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Middle-income families
could face $2,000 tax
hike next year, study shows

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/1/2012 2:49:10 PM Post Reply

A typical middle-income family making $40,000 to $64,000 a year could see its taxes go up by $2,000 next year if lawmakers fail to renew a lengthy roster of tax cuts set to expire in December, according to a new report Monday. Taxpayers across the income spectrum would be hit with large tax hikes, the Tax Policy Center said in its study, with households in the top 1 percent income range seeing an average tax increase of more than $120,000, while a family making between $110,000 to $140,000 could see a tax hike in the $6,000 range.

U.S. Gov't Employees Among
Top Campaign Contributors
to Obama; Bankers Among Top
Contributors to Romney

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 2:46:24 PM Post Reply

U.S. government employees and their families have thus far contributed $396,550 to President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, making them one of the top five sources of cash for the campaign to reelect the president, according to Opensecrets.org. Employees of the U.S. State Department and their families have, by themselves, contributed $213,256 to the Obama reelection campaign. Standing alone, State Department employees and their families are the 17th largest contributors to the Obama campaign, ranking just above the employees and family members of Wells Fargo, who have contributed $202,216 to the Obama campaign.

Top Afghanistan general:
‘Al-Qaida has come back’

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 2:37:25 PM Post Reply

With President Obama’s team gradually admitting al-Qaida’s role in the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Libya, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan announced that “Al-Qaida has come back.” “Al-Qaida has come back, [and] is a resilient organization,” Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen told 60 Minutes last night, per the Armed Forces Press Service. “But they’re not here in large numbers. But al-Qaida doesn’t have to be anywhere in large numbers.” Allen is leader of the International Security Assistance Force. His remark seems to undercut President Obama’s foreign policy boast from this weekend in Nevada.

Paul Ryan: 'We're not expecting
media to tell our story'

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

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/1/2012 2:34:46 PM Post Reply

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan suggested media bias at a closed-door fundraiser for Romney campaign donors Sunday in Connecticut, telling attendees that he does not expect the "media to tell our story." “We can’t expect the president to play fair; he’s not,” Ryan said, according to CTNewsJunkie. "And we’re not expecting the media to tell our story. They’re not. That means we have to do it ourselves. And that means we have to rely on the generosity of our fellow citizens who want to get this country back on the right track.” Video of the private event was posted

Cuban physicians desert in fear
of Chávez's electoral defeat

El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Frank López Ballesteros Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/1/2012 2:31:58 PM Post Reply

Cuban officials coordinating Venezuelan health program "Misión Barrio Adentro" are worried about the numerous desertions taking place in Venezuela. It is believed that as many as 80 Cuban physicians have left the country on a monthly basis over the last 90 days, ahead of October 7 presidential election. Furthermore, the exodus may exceed the figure recorded in 2011 (500 doctors). "Some 22 physicians, including me, deserted the program in different parts of the country in just one week in May (...) It has been at least 80 people per month," commented Yumar Gómez,

Colts reveal more information
about Pagano's illness

WXIN-TV [Indianapolis], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 2:31:42 PM Post Reply

When the Indianapolis Colts take the field against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, they'll be without head coach Chuck Pagano. Pagano will miss the Green Bay game and several more after being diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APML). Pagano is currently undergoing treatment at an Indianapolis-area hospital. In Pagano's absence, offensive coordinator Bruce Arians will lead the team. During a news conference Monday morning at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center, Colts owner Jim Irsay provided more information about Pagano's condition. According to Irsay, Pagano had been feeling fatigue over the last few weeks and noticed some bruising.

Akin ad says McCaskill
benefited from stimulus

The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/1/2012 2:30:53 PM Post Reply

Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) launched a new ad in his bid for Senate in Missouri on Monday that asserts that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) influenced the federal stimulus bill to benefit herself. "Ever wonder why Claire McCaskill called the stimulus bill 'wildly successful'? The stimulus that didn't create jobs, that cost us billions. Well, now we know: The stimulus made McCaskill rich," a narrator says, pointing to $1 million from the bill that allegedly went to McCaskill's family. It includes an audio clip of McCaskill saying that she and a group of Senators

Queens teacher suing city
claiming he was beaten
up by a first-grader

New York Post, by Kieran Crowley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/1/2012 2:20:41 PM Post Reply

A hulking Queens gym teacher and former college football player claims a pupil fractured his ankle, injured his knee and forced him to go to a shrink for stress — even though the kid was only 50 pounds and in first grade. Burly, 220-pound PS 330 teacher John Webster, 27, said a 4-foot-2 Rodrigo Carpio, 6, also kicked and pinched the Elmhurst school’s principal, a security officer and another teacher during a rampage in April. “It’s sort of like an angel-devil sort of thing,” said the 5-foot-10 Webster, who recently filed a notice of his intent

Obama gets endorsement
he doesn't want -- from Chavez

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/1/2012 2:04:18 PM Post Reply

This isn't an endorsement President Obama will claim. Hugo Chavez, the socialist president of Venezuela, told state television: "I hope this doesn't harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I'd vote for Obama." Chavez, who like Obama is seeking re-election, also called the American president "a good guy," reports Reuters. "I think that if Obama was from Barlovento or some Caracas neighborhood, he'd vote for Chavez," said the Venezuela leader. It's quite a contrast to how Chavez described Obama predecessor George W. Bush -- as "the devil."

Jets owner Woody Johnson
puts Mitt Romney win over
Jets victory

Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Mike Vorkunov Original Article

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

Jets owner Woody Johnson detailed his priorities today in an interview with Bloomberg. Asked whether he would rather the Jets have a winning season in 2012 or Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate that Johnson has backed, take the White House in November, Johnson replied that he would "put country first" and choose a Romney victory. The Jets, though, clearly remain a priority. During the interview, the team is represented by Johnson's green tie. Johnson apologized to Jets fans for Sunday's 34-0 loss to the San Francisco 49ers,

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.

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