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3:00 PM ET, October 1, 2014

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Showing Concern for the President, Even While Criticizing Him  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days.  As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting …
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Ronald Kessler / Politico:
Something Is Rotten in the Secret Service  —  And Obama's life is in danger because of it.  —  Behind the rotten culture is arrogance.  After uniformed officers failed to take out 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez when he hopped over the fence and ran into the White House …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Piles On The ‘Politically Correct’ Secret Service (VIDEO)
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff  —  The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Obama is winning on a foreign policy issue — for a change  —  Get ready to pop the champagne, White House.  For the first time since January, President Obama is polling a 50 percent approval rating on an issue: his handling of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hot Air
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Joseph Miller / The Daily Caller:
Pentagon Official: The President Is Lying To America — About Us, And About ISIS
Discussion: Power Line, VodkaPundit and Hot Air
Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH huddles as ISIS advances toward Turkey
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
College GOP: Democrats Are Like a Bad Wedding Dress  —  The College Republican National Committee launched on Wednesday a nearly $1 million digital ad campaign across 16 states, aiming to draw young voters to the GOP with what the group's chief calls “culturally relevant” ad campaigns.
Matt Campbell / Matt Campbell's Blue Hog Report:
BREAKING: Leslie Rutledge's Voter Registration Canceled; Candidacy Now In Question  —  And you thought the DHS rumors were troubling.  —  According to multiple reports — the veracity of which I have no reason to doubt, but the confirmation of which I will have to wait until 8am tomorrow to confirm …
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
On Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg Was Right  —  The great Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that important Supreme Court decisions “exercise a kind of hydraulic effect.”  Even if the authors of such decisions assert that their rulings will have limited impact, these cases invariably have a profound influence.
USA Today:
Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola  —  DALLAS — Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday.
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
Ebola Is Diagnosed in Texas, First Case Found in the U.S.
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Are Liberals Fund-Raising Hypocrites?  —  Let's imagine that Republicans swept the 2012 elections and were now in control not merely of the House but of the presidency and the Senate, too.  —  Now let's take it one step further and say that by using the filibuster the Democratic minority …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Susan Page / Associated Press:
Poll: For the GOP — What's the matter with Kansas?  —  Greg Orman, an independent candidate who has never won political office, now leads veteran Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas by 46%-41% in the most surprising Senate race of the year, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll finds.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats make risky bet against GOP Leader Mitch McConnell  —  Democrats in Washington are taking a risky bet by quadrupling their investment in Alison Lundergan Grimes, a young and largely unproven challenger, who is running against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
Ari Phillips / ThinkProgress:
35,000 Walrus Converge On Alaska Beach As Sea Ice Retreats  —  In this aerial photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014, and provided by NOAA, some 35,000 walrus gather on shore near Point Lay, Alaska.  Pacific walrus looking for places to rest in the absence of sea ice are coming to shore in record numbers on Alaska's northwest coast.
Thomas K. Lindsay / The Hill:
Two years after college, too many grads are still ‘adrift’  —  The higher-education world was rocked three years ago by the publication of the landmark study of collegiate learning, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.
Discussion: National Review
Jaime Fuller / Washington Post:
Here is a video of a congressman pretending to be Bruce Lee  —  You can cross, “witnessing a congressman wear the same yellow jumpsuit that Uma Thurman wore in Kill Bill” off your bucket list, thanks to Democratic Rep. Jim McDermott.  He is a Seattle legislator who is very excited …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
Katherine Connell / National Review:
White House to Media: Sit Down and Don't Interview  —  Even though Barack Obama rode into office in 2008 on a wave of media adulation, the Obama administration has exhibited a fiercely hostile attitude towards reporters.  It has vigorously prosecuted low-level national-security leakers …
Boston Magazine:
EARLIER:  —  A political cartoon in Wednesday's Boston Herald is raising eyebrows and has people calling the newspaper “racist.”  —  The cartoon depicts President Barack Obama brushing his teeth in the bathroom of the White House, as the man recently accused of storming the building …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
GAO says Obama administration can't bail out insurers without Congress  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE JEFF SESSIONS GAO CMS LAW FRED UPTON HHS RISK CORRIDORS  —  The Department of Health and Human Services cannot legally bail out the insurance industry for excessive losses …
Denver Post:
HICKENLOOPER, BEAUPREZ OFFER CLEAR CONTRAST IN DENVER POST DEBATE  —  Mobile users: Watch Hickenlooper-Beauprez gubernatorial debate  —  Sharply divided, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and Republican rival Bob Beauprez on Tuesday offered a clear contrast in substance and style …
Salon:
Gun nuts' tragic confusion: Why “open carry” groups don't get police brutality  —  To their credit, some gun groups were upset when John Crawford was shot by cops.  The problem is their odd reasoning  —  After finally being allowed to view the video of the police shooting of a man in an Ohio Wal-Mart …
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Pryor says he's working for ‘smaller’ government  —  Vulnerable Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is running to the right in his new ad, claiming he's pushed to shrink government and touting his opposition to Environmental Protection Agency regulations, while voters tout his fiscal conservatism.
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: 4th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Partially Blocks NC Voting Changes: Analysis  —  The 4th Circuit on a 2-1 vote (on a panel made up of all Democratic appointees) has issued an opinion requiring North Carolina to restore same day voter registration and the counting of out of precinct ballots in the upcoming election.
Discussion: The Nation
 
 
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Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
Federal Appeals Court to Mull Guns in Post Offices
Discussion: Instapundit
Nathaniel Rich / The New Republic:
Louisiana Is Disappearing Into the Sea
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Scott Brown missed all border security hearings in Senate, records suggest
Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro / Monitor:
Man charged after he kills girlfriend while cleaning gun
Deirdre Shesgreen / Cincinnati.com:
Boehner: Bush has real shot in 2016 election
Discussion: Mediaite
Richard Wilson / Dayton Daily News:
Vandalia teen accidentally shoots herself and father
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Chris Adamsmcclatchy Washington / Miami Herald …:
Report: Fla. voters had country's longest waits to cast ballots
Discussion: Washington Post
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Mother Faces Jail For Giving Her Son Marijuana That Stopped His Seizures
Discussion: West Central Tribune and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Third-quarter cash race goes to Ernst over Braley
Discussion: Washington Post
Spocko / Hullabaloo:
When Corporate Sponsors Leave ALEC and Rush. What We Learn by @spockosbrain
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
This Is How Eva Longoria Is Trying to Win the Midterms
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Eric Holder and the Next Protest Movement
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
How Gary Hart Became the First Political Sex Scandal Casualty
Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
Police Want to Get Rid of Their Pentagon-Issued Combat Gear. Here's Why They Can't.
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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