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7:45 AM ET, October 5, 2015

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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Stakes are high in GOP leadership fight  —  If Las Vegas posted odds on what Washington politics will look like after November 2016, the betting line would be ike this:  —  1-3 a Democrat wins the White House — simply because Democrats have won 5 of the last 6 popular votes for the White House …
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Lauren French / Politico:
Boehner might postpone elections for majority leader, whip  —  <p>Speaker John Boehner is considering delaying the internal election for House majority leader and majority whip, leaving only the party vote for speaker to be decided on Thursday, according to multiple Republican sources …
Discussion: The Hill and Outside the Beltway
Edward Klein / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's legal adviser warns her — Time to lawyer up  —  One of the Clintons' oldest and most trusted legal advisers has urged Hillary to hire a criminal defense attorney to represent her in case she's indicted for mishandling classified documents on her private e-mail server and for lying under oath.
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hillary has long history of beating up Bill behind closed doors: book
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
A Conundrum for Jeb Bush: How to Use George W.  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — With Jeb Bush struggling to connect with some Republican activists, his campaign has begun exploring whether to bring in the person it thinks may be best equipped to give him a boost with skeptical conservatives: his brother George W. Bush.
Kay Hymowitz / The Atlantic:
The Breakdown of the Black Family  —  With the publication of “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” Ta-Nehisi Coates has added an elegant and forceful voice to the growing frustration with the inefficacy and injustice of America's criminal-justice system.
New York Post:
Kinky Orthodox priest brought down by ‘cake porn’ sex tape  —  Fr. George Passias and Edith Bouzalas leaving St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in 2013.  —  A high-ranking Greek Orthodox priest starred in kinky sex tapes with his much-younger parish-school principal and was forced to resign …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Carson: Pro-Islam nonprofit broke the law with political attack  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says a nonprofit Islamic advocacy group broke the law by calling for him to drop out of the presidential race.  —  “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) …
John Tierney / New York Times:
The Reign of Recycling  —  IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling.  It's likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal.  You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility.
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Proposes New Gun Measures, Staking Claim Vs. Sanders  —  The front-runner is calling for repeal of a law that gives legal protection to gun manufacturers and dealers whose guns are used for criminal activity.  —  jeneps  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Ben Bernanke: More execs should have gone to jail for causing Great Recession  —  WASHINGTON — This season, Ben Bernanke was able to sit through an entire Nationals game.  —  During the financial meltdown in 2008, the then-chairman of the Federal Reserve would buy a lemonade and head …
Discussion: Telegraph and Vox Popoli
Daily Mail:
Philip Chism is charged with raping and killing teacher Colleen Ritzer  —  NEW The 9th grader charged with raping and murdering his teacher has told police he turned on 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer (left) when she ‘insulted’ him.  'After she insulted me, that's when I became the teacher …
Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
Carly Fiorina's first political campaign had a surprising problem: Money … Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010, surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy  —  American Apparel, the one-time arbiter of edgy made-in-America cool, filed for bankruptcy protection early Monday, its business crippled by huge debts, a precipitous fall in sales, employee strife and a drawn-out legal battle with the retailer's ousted founder, Dov Charney.
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Week
Matt PearceContact / Los Angeles Times:
'Daddy, he began to shoot": A daughter's account of Oregon rampage  —  Randy Scroggins sat down on his porch as dusk fell Saturday, his eyes red with emotion and exhaustion.  He had a story to tell.  It was time to tell it.  —  Scroggins' story was about his 18-year-old daughter, Lacey …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Ore. Shooter's Dad: If He Hadn't Had Access To The Guns, It Wouldn't Have Happened
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
Charter schools suspend kids, public schools don't — which does better?
Discussion: Chalkbeat New York
Scott Campbell / Daily Express:
End of ISIS? Putin ‘sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State’
Sean Naylor / New York Post:
Delta Force secretly killed Iranian agents in Iraq — with IEDs
Discussion: Daily Mail
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Obama just jawboning on guns
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Is Putin Winning?  —  ONCE again, Vladimir Putin is on the move …
Discussion: ParaPundit and Hot Air
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
In Putin's Syria Intervention, Fear of a Weak Government Hand
Discussion: Consortiumnews.com
Tommy Witherspoon / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Most of 177 Twin Peaks bikers no longer wearing ankle monitors
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Hussein and Gadhafi
Discussion: Daily Mail
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How 7 years of Obama brought the world from Kumbaya to chaos
 

 
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New York Times:
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