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U.S. birth rate drops,
sign of weak economy

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 2:42:08 PM Post Reply

New York - U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued to dampen enthusiasm for having children. But there may be a silver lining: The decline in 2011 was just 1 percent — not as sharp a fall-off as the 2 to 3 percent drop seen in other recent years. (Snip) Most striking in the new report were steep declines in Hispanic birth rates and a new low in teen births. Hispanics have been disproportionately affected by the flagging economy, experts say,

Obama removes penalties for
countries using child soldiers

Human Events, by Hope Hodge Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 2:38:31 PM Post Reply

In a short memo released Friday, President Barack Obama announced that he would waive economic penalties for countries employing child soldiers, citing “the national interest” in doing so. The memo stated that all sanctions imposed under the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 would be waived for Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen, and portion’s of the law’s requirements would be lifted for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The exact interests requiring these waivers was not stated. Foreign Policy’s The Cable reports that this is the third year Obama has opted to waive penalties under child soldier laws.

Jesse Jackson Jr. may not
return to work until
after election, wife says

Chicago Sun-Times, by Fran Spielman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 2:37:39 PM Post Reply

Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th) on Wednesday raised the possibility that her ailing husband, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), may not return to work until after the election on Nov. 6. “He is on the ballot. He is going to stay on the ballot, and I’m looking forward to him coming back to work after his re-election,” Sandi Jackson said. “No last-minute switcheroos. He would never do that, and I would never want that for him. I strongly believe in the democratic process. When I ran for alderman five years ago, I ran because I believe it’s important to give

NBC Dismisses Obama Video
as Old News, Edits Out
Jeremiah Wright Comments

NewsBusters, by Kyle Drennen Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 2:33:56 PM Post Reply

In a stunning omission on Wednesday's NBC Today, brief coverage of a 2007 video of Barack Obama completely ignored the then-Senator praising his controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright as a "great leader, not just in Chicago, but all across the country." The NBC morning show adopted a dismissive attitude toward the video, with co-host Savannah Guthrie leading off the broadcast: "Conservatives circulate a five-year-old video, in a move the Obama campaign calls desperate." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In the report that followed, chief White House correspondent

Senator Obama Was Pretty Awful
in 2007 and Hasn’t Got any
Better Since Becoming President

Chicago Daily Observer, by Pat Hickey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 2:33:29 PM Post Reply

I reported on then Senator Barack Obama’s Hampton Univeristy speech of June 2007, when he had entered the race for President. Thus ‘quiet riot’.The transcript of Senator Obama’s remarks were redacted, rather laundered, by the media at that time. I linked that in a March 2008 post yet again when Senator Obama lectured America on Race in his Teaching Moment that tossed United Church of Christ Black Liberation scholar/preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the path of the bus (Snip) He is the same man today, as he was in 2007, 2004 and 1995. His world-view fully formed by Planned Parenthood,

FLASHBACK: JournoList plotted
to kill Jeremiah Wright story
in 2008

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/3/2012 2:32:56 PM Post Reply

Now that The Daily Caller has uncovered and published video of President Barack Obama’s “other race speech,” liberal media figures are once again trying to quell coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story — just like in 2008. Records obtained by TheDC in mid-2010 showed that “at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate,” after ABC News’ Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos asked then-Sen. Obama about his controversial reverend during an April 2008 debate

ADP survey: US businesses added
162,000 jobs in September,
fewer than August

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/3/2012 2:14:43 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — A private survey shows that U.S. businesses added fewer workers in September than August, a sign that slow growth may be holding back hiring. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that companies added 162,000 jobs last month. That’s below August’s total of 189,000, which was revised lower. The September increase was better than economists had expected. And it marks the latest in a string of modest hiring gains reported by the survey in recent months. Still, the gain isn’t enough to significantly push down the unemployment rate, which has been above 8 percent
Headline split by staff.

Obama: ‘Rich People Are All For
Non-Violence…They’ve Got
What They Want!”

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/3/2012 2:11:34 PM Post Reply

This video, which recently surfaced, supposedly shows Barack Obama speaking at the University of Chicago in 2002. He explains why “rich people” support non-violence (Snip) Here’s the transcript as I made it out: “The philosophy of non-violence only makes sense if the powerful can be made to recognize themselves in the powerless; only makes sense if the powerless can be made to recognize themselves in the powerful. The principle of empathy gives broader meaning,
Snip added by staff.

Top Ten Reasons the 2007
Obama Video Matters in 2012

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 2:06:01 PM Post Reply

Even before the Daily Caller released the video last night of President Obama's 2007 speech before a majority black audience in Virginia, our corrupt media was already declaring it "old news." Time's Mark Halperin had a full-blown meltdown and BuzzFeed Politics' Ben Smith declared the story over and dead hours before anyone had read it. What's especially pathetic about Smith is that one of his site's signatures is scouring the Internet for old videos and publishing them as … news! Once the Daily Caller story did hit, and it became clear that Tucker Carlson had found

The day the 60s began:
Exactly 50 years after
the Beatles released their
first single, a magical evocation
of the decade that changed
the world for ever

Daily Mail (UK), by Ray Connolloy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 2:05:01 PM Post Reply

As dates go, October 5, 1962, isn’t famous. They don’t mention it in school history lessons, nobody very important was born or died then and no world-changing events made the headlines. Perhaps the most newsworthy event of that day was the London premiere of the first James Bond film, Dr No. But, 50 years ago on Friday, and unnoticed by all but a couple of hundred teenagers in Liverpool, The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, was released.And, in that moment, it seemed that the torch was passed from one generation to the next.

Zbigniew: US Should 'Investigate
And Crack Down' On Possible Anti-
Mohammed Movie 'Conspiracy'

NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 1:57:52 PM Post Reply

Sounding less like a supposed foreign policy expert and more like someone who's been listening to way too much late, late night left-wing radio, Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed to see the outlines of a "conspiracy" in the making of the anti-Mohammed movie trailer. Saying "it's not an issue of freedom of speech entirely," Jimmy Carter's former National Security Adviser suggested on Morning Joe today that the makers of the movie could be held "liable" for the deaths of the US Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. He recommended that the United States should "investigate and crack down" on

Romney Maintains Economic
Edge Heading Into Debates

Gallup, by Jeffrey M. Jones Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/3/2012 1:54:10 PM Post Reply

PRINCETON, NJ -- As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepare to discuss domestic issues in Wednesday's first presidential debate, Americans continue to give Romney at least a slight edge in terms of which presidential candidate is better able to handle the economy. However, Romney's advantage has decreased in comparison to earlier in the campaign.(Snip for graphic)These results are based on a Sept. 24-27 USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted in advance of the series of presidential debates beginning Oct. 3. Romney's economic advantage is important, given that the economy is Americans' overriding concern this election year.

Homeless getting checks
for police raid losses

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 1:49:21 PM Post Reply

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Homeless people are getting checks for property destroyed during Sacramento police raids on illegal campsites. The Loaves & Fishes homeless services complex is one of several locations where checks ranging from $400 to $750 are being distributed. Those will addresses are getting checks in the mail. The Sacramento Bee (sacb.ee/SoHhwO) says the payments resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming police violated the constitutional rights of homeless people by seizing and destroying their property during cleanup operations since 2005. The federal lawsuit said police officers took bicycles, tents

Michelle Obama says 'real
change' has happened

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

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 1:48:21 PM Post Reply

Michelle Obama on Wednesday said the country is in the midst of big change, as illustrated by the president’s historic election, but that “we take it for granted" because of what is still undone. “We're becoming a bigger, more accepting country,” she said on “The Steve Harvey Show” in an episode aired Wednesday. “Yes, we want to make sure we have a strong economy, we want to make sure that there's peace in the world, we have a clean environment, that every child has opportunities worthy of their dreams, and great education,” Obama said. “But the real change

Green Hypocrite Arnold Schwarzenegger

National Review Online, by Greg Pollowitz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 1:44:30 PM Post Reply

An excerpt from his 60 Minutes interview from Sunday: On never flying commercial again: Lots of these politicians fly around with Secret Service and Air Force One and all that… Then they step down and all of a sudden they’re flying first class on a commercial plane. I don’t have to do that. I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences. The funny/sad/disgusting thing is he doesn’t even realize how moronic this is.

First Lady: Cost-Free Contraception
Is ‘Basic Preventive Care’

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 1:41:00 PM Post Reply

First lady Michelle Obama called contraception “basic preventative care” and invoked her daughters before talking about women’s “decisions about our bodies” during a campaign fundraising event Tuesday. The first lady spoke at the Westin Hotel in Seattle where, according to the White House press pool report, about 700 attended, paying between $500 and $10,000. “Insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care – things like contraception, cancer screenings – at no out-of-pocket cost,” Michelle Obama said, referring to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. “They won’t be able to discriminate against you

Whatever Happened to Truth?

American Spectator, by Robert Stacy McCain Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/3/2012 1:33:25 PM Post Reply

Did you know that one-third of children in Ohio are enrolled in Medicaid? Neither did I, until last week when I picked up a copy of the Bucyrus (Ohio) Telegraph-Forum and read down to the seventh paragraph of a story headlined, "Study says more children have health insurance." The positive spin in the headline was undercut by the statistical facts of the story: "The increase in children on insurance comes as median incomes across the state were relatively flat, and the percentage of families in poverty -- especially those with children -- rose slightly."

Sierra Club targets lawmaker
who wants to restore Hetch Hetchy

North County Times (Calif), by Lance Williams Original Article

Posted By: wydleyred- 10/3/2012 1:24:19 PM Post Reply

The Sierra Club is spending $625,000 to defeat a Republican lawmaker who has championed one of the environmental organization’s most cherished goals – draining the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park. Campaign finance reports show that in September, the Sierra Club Independent Action super political action committee made several expenditures targeting U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren of Gold River, who is locked in a tight race against Democrat Dr. Ami Bera, an Elk Grove physician. The club is paying for a hard-edged series of TV commercials and mailers in the Sacramento-area district.

Domestic Fight Over
Obama and Romney Leads
to Man's Arrest: Cops

NBC6 South Florida, by Brian Hamacher Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 1:11:37 PM Post Reply

An argument over the 2012 election led to a domestic battery charge for an elderly Hollywood man who struck his wife after yelling at her "about Obama and Romney," police said Wednesday. Peter Schwartz, 74, was arrested at his home in the 4000 block of Hillcrest Drive around 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Hollywood Police arrest report. Schwartz's wife told police the two had gotten into a verbal argument about "politics" and she ran away when he started yelling at her about "Obama and Romney," the report said.

Explosive findings about DHS
operations in congressional report

Canada Free Press, by Doug Hagmann & Joseph Hagmann Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 1:10:54 PM Post Reply

An explosive 141-page investigative report was quietly released just after midnight by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is an indictment of the practices and procedures of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While this report provides details of the investigation of “fusion centers,” or intelligence centers across the country under the control of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, it provides critical insight into the workings of the DHS itself. The report, available here in PDF format, notes that a review by subcommittee investigators of 13 months

Doctor seeking Illinois Senate
seat offers brutal diagnosis
of ObamaCare in viral video

Fox News, by Perry Chiaramonte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 1:05:23 PM Post Reply

She's a former nun, an Army major, a lawyer, a college professor and a physician. Now Dr. Barbara Bellar wants to be a state senator from Illinois, and she has one question about ObamaCare. “What the blank could possibly go wrong?” Bellar asks, tongue in cheek, after delivering a one-sentence indictment of President Obama's health care law. (Snip) Bellar, a Republican candidate running for office in the state’s 18th district, gave the extended one-liner while warming up the crowd at a recent event for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Someone captured it on

FBI offering $50G reward for
Massachusetts man wanted for
supporting Al Qaeda

Fox News, by Joshua Rhett Miller Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 12:58:29 PM Post Reply

A Massachusetts man who the FBI says has traveled to Yemen and Pakistan for training in how to kill American soldiers now has a $50,000 price on his head. Ahmad Abousamra, 31, last lived in the U.S. in a tony Boston suburb and has relatives in Detroit. He left the United States in 2006 and may now be living in Aleppo, Syria, with his wife, at least one daughter and other relatives. He was indicted in 2009 for taking multiple trips to Pakistan and Yemen to seek jihad training and has been charged with conspiracy to provide material

Poll: '47 percent' gets more
traction than 'You didn't
build that'

The Hill [Washington DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 12:56:32 PM Post Reply

A new poll finds that Mitt Romney's secretly recorded comments about the "47 percent" of Americans who do not pay taxes did more to turn voters off than President Obama's "You didn't build that" remark at a campaign rally in Virginia. According to a survey released Tuesday night by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, 45 percent of voters said Romney's comments at a private fundraiser gave them a negative impression of the candidate. Alternatively, 23 percent said the comment gave them a more positive review of the candidate.“There are 47 percent

Massive Protests in Iran

National Review Online, by Nathaniel Botwinick Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/3/2012 12:55:48 PM Post Reply

Yesterday in Iran, there were major protests over the plummeting value of the rial. Tear gas was used to disperse the demonstrators, some of whom were setting fire to tires 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. Money dealers were joined by traders from the nearby central bazaar, reports say.

South Side marijuana farm
found with plants as tall
as Christmas trees

Chicago Sun-Times, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 12:49:37 PM Post Reply

The 1,000 or so marijuana plants — some as tall as Christmas trees — stretched across land the size of two football fields, but it took police in a helicopter to spot the massive grow operation on the far South Side. There were no reports of any arrests Wednesday. The marijuana was found on a stretch of land along the 10600 block of South Stony Island Avenue, not far from the Harborside International Golf Center, according to a police source.

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,

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