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A Guide to the Obama Administration’s
Five Major Scandals for Mainstream
Media Dummies

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/2/2012 10:22:32 AM Post Reply

A month to go before President Barack Obama faces re-election finds the president dealing with five major scandals. Any one of these scandals would sink a mere mortal, but Barack Obama as we all know is no mere mortal. He is a lightworker, author of hope and change, the man whose election should have been the moment that our ailing planet itself was healed. So none of these scandals are much of a threat to him. In political terms Barack Obama is a god, immortal and untouchable. Barack Obama is politically immortal because our

Debate donnybrook: Mannerly
Mitt vs. a president who interrupts

Los Angeles Times, by James Rainey Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/2/2012 10:20:19 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney and President Obama will attempt their most statesmanlike poses for Wednesday night’s debate in Denver, but there is one dichotomy that could break the congenial facade: Obama likes to interrupt. Romney doesn’t like to be interrupted. When he took on John McCain in the 2008 debates, then-Sen. Barack Obama showed no hesitation at jumping in when he thought his opponent had misrepresented his positions. He didn’t wait for moderator Jim Lehrer to call on him or until the end of McCain’s remarks. “That’s not the case,” and “That’s not true,” Obama interjected when McCain suggested that

Obama should end FCC
threat to restrict TV news

Tampa Tribune, by Corydon B. Dunham Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 10/2/2012 10:15:51 AM Post Reply

A week ago, President Obama spent much of his address to the United Nations General Assembly discussing free speech in an era of global instant communication. (Snip)The chief of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a fellow law professor of Obama, has long urged that the government should take control of news to achieve its political and social purposes. Another former law professor, since appointed by the president to the Supreme Court, wrote an article also urging the government to manage news, saying...

Michelle Obama Beats Ann
Romney In Vital Cookie Contest

ABC News, by Amy Bingham Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/2/2012 10:15:40 AM Post Reply

The cookie bakers have spoken: Michelle Obama will not be relinquishing over her White House kitchen garden or her first lady status any time soon. And she has her White and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe to thank for it. The current first lady was crowned the champion of Family Circle’s Presidential Cookie Bake-Off today after 4,844 bakers across the country gave her cookie recipe the seal of approval. Ann Romney’s M&M Cookies won the taste buds of 4,557 voters. Family Circle’s cookie poll has accurately predicted who will be the next first lady in

Postmortem on the
Mohammed Protests

National Review, by Daniel Pipes Original Article

Posted By: Aspenhuskerette- 10/2/2012 10:07:53 AM Post Reply

As Muslim crowds dissipate and American diplomatic missions return to normal activities, here are three final thoughts on the riots that began this September 11 and killed about 30: The movie really did matter: The Obama administration dishonestly skirted responsibility for the murder of four Americans in Libya by claiming that the attack was a protest that got unpredictably out of hand against the Innocence of Muslims video. In response, leading analysts have concluded that the video hardly mattered anywhere. Barry Rubin scorns the video as a “phony excuse for the demonstration” in Egypt. Michael Ledeen upbraids the administration for

Romney Says He Won't Revoke
Obama's Work Permits for
Young Illegal Immigrants

Associated Press, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/2/2012 10:04:27 AM Post Reply

DENVER — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he would honor temporary work permits for young illegal immigrants who were allowed to stay in the U.S. because of an executive order signed this summer by President Barack Obama. Romney told The Denver Post, in an interview appearing in Tuesday's edition, that people who are able to earn the two-year visas to stay and work wouldn't see them revoked under a Romney administration. "The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa,

VA’s HR chief resigns
amid conference scandal

Navy Times, by Rick Maze Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/2/2012 9:58:57 AM Post Reply

Two multimillion-dollar conferences for Veterans Affairs Department human resources officials have resulted in the resignation of the agency’s top personnel official, as an internal investigation found excessive spending and evidence that some of those planning the events had improperly accepted gifts from potential vendors. The report, released Monday by the VA’s Office of Inspector General, found $6.1 million spent on two weeklong conferences at the Orlando Marriott World Center Golf and Spa Resort, held in July and August 2011, with about $762,00 being on “unauthorized,” “unnecessary” or “wasteful” expenses, according to the report.(Snip)Sepulveda resigned Sunday, telling the newspaper

When You Don’t Want to Know
About the Real World, Your
Spooks Won’t Tell You

PJ Media, by Michael Ledeen Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/2/2012 9:52:11 AM Post Reply

Too many members of the oracular elite don’t seem to get the connection between policy and intelligence. Or, if they do get it, they deny it, which also happens a fair amount of the time. The connection is simple enough: intelligence goes to the policy makers, and if they make it clear that they don’t want to see or hear about intel that suggests or proves something or other, the intel guys will make sure that the flow of such material shrivels up and dies. Why? Because they work in a closed market in which their

More Americans Support
Torture to Fight
Terrorism, Poll Finds

KNTV-TV (San Francisco, CA), by G.W. Schulz Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/2/2012 9:48:16 AM Post Reply

surprising number of Americans are supportive of controversial Bush-era tactics used to undermine terrorism, and are even open to more extreme measures like using nuclear weapons. That's what professor Amy Zegart discovered when she asked the research firm YouGov to poll 1,000 people in August. Zegart recently joined Stanford University's Hoover Institution after leaving UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, where she specialized in national security and intelligence. The poll results showed that an increasing number of Americans supported torturing prisoners, up 14 points to 41 percent since 2007. The wording of questions can deeply influence how people answer a poll

Attorney: Conn. man who
shot masked son devastated

Associated Press, by John Christofferson Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/2/2012 9:26:49 AM Post Reply

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A popular teacher who fatally shot a knife-wielding prowler in a ski mask and then learned it was his 15-year-old son is devastated and filled with questions about what the boy was doing, his attorney said Monday.(Snip) Giuliano and his wife adopted Tyler and his sister about four years ago. The children's biological father was heading to prison, and the children would have gone into an orphanage if the couple, who had three other children, had not adopted them, Zingaro said.

Americans' savings rate reveals more
about the election than this debate

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/2/2012 9:23:31 AM Post Reply

This morning most of the nation's political attention is focused on tomorrow night's presidential debate in Denver. The next 36 hours will see a surplus supply of suggestions, pontifications and predictions about the rhetorical confrontation [Snip] Individual debates have rarely played a major determinative role in presidential elections over the last 52 years. The first debate of each general election season is usually great for TV ratings. But anyone seeking insight into the Nov. 6 outcome could do better to look at more profound underlying factors. Take the Squirrel Indicator.

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.

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