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Seattle Times blogs:
Police: shooter dead after opening fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School  —  A gunman believed to have opened fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Friday morning is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to two law-enforcement sources.  —  Police have not released details …
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Chelsea J. Carter / CNN:
Witness: Teen gunman shot his friends  —  (CNN) — The shooter who opened fire Friday morning at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High School played football and was recently named to the homecoming court.  —  Freshman Jaylen Fryberg walked into the school's cafeteria …
KOMO News:
2 DEAD, 4 CRITICALLY INJURED IN SHOOTING AT MARYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL  —  MARYSVILLE, Wash. - A student opened fire Friday morning at Marysville Pilchuck High School, killing one student and critically injuring at least four others before fatally shooting himself, police and witnesses said.
Discussion: abc7chicago.com and The PJ Tatler
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
CORRECTED: Dems Miss Insulin Pump In Video Of Perdue Signing Young Woman  —  “No pictures on this,” David Perdue jokes, as campaign staffers hold up signs in front of the camera.  Update: Another angle on the video suggests American Bridge didn't capture the whole scene.  —  View Video ›
Daniel Malloy / Political Insider blog:
Exclusive AJC poll: Nathan Deal opens small lead, Senate race in virtual tie  —  Gov. Nathan Deal and Senate candidate David Perdue in July.  (AJC/Greg Bluestein)  —  An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll shows Gov. Nathan Deal opening up a small lead over Democrat Jason Carter …
Discussion: National Review
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Georgia Senate race statistical tie
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Dems have Georgia momentum
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Dynasties “R” Us
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Friday Cancer Blogging - 24 October 2014  —  A few of you have probably cottoned onto the fact that people don't usually spend a week in the hospital for a broken bone, even a backbone.  So in the long tradition of releasing bad news on Friday afternoon, here's my first-ever Friday news dump.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Pro-Orman Republican Owes Candidate Big Money  —  Senate candidate Greg Orman of Kansas has been accused by Republicans as a Democrat-in-Independent's clothing, which explains why Orman is surrounding himself with Republicans in the final days of his campaign against GOP incumbent Pat Roberts.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Ballot dispute in Georgia heads to courts — and could be a factor in state's close Senate race
Discussion: Daily Kos and Right Wing Watch
David Frum / The Atlantic Online:
How Independents Could Seize Control of the Senate
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Fox News Is Too Negative For Jeb Bush  —  No stranger to taking on his party's most conservative voters, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is now calling out the bastion of conservative media.  —  CNN's Peter Hamby reported that during a speech Thursday night at a South Carolina fundraiser …
Washington Post:
Could non-citizens decide the November election?  —  Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens?  Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor …
Jessica Robinson / Boise State Public Radio:
Coeur d'Alene Says Hitching Post Is Exempt From Gay Rights Law … The city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, said a for-profit wedding chapel owned by two ministers doesn't have to perform same-sex marriages.  —  The city has been embroiled in controversy ever since the owners of the Hitching Post sued the city.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton: ‘I love ... Elizabeth’  —  BOSTON — Hillary Clinton hit Elizabeth Warren country on Friday, repeatedly praising the anti-big banks Massachusetts senator for going after “those who deserve” it, while rallying voters to put embattled Democrat Martha Coakley in the governor's mansion.
Maggie Fox / NBC News:
Ebola-Free Pham Visits White House After Release  —  Nina Pham walked out of the hospital and into the White House.  —  Two weeks after she tested positive for Ebola, the Dallas nurse was declared free of the virus Friday and discharged from the Washington-area hospital where she had been treated in a special containment unit.
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Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Dallas nurse treated for Ebola at NIH now ‘virus free’
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: Dem Challenger Slips And Calls Gov. Nikki Haley A ‘Whore’ (VIDEO)  —  A spokeswoman for the South Carolina Democratic Party had a hunch why TPM was getting in contact with her on Friday.  —  “If you take a look at the actual video it's really clear that he got tongue tied …
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Sarah, Bristol & The Recurrence Of The Eternal Victim  —  As you've likely seen Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol have now spoken out about their notorious boozy family brawl, recasting Bristol's attack on the event's host as a morality tale about violence against women and media bias.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
The Spectacular Implosion Of The GOP's Senate Hopes In Oregon  —  Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley really did not want to run against Monica Wehby.  —  She had the résumé of a formidable challenger: a pediatric neurosurgeon, a pro-choice mom in socially liberal Oregon …
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
Anthony Weiner Still Doesn't Understand How to Use Twitter  —  It's been three years (only!) since Anthony Weiner's political career went limp because he sent photos of his d**k to random women via social media, and yet he has still not learned how to use Twitter.
Discussion: Truth Revolt and The Daily Caller
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media Should Stop Lecturing Americans About Their Ebola Concerns  —  Like 98 percent of Americans, I've heard the news about Ebola.  I've even followed the news with interest for months, taking seriously the media claims that this was a serious outbreak that had potential to become even more serious.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and alicublog
Peter Olsen-Phillips / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Revenge of the Democrats: Wealthy liberals top list of super PAC donors in 2014  —  One billionaire has spent more than $70 million on the 2014 elections; Image credit: DonkeyHotey, Flickr  —  In a reversal from 2012, liberal billionaires top the list of biggest super PAC donors with a little …
Discussion: Washington Post
Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Sun-Times reporters to owners: We want answers  —  Chicago Sun-Times journalists, who watched one of their political reporters resign this week, are asking the newspaper's owners for reassurance that they won't seek to influence editorial content.  —  The request comes in a petition that's also posted on the reporters' union website.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Plutocrats Against Democracy  —  It's always good when leaders tell the truth, especially if that wasn't their intention.  So we should be grateful to Leung Chun-ying, the Beijing-backed leader of Hong Kong, for blurting out the real reason pro-democracy demonstrators can't get what they want …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and BillMoyers.com
David Carr / New York Times:
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin Promise Washington the Program It Deserves  —  You both have a reputation for using alcohol to get sources to say things they should not.  Should I have brought a bottle of tequila?  Mark Halperin: That is an urban legend.  It's not like it's never happened …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
 
 
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