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5:25 AM ET, October 21, 2014

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Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Monica Lewinsky Gives Tearful Speech About Falling ‘In Love’ With Bill Clinton And Being Shamed Online  —  Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave an emotional speech about her role in one of the world's most infamous sex scandals on Monday in Philadelphia at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.
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Clare O'Connor / Forbes:
Full Transcript: Monica Lewinsky Speaks Out On Ending Online Abuse  —  Monica Lewinsky broke a decade-long public silence on Monday morning, delivering a speech to 1,000-plus young entrepreneurs and achievers at Forbes' 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia.  The full transcript is below.  —  Good Morning.
Discussion: U-T San Diego stories
Politico:
Protection for Bachmann after 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 …
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 …
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
Annie Linskey / Bloomberg Politics:
What Exactly Is Elizabeth Warren Going For?  —  Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren isn't running for president but is rallying support for her Democratic colleagues and laying the groundwork for the future.  —  Elizabeth Warren sounds like she's in the center of a national campaign …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Washington Post
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Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Joni Ernst Is the GOP's Breakout Star. The Democratic Machine Could Still Beat Her.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: It's not over yet, but Democrats have their backs to the wall
New York Times:
Oscar de la Renta, Who Clothed Stars and Became One, Dies at 82  —  Oscar de la Renta, the doyen of American fashion, whose career began in the 1950s in Franco's Spain, sprawled across the better living rooms of Paris and New York, and who was the last survivor of that generation of bold …
Discussion: Gothamist, Mashable and NPR
Maureen Groppe / The Indianapolis Star, Indystar:
Indiana reinstates time limits for some food stamp recipients  —  WASHINGTON -  —  Indiana will begin cutting off food stamp benefits next year to tens of thousands of people who fail to get a job or train for work.  —  Beginning in the spring, the state will limit benefits …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Indiana Plans To Cut Tens Of Thousands Off Food Stamps
Discussion: Shakesville
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 …
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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
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rubio to introduce Ebola travel ban legislation  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) plans to introduce legislation banning travel between the U.S. and three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus, his office announced Monday.  —  “While Ebola's deadly reach has proven …
Eddie Scarry / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Says He'll Decide on 2016 Run Basically the Same Time Hillary Does  —  Game show host Donald Trump showed up in Iowa over the weekend to campaign for Rep. Steve King (R) and (because rules are rules) someone asked the billionaire if he has plans for a 2016 presidential campaign.
Discussion: The Iowa Republican
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Larry Klayman: ‘Ebola-Gate’ Shows That Obama Is As Racist As George Wallace  —  Predicting that President Obama is paving the way for a wave of Ebola-related deaths in the United States, Larry Klayman took to WorldNetDaily on Friday to claim that “Obama has opened the door for Muslim terrorists …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Attorney General Candidate Says Fast Food Workers Should Get ‘A Real Job’  —  Striking workers outside a Chicago Burger King hold signs saying “We are worth more” in Spanish  —  MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN—Brad Schimel, the Republican candidate for Attorney General, told supporters …
Discussion: Shakesville
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Cops: Losers Of Beer Pong Match Opened Fire On Fellow Texas Partygoers  —  After getting vanquished in a beer pong match, a group of sore losers opened fire early yesterday at a Texas house party, wounding a female reveler, police report.  —  The 1:20 AM shooting Sunday took place at a residence in Ames, a city 45 miles from Houston.
Discussion: Mediaite
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Rand Paul: The Most Interesting Conspiracy Theorist in Washington  —  Bilderbergers, the Iraq invasion, Alex Jones—the GOP senator has routinely flirted with America's paranoid fringe.  —  This past summer, Rand Paul, the libertarian senator from Kentucky and a potential 2016 presidential wannabe, was the GOP's It Girl.
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: The Spot
Brian Walker / CNN:
ISIS forces launch multiple attacks on Kurdish territory in Iraq, officials say  —  (CNN) — ISIS militants launched about 15 near-simultaneous attacks on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq on Monday in what Kurdish government officials and the Kurdish news agency Rudaw said was a fierce and renewed push for Kurdish-held territory.
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
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.
 
 
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Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
China likely will never open all files on painful past, official says
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Cuomo: I Don't Know Enough About Ebola To Comment On It (VIDEO)
Discussion: Mediaite
Clay Travis / Fox Sports:
Tennessee Political Campaign Compares Incumbent to Lane Kiffin
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CBS Baltimore:
President Obama Campaigns For Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown In Md.
New York Times:
Cuba's Impressive Role on Ebola
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
New York Times:
Football Players in Sayreville, N.J., Recall Hazing
Discussion: New York Magazine and Gothamist
Chris O'Connell / myfoxphilly.com:
Burlington County Students Kept Home From School Due To Ebola Fears
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Elizabeth Williamson / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Gloom Marches Into Second Decade
Discussion: AEIdeas and Politico
Julian Zelizer / CNN:
Obama: One very successful president?
Discussion: PJ Media and Salon
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Flip Benham Crashes Gay Weddings In North Carolina
David Weigel / Bloomberg:
The Worst Campaign Ad That Human Beings Actually Paid for This Year
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
 

 
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