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12:20 PM ET, October 26, 2014

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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama  —  Sharyl Attkisson is an unreasonable woman.  Important people have told her so.  —  When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about reinforcements sent to the Benghazi compound during the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack …
Kaci Hickox / Dallas Morning News:
UTA grad isolated at New Jersey hospital as part of Ebola quarantine  —  FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 file photo, a child stands near a sign advising of a quarantined home in an effort to combat the spread of the Ebola virus in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
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NBC News:
NBC News/Marist Polls Show Tight Contests in Key States - NBC News  —  Control of the U.S. Senate is coming down to the wire, with Democrats and Republicans locked in tight races in the key contests that will determine the major...
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Pope and the Precipice  —  TO grasp why events this month in Rome — publicly feuding cardinals, documents floated and then disavowed — were so remarkable in the context of modern Catholic history, it helps to understand certain practical aspects of the doctrine of papal infallibility.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The American Dream Is Leaving America  —  THE best escalator to opportunity in America is education.  But a new study underscores that the escalator is broken.  —  We expect each generation to do better, but, currently, more young American men have less education (29 percent) than their parents than have more education (20 percent).
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Sacramento Bee:
Feds say Sacramento shooting suspect was deported twice, had drug conviction  —  ›  —  ‹  —  Investigators were poring over the conflicting backgrounds Saturday of a Utah couple accused in a crime spree that killed two deputies, with federal authorities saying …
Chicago Sun Times:
Cops: ‘No one wants to tell us what they saw’ when 13-year-old was killed  —  GARY — A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed Friday evening in Gary by a neighbor who was upset about his house being burglarized and became enraged when the teen laughed at him, according to police.
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and Raw Story
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Squadrons form for voter ID fight  —  Liberal and conservative groups are mobilizing armies of poll watchers to battle over the enforcement of voter ID laws on Election Day.  —  The Democratic Party has more to lose if turnout is low on Nov. 4.  Liberals want to ensure that the young …
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Zachary Roth / msnbc.com:
Texas woman threatened with jail after applying for voter ID
Justin Sink / The Hill:
The shiny object election  —  The short-attention span generation has birthed the shiny-object election.  —  The theme of the 2014 midterms — to whatever extent one is discernable — has been an explosion of one crisis after another, each of which demands an enormous amount of media attention before fading for the next one.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ex-White House counsel withdraws from AG race  —  Former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler is withdrawing her name from consideration to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder after President Obama approached her about the job.  —  “We can confirm the president asked Kathy to consider this …
RealClearPolitics Videos:
Bill Maher: Michael Brown “Was Not A Gentle Giant,” “He Was Acting Like A Thug”  —  BILL MAHER: You know what else I find disturbing is that everybody in America just sides with their own people and doesn't look at the facts.  The cops, I saw on the news a couple of weeks ago …
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
NIKKI HALEY'S DEM OPPONENT: ‘ESCORT WHORE OUT THE DOOR!’  —  While giving a get-out-the-vote speech at a Florence, South Carolina political event, Democrat gubernatorial candidate, State Senator Vincent Shaheen, told cheering fans of his opponent, sitting Republican governor Nikki Haley, “We are going to escort whore out the door.”
 
 
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Paul Begala / CNN:
Candidate's gun remarks should scare us
Discussion: TPNN and John Lott's Website
Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Joan Quigley, Astrologer to a First Lady, Is Dead at 87
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Duff McDonald / The New York Observer:
Pro Due Process Does Not Equate to Pro Rape
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