memeorandum: The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus (John Fund/National Review)

Gillibrand's Weight Watcher Revealed, and a Presidential Nominee Is Sunk — Good Monday morning and welcome to the inaugural edition of First Draft, your morning briefing for politics. Today, the White House is reviewing the locks on its doors, 91-year-old Bob Dole hits the campaign trail …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly

The Hillary Letters — NOTE: READ THE HILLARY CLINTON-SAUL ALINSKY LETTERS HERE. — Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveal new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago activist and shed light on her early ideological development.

Discussion: New York Times, The Federalist, Weasel Zippers and The Other McCain

Rachael Bade / Politico:

Exclusive: Lois Lerner breaks silence — Employers won't hire her. She's been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.” Federal agents have guarded her house because of death threats. And she's spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself against accusations she orchestrated …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, National Republican … and Instapundit

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Those Lazy Jobless — Last week John Boehner, the speaker of the House, explained to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute what's holding back employment in America: laziness. People, he said, have “this idea” that “I really don't have to work. I don't really want to do this.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather and Little Green Footballs

Juan Williams / The Hill:

Obama's October Surprise — Get ready for bombs bursting in air and this election's October Surprise - President Obama's air strikes to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS. — Last week a Fox News poll identified a phenomenon that my friend, pollster Dana Blanton, dubbed “The ISIS effect.”

John Fund / National Review:

The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus — Extremists' rhetoric heats up as their case falls apart. — Protesters at the People's Climate March in New York City, September 21. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) — The United Nations Climate Summit will begin in New York this Tuesday, but environmental activists didn't wait.

Daniel C. Esty / New York Times:

Bottom-Up Climate Fix — NEW HAVEN — WORLD leaders are at the United Nations this week, at the invitation of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to “champion an ambitious vision anchored in action that will enable a meaningful global agreement” on climate change next year.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Taylor Marsh

Discussion: Watts Up With That? and Daily Kos

Anchorage Daily News:

KTVA reporter quits on-air, reveals herself as owner of Alaska Cannabis Club — Reporter Charlo Greene quit on-air during KTVA-TV's 10 p.m. newscast Sunday, revealing herself as the owner of the medical marijuana business Alaska Cannabis Club and telling viewers that she would be using …

Discussion: WTVR-TV, Mashable and Raw Story

Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:

Eye on presidency? Sen. Rand Paul to open office in Bay Area — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the state GOP convention in Los Angeles. His plan to set up an office in the Bay Area may indicate a run for president. Photo: Chris Carlson, Associated Press

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Post and Business Insider

Lillian Schrock / Casper Star-Tribune:

Goshen County buys grenade launcher — OFFICIALS WOULD USE WEAPONS IN RIOTS, HOSTAGE SITUATIONS — Three grenade launchers have been moved in and out of the Goshen County Sheriff's Office in the past 65 years. — Yet not one of the weapons has been used by the county's deputies.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

CNN:

ISIS war rollout resembles launch of Obamacare site — Syrian civil war in 2014 … (CNN) — Someone in the Obama White House clearly has a good book to write one day: “How Not to Do Rollouts.” — With one hapless episode after another, the rollout of the President's plan to destroy ISIS …

Discussion: New York Times and Betsy's Page

Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:

The Fight of Their Lives — The White House wants the Kurds to help save Iraq from ISIS. The Kurds may be more interested in breaking away.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal