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8:30 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  —  How will the chaos that the crazies, I mean the Freedom Caucus, have wrought in the House get resolved?  I have no idea.  But as this column went to press, practically the whole Republican establishment was pleading with Paul Ryan, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, to become speaker.
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 …
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.
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
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
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.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Mashable and The Week
 
 
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
More cities celebrating ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ amid effort to abolish Columbus Day
Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg Business:
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Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:
Thresholds of Violence  —  On the evening of April 29th last year …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
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