memeorandum: 4 dead after morning shootings in downtown Colorado Springs (Matt Steiner/Gazette)

8:30 PM ET, October 31, 2015

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Matt Steiner / Gazette:

4 dead after morning shootings in downtown Colorado Springs — Gunfire rang out Saturday morning east of downtown Colorado Springs, leaving bullet-riddled bodies lying in the 200 block of North Prospect Street and in front of a Wendy's restaurant on North Wahsatch Avenue.

Discussion: Associated Press and Liberty Unyielding

KKTV-TV:

4 Dead, Including Suspect, In Downtown Shooting Spree … Headlines List — “I was just sitting on my patio taking my dog out when I saw someone come around the corner, being chased by the police.” — Aaron Nicks and dozens of other people in downtown Colorado Springs Saturday morning watched …

Discussion: 89.3 KPCC

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Cruz: CNBC debate moderators were ‘left-wing operatives’ — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says the moderators at CNBC's GOP presidential debate were “left-wing operatives” trying to weaken Republican presidential candidates. — He added future debates should be hosted by moderators who have voted …

Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Dem: CNBC's ‘circus’ debate was like ‘The Gong Show’ — The Democratic governor of Virginia is lambasting the moderators of CNBC's Republican presidential debate for asking ridiculous questions. — Gov. Terry McAullife said the Wednesday debate was like a “circus” and compared the spectacle to the 1970s game show “The Gong Show.”

Discussion: Hot Air, ABC News and Balloon Juice

Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Yes, liberal media bias is real, and here's how it affected the CNBC debate

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Independent Journal

Don Melvin / CNN:

Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai with 224 people on board — Cairo (CNN)[Breaking news update at 7:34 a.m.] — An Egyptian aviation investigation team has reached the site of the crashed Russian passenger jet in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, state-run Nile TV reported Saturday, citing the minister of civil aviation.

Discussion: USA Today, The Liberty Zone and The Week

Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
Russian jet carrying 224 people crashes in Sinai. No survivors found.

Discussion: New York Times, Al Jazeera English, Hollywood Life, Hot Air, Globe and Mail, Reuters and The Week

Daily Mail:
Doomed Russian jet did not lodge SOS call, experts say: Aircraft which crashed in Sinai killing …

Discussion: Daily Express and The Gateway Pundit

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

Academia's Rejection of Diversity — ONE of the great intellectual and moral epiphanies of our time is the realization that human diversity is a blessing. It has become conventional wisdom that being around those unlike ourselves makes us better people — and more productive to boot.

Discussion: Washington Post

Patrick Healy / New York Times:

Bernie Sanders Doesn't Kiss Babies. That a Problem? — Spotted: Bernie Sanders, walking down Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Swinging hands with his wife, Jane. Pointing to buildings. Looking at the sidewalk. — And talking as little as possible to people. Not asking for a single vote.

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

John Oliver Doesn't Want Trump On His Show: He Has Nothing Else To Say — John Oliver, comedian and host of HBO's “Last Week Tonight” on Friday said that he's not at all interested in having Donald Trump on his show. — “I don't really care about him in any capacity,” he said on CBS' “This Morning.”

Discussion: Mediaite

Patrick Howley / Reuters:

Hillary Clinton Was Warned Not to Blame Benghazi on Youtube Video — Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's embassy in Tripoli, Libya, warned State Department officials in Washington, D.C., not to blame the Youtube video, Innocence of Muslims, for the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, Allen B. West and Breitbart

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Springtime for Grifters — At one point during Wednesday's Republican debate, Ben Carson was asked about his involvement with Mannatech, a nutritional supplements company that makes outlandish claims about its products and has been forced to pay $7 million to settle a deceptive-practices lawsuit.

Discussion: Salon, DownWithTyranny! and bradford-delong.com

Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Not Ready for Prime Time Bush

Discussion: Slate, National Review, Los Angeles Times, Hot Air and RedState

New York Times:
Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Blade, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, neo-neocon, PoliticusUSA, Politico, Outside the Beltway, DownWithTyranny!, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, NBC News and National Review

Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush team bracing for cash crunch

Discussion: Bloomberg.com news, RedState, The First Street Journal, Reuters and Political Wire

Andrew Higgins / New York Times:

German Village of 102 Braces for 750 Asylum Seekers — SUMTE, Germany — This bucolic, one-street settlement of handsome redbrick farmhouses may for the moment have many more cows than people, but next week it will become one of the fastest growing places in Europe. Not that anyone in Sumte is very excited about it.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Tom Tancredo / Breitbart:

Former Congressman: I'm Quitting GOP — In a panel discussion at the University of Colorado after the recent Republican debate, I was asked by a student why she should be a Republican. The question forced me to ask myself the same thing. — I gave the young woman the standard talking points …

Discussion: Pirate's Cove, The Other McCain and The Spot

BBC:

Bangladeshi secular publisher hacked to death — A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in the second attack of its kind on Saturday, police say. — Faisal Arefin Dipon, 43, was killed at his office in the city centre, hours after another publisher …

Discussion: Associated Press, Jihad Watch and Friendly Atheist