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Why it Matters:
Social Security

Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 9:15:43 AM Post Reply

Unless Congress acts, the trust funds that support Social Security will run out of money in 2033, according to the trustees who oversee the retirement and disability program. At that point, Social Security would collect enough tax revenue each year to pay only about 75 percent of benefits. That benefit cut wouldn’t sit well with the millions of older Americans who rely on Social Security for most of their income. Where they stand: President Barack Obama hasn’t laid out a detailed plan for addressing Social Security. He has called for bipartisan talks on strengthening the program, but he didn’t

U.S. Consulate said
repeatedly targeted

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Madinmaryland- 10/3/2012 9:12:23 AM Post Reply

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was threatened and attacked 13 times before last month's deadly assault, whistle-blowers have told two House Republicans. The Hill reported Reps. Darrell Issa of California and Jason Chaffetz of Utah sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a letter Tuesday detailing the allegations. The congressmen said based on information provided to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform "by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya" the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans "was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in the country."
Source corrected, content added by staff

Campaigns to tweet their
take on debate

The Hill [Washington DC], by Alicia M. Cohn Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 9:06:48 AM Post Reply

The first head-to-head match-up between President Obama and Mitt Romney on Wednesday is also the first presidential debate where both campaigns will be engaged in a virtual showdown on Twitter.The Twitter debate is crucial not only because it will signal the most memorable moments of the live event, but because the social network is expected to hold the key to which candidate the public believes came out the winner. “The spin room which traditionally followed the debate will now occur in real time on Twitter,” predicted Peter Greenberg, Twitter’s head of political advertising.

U.S. had early indications
Libya attack tied to
organized militants

Reuters, by Mark Hosenball & Tabassum Zakaria Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 8:58:26 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Within hours of last month's attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, President Barack Obama's administration received about a dozen intelligence reports suggesting militants connected to al Qaeda were involved, three government sources said. Despite these reports, in public statements and private meetings, top U.S. officials spent nearly two weeks highlighting intelligence suggesting that the attacks were spontaneous protests against an anti-Muslim film, while playing down the involvement of organized militant groups. It was not until last Friday that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's

Media Overplayed 'Inevitability'
Narrative, Giving Romney a New
Opportunity

Breitbart's Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/3/2012 8:54:46 AM Post Reply

The Obama campaign and the media have overplayed their hand. By suggesting, for three weeks, that the election is over, they created consternation among Republicans and conservative critics that blunted the effectiveness of Mitt Romney’s message. Yet in so doing, they also forced Americans to consider, for the first time, what another four years for Barack Obama would actually mean. The race is tightening as a result. Whatever voters think of the two candidates, whatever Democrat-heavy samples the pollsters use, there is one basic fact that cannot be fudged: people are unhappy with the state of the country.

Obama Trolling for the
Knucklehead Vote

American Thinker, by Ed Lasky Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 8:54:22 AM Post Reply

Pundits have ridiculed the string of fluff television, radio, and magazine appearances that Barack Obama has been making the last few months. They are wrong. He has a strategy and is executing it well. He is seeking and winning the votes of those Michelle Obama calls knuckleheads. Inside-the-Beltway journalists have decried Barack Obama's refusal to hold many press conferences. His canned speeches and reliance on the teleprompter have provided them with precious few chances to score points among their colleagues for gotcha questions.

Elizabeth Warren helped protect Dow
Chemical against breast implant claims

Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/3/2012 8:52:16 AM Post Reply

The Boston Globe is being dragged kicking and screaming to facts regarding Elizabeth Warren private law practice history, including her representation of Dow Chemical which Warren never previously disclosed to the press (emphasis mine): Warren, a Harvard Law School bankruptcy specialist, released a list of 13 cases Monday night, just 15 minutes before the start of her second debate with Brown. Her campaign described those often complex cases in brief, flattering terms. But the list did not include all the clients Warren

Michelle Obama: Debates
make me nervous

CNN, by Jessica Yellin & Gabriella Schwarz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 8:45:21 AM Post Reply

Denver- Watching her husband during a presidential debate makes Michelle Obama feels like an anxious mom, the first lady confided in an exclusive interview with CNN. "I get so nervous at these debates," a laughing Obama told CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin. "I'm like one of those parents watching their kid on the balance beam. You're just standing there trying not to you know, have any expression at all." Although it may be difficult for her to watch her husband, President Barack Obama, debate on stage, she said she refrains from offering him advice beforehand.

The Obama fairy tale
exposed, once again

Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 10/3/2012 8:42:28 AM Post Reply

The video of Obama from 2007 will not itself change the election. At that level, it was over-hyped.But it is a reminder of the nasty side of Obama, the side well-hidden, the side which does not hesitate to play racial and class politics when convenient and to his advantage. The side which incessantly pits people against each other and plays on historical grievances and resentments, all the while claiming to do the exact opposite.Just ask the Clintons, who were smeared as racist.

This Race Has Just Begun

Weekly Standard, by Jay Cost Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/3/2012 8:42:28 AM Post Reply

The most recent RealClearPolitics average of the national polls shows President Obama holding a 3.3 point lead over Mitt Romney, 49.1 to 45.1. Additionally, his net job approval rating is now back to about even, 48.8 approve to 48.5 disapprove. It's important not to buy the left wing spin that this race is over: it's not even close to being over. Here's why. First, October is the month of voter decision making. A lot of the polls that show a narrow Obama lead are actually “pushing” undecided voters to make a decision. This will make for interesting swing

Exclusive: In heated ’07 speech,
Obama lavishes praise on Wright, says
feds ‘don’t care’ about New Orleans

Daily Caller, by Tucker Carlson* Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/3/2012 8:39:32 AM Post Reply

In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism. “The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!” Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University

Grasping for ‘Accomplishments’

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Evans Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 8:36:21 AM Post Reply

A report from the Democratic Policy and Communications Center (DPCC) listing the Democratic Senate majority’s “Accomplishments in the 112th Congress” contains distortions, exaggerations, omissions, and falsehoods. The report, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, bemoans Republican obstructionism, citing “109 filibusters by Senate Republicans this Congress alone,” but hails legislation passed through the chamber that “will create jobs, cut taxes, strengthen national security, and honor our nation’s veterans.” The report does not mention, however, the Republican charge that the Senate has killed “nearly 40 of our jobs bills.”

Hosp duo’s demand of Kennedy

New York Post, by CARL CAMPANILE Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 10/3/2012 8:31:58 AM Post Reply

Two nurses say a healthy dose of money and a public apology on the “Today” show will help cure the “pain and suffering’’ they’ve endured since Douglas Kennedy moved his newborn son out of their hospital, The Post has learned.But that’s not enough for Cari Luciano and Anna Lane. Their proposal also includes a weird demand that Kennedy, a Fox News Channel reporter, spend two weeks collecting garbage.

Iran police clash with protesters
over currency crisis

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 8:25:06 AM Post Reply

Riot police in Iran have clashed with protesters in the capital over sharp falls in the currency, the rial. Tear gas was used to disperse the demonstrators, some of whom were setting fire to tyres and rubbish bins. There were many arrests, reports say. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that scores of people gathered outside the central bank, calling for the governor to stand down, chanting anti-government slogans. The rial has plummeted to record lows against the US dollar in recent days. Up to 100 angry traders and official money lenders gathered in front of Iran's central bank. But they were

Woman, 89, who has been virtually
blind for seven years can see
again after surgeons implant this
pea-sized telescope into her eye

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 8:22:01 AM Post Reply

An 89 year old woman who received a pioneering pea-sized telescope implant has spoken of her joy at being able to read for the first time in seven years. Surgeons at UC Davis Medical Center successfully implanted a tiny telescope implant in the eye of Dorothy Bane in May. She has suffered from end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the leading causes of blindness. 'I can see better than ever now,' she said. 'Colors are more vibrant, beautiful and natural, and I can read large print with my glasses. Bane, who was a watercolour artist, said she hopes

U.S. AG’s Brother
Appears To Employ
Illegal Immigrants

Carolina Journal (Raleigh, NC), by Don Carrington Original Article

Posted By: rivlax- 10/3/2012 8:11:17 AM Post Reply

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s brother, William Holder, apparently employs illegal foreign workers at one or more of the four McDonald’s restaurants he and his wife Deborah purchased last year in Wake County, a Carolina Journal investigation has found. A CJ reporter made approximately 30 visits in September to observe and talk with workers at the restaurants, at least one of which has been visited by the attorney general.

Al-Qaeda's grip on northern
Mali has to be broken

Telegraph [UK], by David Blair Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 7:56:44 AM Post Reply

I wrote earlier this week that a Somalia-style intervention will have to be undertaken sooner or later in order to break al-Qaeda’s grip on northern Mali. Sure enough, yesterday’s Washington Post reported that American officials are considering this option, with the added possibility that they could choose to extend the drone war to the Sahara. The option of deploying US or Western combat troops is not even up for discussion. The only realistic possibility for dealing with Mali is to apply the Somalia model, namely that African forces would do the fighting and the West would provide funding, logistics and

Did the White House order a cover-up
over the murder of Libya's US Ambassador?

Telegraph (UK), by Con Coughlin Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 10/3/2012 7:08:49 AM Post Reply

Immediately after the murder of Chris Stevens, America's Ambassador to Libya, I suggested that the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11 could have profound consequences for President Barack Obama, particulary if he failed to take appropriate action against the murderers – the most likely candidates being members of al-Qaeda's new terror franchise in Mali.But with the US presidential contest entering its critical final phase, the Obama administration deftly avoided getting into any controversy over the murder of Mr Stevens and three other members of the consulate staff

Obama, supporters lying to us

Tampa Tribune/Hernando Today, by Len Tria Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 10/3/2012 7:05:25 AM Post Reply

A great lesson from mother was "a lie has short legs" and in addition you had better have a great memory to lie. It seems that there is no such "mother" advising the president and his staff of habitual liars. (Snip)The truth of the matter is that Obama is a progressive- or, more clearly, a socialist-leaning individual. In earlier video clips of him speaking at a university, I believe, he clearly stated that he believed in redistribution (wealth) and mentioned it a second time. That line of thinking, of course, comes from no other than Karl Marx, who stated...

Ask the tough questions, Mitt

New York Daily News, by S.E. Cupp Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 6:20:24 AM Post Reply

As both campaigns try their darndest to lower expectations in advance of Wednesday night’s first presidential debate, and the media sound a dire warning that the entire future of Mitt Romney’s campaign will rise and fall on this one performance, it’s worthwhile to pause on an obvious (if rarely mentioned) point: This debate should be a cakewalk for Romney. Finally, after a year that has seen President Obama’s supporters in the media whitewash his record and, for the most part, neglect to ask him tough questions about his many failed promises, Romney will get the chance

What Romney Must Do

American Spectator, by Aaron Goldstein Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/3/2012 6:12:52 AM Post Reply

Tonight, President Obama and Mitt Romney go "mano a mano" in the first of their three debates. Fair or not, Romney is perceived as the underdog and some have argued that Romney must make his case in the first debate or it's all over. While I believe that Romney has three bites at the apple, it is incumbent upon him to rise to the occasion against the incumbent. So what must Romney do tonight and over the next several weeks to convince the American voter to unseat President Obama and elect him as the next President of the United States?

Darrell Issa Does the Work
American Reporters Won’t Do

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 6:09:28 AM Post Reply

Ever since the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, the Obama administration has been stalling, obfuscating and outright lying in order to avoid taking responsibility for the deaths of four Americans, including our ambassador. To a considerable degree, they have gotten away with that strategy. But Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has stepped into the breach. Issa’s committee has been approached by whistle-blowers within the State Department, and the stories they tell about the department’s malfeasance are shocking. Today Issa wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,

Proposed Ban on Public Nudity
Offends Some in San Francisco

Wall Street Journal, by Geoffrey A. Fowler & Vauhini Vara Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 6:04:26 AM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco's tolerance toward tolerance is wearing thin. A city supervisor here proposed a law Tuesday that would ban nudity in most public places across the city. For years, the city has held an "equilibrium" with nudity at public events and occasionally in neighborhoods, said the supervisor, Scott Wiener, but the nudity recently "has just gotten extreme." At issue is a public plaza that regularly attracts nudists in the historically gay Castro neighborhood, prompting a debate about the limits of civil liberties in this famously tolerant city. After complaints about the naked people by some businesses and residents,

Obama’s Education in World Affairs

Commentary Magazine, by Max Boot Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/3/2012 5:58:37 AM Post Reply

President Obama came into office with high hopes of transforming America’s foreign relations and he has enjoyed some real successes, notably the toppling of Muammar Qaddafi and the killing of Osama bin Laden. But there have been even more setbacks. In country after country he has not shown much progress in dealing with intractable problems. Iran creeps ever closer to acquiring nuclear weapons, while Benjamin Netanyahu warns that the mullahs could pass the point of no return as early as next spring. Israel and the Palestinians are as far apart as ever on a peace deal; Obama’s heavy-handed pressure

Even More FOIA Follies

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

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/3/2012 5:53:38 AM Post Reply

Environmental Protection Agency senior executives used secret email addresses to skirt freedom of information laws, a lawsuit by a free-market think tank alleges. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit against the EPA last week claiming senior executives at the agency used secret email accounts to conduct public business, shielding their communications from the Freedom of Information Act. The suit cites an internal EPA memo, first revealed in a 2008 Government Accountability Office, which describes secondary email accounts known only to a “few EPA staff members, usually only high-level senior staff.” CEI is asking the court to compel production

It’s lights, camera... and
drool all over Obama

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 5:46:17 AM Post Reply

The only place to watch tonight’s presidential debate is on C-SPAN. You know what everyone on every network except Fox is going to say. Comrade Chris Matthews’ leg is going to be tingling out of control. Sgt. Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow will be breathlessly reading phony stories from the Internet about dissension in the GOP ranks. On CNN, “Republicans” Alex Castellanos and David Gergen will compare Barack’s closing statement to the Gettysburg Address and the Sermon on the Mount. David Brooks will swoon as he notes the perfect crease in Obama’s trousers. All of these trust-funded parrots —

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