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Explosion kills three
in Hezbollah stronghold

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:07:06 PM Post Reply

Three people were killed on Wednesday when an explosion ripped through a building in eastern Lebanon, a stronghold of the Shi'ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah, a medical source said. Hezbollah forces quickly cordoned off the area and prevented journalists from entering the town of Nabi Sheet, 30 km (18 miles) south of the regional center of Baalbek. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. One source said the blast occurred in a weapons cache but a security source said the building was used to store car parts.

Clinton pins hopes on internal
review to answer mounting
questions on what went wrong in Libya

Fox News, by Ed Henry & Catherine Herridge Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:04:35 PM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to mounting questions Wednesday about what went wrong in Libya and who's responsible by asking for more time to complete an internal review, saying, "nobody will hold this department more accountable than we hold ourselves." The secretary vowed to get to the bottom of the terror attack that killed four Americans last month in response to a letter by Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, claiming the department turned down requests for more security amid a string of attacks and threats in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 strike. Clinton did not

Obama in 2002: Wealthy
embrace nonviolence
because ‘they want to
make sure folks don’t take
their stuff’

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by David Martosko Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/3/2012 3:03:28 PM Post Reply

In a video that surfaced on YouTube Wednesday morning, a young State Senator Barack Obama is seen explaining from a church pulpit that the principle of nonviolent resistance for social change applies more readily to the wealthy than to Americans in lower social classes. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed,” Obama says in the video, shot on January 21, 2002 at the University of Chicago, “but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure folks don’t take their stuff.” January 21 was Martin Luther

Pre-Debate, New York
Times Defends Obama from
'Bad Hand' Dealt by Bush

NewsBusters, by Clay Waters Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/3/2012 2:59:41 PM Post Reply

On Wednesday, New York Times political reporters Jackie Calmes (pictured) and John Harwood offered a pre-debate fact-check which predictably leaned in Obama's favor (and blamed former President Bush): "A Closer Look at Assertions the 2 Sides Have Made on Economic Issues." The first presidential debate is likely to focus on economic issues as President Obama and Mitt Romney clash over the size and role of government. Here are some topics that could come up. DEBT Mr. Romney blames Mr. Obama for annual trillion-dollar deficits adding to what is now a $16 trillion national debt.

France hits foreign-trained extremists

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 2:59:20 PM Post Reply

Paris - France on Wednesday presented plans for a new anti-terrorism law that will allow authorities to prosecute citizens who attend militant Islamist training camps abroad.The move comes six months after Mohamed Merah, a French citizen who claimed to have attended Al-Qaeda-style training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, killed seven people in a wave of shootings in and around Toulouse. (Snip) The reforms will allow authorities to detect "the spread of radicalism or jihadism on the internet and to identify people returning to France after training or participating in terrorist actions" abroad.

I'm ready for my curtain call:
From a drenched pooch in a
shower to puppies at play, amazing
images from Kennel Club Dog Photo-
grapher of the Year contest

Daily Mail [UK], by Nick Enoch Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 2:55:42 PM Post Reply

This soaking dog may not be smiling while peeking out from behind a shower curtain, but maybe it hasn't heard it's just received a special mention in the Dog Portrait Gallery. The picture, taken by Opal Seabrook, was among the best of the Kennel Club Dog Photographer of the Year competition, which has recently announced its winners. Held annually, the contest is open to both professionals and amateurs, young and old, from all around the world - and this year attracted 5,000 entries.

Feds bust spy ring who smuggled
'cutting-edge' US technology
to Russian military since 2008

New York Post, by Mitchel Maddux & Dan Mangan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 2:49:59 PM Post Reply

A large-scale ring that for years allegedly illegally exported cutting-edge microelectronics through JFK Airport to Russian military and intelligence agencies has been busted up by federal authorities, officials announced today. The 11 defendants charged in an indictment unsealed today "spun an elaborate web of lies to evade the laws that protect our national security," said Brooklyn US Attorney Loretta Lynch, whose office is prosecuting the case. "The defendants tried to take advantage of America's free markets to steal American technologies for the Russian government," Lynch. The microelectronics allegedly exported to Russia since 2008 by main defendant Alexander Fishenko, 46, and his

Presidential debate: Mitt Romney's people
think they may just be able to
turn this thing around

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/3/2012 2:49:07 PM Post Reply

It’s October, six weeks out from polling day and Mitt Romney is narrowly but significantly behind in the polls. That’s the situation today, and it is exactly the same situation that prevailed 10 years ago when Mitt was running for governor of Massachusetts. Back then, Romney called what a member of his 2002 staff recently described to me as a “come to Jesus” meeting, summoning his top team to his home in Boston. Mitt and Ann Romney sat on the sofa and listened while his strategist, Mike Murphy, admitted the campaign was going to the dogs.

The Electoral College Is Brilliant,
And We Would Be Insane
To Abolish It

Business Insider, by Walter Hickey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 2:46:53 PM Post Reply

No matter who is running, each presidential election comes with a de facto bogeyman already picked — the election process itself. The electoral college is loathed, depending on the election, by Democrats (2000), Republicans (2012), Third Party candidates (1804-2012) and other activist groups. Still, this is one of the best systems out there without a doubt. (Snip) First of all, without it, rural voters would not matter in any way, shape, or form. Why would a candidate go out to the middle of nowhere to court rural voters when he could stroll through a single Manhattan apartment complex and meet

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."

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