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Scott Kaufman / Raw Story:
Former SC GOP director: Execute anyone who comes into contact with Ebola — 'it's just math' — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — The former general counsel and executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party is coming under fire for the novel solutions to the Ebola epidemic he is posting on Twitter.
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Kansas Surprise: Orman Leads Roberts by 10 in NBC/Marist Poll - NBC News — Independent candidate Greg Orman is leading incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts in Kansas by 10 points, while Democrats have a slim lead in North Carolina'...
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Republicans Maintain Edge in Senate Races, Poll Finds — The fight for control of the Senate is stable and tight, with Republicans maintaining the inside track to a majority in the latest round of data from the New York Times/CBS News/YouGov online panel of more than 100,000 respondents.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Poll Shows Orman With Significant Lead Over Roberts In Kansas
Poll Shows Orman With Significant Lead Over Roberts In Kansas
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Jessica Slizewski / TIME:
I Don't Have Student Loans and I Don't Feel Bad for People Who Do — You probably could have gotten your degree at a more affordable university closer to home. You might have even been able to live with your parents, like I did — My father is not a Wall Street banker.
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Florida Times Union:
Man shoots woman to death at Middleburg home after she ‘jokingly’ slapped him — A Clay County man was arrested early Saturday on manslaughter charges after allegedly shooting a woman to death after she jokingly slapped him across the face. — Elliott William Orsborn, 26 …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Obama hasn't come up with one original idea yet — Just before Labor Day, controversy erupted over President Obama's garb at a presidential press conference — should he or should he not have worn a light tan summer suit when talking about ISIS? That was beside the point.
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Reince Priebus Explains Why GOP Shuts Down Abortion Clinics: Women ‘Deserve Compassion, Respect’ — NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday pressed Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus about why his party opposed most regulations on business, except when it came to abortion clinics.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Senator Says Obama Is Only Fighting ISIS To Help Democrats, Will Abandon War After Midterm Elections — New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) argued on Sunday that President Obama has declared war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in order to help Democrats win the midterm elections in November …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
NIH Official Dismisses Fox Host's Question On Ebola As Bioterrorism — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday cast doubt on concerns that undocumented immigrants will cross the southern border into the United States or that terrorists will use the disease as a weapon.
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Danielle Rindler / Washington Post:
Out of control — How the world's health organizations failed to stop the Ebola disaster — Tom Frieden remembers the young woman with the beautiful hair, dyed a rusty gold and braided meticulously, elaborately, perhaps by someone who loved her very much. She was lying facedown, half off the mattress.
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Constanze Letsch / Guardian:
Air strikes against Isis are not working, say Syrian Kurds — Isis fighters have pushed to the edge of Kobani, undeterred by western strikes, says city official — Isis fighters have pushed to within little more than a mile of the centre of the city of Kobani, undeterred by western air strikes …
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Poll: Bill Clinton Helps Candidates, Others Don't — Hillary Clinton is due to embark on a campaign tour to boost Democrats, but a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg survey finds it's her husband who can give candidates the biggest boost. — Former President Bill Clinton scored …
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