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Make mine a single: the
rise of stronger spirits

Wall Street Journal, by Charles Passy Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 10/3/2012 12:46:01 PM Post Reply

Is America ready for a really stiff drink? Distillers are rolling out a growing number of whiskies, rums, gins—even cognacs—with higher-than-normal concentrations of alcohol. The offerings come by a variety of monikers, with some makers dubbing them "overproof"—a reference to the fact that they go beyond the standard proof of 80 (or 40% alcohol by volume). Others prefer "cask strength" or "barrel strength," which means a spirit hasn't been heavily diluted before bottling. Still others use the term "navy strength," the potency historically demanded by the British Royal Navy. (If gunpowder doused with a spirit ignited,

Buying Thomson Is About
Closing Gitmo, No Matter
What They Say

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:39:46 PM Post Reply

“If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” “The allegation … — that ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico — is false.” The Benghazi terrorist attack, in which jihadists killed four Americans, was a spontaneous “response to a video that is offensive.” I could go on, but you get the point. This administration lies whenever lying is expedient in a scheme it is trying to accomplish or an accusation it is trying to dodge.

Senator Graham: Obama Is
Guilty of a ‘Mini-Coup’

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

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:28:29 PM Post Reply

This week, sequestration made headlines again, as Lockheed Martin announced its intention to fall in line with the executive branch’s astonishing request that defense contractors wilfully violate the WARN Act. Per its declaration, the firm will defer sending layoff notices made necessary by the sequestration law; and in return they will receive immunity from the consequences, along with a promise that any fines will be picked up by Uncle Sam. This morning, I spoke to Senator Lindsay Graham about the development. Graham is deeply concerned about the move, and about the lack of attention it is receiving —

Text Obama’s 2006 Speech
on Faith and Politics (From the
LDot Archives, June 28, 2006)

New York Times, by Barack Obama Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/3/2012 12:28:20 PM Post Reply

Following is the text of Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference in Washington, D.C., in 2006. Good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference. (Snip) So I'd like to congratulate you all on the thoughtful presentations you've given so far about poverty and justice in America, and for putting fire under the feet of the political leadership here in Washington. But today I'd like to talk about the connection between religion and politics

Gibbs: Obama believes Katrina
response failures were ‘colorblind’

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:20:24 PM Post Reply

Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs dismissed claims from conservative media outlets that the president believed the botched federal response to Hurricane Katrina was influenced by race. In an interview with "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday, Gibbs was asked about a video of then-Illinois Sen. Obama delivering a speech in 2007 in which he discussed the anger many African-Americans affected by the 2005 storm’s devastation felt at Washington’s mishandled relief efforts. “The president says the incompetence surrounding the federal government’s response to Katrina in 2005 was colorblind,” said Gibbs. “If the Republicans want to defend the Bush

Controversial Art Display
Rocks Grand Rapids

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:12:53 PM Post Reply

Artwork made from semen is causing a stir in Grand Rapids, Mich. after the paintings were included in a city-wide art competition — partially funded by tax dollars. The three paintings were created using slightly more than four ounces of semen infected with HIV, according to the artist — EA Conner. (Snip) “These paintings were created as a reminder that we all come in contact with people every day who are HIV positive,” he wrote on his ArtPrize profile page. “The red spots on the Scorpion and Bio-hazard paintings are actual HIV positive semen and the gold

Elderly Couple Face Vandalism,
Molotov Cocktail Over Romney Sign

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:08:36 PM Post Reply

An elderly California couple has been subjected to violent threats, vandalism and a fake Molotov cocktail because they erected a pro-Mitt Romney sign on their front yard. (Snip) Gene Liboff, 78, of Woodland Hills, Calif., told Fox News the latest incident occurred last week when someone left a baby food canister with a wick attached to it – next to the sign. The bottle was filled with liquid. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Dept. confirmed to Fox News that the incident occurred. The fire department and bomb squad were summoned – but

Gov't Tells Mass. College to
Create a Women's Hockey Team
Because Hockey's Popular in Region

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:02:39 PM Post Reply

Women who want to play intercollegiate ice hockey probably wouldn’t apply to Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., because the small Catholic school doesn’t have an ice hockey team for women. But that’s about to change. Following a federal civil rights investigation, Merrimack has agreed to create three new female athletic teams, including a women's hockey team that eventually will play at the Division I level – just as the Merrimack men’s hockey team does. As a first step, the school said it needs to find out "if there is sufficient interest and ability”

School May Install ‘Trash-Cams’
To Spy on Kids Tossing Veggies

Fox News, by Todd Starnes Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 11:44:24 AM Post Reply

A Florida school district is considering a plan to install surveillance cameras on cafeteria trash cans to monitor what kids are throwing away – after they discovered that students were tossing out their federally-mandated fruit and vegetables. (Snip) The Lake County School Board said more than $75,000 worth of vegetables have been thrown in the garbage. The veggies and fresh fruit are party of the Obama administration’s policy to force schools to provide healthy produce in lunch rooms. “It’s fairly specific recipe of what they would like us to serve,” Lake County School Board member

Obama Grades the United
States: 'Incomplete'

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 11:39:51 AM Post Reply

In a recent interview with Glamour magazine, President Barack Obama gives the United States an "incomplete" grade. Obama's grade is based on how women are treated in America. "I think the way I’d grade the United States right now is incomplete," says Obama. "There are more opportunities for women than ever before. I think women excelling in school is now translating into greater opportunities in their professional lives. Some of the steps that we’ve taken have helped to open up additional access, but I’m not going to be satisfied until every young person who is willing

Exclusive: President Obama
Considered Putting Osama bin
Laden on Trial if Taken Alive

Vanity Fair, by Michael Lewis Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 11:33:22 AM Post Reply

In an adaptation from his new book, The Finish—first reported for Vanity Fair—magazine contributing editor Mark Bowden reveals that President Obama intended to put Osama bin Laden on trial in the federal court system if he had been captured, rather than killed, during the Abbottabad raid. Bowden had access to key players including C.I.A. deputy director Michael Morell and the president himself. According to Bowden in the story—in November’s Vanity Fair—in the unlikely event that bin Laden surrendered, Obama saw an opportunity to resurrect the idea of a criminal trial, which Attorney General Eric Holder had planned for

New Ad Questions Obama:
'Politics Before Patriotism?'

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 11:19:02 AM Post Reply

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained this new political ad that knocks President Obama for saying the al Qaeda terrorist attack in Libya is a bump in the road: The thirty-second spot will soon be airing in the battleground state of Virginia, and possibly elsewhere. It is courtesy of Special Operations OPSEC PAC, which is made up of former military and intelligence officials. "President Obama wanted credit after our military killed bin Laden," the ad's narrator says. "Highly classified secrets were leaked, endangering real heroes and their families. But when terrorists killed SEALs and diplomats in Libya, this

From player to pauper: How NBA
star blew through $110MILLION
in just two years and was forced
to file for bankruptcy when
career ended

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 11:10:26 AM Post Reply

NBA star Antoine Walker blew through the $110million he earned in a successful basketball career so quickly that he was forced to file for bankruptcy just two years after he retired. Walker, who was forced to come out of retirement and play in the obscure development league, says bad real estate deals, gambling debts and 14 years of living the high life have left him all but broke today. It is a far cry from his glory days in the NBA, where he was named to the all-star team three times and won a championship in 2006.

Essex County clerk admitted fraud
and agreed to resign, but never did

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Alexi Friedman Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 10/3/2012 11:10:00 AM Post Reply

Essex County — Rocio Rivera pleaded guilty to voter fraud last year when she admitted to fraudulently submitting absentee ballots in an effort to elect Teresa Ruiz to the state Senate for Essex County in 2007. As part of a plea deal, Rivera agreed to resign from her job as a clerk in the Essex County Sheriff's Office. She never did. In March, a judge sentenced the 52-year-old Rivera to three years' probation for third-degree absentee ballot fraud. Still, Rivera did not resign from the sheriff’s office, where she has worked for 15 years.

To believe Obama is to
forget the last four years

Washington Examiner, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 11:01:43 AM Post Reply

Imagine you hire a company to fix your roof. They proceed to do shoddy work, miss every promised deadline and go wildly over budget. Would you then hire them to add a new room to your house? No, of course not. But that is exactly what President Obama is asking the American people to do in his latest television ad. "If I could sit down with you in your living room or around the kitchen table," Obama says directly into the camera, "here's what I'd say." He then goes on to outline a new "economic patriotism,"

Bob Woodward: 'Obama Is
Proposing Cutting Medicare'

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 10:58:59 AM Post Reply

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama is claiming that if reelected, he would save Medicare while Mitt Romney will kill it. Yet the Washington Post's Bob Woodward said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday the president "is proposing cutting Medicare" (video follows with transcript and commentary):BOB WOODWARD: He is tuned in to his own ambivalence, and in the reporting on this, it's very clear he realizes we face a problem that is not going to go away, that he's got to address. And there are documents that are floating around that I got and notes

The Rockabilly Queen

Wall Street Journal, by Marc Myers Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/3/2012 10:58:11 AM Post Reply

Memphis- Perched in a director's chair placed in Graceland's Jungle Room, rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson was at a loss for words. Looking around the Hawaiian-themed space that Elvis Presley had used as a den and home recording studio, she appeared overwhelmed. "Knowing Elvis like I did, this is a bit much," she said. "Everything that was fun about him is crystallized in this house. It's Elvis, but he's not here." Back in 1955 and '56, the singer-guitarist toured with Presley and dated him. Today, Ms. Jackson, 74, is one of the last original female rockabilly stars still performing and recording.

BH Interview: Ted Nugent
Says U.S. Is 'Done' if
Obama Re-elected

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 10:53:30 AM Post Reply

I recently had the the opportunity to talk with Ted Nugent about gun rights, liberty, and the dangers liberalism poses for America. Throughout the course of the interview Nugent repeatedly stressed the absolute necessity of electing Romney/Ryan in 2012 and indicated that we can just look around to us see what terrible results President Barack Obama's policies have had on our nation. Obama and his cohorts are doing to us what other liberals have done to places like Detroit, where a once thriving city has been gutted from within by "liberals [who] train people to be dependent,

Gibbs: Middle Class Has
Been Buried "Dealing With
Bad Economic Decisions
From Former Administration"

Real Clear Politics, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 10:52:05 AM Post Reply

On CBS's "This Morning" on Wednesday, Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs defended Vice President's comment that the middle class has been "buried" for the past four years. (Snip)"Let's be clear, the middle class has been buried for a lot longer than the time that we've been dealing with bad economic decisions from the former administration," Gibbs added. On MSNBC "Morning Joe" today, deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter also weighed in on the "buried" comment controversy and said "we're not blaming our predecessor by any means."

Exclusive: Obama’s race speech
echoed Wright’s ravings

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/3/2012 10:37:31 AM Post Reply

In the months before Barack Obama made his now-famous statement that the U.S. government cares less about majority-black New Orleans than other American cities, his longtime spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made similar claims in public. The Daily Caller has obtained weekly bulletins from Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Church of Christ in which Wright condemns the federal government’s Katrina policy as racist. Until now, those remarks have never been reprinted.

Jared Bernstein: Obama’s Budget the
‘Holy Grail of Deficit Reduction’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 10:33:12 AM Post Reply

Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget was “the Holy Grail of deficit reduction.” “Here I think I have some good news,” Bernstein said at an event at George Washington University with former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) about the U.S. economy and fiscal problems. “If you actually look at the budget that the president submitted in 2013, which takes a lot from Bowles-Simpson, maybe not enough for Simpson himself and we can hear about that. But it takes a lot from Bowles-Simpson.”

Obama aide denies Bush bashing

Politico, by Kevin Robillard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 10:27:29 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s reelection effort is not blaming the sputtering economic recovery of the past four years on former President George W. Bush, his deputy campaign manager insisted Wednesday. “We’re absolutely not doing that,” Stephanie Cutter said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “In fact, we’re taking credit for the 5.1 million private-sector jobs that have been created over the past four years despite being handed the worst economy since the Great Depression. We’re taking credit for the million jobs that were protected under the president’s efforts to save the auto industry and the increase in manufacturing jobs

Chicago's Susan Crown, Influential
Obama '08 Supporter, Campaigns
for Romney '12

Breitbart Big Government, by Jasmine Velasco Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 10:27:04 AM Post Reply

Businesswoman and philanthropist Susan Crown, a former Obama supporter and a member of one of Chicago’s most influential families, told an audience of over 300 women and men, “In the midst of the Obama administration, I became profoundly disappointed, disillusioned and actually a little angry.” Democrats, Republicans and self-described independents recently came together to hear how one of President Obama’s own prominent supporters is now using her considerable talent and energy to get Gov. Mitt Romney elected the next President of the United States. They gathered at a modest complimentary luncheon in the ballroom of a hotel in Naperville,

Obama HHS to Force Bible
Publisher to Kneel to
Contraceptive Mandate

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 10:21:40 AM Post Reply

We now have the US government dictating who is and who is not sufficiently religious to escape the ObamaCare abortifacient mandate. The Obama administration is claiming that a dedicated Christian publisher of Bibles and ministry material is insufficiently religious to qualify for an exemption to the contraception mandate in the president’s health-care overhaul. According to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in the District of Columbia by Tyndale House Publishers, the company has been refused a “religious employer” exemption because the Health and Human Services Department categorically maintains that any for-profit publisher is not a “religious employer.”

Fake Military Documents, Weapons
Found in Abandoned Pickup

KXAS-TV [Dallas-Fort Worth], by Frank Heinz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 10:17:12 AM Post Reply

A dry cleaner and former member of the U.S. military has been arrested after suspicious documents and weapons were found in his crashed pickup truck early Tuesday. At about 5 a.m. Tuesday, a delivery driver spotted a crashed Chevrolet Silverado behind the Mayflower Place shopping center along state Highway 26 near Precinct Line. The driver notified the Hurst Police Department, who soon arrived to investigate. According to police, the vehicle was wrecked with front end damage, had its airbags deployed and, upon further inspection by officers,

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