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8:40 AM ET, October 13, 2015

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David Freedlander / Bloomberg Business:
Bernie Sanders Isn't Socialist Enough for Many Socialists  —  The organized left is atwitter with talk of the Vermont senator's candidacy.  Much of it is negative.  —  How to define the political philosophy Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders?  —  On Meet the Press on Sunday …
Discussion: ABC News
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democratic Debate Will Reveal Subtle Divides, if Not Wide Gaps  —  After watching two viscerally divisive debates among the Republican presidential contenders, Americans are about to witness a confrontation by the Democrats that will most likely center on differences of degree, not direction …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Hillary donors worry: ‘All the energy is with Bernie’
Discussion: New York Times
Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
Martin O'Malley Has the Most to Prove and Least to Lose at Tuesday's Debate
Discussion: Politico and Baltimore Sun
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Anderson Cooper prepares ‘pointed questions’ for first Democratic debate
LasVegasSun.com:
Tuesday's debaters would do well to land on right side of these issues
Discussion: Moe Lane
John Wagner / Washington Post:   LAS VEGAS — Martin O'Malley, who is hoping to jumpstart …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Chris Wallace: Establishment groups are threatening to primary House conservatives who oppose Paul Ryan  —  Via Breitbart, this is the kind of claim that big-media types would sneer at as right-wing propaganda designed to build grassroots opposition to Ryan becoming Speaker ... if it wasn't a big-media type who was reporting it.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Latest Unease on Right: Ryan Is Too Far Left  —  WASHINGTON — Far-right media figures, relatively small in number but potent in their influence, have embarked on a furious Internet expedition to cover Representative Paul D. Ryan in political silt.  —  In 2012 when Mitt Romney picked Mr. Ryan …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Crazies and the Con Man
Discussion: driftglass and The Mahablog
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Adults Take the Stage in the Democratic Debate
Discussion: RedState and Slantpoint
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Nudes Are Old News at Playboy  —  Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.  —  In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine …
New Jersey Online:
Is the Jersey Devil in Galloway Township?  |  Paranormal Corner  —  Little Egg Harbor resident Dave Black captured this photo in Galloway.  He believes it may be the Jersey Devil.  What do you think?  (Photo provided by Dave Black)  —  For more than 200 years, people living …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Top Clinton aide worked on Abu Dhabi project while at State  —  Hilary Clinton's former chief of staff spent some of her time at the State Department working part time to build a campus for New York University (NYU) in Abu Dhabi.  —  Cheryl Mills disclosed the details of the special arrangement …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: Those taking religion seriously are often suspicious of others  —  President Obama lamented the rancorous, divided state of U.S. politics in a wide-ranging interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson.  —  In the unusual discussion, Obama revealed …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Weekly Standard
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Dan Rather's Big Lie hits the big screen  —  There are many things that real people do to become the subject of sympathetic movies.  Make a flawless emergency landing in the Hudson River with a disabled jet full of passengers.  Survive a devastating storm atop Mt. Everest.
Discussion: Power Line and Jewish World Review
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Scott W. Johnson / City Journal:
Truth and the New York Times
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Is the Pentagon Telling the Truth About Afghanistan?  —  New data from the United Nations on the military advances by a resurgent Taliban is alarming for what it says about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan — and what it suggests about the American military's honesty about what is happening there.
Discussion: CNBC, Hot Air and Jihad Watch
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Hope fades on Obama's vow to bring troops home before presidency ends
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Los Angeles Times:
Documents, former players point to Steve Sarkisian's alcohol use at Washington  —  Steve Sarkisian's strange behavior in the days surrounding high-pressure, high-profile college football games isn't unique to his time at USC.  —  Some regarded the coach's conduct, specifically the use of alcohol …
10NEWS:
Florida woman Periscopes while drunk driving  —  LAKELAND, FL - Lakeland police believe a local woman is lucky to be alive today after going on a drunk driving trip she recorded and broadcast live on her own phone.  On Saturday, LPD took in 911 calls about a possible drunk driver using …
Robert A. Cronkleton / Kansas City Star:
Two firefighters dead after building collapse in Kansas City  —  Apartment building in 2600 block of Independence Avenue burns, then collapses  —  Some people rescued from the burning building with ladders … Two firefighters were killed and two hurt after a burning building …
Rare:
On Tuesday Rand Paul will become the first candidate to live stream an entire day on the campaign trail  —  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hit the campaign trail with a presidential candidate?  Typically, only staffers, maybe a few select reporters and the candidate themselves would know.
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz: The military shouldn't be a ‘cauldron for social experiments’  —  SAC CITY, Iowa - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said Monday that the military's moves to include transgender soldiers in its ranks had shifted its focus away from its core mission.  —  The military will soon allow transgender soldiers to serve, noted Cruz.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
Amateurs in the Oval Office … The presidency, it's often said, is a job for which everyone arrives unprepared.  But just how unprepared is unprepared enough?  —  Political handicappers weigh presidential candidates' partisanship, ideology, money, endorsements, consultants, and, of course, experience.
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Russia and Iran running neck-and-neck in Obama-humiliating sweepstakes  —  Iran and Russia are competing to see which nation can humiliate President Obama more.  Russia got off to a flying start with its intervention in Ukraine and its “assistance” to Obama in the non-enforcement …
Rebecca Ford / Hollywood Reporter:
Volkswagen Scandal Movie in the Works From Paramount, Leonardo DiCaprio  —  The film will be based on a proposal for a book by Jack Ewing.  —  The Volkswagen scandal is heading to the big screen.  —  Paramount and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way have acquired the rights to a book proposal by Jack Ewing.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Mashable
 
 
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Michael Rapoport / Wall Street Journal:
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
U.S. delivers 50 tons of ammunition to Syria rebel groups
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
More cities celebrating ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ amid effort to abolish Columbus Day
Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Rolls Out Health Plan Aiming to Make Care More Affordable
Discussion: Politico
Sarkis Zeronian / BREITBART.COM:
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson: “You Could Guess That We're Getting Closer To” The End Of Days
Discussion: Mediaite
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Donald Trump strikes sour note at No Labels
Discussion: CBS Boston, Daily Kos and The Week
Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:
Thresholds of Violence  —  On the evening of April 29th last year …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
The Serious Problem with Treating Donald Trump Seriously