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Presidential debate finds Heritage
Foundation front and center

Washington Post, by Allen McDuffee Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/2/2012 3:58:48 PM Post Reply

As the parties get set for the first presidential debate in Denver on Wednesday, the Heritage Foundation’s Values Bus will roll into town. (Snip) In the 2012 election season, the Heritage Foundation has taken an agenda-setting role from early in primary season when they co-sponsored a Republican primary debate with the American Enterprise Institute and CNN. More recently, the foundation drove the conversation on the claim that President Obama “gutted welfare reform” when he offered waivers to states on the work requirement of the program.

North and South Korea
'on the verge of nuclear war'

Telegraph [UK], by Julian Ryall Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 3:51:33 PM Post Reply

Tokyo - A senior North Korean diplomat warned a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York that "a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war" on the Korean Peninsula. Pak Kil-yon, Pyongyang's vice-foreign minster, put the blame for the tense state of inter-Korean relations firmly on South Korea's conservative government and claimed the citizens of the North feel "shame" and "political terror." Monday's speech was the first time a representative of North Korea has addressed the General Assembly since Kim Jong-un assumed power after the death of his father in December last year.

Levin: 'What The Hell Are
We Doing In Afghanistan?'

Cybercast News Service, by David James Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 3:47:40 PM Post Reply

On his nationally syndicated radio show on Monday, Oct. 1, Mark Levin asked: "What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan?" Here is the transcript: “What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? Over 2,000 now--over 2,000 American soldiers killed there. Some of them shot in the back by the people we’re trying to help. Obama puts a time frame on when we’re leaving. “What is our mission? What is our mission now in Afghanistan? If we’re not gonna blow the enemy to kingdom come, what are we doing there? Somebody’s son and daughter is getting murdered over there, or

Education chief wants
textbooks to become obsolete

Associated Press, by Josh Lederman Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/2/2012 3:44:56 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan is calling for printed textbooks to become obsolete within the next few years. Duncan says the U.S. is falling behind other nations that are aggressively moving from print to digital for educational materials. He says a small number of American school districts are moving in that direction, but that the country must move faster. Duncan's remarks came during an address to the National Press Club where he also criticized the Republican-controlled House for failing to adequately invest in education. Duncan says Mitt Romney and the Republicans see education as an expense

Romney overcame
similar deficit in ’02 race

Boston Globe, by Matt Viser Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 3:43:05 PM Post Reply

Washington - About six weeks before a crucial election, and shortly after he had secured the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney was trailing badly. Voters had unfavorable views of him. They didn’t think he cared for people like them. Women overwhelmingly favored his opponent. The year was 2002. (Snip) Several weeks after Romney, with no primary opponent, officially became the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2002, a late September poll showed he had not only lost his lead but had slipped six points behind his Democratic opponent, state Treasurer Shannon O’Brien. She was dominating among women — leading 48 percent to 30

Holiday sales seen rising
4.1 percent in 2012

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 3:31:29 PM Post Reply

New York - Americans are expected to spend more during what’s traditionally the busiest shopping season of the year, but they’re not exactly ready to shop ‘til they drop like they have been in the past two years. The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, said Tuesday that it expects sales during the winter holiday shopping period in November and December to rise 4.1 percent this year. That’s more than a percentage point lower than the growth in each of the past two years, and the smallest increase since 2009 when sales were up just 0.3 percent.

‘Abortion Boat’ Set To Dock
And Treat Women In
Muslim-Majority Morocco

International Business Times (UK), by Jacey Fortin Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/2/2012 3:21:31 PM Post Reply

Moroccan women seeking to terminate a pregnancy will have a brief chance to do so this week, when an ‘abortion ship’ pulls into port to offer its services to women in this Muslim-majority North African country. A Dutch organization called the Women on Waves Foundation, or WoW, runs the controversial service. From a tiny makeshift clinic mounted on a floating vessel, its staff dispenses abortion pills and medical advice to women who are up to six weeks pregnant.

Austin Tice, missing American
journalist in Syria, shown
in video with captors

New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 3:19:55 PM Post Reply

An American journalist missing in Syria for six weeks is seen blindfolded and disoriented in a shaky video that has surfaced online — giving his family some hope that he may still be alive. The footage of Austin Tice was first uploaded last Wednesday to YouTube, but gained traction Monday when a Facebook page and Twitter account supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad linked to the clip, according to reports. Tice, 31, was covering the country’s civil war for McClatchy Newspapers and The Washington Post before he last e-mailed colleagues on Aug. 13. (Snip) Tice also says a garbled prayer in

Microsoft Hires Rapper,
Things Go Terribly Wrong

CNBC, by Cadie Thompson Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/2/2012 3:07:23 PM Post Reply

Microsoft didn't have much luck with one its latest celebrity promotions. The software giant recently hired the rapper Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) to perform at a retail store for customers in Atlanta, GA, the performance, however, didn't go exactly as planned. During his performance he said "F**k these computers," and then began jumping on top of display tables while rapping. He apparently also stomped on at least five computers, according to a report from All Hip Hop's website.

Bernanke Warns His Creator

New York Sun, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/2/2012 3:00:39 PM Post Reply

“Bernanke warns congress to butt out of interest-rate policy discussions . . .” is the headline up on the Drudge Report following the speech today by the Federal Reserve’s chairman at Indiana. It sounds to us like the chairman is warning Congress against passing Congressman Ron Paul’s audit-the-Fed legislation and Congressman Kevin Brady’s Sound Dollar Act, both of which would open up Fed policies to inspection. The chairman’s speech marks another step in the Fed and the Congress moving into what might be called open, if polite, confrontation. It’s an important story.

Weather Channel to name winter
storms: a publicity and power
play with possible value

Washington Post, by Jason Samenow Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/2/2012 2:59:28 PM Post Reply

Every storm has its own unique characteristics and traits. And sharing information about the impacts of a storm becomes easier and more effective when a storm is given an identity. Smartly recognizing this, The Weather Channel (TWC) announced today it will begin naming significant winter storms - the first three will be called Athena, Brutus and Caesar. It’s a bold (even arrogant?) move, because - in a sense - TWC is laying claim to custody of the nation’s major winter weather events. TWC’s press release begins* by boasting it is “the first national organization
Headline split by staff.

'To annihilate Israel, we need
just 24 hours and an excuse'

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Joanna Paraszczuk Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 2:54:44 PM Post Reply

Hojjat al-Eslam Ali Shirazi , the representative of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Islamic Republic's Qods Force, said this week that Iran needed just '24 hours and an excuse' to destroy Israel. In his first public interview for a year, reported in the Persian-language Jahan News, which is close to the regime, Shirazi said if Israel attacked Iran the Islamic Republic would be able to turn the war in to a war of attrition which would lead to Israel's destruction. (Snip) Khamenei appointed Shirazi a year ago as his representative to the Qods Force, the highly secretive

Chicago area home prices
fall 2.5% on distressed sales

Chicago Tribune, by Mary Ellen Podmolik Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/2/2012 2:54:34 PM Post Reply

Sales of distressed homes continued to weigh heavily on the Chicago area's housing market in August and caused local homes prices to decline 2.5 percent from a year ago, according to a report issued Tuesday. Compared to July, home prices slipped 1.7 percent, housing data provider CoreLogic said. The decline, which totaled 2.3 percent for the state, meant Illinois was among the five states showing the greatest depreciation. The others were Rhode Island, down 2.6 percent; New Jersey, down 1.4 percent; Alabama, down 0.7 percent; and Connecticut, down 0.5 percent.

Clinton will respond to
lawmakers, cooperate in
Benghazi probe: spokeswoman

Reuters, by Susan Cornwell Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/2/2012 2:52:51 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will respond on Tuesday to U.S. lawmakers who wrote to her requesting information about an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi last month in which four people died, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. Clinton is ready to cooperate "closely" with Congress in investigating the attack in Benghazi, Nuland said at a regular daily news briefing. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the assault on the mission the evening of September 11.

After Week 4, NFL still
predicting a Romney victory

Yahoo! Sports, by Chris Wilson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/2/2012 2:52:04 PM Post Reply

According to our highly scientific 31 rules for using the NFL to predict the election, Mitt Romney now has a 69 percent chance of winning in November. Two weeks ago, I published a rule for every NFL franchise to compete with the Redskins Rule, which demonstrates a strong correlation between Washington's last home game before the election and the outcome of the presidential race. Four of those rules involve games played Sunday or Monday. The total score now stands at nine rules pointing to a Romney win and four pointing to an Obama win. The update is below.

A News Organization Called the
“Chicago Tribune” shows up
n Tribune Story about
Judicial Cover-Ups

Chicago Daily Observer, by Steve Bartin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 2:51:35 PM Post Reply

The Chicago Tribune reports: Within its walls reside files that Cook County Circuit Court judges have ordered hidden from the public, something they have done hundreds of times since 2000. It’s Crook County. Although state law requires that certain types of lawsuits must be sealed, a Tribune investigation has found that judges improperly removed others from public view, including cases involving a famous chef, millionaire businessmen and even other judges. (Snip) “Tribune Co. and the Chicago Tribune also were defendants in a court matter sealed in August 2008. Other defendants included the Chicago Cubs, which Tribune Co. owned at the

The 60th Vote Regrets

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/2/2012 2:51:33 PM Post Reply

One of the tragedies of the Obama Administration is the historic political accident that it had 60 Senate Democratic votes in 2009. The ability to break a filibuster without Republican votes empowered the left to think it could pass anything, and so it steamrolled ahead with ObamaCare, which needed every one of those 60 votes to pass. Now a couple of those Senators are expressing regrets about those votes after the fact. In our pages last week, former Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh rehearsed the looming economic damage from ObamaCare's medical-device tax.

Godless: Obama's attack on
faith hit in new ads

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/2/2012 2:50:06 PM Post Reply

In a bid to energize Christian voters, a new wave of ads from a prominent evangelical group that describe the president and Democratic Party as less than God-fearing and his administration antagonistic to religious groups is hitting battleground states. "Under Obama, faith is under attack," concludes the ads being placed in Iowa and Ohio media markets by the Campaign for American Values, headed by Gary Bauer, the former presidential candidate and the former head of the Family Research Council. "The national Democratic Party is on balance a very secular party and is increasingly hostile to faith-based voters,"

Russia warns NATO to
stay away from Syria

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 2:48:35 PM Post Reply

Moscow - Russia told NATO and world powers on Tuesday they should not seek ways to intervene in the Syrian war or set up buffer zones between rebels and government forces. The statements from Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov was one of Moscow's most specific warnings yet to the West and Gulf Arab leaders to keep out of the 18-month-old conflict. "In our contacts with partners in NATO and in the region, we are calling on them not to seek pretexts for carrying out a military scenario or to introduce initiatives such as humanitarian corridors or buffer zones," Gatilov said,

Mitt Romney Worked
As a Garbage Man

National Review, by Charles C. W. Cooke Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 10/2/2012 2:48:31 PM Post Reply

Yesterday, AFSCME put out a rather silly ad featuring Mitt Romney’s former garbage collector in La Jolla, California. The ad begins: My name is Richard Hayes, and I pick up Mitt Romney’s trash. We’re kind of like the invisible people. He doesn’t realize that the service we provide – if it wasn’t for us, it would be a big health issue, us not picking up trash. Get the sledgehammer message? Mitt Romney doesn’t understand! Romney could have no idea about quotidien things such as trash collection because his wealth and detachment prevent him from having to know
Linked corrected by staff.

Stock Market May Be Headed
for Rude Shock This Month

CNBC, by Maria Bartiromo Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/2/2012 2:42:26 PM Post Reply

The focus on fundamentals is about to begin. For the last three months, investors have been ignoring the weak economic backdrop and plowing money into stocks because of the cheap money swirling from central banks around the world. Investors are searching for yield in an environment of rock bottom rates. But judgment day is coming. (Snip) Things are seen picking back up in the fourth quarter, with overall earnings growth expected at nearly 10 percent — but many sources I speak to are questioning such a bounce from negative to double-digit growth.

Dozens of students killed in
attacks at colleges in Nigeria

Associated Press, by Haruna Umar Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 2:39:25 PM Post Reply

Maiduguri, Nigeria - Assailants shot and stabbed to death 27 students in the second attack near colleges in Nigeria's troubled northeast in the last few days, authorities said Tuesday. Danjuma Aiso, a student at Federal Polytechnic Mubi, a college in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State, said attackers invaded the student accommodation outside the campus between 10 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday. Twenty-seven students were killed forcing the school to close Tuesday, (Snip) Boko Haram's name means “Western education is sacrilege” in Hausa and the group has been blamed for killing more than 690 people this year alone,

Are Romney and Obama Ready
for China's Collapse?

RealClearWorld, by Tyler Roylance Original Article

Posted By: cebuyer- 10/2/2012 2:37:41 PM Post Reply

China is a nuclear power with the world's largest army and a population of over 1.3 billion people. It boasts the world's second-largest economy, and is the largest single foreign owner of U.S. public debt. Its Communist Party regime, in place since 1949, now serves as a model for authoritarian states around the globe. And it may well be heading toward a major economic and political crisis.
Headline split by staff.

Biden tells audience middle class
has been 'buried' last four years

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Amie Parnes Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/2/2012 2:36:25 PM Post Reply

Vice President Biden said Tuesday that the middle class has been “buried” for the last four years. Biden made the remark at a campaign rally while arguing that Republicans would raise taxes on the middle class. He said the tax hike would be especially bad given what the middle class has been through over the last four years. “This is deadly earnest, man. This is deadly earnest,” the vice president said. “How they can justify, how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years? How in lord's name can they justify

Florida court hears case
of Illegal immigrant
applying for law license

Fox News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/2/2012 2:33:42 PM Post Reply

The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on whether an illegal immigrant can be granted a law license. The case is being brought before the court by the state’s Board of Bar Examiners, which has asked the court for an opinion on whether to grant a license to Jose Godinez-Samperio. Godinez-Samperio came from Mexico to the United States as a child with his parents, who had a tourist visa that has long since expired. He argues that he should be granted a law license under President Obama’s directive this summer that suspends deportation for

Top Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood politician in
trouble for getting flirty
with female TV news host

New York Daily News, by Lee Moran Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/2/2012 2:33:38 PM Post Reply

A top Egyptian politician has sparked outrage by asking a journalist live on air if her questions would be “hot” like her. Minister of Information Salah Abdel Maksud was caught on camera asking Dubai TV news show host Zeina Yazjy the “inappropriate inquiry” during an interview last week. “I hope your questions won’t be as hot as you,” he said during the audacious exchange. Without missing a beat she replied with a smirk: “My questions may be hot, but I am the opposite, I'm very cold.”

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