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World’s Tallest Ferris Wheel
Planned for Staten Island

New York Times, by James Barron Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 9/28/2012 9:19:34 AM Post Reply

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Thursday that the world’s tallest Ferris wheel would rise above the Staten Island waterfront. The 625-foot-tall ride will displace the Singapore Flyer, at 541 feet the record-holder of the moment. And what about the High Roller wheel planned for Las Vegas? The New York wheel will reach 75 feet farther into the sky. It will dwarf the 13-year-old London Eye by 182 feet and the original Ferris wheel, built for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, by 361 feet.

Pete Townshend: I paid for
child porn to prove British banks
were channelling sex-ring cash

Telegraph (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 9/28/2012 9:11:53 AM Post Reply

Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, has claimed he paid for child pornography to prove that British banks were complicit in channelling the profits from paedophile rings. Talking about his arrest for child pornography, Townshend described his decision to pay $7 to download images of abused youngsters was 'insane' but said he had been trying to investigate the industry. It is the first time Townshend has spoken publicly since he was cautioned by police and put on the sex offender's register in 2003. The star insisted he was looking at the website only while conducting ''research'' for a campaign against internet porn involving children.

Passed-over Portman
shines in Ohio campaign

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 9/28/2012 9:09:32 AM Post Reply

CLEVELAND -- One observation from a few days of watching the Romney-Ryan team campaign in Ohio: Rob Portman is very good. At least in his home state, which just happens to be one of the two most important in the presidential race, the man Mitt Romney passed over for vice president is a very effective campaigner. Republican sources count more than 20 Portman appearances for Romney-Ryan in Ohio so far, plus more fundraisers. Speaking to audiences on his home turf -- Portman was born and raised in Cincinnati -- Portman is relaxed, sharp and persuasive

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Susan Rice Skipped Netanyahu Speech

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: reaganorama- 9/28/2012 9:04:49 AM Post Reply

The woman who went on five different Sunday talk shows a week ago to lie to the American people about the attack in Libya on 9/11, saying it was a spontaneous protest when the administration knew it was in fact a terrorist attack 24 hours after it occurred, skipped Israeli Ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu's speech yesterday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York City. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice instead decided to go to a lunch with foreign ministers.
Headline split by staff

Matt Damon’s Anti-Fracking Movie
Financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation

Heritage, by Lachlan Markay Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 9/28/2012 8:47:15 AM Post Reply

A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The creators of Promised Land have gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe’s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing – a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations – Promised Landƒ’s

The Tribe of Liberty

Tribune Media Services, Inc., by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/28/2012 8:31:29 AM Post Reply

We like tribalism for the same reason we like fatty foods: We evolved that way. Homo sapiens didn’t survive long on the African savannas as rugged individualists. Alone, they couldn’t scare away the scarier animals, and, for the most part, they couldn’t catch and kill the tastier ones. But in groups, humans rose to the top of the food chain thousands of years ago and have been passing down their tribe-loving genes ever since. Customs and practices that ensured the survival of the species were worked out through trial and error and passed

Our Feckless First Leader

Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/28/2012 8:24:22 AM Post Reply

During the same week when the American ambassador to Libya was murdered and his dead body dragged through the streets by celebrating mobs, the president of the United States found time to go on the David Letterman show to demonstrate his sense of humor and how cool he is. But Barack Obama did not have time to meet with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of a nation repeatedly threatened with annihilation by Iranian leaders who are working feverishly toward the creation of nuclear bombs. This was an extraordinary thing in itself, something that probably no other president

'Breaking Amish,' Burning Bridges

Wall Street Journal, by Hanna Pylvainen Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 9/28/2012 7:53:11 AM Post Reply

Liberation is a peculiarly American love. And these days it seems particularly beloved when the liberation is one from the tyranny of faith. Mainstream culture prizes those who convert to secularism, the side of the thoughtful and the free. We read of their escapes—books in recent years include "The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance," by Elna Baker, and "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots," by Deborah Feldman. And we watch their oppression by religion on movie screens and television—"Jesus Camp," "Sister Wives," "Big Love—and are relieved by the distance between their lives and our own.

Four Republican lawmakers accuse
Justice Department of inappropriate
quid pro quo

Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 9/28/2012 7:50:12 AM Post Reply

Four Republican lawmakers have accused the Justice Department of inappropriately striking a deal with city officials in St. Paul, Minn., to drop an appeal in a Supreme Court civil rights case in exchange for the federal government abandoning its support for a separate lawsuit against the city. In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Sen. Charles E. Grassley (Iowa) and three House members said that Justice officials struck a quid pro quo in February with St. Paul officials to withdraw a housing discrimination case before the Supreme Court .

Benjamin Netanyahu warns future of world
at stake over Iran's nuclear programme

Telegraph [UK], by Adrian Blomfeld Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/28/2012 7:06:13 AM Post Reply

Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Thursday that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by next summer and urged the world the draw a clear "red line" to stop it in its tracks. In a bold challenge to Washington and the West, he said it was getting "late, very late" to stop Iran and that "the future of the world" was at stake. The Israeli prime minister told the United Nations General Assembly that Iran would become a nuclear power unless it was stopped in its tracks by next summer at the latest.

Pictured: The 'beautiful' family slain hours
after church by 'mentally ill father
tormented by the prospect of
Obama winning the election'

Daily Mail [UK], by Emily Anne Epstein Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/28/2012 6:57:31 AM Post Reply

Albert Peterson shot dead his wife and two sons hours after going to church because he dreaded the thought of Obama winning the election, a family friend has revealed. A confidante of the family for the past 25 years has spoken to MailOnline about the strength and grace of the Peterson family, as well as the torment that plagued Albert which drove him to shoot dead his wife Kathleen and his two sons Christopher and Mathew at their suburban home in DC on Sunday. A history of mental illness, the loss of a dear uncle, and a growing fear of

America’s best weapons
are law and justice

Telegraph [UK], by Mark Martins Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/28/2012 6:45:50 AM Post Reply

Open and fair trials are playing an important role in fighting the al-Qaeda terror threat. International perceptions of United States military commissions trials are dominated by impressions formed of Guantanamo Bay a decade ago. In photographs released by the Pentagon in 2002, some of the first detainees brought to Guantanamo were wearing orange jumpsuits and blacked-out goggles. Many of them had their hands tied. The ensuing uproar around the world was not merely based upon these sensational photographs. The United States Supreme Court would later rule that there were significant deficiencies in the legal framework pursued in response to

If voters think Obama's deceiving
them about the Benghazi riot,
he'll pay in November

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/28/2012 6:26:57 AM Post Reply

When is a terrorist attack not a terrorist attack?[Snip] After violence broke out at the US embassy in Benghazi on September 11, the Obama administration was quick to sell the narrative that it was sparked by outrage at an anti-Islamic video. But now it's not so sure. The White House press secretary is talking about a “terrorist” action, Hillary Clinton is name dropping al-Qaeda and senior administration officials have told Fox that the State Department knew it was a “terrorist attack” within 24 hours of it happening. Why then did Obama talk so much about slandering the Prophet at

Obama's Intelligence Negligence

American Spectator, by Paul Kengor Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 6:16:56 AM Post Reply

I commented here recently on a startling fact of presidential incompetence, provided courtesy of the investigative work of an excellent new group called the Government Accountability Institute. The group reported a jaw-dropper: President Barack Obama didn't attend a single daily intelligence briefing in the week leading up to the anniversary of 9/11. In fact, he has attended a minority of daily briefings (44%) since becoming president, and a little better than a third over the last year. While skipping intelligence briefings, the president has enthusiastically campaigned and met with TV personalities. Obama has done so in this dangerous post-9/11 world,

Veterans Wait for Benefits
as Claims Pile Up

New York Times, by James Dao Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 6:09:22 AM Post Reply

For Dennis Selsky, a Vietnam-era veteran with multiple sclerosis, it was lost documents. It seemed that every time he sent records to the Department of Veterans Affairs, they disappeared into the ether. For Mickel Withers, an Iraq war veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, it was a bureaucratic foul-up. The department said he received National Guard pay in 2009, though he had left the Guard the previous year, and cut his disability compensation by $3,000. He filed for bankruptcy to protect himself from creditors. For Doris Hink, the widow of a World War II veteran, it was the waiting.

Anti-Muslim film puts Christian
TV in global spotlight

Los Angeles Times, by Abby Sewell* Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 6:00:15 AM Post Reply

Off the 210 Freeway in suburban Duarte, between an International House of Pancakes and a Wal-Mart, sits a nondescript one-story industrial park that has been an unlikely flash point for weeks of global unrest. It's here that The Way satellite TV channel creates evangelical Christian programming that beams across the Arabic-speaking world. Until recently, the business was so anonymous that even city officials didn't know the television studio was operating there. But that all changed a few weeks ago, when The Way was revealed as a key filming location for "Innocence of Muslims," whose YouTube trailer has sparked ongoing violent anti-American protests

The Election Isn't Over

Wall Street Journal, by Pete DuPont Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/28/2012 5:53:18 AM Post Reply

Things are changing in America, from economics to politics, to elections. The public sees a supposed economic recovery that seems quite short on job creation, as employment and underemployment remain high. They see higher taxes coming: ObamaCare's new 3.8% tax on investment income, plus the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, which will mean higher taxes on all income, including dividends and capital gains.On top of all that, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now says nearly six million Americans will face a tax penalty of about $1,200 under ObamaCare for not getting insurance,

Campaigner in chief

The Hill (DC), by A.B. Stoddard Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 5:47:48 AM Post Reply

With one week until the first critical presidential debate and just five weeks until the election, President Obama is so confident of victory he no longer feels compelled to show up at work and do his job. As polls show him solidifying a significant lead in the battleground states that will decide the election, Obama distanced himself from numerous crises abroad by refusing to meet with his counterparts from the Middle East — the presidents of Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya — as unrest, terrorism, war or the threat of war threaten their countries,

Stop playing politics
with the Benghazi attack

Washington Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/28/2012 5:37:08 AM Post Reply

THE OBAMA administration’s descriptions of what happened Sept. 11 in the Libyan city of Benghazi have evolved in a way that some — including congressional Republicans — find suspicious. Initially, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described an “attack” in which “heavily armed militants” assaulted a U.S. compound, leading to the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Four days later, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said that “extremist elements” had joined a demonstration outside the U.S. Consulate against an anti-Muslim video. By the end of last week, White House spokesman Jay Carney was calling the incident

Barack Obama: Slacker-in-Chief

National Review Online, by Deroy Murdock Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 5:31:31 AM Post Reply

Concerning the fun parts of his job, Barack Obama resembles the Energizer Bunny. If there are crowds to wow, entertainers to schmooze, or donors to pitch, Obama is Johnny on the Spot. Too bad his sparks stop flying when it comes time for the serious heavy lifting of the presidency. This phenomenon’s most chilling example involves Obama’s national-security-related Presidential Daily Brief (PDB). As the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) calculated, and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen first reported, Obama attended only 43.8 percent of his PDBs between January 23, 2009 (three days after his inauguration),

Power Grab

Weekly Standard, by Wesley J. Smith Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 5:27:40 AM Post Reply

To paraphrase Freud: Liberals, what do they really want? Not the communism or socialism of the right’s fever dreams. They know that didn’t work. Today’s liberal agenda is more akin to the corporatist vision of the 1920s and ’30s—an economy in which the state directs the activities of the private sector to achieve ideologically desired ends. But even that description doesn’t quite get to the nub of it. Liberals today seek to create a stable, and what they perceive to be a socially just, society via rule by experts—in which most of the activities of society are micromanaged by technocrats

Fauxcahontas’ Latest Lame Excuse

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 5:20:56 AM Post Reply

Boston — Fauxcahontas put up a new TV ad this week. In it, Liz Warren shares the pain her supposed Indian heritage has caused — why, her parents had to elope because her dad’s family didn’t want their son marrying a girl with Indian blood. Huh. Twila Barnes, an indefatigable Cherokee genealogist, dug up the 1932 wedding notice in the Oklahoma papers. Warren’s folks got hitched in a large Protestant church 20 miles away, then drove right back to their hometown of Wetumka. A wedding party was held that evening; Mrs. Warren’s mom’s best friend was a witness. Some elopement.

Get Mad Now, Mitt

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 5:17:33 AM Post Reply

The horrible economic news released yesterday represents the first empirical challenge to the set of messages delivered so potently at the Democratic National Convention — messages that began President Obama’s climb in the polls to undeniable front-runner status now. Those messages were: He was handed an impossible job to do. He did the best he could, especially with those pesky Republicans trying to stop him. Now you should give him another four years because he tried so hard, he meant so well — and things are improving, slowly but surely. It’s the “things are improving” storyline that got hammered yesterday.

The ugly attacks on my family
highlight media double standard

Daily Caller, by Dr. Miriam Adelson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/28/2012 5:12:41 AM Post Reply

In recent weeks my family has come under relentless attack from the White House political operation, elements of the Democratic Party and organizations and media outlets supported by some of the Democrats’ wealthiest donors. These attacks stem sadly from one main reason: our support for the Republican presidential candidate as well as other Republican candidates. Too often there is a media double standard in our country based on situational ethics. The president’s supporters are treated one way while those who might challenge his leadership are treated in another. This is hypocrisy. History shows that when regimes are challenged —

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