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Plunge in Durables Orders May
Restrain U.S. Expansion: Economy

Bloomberg News, by Lorraine Woellert & Alex Kowalski Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:31:30 PM Post Reply

Washington - Demand for U.S. durable goods other than transportation equipment unexpectedly dropped in August for a third consecutive month, signaling that slowdowns in business investment and exports will restrain the economic expansion. Orders for goods meant to last at least three years, excluding volatile demand for airplanes and automobiles, fell 1.6 percent last month after decreasing 1.3 percent in July, the Commerce Department reported today in Washington. Total bookings plunged 13 percent, the most since January 2009, as demand for civilian aircraft plunged. (Snip) “The economy is still pretty sluggish with unemployment where it is and with consumer confidence

The race card is really all
liberals have left to play

New York Daily News, by Derek Hunter Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:28:12 PM Post Reply

President Obama is not running on his record. He’s running like he’s not been in the Oval Office for the last four years and barely had anything to do with the nearly $6 trillion in new debt he’s racked up (a lie even the Washington Post had to give 4 Pinocchios). Even his cheerleaders in the media spend little to no time defending or championing his time in office; all they do is attack Mitt Romney. (Snip) When you can’t run on your record, you attack your opponent personally. You have to scare voters into thinking your opponent would somehow

Drug-sniffing dog the town’s
only police officer after chief
resigns over criminal background

Associated Press, by Russell Contreras Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:23:39 PM Post Reply

Vaughn, N.M. - A drug-sniffing dog now is the only certified member of the police force in the small eastern New Mexico town of Vaughn. Police Chief Ernest “Chris” Armijo decided to step down Wednesday after news stories reported that he wasn’t allowed to carry a gun because of his criminal background. “He decided the attention was distracting,” said Dave Romero, an attorney for the town. State officials said Armijo couldn’t carry a gun since acknowledging that he owed tens of thousands of dollars in delinquent child support payments in Texas. Armijo also faces new felony charges after being accused

Is the Obama administration
suppressing the military vote?

Human Events, by Hope Hodge Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:18:57 PM Post Reply

Voter assistance programs for the military – specifically targeted for improvement with $75 million after low military turnout in 2008 – have been left to languish by the Obama administration and the result may be depressed military turnout. Again. The situation is especially alarming for the Mitt Romney campaign, because polls have consistently shown that Romney’s support from military voters and their families exceeds that of Barack Obama’s support by double digits. (Snip) The situation is reaching a crisis point, as members of the military face deadlines for absentee ballots in some states in just a matter of days. So

Time to Get Mad

Townhall, by Michael Reagan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:16:31 PM Post Reply

Why aren't you mad as hell yet, America? What will it take? At home, unemployment is stuck above 8 percent. Twenty-three million are out of work. Millions of others have given up looking for jobs. One American in six is on food stamps. Small businesses are terrified of Obamacare. (Snip) Obama says he didn't have time to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu or other world leaders in New York City. Yet he had plenty of time to do the Letterman show and drop in to see Whoopi and the gals at "The View." How much worse does it have

The State Worker: State worker
union has its own labor issues

Sacramento Bee, by Jon Ortiz Original Article

Posted By: wydleyred- 9/27/2012 2:12:23 PM Post Reply

A messy fight between California's largest state employee union, SEIU Local 1000, and another union that has represented 160 of its staff has spilled into public view. As they battle for those workers, the United Auto Workers is calling Local 1000 a hypocritical union-buster. An official with the National Labor Relations Board says SEIU, as an employer, has engaged in "unfair labor practices."
Headline split by staff.

Sebelius hitting Obama campaign
trail again after violation

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:12:02 PM Post Reply

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apparently isn't taking a campaign trail time-out despite being cited for violating federal law with her politicking earlier this year. The secretary is set to speak at Obama campaign events this weekend in New Hampshire. But the campaign is trying to avoid the legal pitfalls that snagged Sebelius the last time around when she was accused of making political statements in her official capacity. An Obama campaign spokesman told FoxNews.com that in New Hampshire, "she is attending in her personal capacity."

U.S. Troops Deployed
in Iraq Again

New American, by Jack Kenny Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:09:49 PM Post Reply

A unit of U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers was recently deployed to Iraq and more U.S. soldiers may soon be on their way, according to a New York Times report on the impact the civil war in neighboring Syria is having on Iraq's "fragile society and fledgling democracy." Buried in the 15th paragraph of the report in Tuesday's Times was the news that "Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on training missions" and that a unit of Army Special Operations soldiers has already

NASA's Rubber Ruler Scandal

American Thinker, by Randall Hoven Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:07:05 PM Post Reply

It turns out that there is no way to reliably compare current global temperatures to historical data using NASA's database. It is a scientific scandal. I wrote recently about NASA changing its entire temperature record database, just from July to September. That is, in 2012, NASA changed temperatures going back to 1880. And it did that without telling anyone or explaining it. The net effect was to make the 130-year warming trend steeper, by lowering older (pre-1963) temperatures and slightly raising recent ones. (Snip) It is what all claims of global warming are based on. And about one third of

Tiger Woods knocks out
fan with errant shot

USA Today, by Reid Cherner Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 2:04:50 PM Post Reply

The Ryder Cup started on an ominous note for one of the world's greatest golfers. During a practice round for the Ryder Cup, a Tiger Woods tee shot went wild and conked a fan on the head. The drive came on No. 18 at Medinah Country Club outside of Chicago. The spectator told Woods that it wasn't his fault but Woods drew a laugh by saying yes it was. Woods ended up signing a glove for the fan who had been knocked out cold and taken to first aid.

Recession Looms: GDP Revised
Down to 1.3%, Durable
Goods Collapse 13%

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 2:04:05 PM Post Reply

Because the media-narrative for the next 40 days must be, Obama can do nothing wrong and Romney can do nothing right -- the corrupt media will sure focus on the fact that today's jobless claims were lower than expected at 359,000 (which you can only celebrate on a curve). But there's potentially catastrophic news in the economy today with two leading indicators that point towards a coming recession. Our 2nd quarter GDP has just been revised downward from an already anemic 1.7% to a shockingly weak 1.3%. Moreover, orders for durable goods went -- as Hot Air's Ed Morrissey points

Pot-banging protestors follow
Cristina Fernandez to her
hotel in New York

MercoPress [Montevideo, Uruguay], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 1:57:46 PM Post Reply

An estimated two hundred protesters demonstrated on Tuesday in front of the hotel where President Cristina Fernández is staying at in New York, holding similar signs to the ones seen at the September 13 pot-banging massive protest in Argentina’s main cities. The protesters assured that they were not there “for the dollars,” referring to the exchange rate controls (‘dollar clamp’) set by the government, but for the corruption, the re-re-election, inflation and the pensioners. The New York pot-banging protest in front of the hotel lasted two hours and had been summoned via social networks.

AFL-CIO’s Trumka on NFL
referees: “No one does their
job better than workers
who have union training”

Washington Examiner, by Sean Higgins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 1:52:50 PM Post Reply

With the NFL referee lockout now over, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement: A football season which started in disaster can now get back on track. Not only towards fairness and integrity, but ensuring the highest level of safety possible for the athletes who play the game. There is a lot we can learn from the past few weeks, but one thing is sure – no one does their job better than workers who have union training and a voice on the job. But let us also not forget the workers everywhere –

Mexican kingpin implicates
Venezuelan army generals
in drug traffic

El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 1:50:01 PM Post Reply

Generals of the Venezuelan Army may have been involved in drug trafficking according to a testimony given by Mexican drug kingpin Sergio Villarreal Barragán commonly known as El Grande (The big one), who was arrested two years ago in Mexico. Villareal, who became one a major drug member of Beltran Leyva cartel, has told the Mexican authorities that Graumman aircrafts carrying as many as three tons of cocaine often departed from Maracaibo, west Venezuela, and landed in Toluca, north Mexico, DPA noted. "Several generals of the Venezuelan Army along with Venezuelan drug lord El Turco were fully aware of

Obama applauds NFL
settlement with referees

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 1:47:48 PM Post Reply

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that President Obama applauded the settlement that ended the lockout between the NFL and its referees. "The president is very pleased that the two sides [could] come together to resolve their differences and ensure that going forward, when we watch our favorite teams play in the NFL, we can focus on the players and the game rather than on the officiating," Carney said aboard Air Force One. "It’s a great day for America.” A number of controversial botched calls — including a touchdown ruling on a game-ending Hail Mary pass

Capriles: We will adopt the
Brazilian model

El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 1:44:01 PM Post Reply

Venezuelan presidential candidate and opposition leader Henrique Capriles asserted he would rely on the Brazilian model to carry out the respective reforms of the country if he pulls out victory in the upcoming Venezuelan presidential election. Capriles said, "As much as Venezuela today, Brazil went through a similar situation" and after introducing different economic reforms and structures "the country nowadays reports economic growth, pulled out 20 million people out of poverty, and created 16 million jobs," cited Efe.

John Silber, groundbreaking
president of BU, dies at 86

Boston Herald, by Ira Kantor Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 1:43:44 PM Post Reply

John R. Silber, Boston University’s seventh president for a quarter of a century, and a one-time candidate for governor of Massachusetts, died early this morning at the age of 86, the campus said today. “Boston University has lost a great leader,” said current BU president Robert A. Brown in a letter sent today. “In the seven years I have served this wonderful institution, I have come to appreciate the magnitude of John’s work. We speak of the university as a great private, residential, research institution with international reach.

Becerra: Offset sequester
by getting other countries
to share military costs

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 1:42:46 PM Post Reply

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) said on Wednesday that one possible idea for offsetting the pending defense cuts under the sequester is to ask that other countries help pay the costs of the U.S. military presence abroad. Becerra, who is vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said that getting other countries to chip in or even closing down overseas military bases altogether are ways that both parties could agree to as a way to avoid reductions in U.S. national security. "We've become the cop of the world and yet this cop doesn't

Some Venezuelans abandon
Chavez ahead of vote

Associated Press, by Luis Andres Henao Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/27/2012 1:38:30 PM Post Reply

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Liliana Carias used to hope President Hugo Chavez would change her life. Not anymore. She's been living for years in a dirt-floor shack without running water, and after voting for Chavez in the last three presidential elections, the single mother of four said she's tired of waiting for help. She was among thousands of people who cheered for the president's rival recently in the serpentine streets of Caracas' Petare slum, which used to be a bastion of support for Chavez. She held out a handwritten letter addressed to "My future President Henrique Capriles," the opposition challenger,

Voters Expect Economy to Improve
With Romney as President

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 1:38:13 PM Post Reply

For months Mitt Romney has focused his presidential campaign around the failing economy and his message seems to be resonating with voters. A new Rasmussen Report shows voters expect the economy to get better if Mitt Romney wins in November. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 34% of Likely U.S. Voters think the economy is likely to get better if President Obama is reelected and Democrats regain full control of Congress, marking little change from early July when the two sides ran nearly even.

Win One for the Fibber:
Biden Misleads Ohio on
College Football Career

Breitbart Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 1:37:31 PM Post Reply

During a speech at Ohio University in Athens, OH on September 8, Vice President Joe Biden led his audience to believe he had been a college football player for his alma mater -- Delaware University -- and had played against Ohio University in a 1963 football game. His words contradicted his own memoir, in which he wrote he gave up playing football while at Delaware, and Internet records of past Delaware football team rosters, on which he is not listed. On fanbase.com, a site that archives college football rosters, Biden is not listed on Delaware's 1961, 1962, 1963, or

Obama Supporters' Dirty
Tricks to Win the Catholic Vote

U. S. News and World Report, by Peter Roff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/27/2012 1:37:03 PM Post Reply

Catholics are a key demographic in the upcoming election. In fact, they may be the key demographic.(snip)"As a pro-life woman and a Catholic, I am appalled," Cleveland Right to Life President Molly Smith said in a release. "Our Church is under attack by the most liberal, pro-abortion leadership in history. The Cleveland Catholic Diocese is missing a great teaching and unifying opportunity by responding in this manner." According to Smith's group, "Faithful Citizenship meetings were organized by the Diocese of Cleveland with the goal of aiding Catholics in preparing themselves to vote this November.

Obama Is Trying To Buy The
Hispanic And Female Vote With
Another Government Giveaway - Thread Closed

CBS Washington, by Scott Paulson Original Article

Posted By: MPierson- 9/27/2012 1:35:28 PM Post Reply

Now that the polls say that President Barack Obama’s poll numbers with women and the Hispanics in the United States aren’t as exceedingly high as they were previously, there is suddenly a new benefit to the farming community who are either female or Hispanic, who feel they were discriminated against. How ironic that this benefit to females and Hispanics is being offered right before President Obama’s reelection date. One might logically think that the timing of this benefit to these groups – who vote – is planned to sway their presidential election vote on November 6.
Headline resplit by staff

Obama Administration's
Libya Spin Unravels

Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 1:23:09 PM Post Reply

At the Washington Post this morning, Glenn Kessler posts a collection of the Obama administration’s evolving statements on Libya and some important reporting of facts surrounding the attacks. “This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with. It is hard for the American people to make sense of that because it is

President Has Open Afternoon Schedule,
But Refuses to Meet With Netanyahu

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 9/27/2012 1:19:18 PM Post Reply

After a light day of campaigning today in Virginia, President Barack Obama returns to the White House at 2:10 p.m., according to the president's public schedule. Obama has nothing else on his schedule for the remainder of the day. Yet, according to the White House, President Obama still has no intention of meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not able to get the meeting with Obama he requested. Netanyahu is in America for the United Nations General Assembly. But Obama may allow for time to talk on the phone with Netanyahu tomorrow.

Sebelius stonewalling lawmakers
about project that hides Obamacare
cuts to Medicare

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/27/2012 1:18:32 PM Post Reply

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has ignored congressional inquiries about an expensive program, which the Government Accountability Office recommended she cancel, that hides Obamacare cuts to Medicare Advantage until after the presidential election. HHS has spent $8.3 billion on a demonstration project that, in theory, “test[s] whether a tiered bonus structure would produce better results” by providing bonuses to insurance companies. “The G.A.O. said the project ‘dwarfs all other Medicare demonstrations’ in its impact on the budget, but is so poorly designed that researchers could not tell whether the bonus payments

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