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U.S. withdraws all its official government
personnel out of Benghazi, Libya

Washington Post, by Anne Gearan and Michael Birnbaum Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/2/2012 7:43:17 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration has withdrawn all official government personnel from Benghazi, the Libyan city where the country’s revolution was born and where the U.S. ambassador was killed last month, U.S. officials and local residents said Monday.The State Department said that it has pulled its personnel from Benghazi and that anydiplomatic outreach to Libya’s second-largest city is being done remotely. The U.S. post where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in an attack by militants has been closed.

The Flaws That Will Bring Down
Obama’s Health-Care Plan

Bloomberg, by Ramesh Ponnuru Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/2/2012 7:33:37 AM Post Reply

The debate over President Barack Obama’s health-care law has taken another twist. Now conservatives and libertarians are defending it, while the administration tries to toss part of the legislation out. The reason for this role reversal is that the drafters of the law outsmarted themselves and handed their opponents a weapon. Now they would like to pretend the law doesn’t say what it does.

We Live Under a
Media Coup d’État

PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/2/2012 7:29:16 AM Post Reply

Coup d’états come in a variety of forms. Some are violent with arrogant colonels pointing forty-fives at the temples of their predecessors and blowing their brains out; others are stealthy with the citizens awakening on an ordinary morning to find their whole world has changed yet not a drop of blood has been shed. The latter is what has happened in America. We are the victims of a media coup d’état and are currently living under it. You will see that clearly in evidence on Wednesday night when the debates commence, each one moderated by a member

Orphan Obama

American Spectator, by Ben Stein Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 7:27:24 AM Post Reply

Monday There is an old Jewish joke about a boy who murders his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. It is a great joke and applies in a huge way to Mr. Obama, Mr. Axelrod, and their posse. This morning, as I was battling the invasion of ants that is tormenting all of Southern California as we go through by far the worst heat wave I have seen in my 36 years here, I picked up and read the front page of my beloved former employer, the Wall Street Journal.

World faces ageing population
time bomb says UN

Telegraph [UK], by Alex Spillius, Julian Ryalls Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/2/2012 7:25:11 AM Post Reply

A major study published by the United Nations has warned that the growing numbers of the elderly presented significant challenges to welfare, pension and health care systems in both developing and developed nations. And it bemoans the fact that skills and knowledge that older people have acquired are going to waste in societies rather than being used to their full. "We must commit to ending the widespread mismanagement of ageing," said Richard Blewitt, chief executive of HelpAge International, which collaborated on the report, Ageing in the 21st Century. "We must fully recognise that the vast majority of people

Muslims Destroyed 10,000
Books in American School

Frontpage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/2/2012 7:06:59 AM Post Reply

Remember this is about a movie trailer, it’s not about a destructive ideology that runs on hate. It’s about a movie. Just like the destruction of the Library of Alexandria was about a movie. This marks the second week since the devastating attacks on the US Embassy and the American Cooperative School of Tunis (ACST), Tunisia, where I teach art and drama here in North Africa. We are still holding our breath. Nowhere in our dreams did we imagine, all of us holed up in our homes, that the “peaceful protest” would turn ugly and migrate to our school,

Beyond Obamacare

The New York Times, by Steven Rattner Original Article

Posted By: lonestarm3- 10/2/2012 6:49:36 AM Post Reply

WE need death panels.Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget. But in the pantheon of toxic issues — the famous “third rails” of American politics — none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.

Blacks are abandoning
the Democratic Party

Washington Times [DC], by E.W. Jackson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 6:02:25 AM Post Reply

For more than 50 years, the black community has been the wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. That may be changing. In spite of the overwhelmingly liberal voting patterns of black voters, they are an essentially conservative community. Americans of African descent are more pro-life and pro-family than the average white voter and as conservative on social issues as any white evangelical. Democrats have managed to monopolize the black vote in spite of the vast chasm between the two on social issues. This philosophical difference has become more pronounced in the past 20 years,

Romney Can Win

Daily Caller, by Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:55:46 AM Post Reply

The media have declared the presidential race over. That’s not surprising. What’s striking is how many Republicans agree. They think the Romney campaign is done. It’s true that recent momentum has favored the president, especially in battleground states. A five-point deficit in Ohio looks ominous for any Republican. But President Obama hasn’t won yet. In fact he could very well lose. Here’s why: 1) Obama’s numbers aren’t that great. There are a lot of ways to measure public opinion in a presidential race. Among the most useful are the tracking polls produced by Gallup and Rasmussen,

More Americans Dependent
on Disability, Longer

National Review Online, by Veronique de Rugy Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/2/2012 5:52:12 AM Post Reply

While looking into the reasons for the drop in labor-force participation, I stumbled upon this report by Senator Coburn called “Social Security Disability Programs: Improving the Quality of Benefit Award Decisions.” There he notes that “economists estimate that Americans added to disability rolls could account for as much as a quarter of the two percent drop in the labor force participation rate since 2007.” As I have mentioned before, many labor economists have been trying to explain the large drop in labor-force participation, especially since the reduction isn’t solely a result of the boomers’ retiring.

Benghazi Was Obama's 3 a.m. Call

Wall Street Journal, by Bret Stephens Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:47:31 AM Post Reply

Why won't the Libya story go away? Why can't the memory of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff be consigned to the same sad-and-sealed file of Americans killed abroad in dangerous line of duty? How has an episode that seemed at first to have been mishandled by the Romney camp become an emblem of a feckless and deluded foreign policy? The story-switching and stonewalling haven't helped. But let's start a little earlier. The hour is 5 p.m., Sept. 11, Washington time, and the scene is an Oval Office meeting

The main event

Tribune Media Services, by Cal Thomas Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:41:19 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney's main advantage in his first debate with President Obama on Wednesday may be that the president will be speaking without a teleprompter. Romney's second advantage is the president's record, and how he has failed to fulfill so many of his promises. The president will probably recycle his class warfare themes. Romney should instead focus on the president's domestic failures and on Republican initiatives that have worked in the past. We Americans didn't just crawl out of a cave. There is history. He might start with what has happened since the 2010 election, which elected 17 Republican governors.

OMB: We’ll Reimburse
Employers for WARN Act Fallout

Commentary Magazine, by Alana Goodman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:37:36 AM Post Reply

The Office of Management and Budget is now promising to compensate defense contractors for any legal penalties that would stem from violating the WARN Act, a federal law that requires employers to warn employees at least 60 days in advance of mass layoffs. The Obama administration had already been urging contractors to ignore the WARN Act in the case of the looming sequestration cuts, since the 60-day-minimum would mean hundreds of thousands of employees could get notices of pending layoffs just days before the presidential election. But it’s one thing for the Obama administration to tell contractors

How Obama Won
the Upcoming Debate

American Thinker, by Timothy C. Daughtry Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/2/2012 5:31:27 AM Post Reply

For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media's narrative for Wednesday's presidential debate has already been written. If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the media narrative would be that his unconventional attire was a daring and brilliant move designed to challenge the status quo and to reveal his human side, or possibly a laudable effort to make politics more interesting to children. Romney, of course, would be cast as the dull guy

The Downside of
Obama’s Foreign Policy

National Review Online, by John Cornyn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:30:13 AM Post Reply

Addressing the Democratic National Convention on September 6, President Obama proudly highlighted his foreign-policy achievements, boasting that “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat” and affirming that “our longest war” — the war in Afghanistan — would be over by 2014. Then he drew laughter by painting Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as diplomatic lightweights: “My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy.” Talk about bad timing. Less than a week after the president’s speech, on the anniversary of 9/11, four American officials were killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. mission in Benghazi,

Occufail

Washington Free Beacon, by C.J. Ciaramella Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/2/2012 5:25:22 AM Post Reply

One year to the day after it initiated its occupation of McPherson Square in the nation’s capital, Occupy D.C. returned in minuscule numbers to the park it left barren and muddy. On the first anniversary of the birth of the local chapter of the nationwide protest movement that spread last fall before quickly receding, the few remaining members of Occupy D.C. took to the streets. “Nobody should ever count Occupy out. It’s a temper tantrum,” Todd Fine, an Occupy D.C. member, said. “It’s necessarily reactive. Eventually the other shoe will drop. When that happens, people will remember this.

Frack film’s flim-flam

New York Post, by Phelim McAleer Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/2/2012 5:21:47 AM Post Reply

‘Promised Land,” a new movie from Matt Damon and John Krasinski, attacks fracking — a new way of getting oil and gas out of the ground, which has become the latest villain of the environmental movement. Last week, I revealed the film’s co-writers, Damon and Krasinski, have gone to enormous lengths to twist the narrative to make American energy corporations the villain. At the time, their efforts could be just passed off as just another Hollywood leftist fantasy to explain why the world is not how they think it should be. But now a more sinister possibility has emerged.

Liz digs in deeper hole

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:17:41 AM Post Reply

Does Granny Warren really believe everything she said last night in Lowell? I mean, this woman is a moonbat’s moonbat. She makes Obama look like a moderate. Two weeks ago, she was wringing her hands about higher college tuitions. Last night she repeated (or Scott Brown did it for her) that she’s for in-state tuition for illegal aliens — which amounts to free tuition for people in the country illegally. But not for kids from New Hampshire whose parents pay income tax in Massachusetts.(Snip) The debate took place on a warm October evening — Elizabeth Warren summer.

An NGO in Africa Goes Awry

Weekly Standard, by Armin Rosen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:14:49 AM Post Reply

In late August, the world’s most high-profile development project celebrated another milestone. The Millennium Villages Project opened its newest site, in northern Ghana, with newly minted Ghanaian president John Mahama and the UK’s international development secretary on hand. The official interest in the project’s arrival in Ghana only emphasized its unique stature in the typically wonkish world of development economics. Wherever MVP founder, Columbia professor, bestselling author and former World Bank presidential hopeful Jeffrey Sachs and his vision of aggressive, integrated rural development go, money, attention and political approval are almost bound to follow.

Official resigns after report finds VA
spent $6.1M on lavish conferences

The Hill (DC), by Jordy Yager Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:05:37 AM Post Reply

The head of Human Resources for the Veterans Affairs Department resigned after an inspector general’s (IG) report found that the agency spent $6.1 million on two weeklong conferences. The 142-page IG report investigated about $762,000 in “unauthorized, unnecessary, and/or wasteful expenses” during two conferences held in Orlando, Fla., that included $49,516 to produce a parody video of the late-Gen. George S. Patton. Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration John Sepúlveda stepped down on Sunday following the release of the report, which determined that he “abdicated his responsibilities” by not properly overseeing the conferences.

Obama’s claim that the Bush tax
cuts led to the economic crisis

Washington Post, by Glenn Kessler Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 5:02:33 AM Post Reply

“Now Governor Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, and fewer regulations on Wall Street, all of us will prosper. In other words, he’d double down on the same trickle-down policies that led to the crisis in the first place.” — President Obama, in a new two-minute television ad released Sept. 27, 2012 “This election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. This is a clear choice. The Republican plan is to cut more taxes ...” — Former president Bill Clinton, in an Obama campaign ad running since August

The Intel Behind Obama’s Libya Line

Daily Beast, by Eli Lake Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 4:55:51 AM Post Reply

For eight days after the attacks on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, government officials said the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam film.(Snip)It’s unclear why the talking points said the attacks were spontaneous and why they didn’t mention the possibility of al Qaeda involvement, given the content of the intercepts and the organizations the speakers were affiliated with. One U.S. intelligence officer said the widely distributed assessment was an example of “cherry picking,” or choosing one piece of intelligence and ignoring other pieces, to support a preferred thesis.

CNN poll: Obama’s bounce
gone, race now statistically tied

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/2/2012 4:43:40 AM Post Reply

In CNN’s last poll, taken soon after the Democratic convention, O led by six among likely voters. That lead’s now cut in half, to within the margin of error, despite weeks of media doomsaying about Romney’s campaign. In fact, the last four national polls all have the race within two or three points with a bounce opportunity for Romney looming 48 hours from now. I think the first debate will essentially be an audition for him: Obama’s the ultimate known quantity but, for millions of low-information voters, this’ll be the first time they see Romney in action.

Are Polls Showing How
you’ll Vote? Or How You
Think Others Will?

Townhall, by Laura Hollis Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 12:50:39 AM Post Reply

One of the things which makes the media’s bias in favor of President Obama so influential is the natural human tendency to want to belong, and the fear being out of the mainstream. As a professor, I cannot count the number of classes in which students were reluctant to ask a question for fear that everyone else already knew the answer. And yet when some “brave soul” actually asks, at least half the class heaves an audible sigh of relief – they all have the same question. (Snip) This same dynamic is, I believe, what’s behind some of the wacky

Voters Don’t Believe Paul Krugman

Townhall, by Daniel J. Mitchell Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 12:43:25 AM Post Reply

As shown in the video series on the economics of government spending, I’m not a big fan of the welfare state, which is big government in the long run. I’m also not a fan of bigger government in the short run, which is what we get from Keynesian economics and so-called stimulus. (Snip) Three quarters (74%) of voters do not believe federal government spending has helped the economy, and 86% do not believe government spending has helped their own personal financial situation. This pessimism over the impact of government spending is consistent throughout many key demographic groups that are frequently

Cheap Politicians

Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 12:40:18 AM Post Reply

Now that the National Football League has apparently learned that it can be costly to hire cheap officials, perhaps the rest of us should learn the same lesson when it comes to government officials, whose bad calls can do a lot more damage. What do we do when we want a better car, a better home or a better bottle of wine? We pay more for it. We definitely need a lot better crop of public officials. (Snip) No doubt many, if not most, government officials are already paid more than they are worth. But the whole point of higher

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