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Election 2012: Missouri Senate

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:18:50 PM Post Reply

The deadline has passed for embattled Congressman Todd Akin to withdraw from Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, and incumbent Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill has now crossed the 50% mark for the first time. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Missouri Likely Voters shows McCaskill with 51% of the vote to Akin’s 45%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (Snip) This Missouri survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on October 2, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points

Sensitive documents left behind
at American mission in Libya

Washington Post, by Michael Birnbaum Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/3/2012 4:16:30 PM Post Reply

BENGHAZI, Libya — More than three weeks after attacks in this city killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, sensitive documents remained only loosely secured in the remains of the U.S. mission here on Wednesday, offering visitors easy access to delicate details about American operations in Libya.Documents detailing weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s trip and the personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission were among the items scattered across the floors

Global slowdown 'becoming a genuine
possibility,' as Europe, China
decelerate further

NBC News, by Andy Bruce Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:12:58 PM Post Reply

London - The euro zone's economic woes accelerated last month and China's slowdown looked likely to extend to a seventh quarter, surveys on Wednesday showed, while the United States proved the bright spot with better-than-expected news on services and jobs. Purchasing managers indexes (PMIs) suggested the aggressive actions taken by the world's central banks over the last two months have yet to convince consumers to start spending again. The chances of the euro zone in particularly seeing growth again before next year has dwindled.Falling new orders and more layoffs marked a worsening decline for euro zone companies, the PMIs showed,

Wide-eyed Chipotle worker,
Romney photo goes viral

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:07:30 PM Post Reply

Denver - The manager of a Denver Chipotle (Chee-POHT-lay) restaurant has become an Internet celebrity thanks to the wide-eyed pose he struck alongside Mitt Romney when the Republican presidential candidate stopped by for lunch. Twenty-year-old Marty Arps struck the pose during a group photo with Romney and Chipotle employees Tuesday afternoon. Arps is seen making a wide-eyed expression while pointing at Romney. Arps told The Daily he makes the expression when he's excited. He said he doesn't know yet who he'll vote for, and says he's "not too hip to elections and stuff." The Associated Press photo is being shared

What Obama's Affordable Care Act
means for the world's hospitals

Global Post [Boston], by Matt Levin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 4:01:53 PM Post Reply

San Jose, Costa Rica - Sitting in blue scrubs in a hospital room, plastic surgeon Christian Rivera ponders a potential sea change for this Central American country’s private hospitals, triggered by health care reform in the United States. That’s because his profession thrives on uninsured US citizens looking for cheaper care abroad. So what happens to medical tourism when US President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act grants almost all US citizens health insurance by 2014? Rivera hopes he has a positive answer. (Snip) In the developing world, many doctors now work like Rivera. Physicians and surgeons train at top US

A few debate questions for
Obama that won’t be asked

Human Events, by Michelle Malkin Original Article

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

On Wednesday night, left-leaning TV anchor Jim Lehrer of government-supported PBS will moderate the first 90-minute presidential debate in Denver. The forum will focus on domestic policy. Lehrer alone will determine the topics and questions for six 15-minute segments, and then he will control an “open discussion” for each segment. We know the liberal media bias drill: Make the Republican candidate look like a scary extremist on social issues and a greedy capitalist pig on economic issues. Avoid the Democratic incumbent’s record of failure. Run out the clock. Thank you and good night. (Snip) Is the beanbag order still in

No full client list from candidates

Boston Globe, by Noah Berman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:30:33 PM Post Reply

Both Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, his Democratic challenger, have boasted that they are being transparent in revealing the cases they have handled in their legal careers. But neither candidate has produced a full list of clients, and both have dribbled out the information in recent days in ways that make it difficult for the media and the public to vet. (Snip) During Monday night’s debate, moderator David Gregory mentioned that Warren had released a list of her clients, without realizing it was only partial, and asked Brown why he had not done so.“I did, actually,” Brown insisted. “I released

8-Time Felon Aims for State
(Not Big) House

ABC News, by Jilian Fama Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:22:39 PM Post Reply

People say politicians can't be trusted, but what about when it comes to an eight-time felon running for public office? Brian Banks, 35, convicted of writing bad checks and credit card fraud, is vying for Michigan's 1st House District this November. The Democrat, whose last conviction for fraud-related charges was eight years ago, won a close primary election. Banks, who did not have to face an incumbent, beat four other Democratic opponents by a margin of only 100 votes. He'll face Dan Schulte, a Republican and Grosse Pointe Shores two-term city councilman with no criminal record
Headline corrected by staff.

Swede forced to fake
stroke to get x-ray

Local [Sweden], by Rebecca Martin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:19:57 PM Post Reply

A Swedish man has reported his local hospital after being forced to fake stroke symptoms to finally get an x-ray, following years of debilitating headaches and high blood pressure. “I have filed a report so that this won’t happen to others,” Mats Johannesson told The Local. (Snip) “I asked for an x-ray but they didn’t think there was enough reason to carry one out,” Johannsesson said. This continued on and off for the next five years. By last summer, Johannesson had gone to hospital by ambulance 47 times. Every time he was sent back by taxi – and without the

Obama hoped to put Osama bin
Laden on trial, new book says

Associated Press, by Kimberly Dozier Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:15:48 PM Post Reply

Washington - A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial if he had surrendered during a U.S. raid. In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show U.S. justice applies even to him. In the book, purchased by The Associated Press, Bowden says Obama said he expected the terror leader to go down fighting. “The Finish” is due out Oct. 16. Obama’s remarks

Taliban in control
at Kabul’s doorstep

Global Post [Boston], by Fazelminallah Qazizai & Chris Sands Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/3/2012 3:09:56 PM Post Reply

Kabul, Afghanistan - The first explosion came early in the morning while Yousef, a local army medic, was still in bed. Before he had time to understand what had happened, the second blast ripped through the US-Afghan base, sending him crashing to the ground. At least 12 people were killed and dozens more wounded in the twin suicide attack, which struck on Sept. 1. (Snip) “The army does not have the morale to fight. We are here because we have to be," Yousef told GlobalPost a few weeks after the assault. “Tomorrow we have another operation so again there is

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

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