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5:10 PM ET, October 26, 2014

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New York Times:
White House Presses States to Reverse Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Orders  —  The Obama administration has been pushing the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their decision ordering all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients to be quarantined, an administration official said.
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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.
CNN:
Quarantined nurse to CNN: ‘My basic human rights’ are being violated  —  Editor's note:  —  (CNN) — Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey, went on CNN on Sunday and criticized the “knee-jerk reaction by politicians” to Ebola, saying “to quarantine someone without …
David Jackson / USA Today:   Obama aides criticize Ebola quarantine rules
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 …
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...
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
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.
Thomas Frank / Salon:
“We are such losers”  —  Liberals yearn to believe in post-ideological blank slates — and get disappointed every time.  Will we ever learn?  —  That we are living through an endless repeat of the 1970s is becoming more apparent all the time.  Nostalgia and retro culture burn as brightly today …
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 …
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Fox News:
Officials say suspect in killings of California deputies was deported twice
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Hot Air
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Host Calls Out Chris Christie For Putting Millionaires Over State's Economy  —  Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on Fox News Sunday  —  On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace grilled Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on the negative ramifications his tax cuts for the wealthy have had on the state.
Discussion: Salon and PoliticusUSA
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
 
 
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ex-White House counsel withdraws from AG race
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