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3:40 PM ET, October 23, 2015

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Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Orders Across-the-Board Pay Cuts for Struggling Campaign  —  Bush's advisers, under pressure from their donors and from falling and stagnant poll numbers, came to the conclusion that a course correction was essential.  —  michaelcbender  —  MarkHalperin
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Carson surges to 9-point lead; Trump slides  —  Donald Trump is the biggest loser in the new Iowa Poll.  —  The pious Ben Carson has plowed past the braggadocious New York businessman to take the front-runner crown, unseating Trump as the most popular choice for president among …
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush slashes pay, spending as campaign struggles  —  <p>Jeb Bush on Friday ordered a wholesale restructuring of his struggling campaign after suffering miserably in the polls despite massive spending and a deep donor network.</p><p>The campaign will cut payroll costs by 40 percent …
Lawrence Brinton / National Review:
Jeb Bush Is Toast
Bloomberg.com news:
Ben Carson Reacts to His Lead in Iowa Polls  —  Bloomberg's Mark Halperin and John Heilemann sit down with Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to get his take on being the new frontrunner in Iowa and how he might handle Donald Trump.  The full interview will air Friday on “With All Due Respect” at 5 p.m. ET.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Surges Past Trump in Latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved into a dominant position in Iowa, surpassing former front-runner Donald Trump as evangelical Christians begin to coalesce around him in the state that will cast the first 2016 nomination ballots.
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Megyn Kelly to Jeb Bush: Will you drop out?
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Trump nomination looking more likely
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb's Campaign Downsizes Staff At HQ And Cuts Payroll By 40 Percent
Discussion: The Week
Jason Millman / Politico:
Dr. Ben Carson's prescription: Abolish Medicare
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Democrats' Iowa Dinner Will Have the Sizzle of a Convention
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Conservative pundits were not impressed with the GOP's disastrous Benghazi hearing  —  Hillary Clinton is a top-tier politician who's been the subject of nearly constant national media scrutiny for more than 20 years.  She also happens to have worked at the House Judiciary Committee during …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
She Knew All Along  —  The House hearing on Benghazi reveals that Hillary Clinton's spin about the attack was a politically expedient fiction.  —  Thanks to Hillary Clinton's Benghazi testimony on Thursday, we now understand why the former secretary of state never wanted anyone to see her emails …
Discussion: neo-neocon and The Federalist
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Benghazi bust  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton triumphed at the Benghazi hearing by not losing her cool
Washington Post:
The GOP's unfortunate Benghazi hearing
Taryn Luna / BostonGlobe.com:
Staples founder Thomas Stemberg dies at 66  —  Thomas G. Stemberg, who cofounded Staples Inc. and invented the office superstore, died Friday at his home in Chestnut Hill, two years after he was diagnosed with gastric cancer.  He was 66.  —  His death was confirmed by his son, Will Stemberg.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Lincoln Chafee ends quixotic presidential bid  —  <p>Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee, always a long shot, dropped out of the race for his party's nomination on Friday morning. </p><p>"As you know I have been campaigning on a platform of Prosperity Through Peace," …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Why Did Lincoln Chafee Even Run?
Discussion: Daily Wire
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Lincoln Chafee ends Democratic bid for president
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NBC News:
Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Storm Ever Measured to Hit Mexico  —  Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early Friday with experts warning it could trigger 39-foot waves along Mexico's coast and “life-threatening” flash flooding.
Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: DOJ closes IRS investigation with no charges  — The Justice Department is closing its two-year investigation into whether the IRS improperly targeted tea party groups  — The IRS mishandled the processing of tax-exempt applications in a manner that disproportionately …
New York Times:
Conservative PACs Attack Republicans, and It Pays  —  WASHINGTON — The petitions that started surfacing online over a year ago were as incendiary as they were urgent, begging recipients to sign up to “Boot Boehner,” “Dump McConnell,” “Drop a Truth-Bomb on Kevin McCarthy” and “Fire Paul Ryan.”
Discussion: Jay Bookman and Althouse
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Philadelphia 76ers Throw Shade at Presidential Candidate John Kasich After Insult
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Free speech is flunking out on college campuses
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Boehner appoints woman to lead Planned Parenthood investigation
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John Podhoretz / Daily Kos:
The GOP blew it with the Benghazi committee, and conservatives know it
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Obama Got Punked
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