memeorandum: Things Fall Apart (Pat Buchanan/Townhall.com)

10:25 AM ET, October 24, 2014

Top Items:

Marc Santora / New York Times:

Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola — A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea became the first person in the city to test positive for the virus Thursday, setting off a search for anyone who might have come into contact with him.

New York Post:

Ebola hits New York — Police officers leave the apartment of Dr. Craig Spencer (left) in West Harlem. — Dr. Craig Spencer, a local doctor who has treated Ebola patients, now has the disease himself. — The doctor is a physician attached to New York-Presbyterian Hospital who is now in Bellevue.

Fox News:
Patient at New York City hospital tests positive for Ebola, reports say

Discussion: CNN and Instapundit

Sydney Lupkin / ABC News:
Doctor Isolated at NYC Hospital With Ebola-Like Symptoms

Discussion: Hot Air and abc7chicago.com

Jesse / CBS New York:
New York City Doctor Tests Positive For Ebola

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Gawker, Mediaite, CBS Philly and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Brendan James / Talking Points Memo: Healthcare Worker Taken To NYC Hospital To Be Tested For Ebola

Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:

GOP Gains in Key Senate Races as Gender Gap Narrows — In Iowa, Arkansas and Colorado, Democrats' Advantage Among Women Voters Has Diminished — In a warning flag for Democrats, recent polls suggest the party is failing to draw enough support from women in three key Senate races—in Iowa …

Discussion: Washington Post and The Federalist

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

The Real Party of the Rich — The Democrats' three big weapons: money, money, money. — Democratic senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina was pounded last winter and spring in TV ads by conservative groups for having voted for Obamacare and echoed President Obama's false claim that people could keep their current health insurance.

Discussion: New York Times

The Daily Beast:
The Democrats' Closing Argument Needs to Be J-O-B-S

Discussion: Yahoo! News

Ashley Killough / CNN:

CNN Poll: Georgia Senate race statistical tie — (CNN) — Democrat Michelle Nunn has a slight 47%-44% edge over Republican David Perdue in the Georgia race for an open Senate seat, according to a new CNN/ORC International survey released Friday. — The three-point margin falls within …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Political Insider blog, Hot Air, Bloomberg Politics, Hinterland Gazette and Taegan Goddard's …

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:

How Independents Could Seize Control of the Senate — As the bulk of close election observers have pointed out, the odds favor the Republicans capturing enough Senate seats to make a majority next year. Of course, it is not a certainty (to any except the election modelers at The Monkey Cage).

Jim O'Sullivan / The Boston Globe:

Baker opens up lead over Coakley in new poll — Republican Charlie Baker has opened up a 9-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley, 45 percent to 36 percent, according to a new Globe poll that depicts a far more comfortable advantage than either candidate for governor has enjoyed in months.

Discussion: OnPolitics, Hot Air, WBUR, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Althouse, National Review, Bloomberg Politics and Viking Pundit

J. David Goodman / New York Times:

New York City Police Kill Man Who Hit 2 Officers With Hatchet — A hatchet-wielding man who charged at four rookie New York City police officers on Thursday as they posed for a photograph on a Queens street was shot and killed after he struck one of the officers in the head and another in the arm …

Discussion: TalkLeft and NPR

CNN:
Man attacks New York police officers with a hatchet

Discussion: Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs, Mashable and The Daily Caller

Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:

Barack Obama, bewildered bystander — The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government's handling of Ebola, said the front-page headline in the New York Times last Saturday. — There's only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times.

Discussion: Betsy's Page

Ron Fournier / National Journal:
What a Real White House Shake-Up Looks Like

Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg Politics, Liberaland and The Daily Caller

CNN:
Hero dogs set on latest W.H. fence jumper

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler

Mark Binelli / Rolling Stone:

The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster — Extremist Republicans turned their government into a lab experiment of tax cuts and privatization. And now they may be losing control of one of the reddest states in the nation — The Republican party headquarters in Wichita, Kansas …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Bloomberg:

Ebola Spreads to Mali as WHO Races to Contain Outbreak — Mali became the sixth West African country to report a case of Ebola, opening a new front in the international effort to prevent the outbreak of the deadly viral infection from spreading further. — A 2-year-old girl who traveled …

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times

Cari Romm / The Atlantic Online: Ebola Reaches Mali

Edgar Sandoval / NY Daily News:

Gov. Christie feels his minimum wage views were misunderstood, while NJ diner waitresses say he lacks empathy — The New Jersey governor, speaking at a Garden State diner, explained that most people missed his point — and he's come to accept that. Waitress Stacey Ellis said his remarks showed zero empathy for workers like her.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Politico:

CNN's Carol Costello apologizes for Palin remarks — CNN's Carol Costello apologized on Thursday for joking about a police recording of Bristol Palin. — “Over the past few days I have been roundly criticized for joking about a brawl involving the Palin family.

Discussion: Hot Air, Bloomberg Politics, Truth Revolt, The Dish, Mediaite, his vorpal sword, Daily Signal, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, Liberaland, Bristol Palin, Althouse and The Daily Caller

Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
CNN anchor, liberals give grins and thumbs up to violence against the ‘Right’ women

Discussion: Hot Air and Instapundit

Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Bristol Palin: Yes, I Punched A Guy But He Had It Coming

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Raw Story and Balloon Juice

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:

Sarah Palin endorses ... a Democrat? — Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is endorsing independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott for governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska. — Palin and husband Todd are shown donning Walker-Mallott campaign pins in photos uploaded to the campaign's Facebook page Thursday.

Discussion: Anchorage Daily News, Taegan Goddard's … and CNN

Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:

GOP changes tune on cutting Social Security with elections on the line — Cutting federal health and retirement spending has long been at the top of the GOP agenda. But with Republicans in striking distance of winning the Senate, they are suddenly blasting the idea of trimming Social Security benefits.

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Plutocrats Against Democracy — It's always good when leaders tell the truth, especially if that wasn't their intention. So we should be grateful to Leung Chun-ying, the Beijing-backed leader of Hong Kong, for blurting out the real reason pro-democracy demonstrators can't get what they want …

Discussion: BillMoyers.com

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

Alison Grimes doubles down on a 4-Pinocchio claim — “I am Alison Lundergan Grimes and this is the Big Sandy power plant in Louisa, Kentucky. They are shutting down half the plant and laying off their workers because Mitch McConnell didn't fight to get the scrubbers it needs to reduce coal emissions.

Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite, ABC News and Fox News