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2:50 PM ET, October 26, 2014

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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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David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama aides criticize Ebola quarantine rules  —  Aides to President Obama are criticizing decisions by three states to quarantine people who are returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa.  —  Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases …
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 …
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.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Watch: Debate Between Party Chairs Spirals Into Childish Chaos  —  A CNN “State Of The Union” debate on the midterm elections between Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus and Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) quickly devolved into complete chaos on Sunday.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Watch: SNL Hits Every Obama Scandal While Ridiculing Ebola Response  —  The cast of “Saturday Night Live” mocked President Obama's response to the Ebola cases diagnosed in the U.S. during Saturday's cold open.  —  At the beginning of the skit, Obama explains that the Ebola response wasn't that bad, relatively speaking.
Discussion: Power Line
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...
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
Michael Ledeen / PJ Media:
The Legend of the Lone Wolf Terrorist  —  When I last wrote about this subject, I called them “homegrown” terrorists, the phrase of the month a year and a half ago.  Back then, such imaginary monsters were bombing marathons; today they are shooting Canadian parliamentarians and security guards …
Discussion: protein wisdom and PJ Media
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
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
 
 
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Host Calls Out Chris Christie For Putting Millionaires Over State's Economy
Discussion: Salon and PoliticusUSA
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Squadrons form for voter ID fight
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ex-White House counsel withdraws from AG race
Duff McDonald / The New York Observer:
Pro Due Process Does Not Equate to Pro Rape
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NIKKI HALEY'S DEM OPPONENT: ‘ESCORT WHORE OUT THE DOOR!’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The nastiest political tactic this year