Homecoming Prince Identified as High School Shooting Suspect  —  A high school homecoming prince in Washington state opened fire in a cafeteria at lunchtime, leaving one person dead and at least four injured before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

Friday Cancer Blogging - 24 October 2014  —  A few of you have probably cottoned onto the fact that people don't usually spend a week in the hospital for a broken bone, even a backbone.  So in the long tradition of releasing bad news on Friday afternoon, here's my first-ever Friday news dump.

McConnell loans his campaign $1.8 million  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is giving his reelection campaign a $1.8 million personal loan to stave off a new round of attack ads from Democrats.  —  A week ago it appeared the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee …

Texas woman threatened with jail after applying for voter ID  —  An Austin, Texas woman told msnbc she was threatened with jail time for having an out-of-state driver's license when she went to apply for a voter identification card so she could vote under the state's controversial ID law.

Hillary Clinton: Corporations and Businesses Don't Create Jobs  —  At a Democratic rally in Massachusetts, Hillary Clinton's attempt to attack “trickle-down economics,” resulted in a spectacularly odd statement.  —  Clinton defended raising the minimum wage saying “Don't let anybody tell …

Could non-citizens decide the November election?  —  Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens?  Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor …

UPDATED State Supreme Court rejects McDaniel appeal  —  The state Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of Chris McDaniel's lawsuit over his June GOP primary loss to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran.  —  The court ruled four to two, upholding a lower court decision that McDaniel waited too long to file the challenge of his loss.

What happened to that GOP lawsuit?  —  It takes about 10 minutes to walk from the Capitol to the federal courthouse just down the hill, but House Republicans haven't managed to make that trip in the four months since they announced they'd be suing the president.

The nastiest political tactic this year  —  The early-morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens' homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof vests and lugging battering rams, pounding on doors and issuing threats.  Spouses were separated …

Sarah, Bristol & The Recurrence Of The Eternal Victim  —  As you've likely seen Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol have now spoken out about their notorious boozy family brawl, recasting Bristol's attack on the event's host as a morality tale about violence against women and media bias.

The Case for Conservative Realism  —  “We need a foreign policy that recognizes our limits and preserves our might, a common-sense conservative realism of strength and action.”  —  Editor's Note: The following is the prepared text of a speech by Senator Rand Paul delivered in New York City …

The Profits-Investment Disconnect  —  I caught a bit of CNBC in the locker room this morning, and they were talking about stock buybacks.  Oddly — or maybe not that oddly, given my own experiences with the show — nobody brought up what I would have thought was the obvious question.