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L.A. Times Lays Groundwork
to Explain Obama Debate
Performance

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 11:25:10 AM Post Reply

The first presidential debate is only a week away, but the L. A. Times is laying the groundwork to explain a bad Obama performance in the contest. In a September 26 article, L. A. Times writer Christi Parsons is already foreseeing the possibility of a rocky Obama performance. Her reason why Obama may under perform? He's busy. As far as Parsons is concerned, Obama is at a disadvantage for the up coming debates because he is busy being president and has less time for debate practice than Romney. "President Obama has blocked out three days to prepare

Three Star General: Muslim
Brotherhood Has Infiltrated
Our Government

Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 11:18:22 AM Post Reply

U.S. Army Lieutenant General (Ret.) William Jerry Boykin claims that individuals with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood hold security clearances in both the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. Boykin says Republicans should have listened to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), who was correct to be concerned over possible Muslim Brotherhood ties of Huma Abedin, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff. Boykin says politicians on both sides of the aisle are scared to pursue the truth on this, for fear of being branded "intolerant," and the result of their inaction is continued

Pelosi: Republicans Are
Poisoning The Debate, We're
Keeping It Positive

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 11:12:02 AM Post Reply

According to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Republicans are trying "suffocate the airwaves, suppress the vote, poison the debate, [so] people throw up their hands and say, 'I just don't even know if I want to participate in this.'" But, "we have to keep the campaign positive." Speaking on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," the former House Speaker also called for public funding of elections. "Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United. It can be done, the public wants it, we have to take the first step. Reform the system. Public financing of campaigns, get rid

Election, 1980-Style

Tribune Media Services, Inc., by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 11:07:40 AM Post Reply

There was only one presidential debate in 1980 between challenger Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. Just two days before the October 28 debate, Carter was eight points ahead in the Gallup poll. A week after the debate, he lost to Reagan by nearly ten percentage points. Reagan’s debate quip, “there you go again,” reminded voters of Carter’s chronic crabbiness. Even more devastating was Reagan’s final, direct question to American voters: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” No one, it seemed, could muster a “Yes!” Yet there was more to the

Orders for durable goods
plunged in August

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: mambo 5- 9/27/2012 11:05:32 AM Post Reply

Demand for long-lasting manufactured goods plunged in August because of a huge drop in volatile commercial aircraft orders. But in a hopeful sign, orders that reflect business investment plans rose solidly. The Commerce Department said Thursday that total durable goods orders fell 13.2 percent in August, the biggest drop since January 2009 when the country was in recession. Aircraft orders fell by 101 percent.

How Hugo Chavez Could Help
Mitt Romney Win the Election

New Republic, by Francisco Toro Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 10:59:18 AM Post Reply

With pundits rushing to file their Romney campaign obits ahead of the rush, the general consensus is that only a big time October surprise can save the GOP now. And while pundits generally look to the Middle East for likely sources of race-scrambling shocks, this year’s black swan could well fly in from the South, instead. By a quirk of fate, Venezuelans go to the polls to pick a president exactly 30 days before Americans do this year. Fourteen years into his term of office, an ailing Hugo Chávez faces his most competitive race yet,

'I love Ann': Young Romney's
1968 message of devotion written
in the sand to his future wife

Daily Mail (UK), by Lydia Warren Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 10:57:17 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney may have travelled to France in the 1960s to spread the word of the Mormon church - but it appears religion was not his only mission. An image reveals how he was also intent on romancing his soon-to-be wife by scrawling 'I LOVE ANN' in an enormous heart in the sand. Romney, who made sure there was also enough room in the heart for him to stretch out next to his message of devotion, then sent the photograph to Ann. The image was taken by a group of his friends in 1968 when Romney, then 21,

Liberal Radio Host Calls Romney
a Mentally Ill 'Millionaire
Toad' and 'Criminal'

NewsBusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 10:56:04 AM Post Reply

Sitting in for Ed Schultz on his national radio show Monday, trial lawyer Mike Papantonio was suggesting Mitt Romney is mentally ill: "It's not just that Mitt is seriously slipping in the polls. Lately it appears that Mitt is slipping mentally, psychologically, to the point that, you know, almost a shot of Thorazine and a month's vacation might be his campaign's best hope. Let the poor character has a rest 'cause he's coming unglued." And Romney's a criminal: "His personal tax coverup in offshore bank accounts are still producing a storyline that's making Mitt look

Time Mag Editor Hands 'Dazzling'
Bill Clinton a Cover Story, Hails
Him as Positive Global Force

NewsBusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 10:48:33 AM Post Reply

As part of an increasing (and increasingly lazy) trend, Time lets Bill Clinton (or more likely, a ghost writer) pen this week’s cover story on “5 Ideas That Are Changing the World.” Time managing editor Rick Stengel also kissed Clintons ring in his “Editor’s Desk” note: “The last time you saw Bill Clinton was probably at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte as Barack Obama's most dazzling surrogate. But Clinton has a day job: global philanthropist in chief.” Urp. Stengel concluded by hailing Clinton as one of the positive forces that are transforming the globe:

Vladimir Putin gives Hugo
Chavez a puppy

Telegraph [U.K.], by Tom Parfitt Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 10:47:33 AM Post Reply

Better known for stroking tigers and flying with cranes, the Russian leader used the gift to shore up relations with one of his most trusted allies abroad. Igor Sechin, the head of Russia's state oil giant, Rosneft, said he had passed on the dog to Mr Chavez during a meeting in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. "I handed over a message from the President of Russia, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin – it is a Russian black terrier, he's three months old," said Mr Sechin. The Venezuelan leader was pleased and promised to name the puppy on Friday, he added.

Mitt Romney to 'fact
check' Obama in debate

Politico, by Kevin Robillard Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/27/2012 10:41:33 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney plans to turn himself into a one-man truth squad during the first presidential debate next week, casting President Barack Obama as someone who can’t be trusted to stick to the facts or keep his promises. Top Republicans are telegraphing Romney’s hard-line strategy for his faceoff with Obama, according Mike Allen’s Playbook in POLITICO on Thursday. The debate plan comes during a presidential cycle where media fact-checkers have held a high profile and where an earlier effort by Democrats to cast GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan as untrustworthy got results.

Egyptian President Warns
World: 'We Will Not Allow'
Insults to Islam

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 10:40:27 AM Post Reply

In his speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi condemned "insults hurled on the prophet of Islam, Mohammed," and said the United Nations must do something about it. "We reject this. We cannot accept it," he said, speaking of insults to Islam. "And we will be the opponents of those who do this. We will not allow anyone to do this by word or deed." The warning that "We will not allow anyone to do this" was spoken through a translator and did not appear in the prepared text of Morsi's speech.

US officials knew Libya
attack was terrorism within
24 hours, sources confirm

Fox News, by Bret Baier Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 10:36:45 AM Post Reply

URGENT: U.S. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that it was a terrorist attack and suspected Al Qaeda-tied elements were involved, sources told Fox News -- though it took the administration a week to acknowledge it. The account conflicts with claims on the Sunday after the attack by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice that the administration believed the strike was a "spontaneous" event triggered by protests in Egypt over an anti-Islam film. Two senior U.S. officials said the Obama administration internally labeled the attack

Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu
speaks to UN general assembly
– live updates

Guardian [UK], by Tom McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 9/27/2012 10:36:18 AM Post Reply

15:25 BST Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of remarks before the UN general assembly of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. • Netanyahu is expected to keep up his drumbeat of forceful calls for an American-led military strike on Iran's nuclear program. Netanyahu's increasingly vocal demands that the United States take a more aggressive stance on the issue have given him an unusually high profile in the US presidential election. Today's speech is the best platform the Israeli leader is likely to have to make his case before US attention

NAACP Urges U.N. to Investigate
U.S. for ‘Racially Discriminatory
Election Laws’

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Goodenough Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 10:34:28 AM Post Reply

Charging that millions of citizens, two-fifths of them black, have been denied the right to vote because of felony convictions, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called on the United Nations this week to investigate America’s “racially discriminatory election laws.” An NAACP delegation visiting Geneva hosted a panel on the “disenfranchisement” of U.S. citizens and addressed the U.N. Human Rights Council, which is in session in the Swiss city. A delegate told the HRC that the right to vote was a cornerstone of democracy and that in the U.S. a patchwork of divergent

Federal Lunchbox Commissars
Trigger Student Uprising

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 10:29:34 AM Post Reply

Big Government: Now that student athletes are rising up to protest rabbity little one-size-fits-all lunches prescribed by the federal government, the question must be asked: Just what are the feds doing with this much power? The law of unintended consequences was out in full force with the Obama administration's "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010," a law championed by first lady Michelle Obama and passed by Congress, supposedly to combat childhood obesity. But instead of lowering obesity rates, the initiative has students across the country rebelling. In a Kansas high school, students and two teachers made a video called "We Are Hungry"
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Did Obama lie about
the embassy attacks?

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 9/27/2012 10:16:58 AM Post Reply

Eli Lake let loose a bombshell yesterday: “Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, U.S. intelligence agencies had strong indications al Qaeda–affiliated operatives were behind the attack, and had even pinpointed the location of one of those attackers. Three separate U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast said the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya.”

ABC News Tracks Missing iPad
To Florida Home of TSA Officer

ABC News, by Megan Chuchmach & Brian Ross* Original Article

Posted By: mc squared- 9/27/2012 10:06:42 AM Post Reply

In the latest apparent case of what have been hundreds of thefts by TSA officers of passenger belongings, an iPad left behind at a security checkpoint in the Orlando airport was tracked as it moved 30 miles to the home of the TSA officer last seen handling it. Confronted two weeks later by ABC News, the TSA officer, Andy Ramirez, at first denied having the missing iPad, but ultimately turned it over after blaming his wife for taking it from the airport. The iPad was one of ten purposely left behind at TSA checkpoints at major airports
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Mexican marines say they have
captured one of Zetas cartel’s top
capos, known as ‘El Taliban

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 9/27/2012 10:00:59 AM Post Reply

MEXICO CITY — Mexico appeared to strike a major blow against one faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, with the navy announcing it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban.” Velazquez Caballero has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top Zetas’ leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico.

From video to terrorist attack:
a definitive timeline of administration
statements on the Libya attack

Washington Post, by Glenn Kessler Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 9/27/2012 9:30:15 AM Post Reply

In any kind of confused overseas event, initial reports are often wrong. But the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including the ambassador, is a case study of how an administration can carefully keep the focus as long as possible on one storyline — and then turn on a dime when it is no longer tenable. For political reasons, it certainly was in the White House’s interests to not portray the attack as a terrorist incident,

Durable goods drop
worst since recession

Reuters, by Lucia Mutikani Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/27/2012 9:26:31 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods in August fell by the most in 3-1/2 years, pointing to a sharp slowdown in factory activity even as a gauge of planned business spending rebounded. The Commerce Department said on Thursday durable goods orders dived 13.2 percent, the largest drop since January 2009, when the economy was in the throes of a recession. Orders for July were revised down to show a 3.3 percent increase instead of the previously reported 4.1 percent gain. Economists polled by Reuters had expected orders for durable goods -- items from toasters to aircraft

New Hacker Collective Emerges in
Response to Anti-Islamic Film

PC Magazine, by Damon Poeter Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 9/27/2012 9:25:20 AM Post Reply

A new, focused group of hackers from a number of Arab countries is reportedly attacking Western websites in retaliation for an anti-Islamic video that has been cited as the proximate cause for violent demonstrations in the Middle East, including the recent attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead. "The hacking operations are of course a response to the offense against the prophet, peace and blessing be upon him," a member of the self-proclaimed Arab Electronic Army, comprised of hackers from Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and other countries, told Alarabiya.net recently.

U.S. Economy Expanded Less
Than Forecast in Second Quarter

Bloomberg News, by Alex Kowalski Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/27/2012 9:22:28 AM Post Reply

The economy in the U.S. grew less than previously forecast in the second quarter, reflecting slower gains in consumer spending and farm inventories. The world’s largest economy expanded at a 1.3 percent pace in the second quarter after growing at a 2 percent rate from January through March. The revision compared with a prior estimate of 1.7 percent and the Bloomberg survey’s 1.7 percent median forecast. Household purchases, which account for about 70 percent of the economy, rose at a 1.5 percent annual pace last quarter, the slowest in a year after a previously reported 1.7 percent gain.

Peace Through Strength, Not
Hope and Change

Aspen Times, by Melanie Sturm Original Article

Posted By: AVFD15- 9/27/2012 9:22:25 AM Post Reply

American revolutionary Patrick Henry famously declared, “Give me liberty or give me death!” This month, furious mobs throughout the Islamic world decree death, a sentence they imposed on four Americans in Libya, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens — the first U.S. ambassador murdered in the line of duty since 1979. Before buying the spin that the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a spontaneous response to an anti-Islam video, Think Again. According to Libyan President Mohamed Magarief, the video had “nothing to do with” the premeditated terrorist attack. Conducted on the anniversary of 9/11 in order to

The New York Wheel is
coming to Staten Island

Staten Island Advance, by Tom Wrobleski Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 9/27/2012 9:10:03 AM Post Reply

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --- The New York Wheel is coming to Staten Island, along with a retail and hotel complex featuring designer outlet shops that will pump nearly $500 million in private investment into the St. George waterfront and spur economic development, tourism and job growth into the future. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday is set to announce that the world's tallest observation wheel and an outlet mall will be built on 14 acres next to the Richmond County Bank Ballpark

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