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Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on
Obama family last year,
perks questioned in new book

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:21:32 AM Post Reply

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in.

Can Romney out-Santa
Claus Obama in Ohio?

Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:18:46 AM Post Reply

Fayette, Ohio - "They say everything's worse now than it was then," Tom Franks said Tuesday morning, standing in the back doorway of D & R Hardware in Fayette. But Franks, who has been a maintenance man at Fayette High School since he was laid off from auto factory work, doesn't see it that way. Obama's "helping Chrysler and GM out -- it's brought jobs into the Toledo area." (Snip) "What the hell has he done for me?" Dale Pfund asks me when I mention Obama. Pfund and his wife, Robin, own D & R Hardware. "What the hell has

Watchdog: World-hopping
Agriculture Department
employees frequent China

Washington Examiner, by Mark Flatten Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 12:13:55 AM Post Reply

Beijing, China, is a more frequent official conference destination for employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture than Boise, Idaho. Rome, Italy, tops Richmond, Va., and Brisbane, Australia, outpaces Bozeman, Montana. Agriculture Department employees are such frequent world travelers that they attended at least 106 conferences in foreign countries in the four-year period that ended September 2011, according to the most recent data on conference spending the agency is required to post online. (Snip) The extensive international travels of a department with a primarily domestic mission shows there is no pressure on agencies to limit unneeded conference spending, said Leslie

Sikh woman defends facial hair
with graceful response about religion
after being mocked on Reddit

New York Daily News, by Rheana Murray Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 11:20:26 PM Post Reply

A Sikh woman’s eloquent response to a tasteless Reddit post targeting her facial hair has sparked virtual applause online. A photo unknowingly taken of Ohio State University student Balpreet Kaur, who has sideburns and a beard, was posted on the website’s “funny” thread, prompting a string of cruel comments. When the neuroscience student saw them, she added a message of her own. “Yes, I’m a baptized Sikh woman with facial hair,” Kaur wrote. “Yes, I realize that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. However, baptized Sikhs believe in the sacredness of this body —

In U.N. speech, Egypt's Morsi
rejects broad free speech rights

Los Angeles Times, by Paul Richter Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 11:06:38 PM Post Reply

United Nations - Egypt's recently elected President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday rejected President Obama's view of free speech rights and made plain his ambition to seize greater influence for the Arab world's most populous country. Morsi, in his debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly, said Egypt intended to lead the way in resolving Syria's civil war, pressing the cause of Palestinians and defusing the threat of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. He also said that though his country now embraces democracy and human rights, it would not accept the categorical approach to free speech that Obama urged at

Iran has the right to enrich
uranium and will keep on
doing so, Ahmadinejad
says at New York dinner

Times of Israel [Jerusalem], by Mike Eckel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 11:03:09 PM Post Reply

New York - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a dinner here for academics and students, said Iran was ready to make concessions on its nuclear drive, but insisted that it had a legal right to enrich uranium and intended to keep on using that right. “Iran is entitled to domestic uranium enrichment,” he said at the dinner Monday night with more than 150 academics and students at his hotel. “It is a legitimate right…. And what rights do you have if you do not use them?” (Snip) The event at the Warwick Hotel, at which Ahmadinejad gave generally lengthy and sometimes

CEOs now see gloomy third
quarter, drop growth expectations

Washington Times, by Tim Devaney Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/26/2012 11:01:23 PM Post Reply

Four major business groups see gloomy times ahead for the job market and the economy, according to a string of separate surveys and polls released this week that cast fresh doubt on hopes that the economic recovery may have turned the corner. Top executives and small-business owners polled by the Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Federation of Independent Business, and chief financial officers surveyed by the management firm Deloitte pointed to uncertainty posed by new regulations, shaky demand overseas and the “fiscal cliff”

Romney, Obama locked in a duel
for Ohio’s working-class voters

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/26/2012 10:59:05 PM Post Reply

WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Scrambling to regain his footing in the Buckeye State, Mitt Romney enlisted the help Wednesday of a golf legend and a television star with the sort of blue-collar credentials that could resonate with the state’s working-class voters. President Obama, meanwhile, made his own Ohio pitch to college crowds at Bowling Green and Kent State. The dueling visits spoke volumes about the critical role that Ohio — a state where manufacturing jobs in the automobile industry and other sectors have been lost in recent years as companies have shifted operations

Israel's Foreign Ministry:
Sanctions against Iran
are having dramatic impact

Haaretz [Israel], by Barak Ravid Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:56:19 PM Post Reply

An internal Foreign Ministry document maintains that the additional sanctions imposed on Iran in recent months have caused far more damage to the Iranian economy than previous believed and have sparked additional domestic criticism of the regime. Against this backdrop, Israel has stepped up its efforts to have the European Union impose another round of sanctions, a senior ministry official said. The Foreign Ministry's assessment of the impact of the sanctions on the Iranian economy and the stability of the regime appears to account for Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments this week on Israel Radio regarding the stability of the

Obama’s camp calls
Libya hit ‘terrorism’

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/26/2012 10:56:02 PM Post Reply

UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration said Wednesday it now thinks the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya was linked to an affiliate of al Qaeda — an evaluation that comes two weeks after the strike and as the White House has struggled to defend its initial read on the situation. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at the U.N., said the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post was part of a broader effort by “al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and other groups,” who she said are “working with other violent extremists to undermine

Hezbollah increases support for
Syrian regime, U.S. and
Lebanese officials say

Washington Post, by Babak Dehghanpisheh Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/26/2012 10:52:56 PM Post Reply

BEIRUT — Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite political and militant group, has ramped up its support for the Syrian government, sending in military advisers to aid in the bloody struggle against the opposition, U.S. and Lebanese government officials say. Hezbollah’s involvement is a clear indication that the uprising, now a year and a half old, is drawing in Syria’s neighbor and broadening a conflict that has the potential to destabilize the entire region. It also marks a worrying turn for the Syrian rebels, who already face one of the region’s most potent armies

Doomed Cruise Ship
Prepares for Final Voyage

Spiegel [Hamburg, Germany], by Fiona Ehlers & Christian Wüst Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:46:50 PM Post Reply

Disposing of the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Tuscany in January 2012, will be the most spectacular salvage operation in the history of seafaring. The pressure on the team is huge: If anything goes wrong, the ship's operator will have another disaster on its hands. Withered potted palms hang upside down over the rusty railing. Chairs lie scattered across the deck and devastated banquet tables can still be recognized under glass roofs. Viewed up close, from one of the coast guard's inflatable boats, the cruise ship Costa Concordia resembles a city that has been hastily evacuated.

Obama, Romney differ
on U.S. exceptionalism

Washington Post, by Scott Wilson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/26/2012 10:42:26 PM Post Reply

President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made clear this week that they share an overriding belief: American political and economic values should triumph in the world. Where the two differ most is in how a debt-burdened United States, weary after a more than a decade of war, should engage other nations to pursue that goal. Their differences emerged sharply during a pair of foreign policy speeches in New York, pushing the subject of U.S. international interests and power into the center of the presidential campaign with just six weeks to go.

Obama accused of
sparking a religious war

The Scotsman [Scotland], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:37:20 PM Post Reply

One of Pakistan’s most feared Islamists has accused US president Barack Obama of starting a religious war against Muslims over his handling of a video mocking the Prophet Mohammad. Hafiz Saeed, accused by India of masterminding the 2008 attack by Pakistani gunmen on Mumbai, said Mr Obama should have ordered steps to remove the film from the internet instead of defending freedom of expression in the United States. “Obama’s statements have caused a religious war,” Saeed said yesterday. (Snip) Saeed said the US should take tough action against the makers of the film. “If not, then hand them to us,”

Sources: Ref lockout could end soon

ESPN, by Chris Mortensen Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:30:52 PM Post Reply

The NFL and the NFL Referees Association made enough progress in negotiations Tuesday night that the possibility of the locked-out officials returning in time to work this week's games has been discussed, according to sources on both sides. An agreement in principle is at hand, according to one source familiar to talks, although NFL owners have postured with a "no more compromise" stance. The possibility of NFLRA referees working Thursday's Ravens-Browns game is dim, according to sources, but it is possible they could work games on Sunday and Monday.

Saudi Arabia embarks on massive
projects in Mecca and Medina

Independent [UK], by Catrina Stewart Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:28:36 PM Post Reply

Saudi Arabia is embarking on two ambitious projects in Islam's holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, including plans to build one of the world's largest mosques. King Abdullah, Saudi's 88-year-old monarch, laid the foundation stone this week to mark the expansion of the Prophet's mosque in Medina from a current capacity of 200,000 worshipers to 1.8 million, the state news agency reported. (Snip) But officials hope that the grandiose expansion project, which will take place in three stages starting next month, will pay off, attracting thousands more tourists, an increasingly important source of revenue, to the kingdom.

'Anti-white racism':
The talk of the town

France 24, by Sophie Pilgrim Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:22:09 PM Post Reply

“Anti-white racism is growing in our cities.” It’s a statement that the French have heard several times over the past few years, during TV and radio interviews; debates; perhaps from their bigoted neighbour. But never before has it been heard publicly by a politician who isn’t affiliated with the far-right National Front (FN) party. So when Jean-François Copé, secretary general of France’s (supposedly) centre-right UMP party, came out with the disquieting assertion on Wednesday, the reaction was one of disbelief. Admittedly, Copé, was trying to get attention. (Snip) “There are certain districts in our towns, where individuals – some of

Fact Check: Elizabeth
Warren's 'Family' Ad

Breitbart's Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:12:04 PM Post Reply

In her new "Family" television ad, Elizabeth Warren directly responds to the controversy surrounding her claims to Native American heritage. Here are the three central claims Ms. Warren makes using the same phrasing she's tested out with crowds over the past several months: 1. That she has Native American heritage. 2. That her parents were forced to elope because her father's parents objected to their marriage due to her mother's heritage. (Snip) As Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes notes, what Warren's mother told her about the wedding, as described in this Boston Globe article, is simply not true. According to the

No tax, no Church perks,
German court rules

Deutsche Welle, by Ole Kämper Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/26/2012 10:06:31 PM Post Reply

A German court has ruled that Catholics must pay a special Church tax if they want to take part in religious activities. It follows a warning by the Church that those who fail to pay will be denied a religious burial. The Leipzig Federal Administrative Court ruled on Wednesday that Germans cannot remain members of the Catholic Church without paying a Church tax. (Snip) The system has been in place since the 19th century. All Germans who are officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a religious tax of 8-9 percent on their annual income tax bill. The levy

Spain Recoils as Its Hungry
Forage Trash Bins for a Next Meal

New York Times, by Suzanne Daley Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/26/2012 9:57:37 PM Post Reply

MADRID — On a recent evening, a hip-looking young woman was sorting through a stack of crates outside a fruit and vegetable store here in the working-class neighborhood of Vallecas as it shut down for the night. At first glance, she looked as if she might be a store employee. But no. The young woman was looking through the day’s trash for her next meal. Already, she had found a dozen aging potatoes she deemed edible and loaded them onto a luggage cart parked nearby. “When you don’t have enough money,”

With more control over campaign cash,
Obama gets more discounts on advertising

Washington Post, by Dan Eggen Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/26/2012 9:50:56 PM Post Reply

As the presidential campaigns step up the pace of their multimillion-dollar spending sprees, President Obama enjoys a little-noticed strategic advantage that gives him more control over the money he has raised. (Snip) In one Ohio ad buy slated to run just before the election, for example, Obama is paying $125 for a spot that is costing a conservative super PAC $900. The imbalance could prove crucial over the next five weeks, when the presidential candidates and their allies are expected to burn through about $1 billion worth of advertising in battleground states

Marine from Juneau awarded
medal for valor

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: John c- 9/26/2012 9:44:10 PM Post Reply

JUNEAU -- Marine Staff Sgt. Alec Haralovich thought he was going to die when an enemy round struck him in the side as his patrol was attacked last fall in Afghanistan. The bullet knocked him down, but to Haralovich's surprise, he wasn't even bleeding. The bullet had shattered his radio but failed to penetrate his body armor. Haralovich, who grew up in Juneau, was able to get up, run through an open field and fire a rocket that scattered insurgents who had pinned down the Marine Reserve unit. For his actions, Haralovich last month was awarded the Silver Star, the military's third

Comcast to close all
California call centers

Sacramento Bee, by Claudia Buck Original Article

Posted By: beancounter- 9/26/2012 9:13:49 PM Post Reply

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In an abrupt announcement that caught state and local business officials off guard, cable giant Comcast announced Tuesday that it's closing all of its California call centers, including one in Natomas that employs about 300 workers. Why? That's the tricky question. Earlier in the day, citing the state's "high cost of doing business," a regional Comcast official said the company's Natomas, Livermore and Morgan Hill call centers will be shuttered on Nov. 30. Overall, about 1,000 jobs will be relocated to existing centers in Portland, Seattle and Denver. But hours later, after state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg

A New Face for the GOP?

PJ Media, by Patrick Reddy Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 9/26/2012 8:33:58 PM Post Reply

While much attention was rightly focused on the Romney-Ryan ticket at the 2012 Republican National Convention, significant but perhaps overlooked changes are occurring at the grassroots level: for the first time since the Depression ended GOP national dominance in 1932, Republicans are recruiting and running large numbers of black and Hispanic candidates for state and federal office. In 2012, more than 60 black and Hispanic Republicans are running for Congress, a new record. These candidates are not “sacrificial lambs” set up to lose in heavily Democratic inner-city districts. A fair amount of them are running in swing

Obama's Biggest Opponent is the Truth

Wall Street Journal, by Karl Rove Original Article

Posted By: Moritz55- 9/26/2012 8:28:32 PM Post Reply

When George Stephanopoulos asked Mitt Romney in a Sept. 14 "Good Morning America" interview what he's learned about President Obama as a debater, the former Massachusetts governor replied, "I think he's going to say a lot of things that aren't accurate." If Mr. Obama's debate performance mirrors his campaign, Mr. Romney's prediction will be dead on. To get a sense of how comprehensive the president's assault on the truth has been, consider some of his false claims in recent speeches and ads. One Obama spot says, "To pay for huge, new tax breaks for millionaires like him,

When Andy Williams dubbed
Lauren Bacall

Los Angeles Times, by Dennis McLellan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/26/2012 8:00:39 PM Post Reply

Singer Andy Williams, who died Tuesday at age 84, was singing with his three older brothers as the Williams Brothers when the quartet arrived in Hollywood in 1944 and soon were signed by MGM. They were on loan to Warner Bros. when 16-year-old Andy landed his first solo singing role in the movies, although he did not appear on screen. A 19-year-old Lauren Bacall was also on the Warner Bros. lot, filming her first movie -– “To Have and Have Not” opposite Humphrey Bogart -- and the role required her to sing.

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