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6:20 PM ET, October 10, 2015

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CNN:
Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary Clinton  —  Major Bradley Podliska's exclusive TV interview with CNN will air Sunday at 9 a.m. on CNN's “State of the Union.”  —  Washington (CNN)A former investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi …
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Dr. Keith Ablow / Fox News:
Why Ben Carson is right about Jews, the Holocaust and guns  —  Dr. Ben Carson recently asserted that if guns had not been confiscated from Jews then Hitler would have had more trouble orchestrating the Holocaust.  —  Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director of the Anti-Defamation Leauge …
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Katherine Faulders / Yahoo:
Ben Carson Suggests Holocaust Would Have Been Less Likely if Jews Were Armed
Discussion: UPROXX
Niall Ferguson / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Obama Doctrine  —  Henry Kissinger long ago recognized the problem: a talented vote-getter, surrounded by lawyers, who is overly risk-averse.  —  Even before becoming Richard Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger understood how hard it was to make foreign policy in Washington.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Times Backs Off on Temple Trutherism  —  The New York Times provoked widespread dismay when it published an article yesterday titled Historical Certainty Proves Elusive at Jerusalem's Holiest Place.  The article claimed that it is an open question whether the first and second Jewish temples ever existed at Temple Mount.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alana Wise / Reuters:
Clinton's support slides ahead of first Democratic debate  —  Reuters/Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 38th annual Awards Gala in Washington October 8, 2015.  REUTERS/Yuri ...more Gripas less
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New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's ‘trust’ deficit deepens after latest flip-flop
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Loose Lips: Longtime Clinton Ally Trashes ‘Buffoon’ Biden, ‘Sanctimonious Flip-Flopper’ Sanders in Train Ride Rant
Discussion: Mediaite and Liberty Unyielding
The American Interest:
Study: Democrats Moving Left Faster Than Republicans Moving Right  —  At least since the 2010 midterms, it's been a liberal talking point that Republican extremism is to blame for political polarization and gridlock.  In the old days, the argument goes, Republicans were a moderate party …
Discussion: Moe Lane and The PJ Tatler
Don Melvin / CNN:
At least 86 killed in twin bombings near train station in Turkey's capital  —  (CNN)Two powerful bombs exploded near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, targeting a peace rally and causing carnage, killing at least 86 people and injuring 186 others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory.
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Nadia Khomami / Guardian:
Turkey terror attack: scores killed in twin Ankara blasts
New York Times:
The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election  —  Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.  —  They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters.
Discussion: Fusion
TMZ.com:
NFL's Greg Hardy Fires Back at Haters In Rap Video ... With Gunfire & Strippers  —  Embattled NFL star Greg Hardy — the guy who was suspended for allegedly beating up his girlfriend — is bragging that he'll never get “played” by a woman ever again.  —  And he's making his point with the use …
Moises Velasquez-Manoff / New York Times:
Should We Bank Our Own Stool?  —  BY last August, my 1-year-old son had taken five courses of antibiotics for recurrent ear infections.  That was alarming.  By age 10, the average American child has had about 10 courses, and some microbiologists argue that even one course a year is too many …
Naomi Oreskes / New York Times:
Exxon's Climate Concealment  —  CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — MILLIONS of Americans once wanted to smoke.  Then they came to understand how deadly tobacco products were.  Tragically, that understanding was long delayed because the tobacco industry worked for decades to hide the truth, promoting a message of scientific uncertainty instead.
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Moms and Guns  —  It passed with little notice when an 11-year-old boy shot and killed an 8-year-old girl a few days ago in Tennessee — shot her because she wouldn't show him her puppy.  The boy used his family's 12-gauge shotgun to kill the second-grader.
Discussion: Althouse
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters:
Time Celebrates 'How Che Guevara Didn't Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions'  —  Share it Tweet it  —  Jennifer Latson paid tribute to communist thug Che Guevara on the anniversary of his death in a gushing Friday item on Time magazine's website.  Latson marveled how the Argentinian radical …
Discussion: twitchy.com
 
 
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Court blocks Obama's water rule nationwide
New York Times:
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Discussion: The Last Refuge and Political Wire
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Jerry Parr, Secret Service Agent Who Helped Save Reagan, Dies at 85
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Week and NPR
Raheem Kassam / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Muslims Pray In Parliament Square, London
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