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The Parade Of Bad Polls, Continued

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/2/2012 9:08:37 AM Post Reply

Today the Romney campaign is trumpeting the latest CNN/ORC poll which shows President Obama with a three-point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, 50%-47%. The Romney campaign likes this result, apparently, because it represents a significant improvement over the last CNN/ORC poll, which came out three weeks ago. In that survey, CNN/ORC found a six-point Obama lead. I wrote about the earlier poll here, pointing out that it obviously over-sampled Democrats. A reader calculated that, given other data in the survey, the six-point difference was consistent with a breakdown of D-38%, R-26% and I-36%.

U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Bombed
Twice in Run-Up to 9/11 Anniversary

Daily Beast, by Eli Lake Original Article

Posted By: Douglas DC- 10/2/2012 9:07:04 AM Post Reply

Jihadists twice set off explosives at the consulate prior to the incident that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and announced threats on Facebook about escalating attacks on Western targets in the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary, according to whistleblowers reaching out to House Republicans. In the five months leading up to this year’s 9/11 anniversary, there were two bombings on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and increasing threats to and attacks on the Libyan nationals hired to provide security at the U.S. missions in Tripoli and Benghazi.
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D'Souza Can't Quite Accept
the Real Obama

American Thinker, by Jack Cashill Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/2/2012 9:04:10 AM Post Reply

In 2016: Obama's America, the most successful and artful conservative documentary to date, author and producer Dinesh D'Souza takes a step closer to exposing the real Barack Obama. To get there, however, he will have to remove the obstacles he has set in his own way. "Obama came out of nowhere," says D'Souza at the film's beginning. "No one really knew him." The reason why no one knew him was simple enough. Obama discouraged the media from looking. The major media obliged, and their conservative counterparts in New York and Washington, fearing ridicule

2 US Border agents shot,
1 killed, near major drug
corridor in Arizona

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/2/2012 9:03:18 AM Post Reply

DEVELOPING: Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an area in south Arizona known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, authorities said. The identities of the agents were not immediately released, but the shooting occurred at the Brian Terry Station near Naco, Ariz., which is just south of Tucson. The station was named after an agent who was killed in the line of duty in December 2010. The area is considered a remote part of the state and sources tell Fox News that the shooting occurred about 8 miles from the border.

Elizabeth Warren issues
incomplete list of cases

Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/2/2012 8:57:59 AM Post Reply

Unwittingly also demonstrates her extensive practice of law from her Massachusetts office. Minutes before tonight’s debate, Elizabeth Warren issued a list of all of the cases she has worked on since joining Harvard. It was an impressive list, proving what I have said all along, she practiced law on a regular basis from her Harvard office. But she was not licensed in Massachusetts.

Spanish Protests, German Prescriptions

New York Times, by Editors Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 10/2/2012 8:30:26 AM Post Reply

Demonstrators have been filling the streets of southern Europe’s capitals in numbers too large for politicians to safely ignore, protesting the latest economic austerity measures. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in Lisbon, Madrid and Athens, and more such protests are likely in coming days. The public’s patience is running out on austerity policies demanded by the German government and European Union leaders, which have conspicuously failed in their stated goal of reducing debt burdens and paving the way for economic revival.

Online Schools Becoming
More Popular, Despite
Union Resistance

Townhall, by Kyle Olson Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/2/2012 8:22:07 AM Post Reply

Enrollment in online schools has increased twelvefold in Ohio since the first internet-based school was created in the state in 2000, The Gazette Medina reports. (Snip) Online schools, and other forms of digital learning, are an inevitable and promising form of education for the 21st Century, unless special interest forces are able to keep technology from becoming more integrated into everyday education. Professor Gary Miron of the National Education Policy Center is a leading voice for those special interests, which include teachers unions and the education establishment in general.

What’s so funny
about having gout?

Telegraph [UK], by Michael Leapman Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/2/2012 8:22:02 AM Post Reply

Nobody laughs at people who contract arthritis, influenza, heart disease or most other scourges that afflict us. But gout? This intensely painful condition has for centuries been the butt of comedians and cartoonists. So if you are in the mood for a chuckle, find yourself a copy of the journal Rheumatology, which has just published a study showing that in the past 10 years the number of sufferers from this hilarious disease has almost doubled. The reason we find gout funny almost certainly lies in its causes, so brutally spelled out by Anthony James, professor of neuro-rheumatology at Manchester University:

Under Obama, Poor, Middle
Class Incomes Fall Sharply

Investor's Business Daily, by John Merline Original Article

Posted By: RustMB- 10/2/2012 8:21:56 AM Post Reply

Despite repeated promises that he would build prosperity from the bottom up, President Obama has presided over three years of income losses for the middle class, according to the latest household income data from the Census Bureau. Since 2009, the middle 20% of American households saw their average incomes drop 4%. In 2011 alone, they fell 1.7%. The poorest 20% have fared even worse under Obama, Census data show. Their incomes have dropped more than 7% since 2009...

The Romney Tax Plan:
Not a Middle Class Tax Hike

American.com, by Alex Brill Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/2/2012 8:21:33 AM Post Reply

A report by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC) has been used to claim that Romney will hike taxes on the middle class. A closer look, however, and the TPC report falls apart. Democrats launched a surprising attack on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in recent weeks when they accused the governor of trying to raise taxes on the middle class. This criticism is odd coming from the party that unapologetically seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in tax hikes and that adopted numerous tax increases, including some on the middle class, in President Obama’s healthcare reform.

The forgotten war

Telegraph [UK], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/2/2012 8:15:00 AM Post Reply

The Taliban remains a force to be reckoned with, determined to re-establish its power base in Afghanistan. In normal circumstances, the grim news that the death toll among US forces in Afghanistan had passed the 2,000 mark would have merited a solemn statement from Barack Obama, in his capacity as commander-in-chief. The Afghan conflict is, after all, supposed to be “Obama’s War”--a “war of necessity” against Islamist terrorists, as opposed to his predecessor’s war of choice in Iraq. Yet with the presidential election race now entering its final stages, Mr Obama appears strangely reluctant to address

The Miracle
that would save America
from Obama-imposed
American Marxism

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 10/2/2012 8:10:23 AM Post Reply

There’s a promise made over an unbeknownst open mic to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on March 26, 2012, that awaits the outcome of November 6. “This is my last election…after my election I have more flexibility,” President Barack Obama told Medvedev, indicating a chilling confidence that he would win a second term. Prime Minister Medvedev, his replacement President Vladimir Putin, the reelection-bound Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro

Yes, the media are massively biased
towards Obama. But the real problem
is the obsession with opinion polls

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/2/2012 8:09:48 AM Post Reply

The Republicans aren’t worried about Romney performing well in Wednesday’s debate. They're worried about how the mainstream media will choose to report it. The bias has got so bad that Barack Obama could come on drunk in a peephole bra and many journalists would still label it a triumph (“A historic performance”--Chris Matthews). Incredibly, some journalists are reporting an Obama victory before the debates have even happened. Perhaps the Prez shouldn't show up at all and just leave Romney to talk policy with an empty chair. MSNBC would call it for the chair ("Never in my lifetime has

In debate, economy favors Mitt

USA Today, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/2/2012 8:07:11 AM Post Reply

Wednesday night's debate will focus on the economy and each candidate's plans -- real or alleged -- to fix it. Each will claim that the other's plan lacks concrete "specifics." But there is one proposal that only Mitt Romney can absolutely deliver on: He can be not-Barack Obama. This is the weakest recovery in American history since at least the Great Depression. Indeed, in some respects, the Obama recovery is nearly indistinguishable from the George W. Bush recession. According to a recent Pew report, during the Bush recession from 2007-09,

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.

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