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12:20 PM ET, October 18, 2015

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Was George W. Bush President On 9/11?  An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart  —  On Friday, Donald Trump generated substantial controversy when he asserted that George W. Bush was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks.  —  “When you talk about George Bush, I mean …
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Carson: Bush ‘certainly’ not responsible for 9/11  —  Ben Carson said on Sunday that he “seriously” doubts fellow 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump meant that former President George W. Bush is to blame for 9/11.  —  “I seriously doubt that he's saying that …
Todd Beamon / Newsmax:
Secret Service to Protect Trump, Carson as Threats Grow  —  The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben Carson and Donald Trump while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton's existing detail, a Washington source close to the agency's plans confirmed to Newsmax.
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Mitt Romney: I'm Glad I'm Not In The 2016 GOP Race  —  Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, said Sunday that he was glad that he wasn't running in the 2016 race.  —  Romney made an appearance on CNN's “State of the Union.”  —  “I can't imagine running right now.
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
President Mitt Romney Lectures Frontrunner Donald Trump on How Republicans Win Elections
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Disarray has some Republicans talking about dealing with Dems  —  Without a viable alternative to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), some centrist Republicans say they'd have little choice but to seek Democratic help in electing a new Speaker.  —  The centrists have long chafed at House conservatives …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Cruz: Trump's campaign helping mine  —  Donald Trump's bid for the White House is really helping Sen. Ted Cruz's own campaign, the Texas senator says.  —  Both Trump and Cruz have built their candidacies for the Republican presidential nomination around strong anti-establishment personas …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Will Hillary Clinton Be Pilloried by the Benghazi Committee?  —  WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is wrong about the Benghazi committee.  —  It's not the longest-running special congressional investigation ever, as the Hillary campaign tweeted.  According to PolitiFact, other congressional probes …
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Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
Hillary's gun confiscation proposal is going to backfire in a big way
Jennifer Weiner / New York Times:
Longing for the Innocence of Playboy  —  YEARS ago, I remember a friend glumly confiding that her then 10-year-old son had gotten completely freaked out.  What happened?  He'd been at a friend's house.  The boys were around an unsupervised computer, and one of them typed the word “sex” into Google.
Daily Mail:
Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's ‘deal in blood’ with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started - despite claiming he wanted peace  — Leaked White House memo shows former Prime Minister's support for war at summit with U.S. President in 2002
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Richard Whittaker / Austin Chronicle:
Ben Carson Invites Himself to Austin ISD  —  AISD superintendent politely declines GOP contender's offer  —  There are many reasons to visit a school.  Dropping kids off.  Football games.  PTA meetings.  But when GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson tried to drop by Gus Garcia Young Men's …
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Cari Romm / The Atlantic:
Americans Are More Afraid of Robots Than Death … When the personal computer first became ubiquitous in the 1980s, as Adrienne LaFrance wrote in The Atlantic earlier this year, some people found it so terrifying that the term “computerphobia” was coined.  —  “In the early days of the telephone …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
What is a democratic socialist?  Bernie Sanders tries to redefine the name.  —  DES MOINES — When Sen. Bernie Sanders came to speak in Iowa a few months ago, Drake University student Ian Miller snagged a seat on the stage.  It was a close-up look at a historic campaign …
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Pushes Bernie Sanders to Face ‘Socialist’ Moniker Head-On
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Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Vice President Joe Biden made no explicit mention of his contemplation of a 2016 presidential campaign tonight at the Athenargoras Human Rights Awards, but he did speak about one of the things believed to be the chief sticking point to a run: grief over the death of his son, Beau, who passed away in May after a fight with brain cancer.
Discussion: Daily Mail
 
 
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Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
Several Miss Iraq contestants drop out of 1st pageant since 1972 amid death threats
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Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Kids rebel against bland foods in lunch line: Time for a ‘pasta exemption’?
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Huckabee finances challenge his future
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