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Thousands attend NYC
concert highlighting poverty

Associated Press, by Lou Ferrara Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/29/2012 7:54:59 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK— K'naan kicked off a free concert in Central Park on Saturday evening that also included performances by Black Keys and John Legend to call attention to poverty worldwide. Dubbed the Global Citizen Festival, the concert lineup featured Neil Young, Band of Horses and Foo Fighters as well. Video of the event was streamed worldwide as about 60,000 music fans poured into the park. The concert included a surprise appearance from Legend, who played "Imagine" at a piano on the Great Lawn stage, a short walk from where the song's author, John Lennon, once lived.

WashPost Ombudsman Takes
Conservative Side: Post
Opinion Pages Too Dominated
by Liberals

Newsbusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/29/2012 7:43:19 PM Post Reply

Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton explored conservative dissatisfaction with the national news in polls and then wondered if the Post’s own columnist corps didn’t lean dramatically to the left: “The Post should first be about news without slant. If The Post wants to wrap its news in commentary, fine, but shouldn’t some of those voices then be conservative?” He listed all the “progressives” the Post was planting throughout the paper: With the exception of Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza, who cover politics in a nonpartisan way [?], the news columnists almost to a person write from left of center.

Paul Ryan tops the Sunday
talkers, but Chris Christie
is there too

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/29/2012 7:38:57 PM Post Reply

This weekend's huge 'get' was Paul Ryan by Fox News Sunday. They'll probably ask him a little bit about his campaign with Mitt Romney and why they are both bothering to continue their effort, when the mainstream media has pronounced the Republican ticket DOA. The Sunday shows' other big-name guest is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Republican convention's keynoter, who will show up on ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet the Press. And, oh, look, alongside him on both shows is Obama aide David Plouffe. (But Haley Barbour will be on the panel.) Candy Crowley on CNN will have

'Likeability’ is the bane
of modern politics

Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/29/2012 7:30:41 PM Post Reply

There was a headline on one of the television news channel websites last week which read (this is an exact quote): “PM David Cameron addressed the UN on the need to support the Arab Spring, before appearing on the Letterman show”. Does anybody else see the incongruity here? What if it had said, “Prime Minister offers plan for world peace before doing limbo dance with banana balanced on his nose”? We have now apparently reached the point where a major national leader’s stint on a comedy programme has pretty much the same political news value as an intervention in the

We Recommend Mitt Romney for President

Dallas Morning News, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Muguy- 9/29/2012 7:27:38 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama will forever be a historic, as well as historical, figure in American life. Candidate Obama, an orator of great skill and cadence, might have overcome everything and put the U.S. on a brighter path. President Obama, unfortunately, fell short of the challenge. We see evidence of Obama’s shortcomings in his re-election campaign, a relentlessly negative push to disqualify his opponent instead of standing on his accomplishments.

Shootings leave 2 dead,
6 wounded across city

Chicago Tribune, by Rosemary R. Sobol & Peter Nickeas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/29/2012 7:09:50 PM Post Reply

Someone fatally shot a 17-year-old boy in the head Friday night in the Pill Hill neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said, and a 33-year-old man was killed later in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. Six others were wounded but expected to survive the attacks, which happened as far north as Sunnyside Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood south to 85th Street in the Gresham neighborhood. Seventeen-year-old Derrick Davis, who lived one block north of where he was killed, was shot in the 9200 block of South Chappel Avenue about 6:15 p.m.,

Benghazi-Gate: A Timeline
of Government Deceit, Deception,
and Outright Lies

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/29/2012 6:35:01 PM Post Reply

Al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat." -- President Barack Obama: Sept 6th, 2012, at the Democratic Convention. --- Late yesterday afternoon, in an obvious attempt to rescue President Obama from what could and should be a brutal round of Sunday shows examining the cover up the White House is currently engaged in with respect to the sacking of our consulate in Libya, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a statement revising its assessment of the attack. It is now the official position of the American intelligence community that what happened in Benghaz

Benghazi: The Unanswered Question

Powerline, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: ragu- 9/29/2012 6:30:40 PM Post Reply

It is a common tactic among politicians and others who are in trouble to plead guilty to a lesser offense in order to distract attention from their real transgression. That is, I think, what the Obama administration has done in admitting belatedly that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was an act of terrorism, not, as Mark Steyn put it, a movie review that got out of hand. Scott detailed that sorry history earlier this morning. The administration hopes, I think, that acknowledging the obvious with respect to the nature of the attack will allow the press

Asteroid Dust Could Fight
Climate Change on Earth

LiveScience, by Charles Choi Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 6:07:27 PM Post Reply

To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. The world is warming and the climate is changing. Although many want to prevent these shifts by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat from the sun, some controversially suggest deliberating manipulating the planet's climate with large-scale engineering projects, commonly called geoengineering

Border Patrol Agent Shoots,
Kills Woman in Calif.

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:52:37 PM Post Reply

Chula Vista - A Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 32-year-old mother of five Friday in suburban San Diego as he rode on the hood of her car after she ran into him, authorities and family members said. The agent fired after being driven several hundred yards on the hood, Chula Vista police Capt. Gary Wedge told The Associated Press. The woman was later identified in a police statement as Valeria Alvarado. The shooting occurred about five miles north of the Mexican border as plainclothes agents were looking to serve a felony warrant in the area to someone other than

Rapist Wants Visitation Rights
With Child Conceived During Rape

ABC News, by Colleen Curry Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:49:00 PM Post Reply

A convicted rapist in Massachusetts is trying to win visitation rights to the child fathered when he raped a 14-year-old girl. Jamie Melendez, now 24, was convicted of raping a middle school student he met when he was 17 and a foster child involved with a church youth group in Norfolk, Mass. According to the victim's attorney, Melendez went to the girl's house when he knew her mother would not be home and pressured her to have sex with him. She said she felt threatened and intimidated by Melendez. Melendez pleaded guilty to the rape in 2011 and was sentenced

Islamic group calls for
ban on offending prophet

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:46:20 PM Post Reply

United Nations - The head of a leading Islamic organization Saturday called for a global ban on offending the character of the Prophet Muhammad, saying that it should be equated with hate speech. Such a ban would demonstrate how an interconnected world respected different cultural sensitivities, said Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in an interview with The Associated Press. "If the Western world fails to understand the sensitivity of the Muslim world, then we are in trouble," Ihsanoglu said. Such provocations pose "a threat to international peace and security and the sanctity of life."

Is QE 3 Really Just
Another Bailout?

American Thinker, by Michael Lachetta Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:39:03 PM Post Reply

At a time when mortgage rates are at historic lows, home prices have fallen, and previous overbuilding leaves little room for growth in employment in the housing industry, why would the Federal Reserve suddenly decide to purchase $40 billion worth of mortgage securities a month supposedly in order to stimulate the housing market and thereby create more jobs? So wonders Dr. Jeffrey Herbener, Professor of Economics a Grove City College.His answer is that the public narrative that this move is for the sake of helping unemployment is a fiction, and that the move is really "another bailout of the holders

What could possibly go wrong?

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:30:25 PM Post Reply

After giving advanced weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, only to have them recycled and turned against us later, and after arming the anti-Gaddafi rebels in eastern Libya, only to suffer an RPG attack on our Benghazi consulate, now we are giving drones to the people currently in charge in Yemen. What could possibly go wrong? Casey L. Coombs of Aviation Week reports: (Snip) An anonymous Yemeni defense official, who was not authorized to speak with the press, tells Aviation Week that Yemen is receiving four AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven UAVs. The 1.9-kg Raven is equipped with sensors for target acquisition,

Introducing The New Polling
Firm of Madoff, Marist,
Quinnipiac and Ponzi

Townhall, by Hugh Hewitt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:21:54 PM Post Reply

After a few weeks spent tracking down and questioning pollsters and the reporters of polls, I can assure the reader that pollsters are the modern-day alchemists. They promise to turn numbers into predictive gold. We'd all like to believe these magical powers exist, but we shouldn't. The pollsters of 2012 just don't know who is going to win in November any more than did the pollsters of 1980 know that Ronald Reagan was headed towards a landslide in that late-breaking year. (Snip) There are plenty of data points to encourage Republicans, and these are genuine data points as opposed to

Sponging boomers

The Economist, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PeoplesRepublikNY- 9/29/2012 5:09:31 PM Post Reply

ANOTHER economic mess looms on the horizon—one with a great wrinkled visage. The struggle to digest the swollen generation of ageing baby-boomers threatens to strangle economic growth. As the nature and scale of the problem become clear, a showdown between the generations may be inevitable. [Snip] By 1964 individuals born after the war accounted for 41% of the total population, forming a generation large enough to exert its own political and economic gravity. These boomers have lived a charmed life,

Obama School Lunch
Standards: Spartan Rationing,
Tossed Leftovers

Breitbart's Big Government, by Education Action Group Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 5:00:37 PM Post Reply

Montana - The new school year is only a few weeks old, but it’s already becoming clear that the federal government’s new school lunch guidelines are about as popular as the NFL’s replacement referees. After EAGnews.org published a recent article about how the Obama administration’s new calorie limitations for school lunches are leaving many American students hungry (especially high school athletes), a concerned food service worker from a western Montana school district contacted us with news about how the guidelines are impacting her students. She only agreed to an interview on the condition of anonymity. (Snip) “Two ounces of protein

Kirsten Powers: More Americans
will be put in danger
if the media doesn’t start
challenging the White House on Libya

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:56:38 PM Post Reply

A few reporters have stepped up, of course. Eli Lake at Newsweek has done a bang-up job, CNN has stuck with the story all week, Tapper had a solid report last night about who knew what and when. But perhaps we’re asking too much from the media generally; there are, after all, Romney gaffes to be covered. And if there’s one thing that America wants and needs from its media right now, it’s more navel-gazing horse-race election dreck. Not KP, though. Good lord, I think she’s gone rogue: (Snip) Surely she can’t believe that the Egyptian Coptic Christian who made

SoloPower: Another
Solyndra in Waiting?

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:51:09 PM Post Reply

The Department of Energy's loan guarantee program has already had two significant failures in the solar industry, the best known being Solyndra. Now a third company, San Jose's SoloPower, seems to be following in Solyndra's footsteps and threatening to leave taxpayers on the hook for millions more. Last August, as Solyndra was going bankrupt, the Department of Energy issued a loan guarantee in the amount of $197 million to help SoloPower manufacture their thin-film solar power product. (Snip) Industry analyst Andrew Soare of Lux Research tells Fox News that China can still undercut US manufacturers by 30 percent, making it

Spending climbs, but wages don't

CNN/Money, by Chris Isidore Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/29/2012 4:50:32 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK -- Spending by consumers picked up in August, although people dipped into their savings to buy things, as growth in their paychecks did not keep pace. Spending increased 0.5% in the month, according to the Commerce Department report, up from a 0.4% increase in July. Spending by consumers accounts for nearly three-quarters of the nation's economic activity, so growth in spending an important driver of economic growth. But for the second straight month personal income grew by only 0.1%, as the continued weakness in the jobs market has kept wages in check.

Andrew Breitbart Honored
Posthumously With
William F. Buckley Award
For Media Excellence

Cybercast News Service, by Craig Banni Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:43:13 PM Post Reply

Last night, the Media Research Center honored the late Andrew Breitbart with the its sixth annual “William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence.” But, Andrew’s work in journalism wasn’t just excellent – it was fearless. This year, the award could’ve just as easily been called the “William F. Buckley Award for Media Courage.” Andrew went where few in the media dare go, publishing exposes about sex-selective abortions, the sexting scandal of then-Rep. Anthony Weiner, and the left-wing operative ACORN, as columnist Cal Thomas, who presented the posthumous award at the Media Research Center’s (MRC) annual gala, explained.

Bill Clinton lauds Italian
fitness equipment firm

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:39:21 PM Post Reply

Milan - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton lauded the Italian company Technogym for its cooperation with his foundation to promote health, diet and fitness programs in American schools. Clinton gave the keynote speech Saturday at the inauguration of the Technogym Village in the northern Emilia-Romagna region, the company's new headquarters. The Clinton Foundation has targeted childhood obesity among its programs to improve personal health, and Clinton said Technogym "has been a great partnership ... promoting health, diet and fitness programs for our kids, starting from the push to eliminate sugary drinks readily available in our schools to offering exercise programs."

Muslim girl must do
swim class - German court

South African Press Association, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:34:31 PM Post Reply

Berlin - A German court on Friday refused to allow a Muslim student to skip swimming lessons after she said she was uncomfortable being so close to bare-chested boys. The 12-year-old, originally from Morocco but going to school in the southern German city of Frankfurt, had refused to take part in swimming lessons and had been marked down accordingly. She filed to be given the right to skip the classes, her lawyer arguing that according to the Qu'ran, she was not only forbidden from showing herself to boys but also from seeing the topless boys. (Snip) It said in its

Sticky buns 'devastating'
for Swedish wild boar

The Local [Sweden], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:30:44 PM Post Reply

Swedish wildlife experts have warned that cinnamon buns used by hunters to tempt wild boar out of the woods could lead to a serious caries problem. "It is not at all good for the animal's health," said Anders Hallengren at Skåne county council to the local Skånska Dagbladet daily. The hunters in southern Sweden use bait to bring the animals out in the open and thus easier to target. The hunters are reported to favour using cinnamon buns and other baked goods as they are both tempting for the boar and are also cheap.

Slain Connecticut teen 'seemed
normal' before break-in horror

New York Post, by Laurel Babcock* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 9/29/2012 4:29:55 PM Post Reply

The Connecticut teen gunned down by his own dad during a botched break-in was happily playing an online game with buddies just hours before his tragic death, friends told The Post yesterday. (Snip) Tyler’s biological mom, Tammy Binnette, 45, was in tears yesterday. “This is the second child I lost,” wailed Binnette, who in 1993 fell asleep behind the wheel of a car after smoking crack cocaine and slammed into a utility pole — killing her 21-month-old daughter, Mariah. Binnette’s extensive criminal history includes a prison stint for that fiery crash, which occurred when she was pregnant with Tyler’s older sister, Therese.

Phantom Savings

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/29/2012 4:25:18 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is repeating a debunked claim regarding his commitment to deficit reduction, one of the highest priority issues for voters this election cycle. In a campaign video unveiled Wednesday, the president called for a “new economic patriotism” and touted his “balanced plan to reduce our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade.” The claim that Obama has a plan—in the form of his most recent budget proposal—to reduce the federal deficit by $4 trillion over 10 years has been a constant refrain from the president on the campaign trail, and has been echoed by his Democratic allies.

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