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Mr. President: Take down this film!

Washington Examiner [DC], by Noemie Emery Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:39:59 AM Post Reply

Beginning two weeks ago and going on for 12 days, the White House was adamant that the horrific Sept. 11 attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya, which resulted in four dead Americans (one an ambassador) and included burnings of Barack Obama in effigy, were caused by outrage at a 14-minute "film" that had been made by an obscure private citizen and seen only by a handful of people on YouTube. The film, about as offensive to Muslims as "P**s Christ" is to most Christian (and many non-Christian) Americans, was seen by the administration as a perfectly plausible reason

Why wait to kick out
these unwanted guests?

Telegraph [UK], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/26/2012 5:39:35 AM Post Reply

Only a lack of political will can be stopping the Home Office deporting Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada and others. The BBC has apologised to the Queen after one of its reporters disclosed her private views about this country’s failure to deal sooner with the threat posed by the firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Hamza. Hamza was jailed for terrorist offences five years ago; but Her Majesty is said to have asked a home secretary some time before that: “Why is he still at large?”[Snip] In 2008, for instance, we welcomed a High Court ruling that the US request was

Why Party ID Matters, and
Why Pollsters Avert Their Eyes

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:34:15 AM Post Reply

Over in National Journal, pollsters respond to the accusation from John McLaughlin (the pollster, not the television host) reported here last week: John McLaughlin, a Republican pollster and consultant to GOP candidates, told the conservative National Review last week that Democrats are lobbying media pollsters “to weight their surveys to emulate the 2008 Democrat-heavy models.” “The intended effect is to suppress Republican turnout through media polling bias,” McLaughlin said. Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is unconvinced.

A bogus defense of Obama’s
intelligence briefing record

Washington Post, by Marc A. Thiessen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:31:07 AM Post Reply

The Post’s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, takes issue with my report that since taking office President Obama has skipped his daily intelligence meeting more than half the time. So let’s fact check the Fact Checker. The facts After hearing from sources in the intelligence community that President Obama was not attending his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis, I asked researchers at the Government Accountability Institute, a nonpartisan research group headed by Peter Schweizer (who is also my business partner in a speechwriting firm, Oval Office Writers) to examine at Obama’s official schedule.

Israel Must Be 'Eliminated'

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:24:35 AM Post Reply

'To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." —George Orwell Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the United Nations today, which also happens to be Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The timing is apt because when it comes to Iran and Israel, the hardest thing for some people to see or hear is what Iranian leaders say in front of the world's nose. "Iran has been around for the last seven, 10 thousand years. They [the Israelis] have been occupying those territories for the last 60 to 70 years,

Can Obama Win Without ACORN?

Atlantic, by Molly Ball Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:20:29 AM Post Reply

"POOR PEOPLE DON'T VOTE." An ACORN organizer named Chris Edwards scrawled the words on a white board in a dingy Las Vegas strip mall. It was the summer of 2008, and Edwards was training a roomful of $8-an-hour job seekers to go out and sign up new voters in the worst parts of town in 109-degree heat. "We have to blow this up, break this axiom that poor people don't vote," Edwards told the room that day. "We have to destroy it." Only by participating, he said urgently, would lower-income people get elected officials who actually cared about their needs.

Taxes Threaten an
Island Culture in Georgia

New York Times, by Kim Severson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:15:37 AM Post Reply

SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. — Once the huge property tax bills started coming, telephones started ringing. It did not take long for the 50 or so people who live on this largely undeveloped barrier island to realize that life was about to get worse. Sapelo Island, a tangle of salt marsh and sand reachable only by boat, holds the largest community of people who identify themselves as saltwater Geechees. Sometimes called the Gullahs, they have inhabited the nation’s southeast coast for more than two centuries. Theirs is one of the most fragile cultures in America. These Creole-speaking descendants of slaves

Madonna's big cover up: Singer sports
scruffy tracksuit style as she claims
she was being ironic calling
Obama a 'black muslin'

Daily Mail, by Sarah Fitzmaurice Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/26/2012 5:14:00 AM Post Reply

On stage Madonna is no stranger to flashing the flesh and flaunting her figure. But off stage the 54-year-old singer is a little more reserved and conservative when it comes to her style.[Snip] Her dressed down ensemble consisted off the loose-fitting sportswear, a flat-peaked baseball cap, a grey scarf and a pair of flip flops, giving her a rather scruffy appearance. Madonna was seen with her toyboy boyfriend Brahim Zaibat, 25, and her two youngest children Mercy, six, and David, seven. Madonna's Brahim appeared to be a little camera shy and instead of wearing his beanie hat on his head

O’s missing word: ‘terror’

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:09:12 AM Post Reply

That was a perfectly fine speech Barack Obama gave at the United Nations yesterday. Perfectly fine, except that he has been president for the last four years. Perfectly fine, except that terrorists murdered our ambassador in Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. And perfectly fine, except that the head of al Qaeda released a videotape urging that murder and others during what he called a time of “American weakness.” Mr. President: The video didn’t do it. Terrorists did. Say it, for God’s sake! Facts, bloody facts, take all the shine off Obama’s speech. His teleprompted rhetoric no longer inspires

The Silly Mantra of
Obama’s Inevitability

Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey H. Anderson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/26/2012 5:03:36 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s supporters are obsessed with being “on the right side of history.” This is, after all, the essence of progressivism — history progresses, always upward (don’t ask about the Dark Ages), and progressives exist to speed up that “progress.” This, in turn, informs the view of this election presented by the Democrats and the media. Bill Clinton gave an effective (if highly misleading) speech at the Democratic convention, a tape emerged of Mitt Romney’s unfortunate remarks at a fundraiser, and — voila! — history has spoken: Obama’s reelection is inevitable.

Ralph Nader: Obama’s a ‘war criminal’

Politico, by Patrick Gavin Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/26/2012 4:57:49 AM Post Reply

It’s no surprise that Ralph Nader isn’t a fan of former President George W. Bush. After all, the longtime activist ran against him in both 2000 and 2004. But Nader’s even less a fan of President Barack Obama, if only because he thinks Obama was capable of so much more. On issues related to the military and foreign policy, Obama’s worse than Bush, “in the sense that he’s more aggressive, more illegal worldwide,” Nader told POLITICO, going so far as to call Obama a “war criminal.” “He’s gone beyond George W. Bush in drones, for example.

Romney on Libya: Why doesn’t
Obama want the American people
to know what happened?

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/26/2012 4:46:19 AM Post Reply

He doesn’t use the phrase “cover up” — but Ryan does, in saying that it’s up to Americans to decide why The One is reluctant to use the word “terrorism” to describe what happened in Benghazi even though some of his underlings aren’t. And yes, this talking point is officially part of the Romney/Ryan message on the trail today. CNN asked the same question that Carl Cameron did and got a similar answer: When pressed on whether he stood by the attack, Romney said, “I’m not sure which developments

Obama's Struggle

American Thinker, by Cindy Simpson Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 9/26/2012 3:07:48 AM Post Reply

On the campaign trail, Michelle Obama often employs the word "struggle." It was actually Mrs. Obama's peculiar pronunciation -- "shtruggle" -- that first drew my attention to the frequency of her usage. At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, her speech referred to some form of "struggle" nine times. Last week, speaking in Durham, Michelle referred to "struggle" five times and as a theme of her address, prompting BuzzFeed to title its report "Michelle Obama: Barack 'Has Been Struggling With Us.'" Mrs. Obama said her husband has struggled each and every day since he took

Obama getting less debate practice
than Romney

LA Times, by Christi Parsons Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 9/26/2012 1:33:51 AM Post Reply

Washington — President Obama has blocked out three days to prepare for the October debates, but with the constant pressures that come with one of the world's most important jobs, aides worry he may not get enough practice at the podium. (snip) Obama has already canceled some debate preparation because of events in the Middle East, said Jen Psaki, his campaign press secretary. "He has had to balance the management of world events, governing, time out campaigning," she said. "He'll have less time than we anticipated to sharpen and cut down his tendency to give long, substantive answers."

Group sues Secret Service for cost of
Malia Obama’s spring break trip to Mexico

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 9/26/2012 1:18:24 AM Post Reply

A watchdog group with a history of exposing the taxpayer costs of President Obama’s vacations is now suing the Secret Service for records detailing how much it cost the agency to protect first daughter Malia Obama when she traveled to Mexico for spring break earlier this year. It’s a trip that the White House has famously tried to keep out of the news. The group Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that it has filed the lawsuit, known as Judicial Watch v. U.S. Secret Service, for the records. The agency has so far, according to the group, not responded to a

Obama, the greedy boss

American Thinker, by Tom Trinko Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 9/26/2012 1:02:31 AM Post Reply

The LA Times just revealed that it appears that Obama pays his campaign workers less than the national average wage and Romney pays his campaign workers more than the national average wage. In 2010 the national average wage was roughly $42,000 a year. Yet Obama is only paying his campaign workers $36,886 a year. The greedy, evil Romney however is paying his campaign workers $51,500 a year. (snip) Obama consistently supports high government employee salaries and pensions, but when it's his own money, the money he raises in his incessant fund raising events, he prefers to exploit his workers and

Rand Paul aids Romney
and Ryan in Ohio

USA Today, by Jackie Kucinich Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:48:22 AM Post Reply

Dayton, Ohio - Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio this week to news of dropping poll numbers and a widening gap in the Buckeye state between the Republican nominee and President Obama. Luckily, they brought back up. Sen. Rand Paul,R-Ky., joined the pair on the road Tuesday, and while he had planned to campaign for Romney, his appearance on the trail couldn't have come at a better time. The libertarian worldview that made him and his father -- Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas -- populist heroes was on full display in his brief remarks before he introduced Romney and

Report details Waters
ethics case debacle

Politico, by John Bresnahan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:35:42 AM Post Reply

The long saga of the Maxine Waters ethics investigation is a chronicle of mistakes, partisan and intraparty squabbles, allegations of racism, bitter personal rivalries and failed attempts to bring the investigation to a close months and even years before it ended. (Snip) In the end, Waters emerged unscathed. The only person found to have committed any wrongdoing was her top aide. On Tuesday, the House Ethics Committee issued its final report in the case. Waters will not be charged with any violations of House ethics rules. That decision is a big win for the California Democrat and clears the way

CNN's Acosta to Romney: 'If You Somehow
Win,' How Would You 'Assure Blacks
You'd Be Their President Also?'

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 9/26/2012 12:32:52 AM Post Reply

CNN's Jim Acosta on Tuesday's Situation Room asked what many will think was a truly offensive question. "If you were to somehow beat the first African-American president, what would you say to the black community to assure them that you would be their president also?" (video follows with transcript and commentary): JIM ACOSTA, CNN: African-Americans have a tremendous sense of pride that there is the first African-American president in the White House. If you were to somehow beat the first African-American president, what would you say to the black community to assure them that you would be their president also?

Retired military chiefs: Obesity
levels mean US is 'too fat to fight'

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Elise Viebeck Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:29:57 AM Post Reply

Spiking rates of childhood obesity are a threat to national security and demand government intervention, according to retired military leaders. In a report entitled "Still Too Fat to Fight" that was released Tuesday, the advocacy group "Mission: Readiness" described obesity as an epidemic that poses a direct challenge to military effectiveness. The group called on Congress to continue supporting stricter nutrition standards for school lunches — the kind that have become controversial among small-government conservatives.

Gingrich disparages Obama, calls
him 'not a real president'

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:27:01 AM Post Reply

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich ripped President Obama for not meeting with world leaders on his trip to the United Nations on Friday, saying Obama is “not a real president.”   “[Obama] really is like the substitute [National Football League] referees in the sense that he’s not a real president,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Tuesday night. “He doesn’t do anything that presidents do, he doesn’t worry about any of the things the presidents do, but he has the White House, he has enormous power, and he’ll go down in history as the president, and I suspect that

Mitt Romney Lowers
Debate Expectations

ABC News, by Sunlen Miller Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:24:13 AM Post Reply

With just over a week to go before he faces President Obama in their first debate, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney lowered expectations a hair, noting it is his first time in a presidential debate and his opponent is an “eloquent, gifted speaker.” “The president is obviously a very eloquent, gifted speaker — he’ll do just fine,” Romney told Fox News in an interview from Dayton, Ohio. “I’ve, you know, I’ve never been in a presidential debate like this and it will be a new experience.” Romney said the American people will make “their assessment as to who’s the better

Obama Says ‘Goofed Off Way
Too Much’ in Grade School

ABC News, by Devin Dwyer Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:22:34 AM Post Reply

At a forum on education issues in New York City today, President Obama was asked whether he had ever failed a test in grade school, to which he replied, “Oh, yes.” “Absolutely,” Obama said. “You know, I would say I was a mediocre student until I got to college. I goofed off way too much.” Obama first attended school in Indonesia in the early 1970s before he moved to Hawaii, where he attended the prestigious Punahou Academy through high school. He started college at Occidental College in Los Angeles and finished his undergraduate degree at Columbia University in New York

Obama donor wrote ‘nonpartisan’
congressional report backing
liberal tax policy

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:12:12 AM Post Reply

The author of a new nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) report concluding that tax cuts for upper-income earners in America don’t spur economic growth is a frequent donor to the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, political donation records show. Thomas Hungerford authored “Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945″ for CRS. The report, published Sept. 14, came to a conclusion that supports Obama’s tax policy. (Snip) The CRS is billed as a nonpartisan arbiter of facts and, like the Congressional Budget Office and Government Accountability Office, exists to help members of Congress

Knee Replacements Double
as Aging Patients Stay Active

Bloomberg Businessweek, by Nicole Ostrow Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 12:08:35 AM Post Reply

The number of older Americans getting knee replacement surgery more than doubled over the past two decades as an aging population is driven by a desire to stay fit later in life, a study found. Total knee replacement procedures rose 162 percent from 1991 to 2010 while the number of procedures to repair a previously implanted artificial knee joint, called revision, jumped 106 percent (Snip) About 60 percent of those procedures are paid for by Medicare, the federal government health program for the elderly and disabled, said Peter Cram, the lead study author. The study suggests the success of the

Merkel: Europe must stay the
course with painful reform

Independent [UK], by Tony Paterson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/25/2012 11:18:09 PM Post Reply

Angela Merkel issued a blunt warning to Germany's ailing eurozone neighbours yesterday, telling them that pressing ahead with painful reforms and tough budget policies was the only way of resolving Europe's intractable and deepening economic crisis. (Snip) Against such a gloomy backdrop, Ms Merkel insisted: "We need to take a deep breath to overcome this crisis. We must make the efforts that will allow Europe to emerge from the crisis stronger than it went in." The German leader conceded that hard-won reforms in southern Europe had helped, but said there was still work to do. The markets, she added, had

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