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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director — BETHESDA, Md. — As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country's top health officials …
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
Can You Blame Ebola Outbreak on “Republican Cuts” to Health Budgets? — “Republican Cuts Kill” is the message coming from The Agenda Project, a 501(c)4 organization that is placing ads in various battleground states. According to an email signed by the group's founder Erica Payne and titled …
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David Nather / Politico:
An Obamacare October surprise? — Obamacare premiums aren't rising everywhere. They just have a way of finding the states with the biggest Senate races. And that could be very bad timing for Democrats in two of the party's key contests. — Double-digit rate hikes for individual health insurance plans …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Even a Senate victory won't heal GOP divisions — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made news recently by announcing he might run for president in 2016. He later explained that his potential candidacy is less about “personal ambition” than about “concern for where the party is going.”
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg View:
Midterm Voters Drown in Dark Money
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Mitt Romney Told an Obama Joke in Iowa. Here It Is. — WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Mitt Romney wanted to tell a joke. “Now when you're running for office people tell you, you shouldn't tell jokes,” he said at a political rally here on Sunday. “But I'm not running for office, so I can tell one.”
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Rick Jervis / Associated Press:
Unlike in Spain, Dallas Ebola patient's dog will be saved — DALLAS — The health care worker who tested positive for Ebola has a dog, but the mayor of Dallas says unlike in a recent Spanish case, the dog will be kept safe for eventual reunion with its owner.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Leaning Forward, MSNBC Loses Ground to Rival CNN — Rachel Maddow, the biggest star on the MSNBC cable network, just posted her lowest quarterly ratings results ever. — “Morning Joe,” MSNBC's signature morning program, scored its second-lowest quarterly ratings, reaching an average …
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Bill Scher / Politico:
How Republicans lost the culture war — On Aug. 17, 1992, Pat Buchanan and the Republican Party declared a “culture war ... for the soul of America.” On Oct. 6, 2014, Republicans surrendered. — Twenty-two years ago at his party's national convention, Buchanan thundered, “we stand with …
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Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
What the Next Two Awful Years Will Look Like — The five things to fear about a Republican Congress — I. The Gutting of Dodd-Frank — If Republicans take control of the House and Senate, many of their members will call for the outright repeal of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Righteousness Killed the World Economy — Stop me if you've heard this before: The world economy appears to be stumbling. For a while, things seemed to be looking up, and there was talk about green shoots of recovery. But now growth is stalling, and the specter of deflation looms.
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A Nobel Economist's Caution About Government — Friedrich Hayek warned that intervening can make things worse. ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank, anyone? — By — Forty years ago the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was awarded to a scholar who believed the prize perhaps should not exist.
Lauren McGaughy / Texas Politics:
Greg Abbott: Texas gay marriage ban reduces out-of-wedlock births — AUSTIN - Attorney General Greg Abbott says Texas' same-sex marriage ban should remain in place because legalizing it would do little or nothing to encourage heterosexual couples to get married and have children.
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James Jay Carafano / The National Interest:
Obama's Great Big Ebola Error — “The last time a president tried to make a disease a national-security issue, he helped trigger a global pandemic that killed 50 million people.” — The White House has declared Ebola to be a top national-security concern. That ought to worry Americans.
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John Fund / National Review:
Braced for Voter Fraud in Colorado — Perhaps the most hard-fought Senate race this year will be Colorado's showdown between Democratic senator Mark Udall and Republican congressman Cory Gardner. The RealClearPolitics average of polls in the race shows Gardner holding a lead of 1.3 percentage points.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Cheney: ‘Very Dangerous Period ... More Threatening Than the Period Before 9/11’ — Vice President Dick Cheney opened up for a nearly two hour interview with Bill Kristol, as part of the latest installment of Conversations With Bill Kristol: — The two discussed Cheney's time as secretary of defense …
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Bernie Sanders Takes Over Sunday Morning And Shreds John McCain's ISIS Warmongering — Sen. Bernie Sanders knocked John McCain off of his usual Sunday morning warmongering turf by following a typical McCain appearance on CNN State Of The Union with a fact laced shredding of McCain's pro-war propaganda.
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