: U-T San Diego stories
Doug Henwood / Harper's:
Stop Hillary!  —  Vote no to a Clinton dynasty  —  ow's that hopey, changey stuff working out for you?  " Sarah Palin asked American voters in a taunting 2010 speech.  The answer: Not so well.  We avoided a full-blown depression, but the job market remains deeply sick …
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Sam Levine / The Huffington Post:
Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story  —  In the November issue of Harper's magazine, Doug Henwood argues that Hillary Clinton, if elected president, would do little to assuage liberals' disappointment in President Barack Obama.  This is how Henwood sums up the case …
Politico:
Michele Bachmann given security detail over ISIL threat  —  Federal law enforcement officials are taking an ISIL threat against Michele Bachmann so seriously that Capitol Police have given the Minnesota Republican her own security detail.  —  An online threat against Bachmann emerged recently …
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Joni Ernst Is the GOP's Breakout Star.  The Democratic Machine Could Still Beat Her.  —  Bruce Braley is a flawed candidate, but his team's superior ground game might push him over the top.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa—Marilynn Wadden, a retired elementary school teacher, was smiling as she settled …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: It's not over yet, but Democrats have their backs to the wall
Bill Scher / Real Clear Politics:
How Republicans Could Blow It  —  There are two battlefields raging …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS  —  Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.  —  GAZIANTEP, Turkey — While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Two Americas  —  In the course of pondering Ezra Klein's odd views on due process with respect to “Yes Means Yes” and rape allegations, I have come across the following popular notion, written by Tara Culp-Ressler of Think Progress and endorsed by Michelle Goldberg of The Nation.
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KC Johnson / Minding The Campus:
Ezra Klein's Confusion on the California Sex Law
Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll: Alarm, anxiety as election looms  —  An overwhelming majority of voters in the most competitive 2014 elections say it feels as if events in the United States are “out of control” and expressed mounting alarm about terrorism, anxiety about Ebola and harsh skepticism …
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Elizabeth Williamson / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Gloom Marches Into Second Decade
Discussion: AEIdeas
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Amazon's Monopsony Is Not O.K.  —  Amazon.com, the giant online retailer, has too much power, and it uses that power in ways that hurt America.  —  O.K., I know that was kind of abrupt.  But I wanted to get the central point out there right away, because discussions of Amazon tend, all too often, to get lost in side issues.
David Weigel / Bloomberg:
The Worst Campaign Ad That Human Beings Actually Paid for This Year  —  A breathtakingly bad GOP ad in the one Senate race that's going great for Democrats.  —  Michigan's race for U.S. Senate is the sick man of the GOP's electoral map.  Halfway through the cycle, Republicans …
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Salon:
Supreme Court's civil rights backlash: How a new case could set us back decades  —  Here's what the practical effects will be  —  In the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting, there was a brief moment when much of America was forced to look at an inconvenient truth about ourselves …
Mike Cason / al.com:
Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard indicted on 23 felony corruption charges by Lee County Grand Jury  —  Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives and a powerful leader in the state Republican Party, has been indicted by a grand jury and charged with 23 counts …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Flip Benham Crashes Gay Weddings In North Carolina  —  With gay marriage now legal in North Carolina, it was only a matter of time before Flip Benham of Operation Save America started crashing wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples.  —  The North Carolina-based pastor …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
GOP Senator Campaign's Sunflower Fields Are In Ukraine  —  Pat Roberts represents the Sunflower State (Kansas).  —  The image Republican Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts on every page of his website and on his press releases of a sunset on a sunflower field is of a field in Ukraine.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
John Fund / National Review:
The Trouble with Early Voting  —  Early and absentee voting have their place, but they are becoming the rule not the exception.  —  The headline in the Florida's Sun-Sentinel newspaper this weekend says it all: “People Who Vote Before Election Could Decide Outcome of Governor's Race.”
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel and Hot Air
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Reid Wilson / Washington Post:
Both parties poured big money into early voting. Who's got the edge?
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Ebola hysteria: An epic, epidemic overreaction  —  (CNN) — This is getting ridiculous.  —  While the threat of Ebola is very real in Africa, the paranoia it's generated in the United States is unreal.  —  You can count the number of documented cases in America on two hands — and still have fingers to spare.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Meghan McCain: The right is wrong  —  Meghan McCain, always outspoken, says she's got one big regret — calling Rep. Michele Bachmann a “poor man's Sarah Palin.”  —  “That's the one if I could take it back I would, because I just think it's so linear and so nasty,” McCain said in an interview with POLITICO.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Julian Zelizer / CNN:
Obama: One very successful president?  —  Obama team resignations and firings … (CNN) — President Obama's poll numbers have hit a new low and he's under fire for everything from the rise of ISIS to the response to the Ebola threat.  So it may seem surprising to many readers …
Discussion: Salon and PJ Media
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Indiana Plans To Cut Tens Of Thousands Off Food Stamps  —  Indiana will cut tens of thousands of its poorest people off of the food stamps roles beginning next spring, the state announced.  Gov. Mike Pence (R) has decided to join seven other states in reinstating work requirements …
 
 
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Daniel Malloy / Political Insider blog:
Michelle Nunn ad again features George H.W. Bush; again he's not pleased
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KIII-TV:
Man Accidentally Shoots and Kills Brother
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Just How Quickly Could Recreational Marijuana be for Sale in D.C.?
Discussion: The Dish
Lauren Raab / Los Angeles Times:
Ebola patient Amber Vinson's family disputes CDC story, gets a lawyer
Alexandra Sifferlin / TIME:
Nigeria Is Ebola-Free: Here's What They Did Right
Annabelle Bamforth / Ben Swann Truth In Media:
Watch Keene's Pumpkin Festival Coordinator Physically Confront Reporter Amid Rioting
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Gay GOP House candidate: Harassment allegations driven by my sexuality