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In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2014, President Barack Obama votes next to Aia Cooper at the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Service Center in Chicago. As Cooper was voting next to Obama her boyfriend, Mike Jones, decided to crack wise: &quot;Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend.&quot; Obama, laughing, replied: &quot;There's an example of a brother just embarrassing me for no reason.&quot; (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: For Democrats, Obama is the October surprise

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Should President Obama don a Bill Clinton mask so he can hit the campaign trail? Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times

JOSEPH CURL: Trick or treat: Democrats running scared from Obama

By Joseph Curl

Illustration on the gradual revelation of the Obama administration's true nature by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: Taking back America

By James A. Lyons

The EPA, headed by Gina McCarthy, says strontium, which can reduce bone strength among those deficient in calcium, is the latest contaminant to be targeted under the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. (Associated Press Photographs)

Watchdog sues EPA over industry role in fuels rule

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

President Kennedy confers with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1962 during the buildup of tensions with the Soviet Union that became Cuban Missile Crisis. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

HANSON: The new missiles of October

By Victor Davis Hanson

Job seekers wait in line at a 2011 Congressional Black Caucus job fair. President Obama neglected stubbornly high black unemployment, says Raynard Jackson. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Bob Andres)

RAYNARD JACKSON: Obama turns back on blacks, fails loyalty test

By Raynard Jackson

White House can’t say whether Ottawa shootings are terrorist acts

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn. (AP Photo/File)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Does Michelle Nunn have an identity theft problem?

By Judson Phillips

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama votes early in Chicago as Democratic candidates keep distance

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) Ky., right, and Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, rehearsed with host Bill Goodman before their appearance on "Kentucky Tonight" television broadcast live from KET studios in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/The Lexington Herald-Leader, Pablo Alcala, Pool)

Eastern Kentucky’s struggles fuel Senate battle

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Seal of the Just Us Department Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

TRACCI: A post-Holder Justice Department worthy of the name

By Robert N. Tracci

President Barack Obama, left, cast a ballot for the 2014 midterm elections at the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Service Center while participating in early voting on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, in Chicago. Obama took a break from campaigning for Gov. Pat Quinn, D-Ill., to cast an early ballot for the election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama casts ballot in Chicago, urges ‘everyone’ to vote early

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept. 29, 2014, file photo shows Ohio Gov. John Kasich as he speaks at a GOP Get Out the Vote rally in Independence, Ohio. Republicans may be close to winning control of Congress and more votes to repeal “Obamacare,” but GOP governors don’t see the president’s health care law going away. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

GOP governors don’t see ‘Obamacare’ going away

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Ahead of the start of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, an official in the Islamic Republic has called limiting uranium enrichment and diluting its stockpile the country’s “most important commitments.” (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

White House refutes report on bypassing Congress on Iran sanctions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, walks with President-elect Joko Widodo upon arrival prior to a tour of the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, will be inaugurated as the country's new president on Monday, Oct. 20. (AP Photo/Adek Berry, Pool)

Kerry seeks Asia’s help in anti-Islamic State push

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the original Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instructions for dealing with the virus were taken from the World Health Organization's protocol for Africa, where conditions are much different from those in U.S. hospitals. (Associated Press)

Ebola protocols flawed, left U.S. nurses vulnerable, health official says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The politics of Ebola: A juggling act in Georgia

By BILL BARROW and KATHLEEN FOODY and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the government&#8217;s Ebola response, in the Oval Office of the White House Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Greil Marcus: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown shooters were really ‘killing Barack Obama’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions about the government's Ebola response during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House: We didn’t want ‘an Ebola expert’ to be the Ebola czar

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Employees with Cleaning Guys Environmental carry equipment into North Belton Middle School Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, in Belton, Texas, as they prepare to disinfect the school. The Central Texas school district has temporarily closed three of its campuses after a family of four, including two students from the district, traveled on the same flight as a nurse who has since been diagnosed with Ebola. (AP Photo/The Temple Daily Telegram, Rusty Schramm) TV OUT, MAGS OUT

GOP lawmakers call on Congress to reconvene to address Ebola

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times