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Will Pot Become Legal?

Reason, by Steve Chapman Original Article

Posted By: zoidberg- 10/1/2012 1:42:52 PM Post Reply

Judging from recent history, any young person who aspires to be president should be aware that certain attributes seem to be critical. You have to be male. You have to have an Ivy League degree. You have to have been a governor or senator. And, don't forget, you have to have smoked marijuana. That is something all the presidents in the past 20 years have in common.(Snip)Logicians will quarrel with my reasoning, arguing that drug use did not propel these men to high office. That's true. But it obviously didn't hinder them.

Organic Illusions

American.com, by Blake Hurst Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/1/2012 1:22:49 PM Post Reply

A recent study by a group of scientists at Stanford University found that the nutritional benefits of organic food have, to say the least, been oversold. Apres moi, le deluge. A furor has erupted. In our modern-day version of holy wars, we’ve replaced debates about gnosticism and Manichaeism with arguments about the virtues of locally grown versus sustainable versus organic. As with all wars over doctrine, the rhetoric has been fierce.

Meet the Ohio Voters Who
Are Killing Romney's Campaign

Atlantic (Boston, MA), by Molly Ball Original Article

Posted By: Quaestio- 10/1/2012 1:22:08 PM Post Reply

This ought to be the place where President Obama's reelection hopes went to die. In the coal-mining country of southeastern Ohio, half an hour from the West Virginia border, I expected to find a potent stew of anti-Obama sentiment. This area home to the downtrodden Appalachian whites who have never much trusted the president -- but, now, thanks to cultural resentments and the coal industry's decline, they're practically in open revolt.
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Ineffective Obama has left
his base disenchanted
by broken promises

Irish Independent (Dublin, IRE), by Karen Coleman Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/1/2012 1:15:39 PM Post Reply

In February 2008 I met American friends in New York at a diner in downtown Manhattan. It was two days after Super Tuesday and the couple had just flown in from Los Angeles, where they live. Over omelettes and sourdough toast we discussed the results of the Democrat primaries that had seen Barack Obama narrow the gap against his rival Hillary Clinton. My Californian friends were buzzing with excitement at the prospect of the young senator making it to the White House to redeem America's reputation, which had been badly damaged by the incumbent president.

California Governor Brown vetoes
bill that allowed towns to
release undocumented immigrants

NBC News, by Miranda Leitsinger Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/1/2012 1:15:06 PM Post Reply

California’s governor late Sunday vetoed a bill that would have allowed local authorities to free undocumented immigrants from custody despite requests by immigration officials to hold them for possible deportation proceedings. The controversial practice has long been criticized by immigration advocates who say the federal requests, known as detainers or holds, cast a wide dragnet that ensnared even those who had committed minor crimes or no offenses. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had said the program was instrumental in helping enforce immigration laws and in getting violent offenders off the streets.

DOJ domestic phone, email,
Internet surveillance of Americans
skyrocketed under Obama

Daily Caller, by Josh Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/1/2012 1:14:14 PM Post Reply

A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union shows a dramatic increase in the U.S. Department of Justice’s electronic surveillance of Americans under the Obama administration. Documents obtained by the ACLU through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that under President Obama between 2009 and 2011, warrantless electronic surveillance requests by the Justice Department to spy on phone communications increased 60 percent from 23,535 to 37,616.

Scaboroughs's Dishonest Defense
Of MSNBC's False Romney Attack

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/1/2012 1:10:28 PM Post Reply

Joe Scarborough attempted to dig himself out of a hole this morning, but only dug himself a bigger one. In a dishonest and misleading attempt to defend yet-another one of his unrelenting, arrogant, smug, anti-Romney attacks -- but one that blew up in his face over the weekend -- Scarborough claimed this morning that MSNBC did not doctor audio to make it sound as though a crowd chanting "Romney" was chanting "Ryan." And what Scarborough committed in doing so was a lie of omission.

Judge Napolitano: In Cell Phone
Privacy Case, Government’s Arguing
Theory of Fourth Amendment ‘That
No One’s Ever Heard Of’

Fox Business Network, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 1:08:23 PM Post Reply

A federal appeals court in New Orleans is set to hear a case on whether the government can take possession of an individual’s cell phone records from their carrier without a search warrant. A federal court has already denied the government’s bid to obtain the records without a warrant. Judge Andrew Napolitano weighed in on Fox Business Network this morning, saying the government’s argument represents a new theory of the Fourth Amendment “that no one’s ever heard of in 230 years.” The Justice Department argues that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to a third

Report: Obama Administration
Removed 9/11 Threat Memo From
Website After Libya Attack

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 12:58:31 PM Post Reply

A new report alleges that the State Department removed from its website a memo from Sept. 6 that advised U.S. personnel overseas that there was no credible threat of a terror attack to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11. The memo was reportedly scrubbed from the website by the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council sometime after the Libya consulate attack. Chris Horner, author of “Liberal War On Transparency,” joined Steve Doocy on Fox and Friends to discuss the bombshell allegation. He said the move is not surprising, given what he calls the

Outrage growing on U.S.
response to consulate attack

Washington Times, by Ben Wolfgang andDavid Eldridge Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/1/2012 12:57:53 PM Post Reply

Outrage continued to grow Sunday over the Obama administration’s initial reaction to the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, which is being blasted as disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst. The furor built throughout last week, culminating with Rep. Peter King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, calling on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to step down. Mr. King and others have said that Ms. Rice, along with other White House officials, misled the public by first suggesting the attack in Benghazi,

Islamists are being kicked out
of Somalia. The
West can learn from this

Telegraph [UK], by David Blair Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/1/2012 12:51:27 PM Post Reply

Step by step, al-Shabaab is being rolled back in Somalia. The al-Qaeda affiliate appears to have been compelled to abandon Kismayo, the last big town under its control. That matters a lot because Kismayo is also a significant port and the extremists were making plenty of money by shipping charcoal and other goods out and weapons in. If they have lost Kismayo, they will have been deprived of perhaps their most important source of revenue. Only a year ago, al-Shabaab controlled almost all of southern Somalia including most of Mogadishu. When I visited last December, they were still clinging to

JW Sues for Cost of Obama
Daughter's Spring Break Trip

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tom Fitton Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 12:49:18 PM Post Reply

Judicial Watch is investigating yet another Obama personal vacation, trying to get a sense of costs passed on to American taxpayers. This time, our investigation focuses on the security costs associated with First Daughter Malia Obama’s trip to Mexico during Spring Break 2012. On September 20, 2012, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the United States Secret Service to obtain relevant records. This Spring Break vacation is shrouded in some controversy. On March 19, 2012, the Obama White House reportedly pressured the removal of press reports detailing the trip, including news that Malia Obama

The sad death
of Private Eye

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/1/2012 12:47:05 PM Post Reply

In the latest issue of Private Eye I'm described as a "batshit anti-environmentalist." I suspect this may have been a typo for "batshit mad", which is what they called me last time they wrote about me. (According to that particular story, I was the Telegraph's most popular blogger--ha! eat your hearts out Tebbo and Hannan! But apparently this is only because I'm so barmily out-there I attract all the world's lunatics. Or some such). Anyway, it goes almost without saying that I am delighted to be celebrated in this way. To be namechecked in the Eye means, more or

Cherry-picking intelligence
for political gain?

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: drive- 10/1/2012 12:46:32 PM Post Reply

Eli Lake, who has broken story after story on the Libya embassy attack, is out with another report. This one provides damning evidence that the Obama administration cherry-picked from initial intelligence to justify its “the video made them do it” cover story for what was very quickly known to be a coordinated al-Qaeda-related assault. He explains that in “so-called talking points written by the CIA and distributed to members of Congress and other government official” three days after the attacks a single strand of information was lifted out of the intelligence data to height

Richard Tisei is a nontraditional
Republican vying to
represent Massachusetts

Washington Post, by Paul Kane Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/1/2012 12:43:22 PM Post Reply

WAKEFIELD, Mass — Richard Tisei is running a highly competitive campaign for Congress that could give Republicans their first House seat in Massachusetts in 16 years. And if Mitt Romney were going to have coattails, this is where they would be helping. But the gay, pro-choice Tisei, a former state legislator who helped Romney secure some of his most important victories as governor of Massachusetts, is not exactly the typical face of the Republican Party. And with the former governor trailing President Obama by about 20 percentage points in Massachusetts, Tisei is keeping his distance.

FBI Directive: Membership in a
Known Terrorist Group Is Irrelevant

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Matthew Vadum Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 12:42:15 PM Post Reply

It could be said that Americans are making far too big a deal out of the fact that the FBI reportedly hasn't yet set foot at the scene of the so-called crime scene in Benghazi, Libya, where Ambassador Chris Stevens was tortured, and murdered on Sept. 11 of this year. I's not like the presence of FBI agents would make much of a difference. The crime scene has never been secured so any "evidence" agents might find will be hopelessly tainted. And even if the scene had been properly secured, earlier this year the Obama administration slapped

‘The Free Stuff Election’

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 10/1/2012 12:34:45 PM Post Reply

If the most crucial presidential election of our lifetime could be defined, it would be called ‘The Free Stuff Election’. There are some 1 million Ohioans out there with a free Obama cellphone. Imagine the ‘Vote At’ text messages coming through on their Obama phones, and that’s just one state. The omnipresent Obama team have worked the Free Stuff Crowd up to fever pitch as witnessed in the Ohio woman’s YouTube screed that Obama is not only giving out free cell phones but lots of other free stuff’s coming down the pike.

Inside the Maxine Waters
Ethics Committee Debacle

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tom Fitton Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 12:34:32 PM Post Reply

A few weeks ago, Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA) received nothing but a slap on the wrist for, among other transgressions, forcing her taxpayer-funded congressional staff to work on her campaign. Well now the House Ethics Committee has allowed yet another California Democrat member of Congress to skate -- Rep. Maxine Waters. (Incidentally, both Richardson and Waters were listed on JW’s list of “Washington’s Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2011.) On September 12, the House Ethics Committee released a report detailing its Waters investigation, which was characterized by Politico as a “chronicle of mistakes, partisan and intraparty squabbles,

Medicare fines over hospitals'
readmitted patients

Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 12:18:20 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- If you or an elderly relative have been hospitalized recently and noticed extra attention when the time came to be discharged, there's more to it than good customer service. As of Monday, Medicare will start fining hospitals that have too many patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge due to complications. The penalties are part of a broader push under President Barack Obama's health care law to improve quality while also trying to save taxpayers money. About two-thirds of the hospitals serving Medicare patients, or some 2,200 facilities, will be hit with penalties averaging around $125,000

Ikea stores plan to only
sell LED lighting by 2016

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/1/2012 12:12:03 PM Post Reply

PHILADELPHIA —Two years after it began phasing out incandescent bulbs, Swedish retailer Ikea is taking another step and planning to only sell energy-efficient LED lighting by 2016. In 2010, Ikea announced plans to have all incandescent bulbs out of its North American stores by 2011. The company then shifted toward only selling efficient options including compact fluorescent bulbs, LED and halogen lamps. Now, the company is going a step further and plans to only sell LED lighting due to their longer lifespan. On Monday, IKEA announced plans to shift to all-LED across the globe by 2016.

‘Meet’ the moderator of
tonight’s debate

Boston Herald, by Jessica Heslam Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/1/2012 12:05:04 PM Post Reply

Sunday morning news kingpin David Gregory has interviewed some of the world’s top newsmakers, and tonight he brings his revered “Meet the Press” touch to the highly anticipated showdown between U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. “It’s very open. ... We’re just going to sit down at the table and have a conversation about the issues,” said the NBC “Meet the Press” host, moderator of tonight’s sold-out debate sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Boston Herald. “This is really their debate,” Gregory told the Herald. “They’re there to engage each other.”

Reno beckons Obama, Romney

San Francisco Chronicle, by Joe Garofoli Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/1/2012 11:59:50 AM Post Reply

Reno -For this brief moment in the nation's history, Reno is one of the most desired spots in the political universe. The self-proclaimed Biggest Little City in the World will fulfill that title - for another 37 days - because Nevada is a swing state, and Reno's home county of Washoe is the swingingest of its swing counties. President Obama holds a 3.8 percentage-point lead in Nevada, according to a RealClearPolitics.com average of major polls, and both sides expect the quest for Nevada's six electoral votes to be decided by only a few thousand ballots. Despite Democrats

Halperin: Media Not Scrutinizing
Obama's Record, Asking Critical
Questions

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 11:46:54 AM Post Reply

Mark Halperin, this morning on Morning Joe, said the media is neither scrutinizing President Obama's questions nor asking critical questions: "There are a lot of Republican complaints about liberal bias in terms of media coverage of this campaign," Halperin said. "Some are more credible than others. I think one of the most credible and serious we should all think about is: The president is mostly being covered--has been covered--as a candidate, rather than as an incumbent whose record needs to be scrutinized. And this is an area where I think there are a lot of legitimate questions of

Hussman: US Likely Entered
into a Recession in Mid-2012 - Thread Closed

Money News, by Forrest Jones Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/1/2012 11:42:12 AM Post Reply

The U.S. economy likely slid into a recession during the middle of 2012, said economist and fund manager John Hussman. The U.S. economy officially grew 1.3 percent in the second quarter and 2 percent in the first quarter, but such assumptions are made with backward-looking indicators, or those that capture events that have already happened. Leading indicators, which point to where the economy is headed, paint a different reality. “In regard to a U.S. recession, keep in mind that the consensus of economic forecasters —

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