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7:40 AM ET, October 4, 2015

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CBS News:
Joe Biden could decide presidential run in the next week  —  Vice President Joe Biden is nearing a decision on whether to run for president, and it could come as early as within the next seven to 10 days, according to three people familiar with his deliberations.
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:   Some Hillary Clinton Donors Defect to Movement to Draft Joe Biden
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
An Instance of Warmist Corruption  —  We have often written about the fact that the world's governments pour billions of dollars annually into the global warming project, the object of which is to increase the powers of government.  And yet governments, the main parties that stand to benefit …
Discussion: BREITBART.COM
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Mocks Ben Carson, Ted Cruz on Gay Rights  —  Hillary Clinton on Saturday mocked Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson and Ted Cruz over their positions on gay rights during remarks to the Human Rights Campaign, where she also called for new laws to support and protect the rights of transgendered people.
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: Those kicked out of military for being gay should get honorable discharges
Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Towleroad and The Week
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — A United States airstrike appeared to have badly damaged a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in the Afghan city of Kunduz early Saturday, killing at least nine hospital staff members and wounding dozens, including patients and staff.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Bush, Rubio and Kasich eye one another in the shadow of Trump  —  The Republican presidential contest is not, regardless of what is seems some days, all about Donald Trump.  There's another dynamic unfolding that has almost nothing to do with the businessman-politician currently atop the polls …
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
NY Daily News hires columnist and activist Shaun King  —  Shaun King, a Daily Kos columnist and a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, has been hired by the New York Daily News, the paper announced on Friday.  —  Executive Editor Jim Rich said in a staff memo Friday that King …
Paul Theroux / New York Times:
The Hypocrisy of ‘Helping’ the Poor  —  EVERY so often, you hear grotesquely wealthy American chief executives announce in sanctimonious tones the intention to use their accumulated hundreds of millions, or billions, “to lift people out of poverty.”  Sometimes they are referring to Africans …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jimmy Ellingham / New Zealand Herald:
Air NZ: ‘There are lessons to be learned’  —  A jam-packed Air New Zealand flight stranded in Hong Kong for 19 hours left passengers - including the airline's chairman - camping out in the terminal.  —  NZ80 was due to leave the city at 7.10pm local time yesterday (12.10am today NZT) …
Discussion: Daily Mail and Guardian
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Vatican sacks gay priest after highly public coming out  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Saturday dismissed a gay priest from his Holy See job on the eve of a major Church meeting for a highly public coming out that challenged the Roman Catholic teaching that homosexual acts are a sin.
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Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Vatican sacks priest after he comes out as gay
Mark J. Rozell / Politico:
Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Hillary  —  <p>Illegal immigrants—along with other noncitizens without the right to vote—may pick the 2016 presidential winner.  Thanks to the unique math undergirding the Electoral College, the mere presence of 11-12 million illegal immigrants and other noncitizens …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
BOSTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that he opposes a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria, offering a less hawkish stance on the war-torn region than Hillary Rodham Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, and a position more in line with President Obama.
Discussion: Liberal Values
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
IAmAChristian: Dr. Ben Carson Lights Up Facebook in Response to Oregon School Shooting  —  Dr. Ben Carson, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate and world-renowned neurosurgeon, has launched a social media response effort to the Oregon gunman's reported targeting of Christians in his shooting spree on a community college campus on Thursday.
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Pamela Geller:
VIDEO: Final moments of Jihadi DANCING “JOYOUSLY,” shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he EXECUTES Aussie police worker  —  Muslim Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammed was dancing joyously and shouting “allahu akbar” as he murdered police employee Curtis Cheng, who was leaving police headquarters.
 
 
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Muslim family are driven from their home... after they converted to Christianity: Neighbours …
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Chaffetz's pitch for Speaker to highlight anti-establishment cred
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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