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93 Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound
Woman Gets Photo ID In
One Day After Losing
Initial PA Voter ID Lawsuit

Cybercast News Service, by Pete Winn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 4:07:29 PM Post Reply

For the first time, Philadelphia resident Viviette Applewhite actually got a state-issued photo ID from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. It was an important moment that went practically unnoticed when it it took place in August, according to Horace Cooper of Project 21 and Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy. “Applewhite is 93-years-old, does not drive, is confined to a wheelchair, lacks many personal identification documents, and yet she managed to get herself -- with no assistance from the ACLU -- to her local PennDot office, where she was issued an ID,” Danhof explained. “If

The Presidential Debate’s
Biggest Loser: Big Bird

ABC News, by Amy Bingham Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:56:43 PM Post Reply

While President Obama and Mitt Romney were trying to tout their economic plans, the social media sphere was massively distracted by a big yellow bird – Big Bird that is. After Romney said, “I love Big Bird,” but that he plans to cut funding for PBS anyhow, social media exploded with tweets about the “Sesame Street” character. According to Twitter data, the words “Big Bird” were tweeted 17,000 times per minute and “PBS,” the channel that airs “Sesame Street,” peaked at 10,000 tweets per minute.”Big Bird” was also the fourth highest-rising search term on Google. (Snip) The @BigBird handle, which

Police Seize More Than
600 Barrels of Maple Syrup

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:52:58 PM Post Reply

Kedjwick, New Brunswick - Police in Canada have seized more than 600 barrels of maple syrup in New Brunswick as part of an investigation into the theft of millions worth of syrup in Quebec and are transporting it back to Quebec under police protection, officials said Wednesday. The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers reported large quantities of syrup missing last month during a routine inventory, finding empty barrels at a site of the province's global strategic reserve at St-Louis-de-Blandford. (Snip) The shipment of the pancake-topper was making its way back to Quebec in a heavily guarded convoy of 16

Romney's big night

CBS News, by John Dickerson Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/4/2012 3:51:50 PM Post Reply

When Barack Obama entered the debate hall at the University of Denver Wednesday night, the air was clear and warm. When he left, the winds where whipping and the temperature had dropped 20 degrees. Coincidentally, that was also the same number of undecided voters who thought the president had a good debate. In two different polls of undecided voters by CNN and CBS, Obama received grim reviews. In the CBS poll, 46 percent thought Romney had done the better job. Only 22 percent thought Obama prevailed. (Snip) In another poll conducted with a group of "Wal-Mart Moms" in Las Vegas

Michael Moore Went On A
24-Tweet Rant Hammering
Obama's Debate Performance

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:50:13 PM Post Reply

A lot of Democrats and people on the left are upset with President Barack Obama's debate performance, but liberal filmmaker Michael Moore's meltdown during the debate was a pretty significant indicator of their collective feelings. Moore started out the night by telling his followers he'd be live tweeting the debate. Did he ever. He fired off 24 tweets and retweeted multiple others slamming Obama. He covered all topics of discontent: Wishing for Bill Clinton instead, slamming Obama's choice of John Kerry as Obama's "debate coach" (he played the part of Romney in rehearsals) and blaming moderator Jim Lehrer.

The Next Gigantic Housing Bubble
That Everyone Expects To Burst

Business Insider, by Mamta Badkar Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:46:28 PM Post Reply

Canada avoided many of the mistakes that the U.S. made in its housing market. Banking regulations and lending standards have been much tighter, and that has prevented prices from getting completely out of control. However, top economists including Robert Shiller and David Rosenberg are increasingly sounding alarms that the Canadian housing market is the next bubble and its about to burst. Canadian home prices are up nearly 100 percent since 2000, according to Euro Pacific Capital.

Romney Rally: Banks,
Health Care, Coal Stocks
Big Winners

Wall Street Journal, by Steven Russolillo Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 3:34:12 PM Post Reply

Can we call this the Romney rally? Considering stocks have been higher all day despite a dearth of catalysts, some market participants are pointing to Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s perceived victory over President Obama in last night’s debate as a potential catalyst for the rally. “U.S. equities are getting a Romney push,” says Andrew Brenner, global head of international fixed income at National Alliance. “Seems like the marketplace believes Romney is better for stocks and the economy.”

Coulter: After debate, Michelle
Obama 'wanted to go home with Mitt'

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: CarrotFarmer87- 10/4/2012 3:30:44 PM Post Reply

Last night, President Barack and Michelle Obama celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary, as he debated his Republican challenger Mitt Romney as well. On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” conservative commentator Ann Coulter suggested the president didn’t deliver the performance to woo his wife on such an occasion. Coulter, author of “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama,” said the president came off as someone that didn’t want to be re-elected. “I think he’s trying to transmit to the American people he doesn’t want this job,” Coulter said. “‘Relieve me of my duties.

FBI investigators make brief visit
to Benghazi attack site
after weeks-long delay

Fox News, by Catherine Herridge Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:30:12 PM Post Reply

FBI agents made a brief visit to Benghazi this week to examine the scene of the consulate terror attack that killed four Americans -- after being delayed for weeks because of security concerns. Fox News confirms that the FBI team, which had been held up for weeks getting into the eastern Libya city, arrived in Benghazi to gather evidence and has since left. (Snip) A Libyan official told AFP that the team worked for three hours collecting evidence. As the FBI investigates, an independent panel has been established by the State Department to review what went wrong. That review, though, could

Virginia: Romney Wins over Focus
Group of Obama 2008 Voters

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:25:14 PM Post Reply

National Public Radio (NPR) reporters watched Tuesday's presidential debate with four Virginia voters, three of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, and a consensus thought Romney won the debate. NPR went to Virginia’s Prince William County, which is one of the most important swing counties in the swing states. They watched the debate with four voters, and the “consensus was that Mitt Romney won the debate” because he came off as more “focused and “sincere.” Those in the group thought Obama “seemed to be struggling to make his point” and described Obama’s demeanor as “distracted,” “tired,” and “dour.”

How Obama and Biden
Buried the Middle Class

Fiscal Times, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:16:51 PM Post Reply

Michael Kinsley once defined “gaffe” as the accidental telling of a political truth. That definition aptly describes the jaw-dropping admission from Joe Biden on the campaign trail this week. (Snip) For two of the last four years, his party controlled Congress by large majorities, as well as the two years that preceded those, and Biden’s party has controlled the Senator for all six years. In fact, both Biden and Obama sat in the Senate previously, Obama for four and Biden for decades. If the middle class has been buried, it’s been on their watch. Is this a political inconvenient truth?

First lady would cast
Will Smith or Denzel
Washington as Obama

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Alicia M. Cohn Original Article

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

Michelle Obama would cast either Will Smith or Denzel Washington as President Obama in a hypothetical movie about her husband's life, she said Thursday.The first lady has been answering user-submitted questions for entertainment network POPSUGAR. On Thursday, she said she would cast either Smith or Washington as her husband, noting either actor "might be able to pull it off" but giving Smith the edge on appearance. Will's got those ears, though, which might give him an edge," she said. Washington calls himself an Independent, although he voted for Obama in 2008.

Ohio shocker: GOP closes early
voting gap, boosting Romney

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/4/2012 3:12:44 PM Post Reply

In a remarkable reversal of fortune for President Obama in Ohio, the GOP has closed the huge gap in absentee ballot requests used by early voters that favored the Democrats and the president in 2008, setting up what one state analyst said could be a Mitt Romney blowout on Election Day. While in 2008, 33 percent of the 1,158,301 absentee ballots went to Democrats and just 19 percent to registered Republicans, a 14-point gap, this year 29 percent are being requested by Democrats and 24 percent by Republicans, a five-point gap.

Andrea Mitchell Visibly
Shocked After Sununu Calls
Obama ‘Lazy,’ Asks Him If
He Would Take It Back

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 3:09:47 PM Post Reply

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu appeared on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell on Thursday where she asked for the surrogate’s impression of Mitt Romney performed at Wednesday night’s presidential debate. The conversation quickly devolved when Sununu opted to instead critique President Barack Obama’s performance, calling him “lazy” and “disengaged.” Mitchell was visibly taken aback by the criticisms and asked Sununu if he wanted to apologize for that remark. Sununu did not take that opportunity. (Snip) Mitchell asked Sununu how he thought Mitt Romney did in the debates, but rather than praise Romney, Sununu

How Obama’s debate
strategy bombed

Politico, by Alexander Burns Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 3:02:51 PM Post Reply

DENVER – A stunned Obama campaign acknowledged Thursday that President Barack Obama delivered a lackluster and even ineffectual performance in his leadoff debate against Mitt Romney, mistakenly opting for a cautious approach to handling his opponent that all too often left Obama looking timid and disengaged. Democrats close to the president privately acknowledge that their candidate appeared flat and uninspired against a more animated challenger, resulting in the worst debate showing he’s had since the early days of the 2008 campaign. Even more frustrating to many Obama supporters was the fact that the president’s muted tone was at least
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Post-debate: Romney
basks, Obama challenges

Boston Globe, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 3:01:20 PM Post Reply

Denver - An invigorated Mitt Romney basked in rave reviews Thursday after his first face-off with the president, envisioning an inaugural celebration with conservative activists while President Barack Obama looked to rebound by accusing his rival of remaking himself on the debate stage. (Snip)‘‘He knows full well that we don’t want what he’s been selling for the last year,’’ Obama told supporters gathered on a brisk autumn morning in Denver’s Sloan’s Lake Park. ‘‘Gov. Romney may dance around his positions, but if you want to be president, you owe the American people the truth.’’ Romney ignited loud sustained cheers when
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Black America - What if
Obama were white?

Townhall, by Larry Elder Original Article

Posted By: Hooverdog- 10/4/2012 2:59:30 PM Post Reply

What if President Obama were white? Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said last year, "If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House." The problem to which Cleaver refers is black unemployment. At the beginning of the Obama administration, 12.7 percent of black adults seeking work were unemployed. Black unemployment is now 14.1 percent. Black teenage unemployment at the beginning of the Obama administration was 35.2 percent. Black teenage unemployment is now 37.9 percent.
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Turkish attack on Syria may
play into Assad's hands

Haaretz [Israel], by Zvi Bar'el Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 2:56:29 PM Post Reply

Turkey and Syria share a lengthy list of grievances – thorny issues that a few mortars fired by Turkish forces at Syria will not resolve, nor were they meant to resolve them. Similarly, the Turkish parliament’s vote on Thursday giving the government broad powers to initiate military operations outside Turkish borders if necessary is for now merely a declaration of intent and not a declaration of war. After all, when the Turkish government decides to attack the Kurds in Iraqi territory, it doesn’t seek parliamentary approval each and every time. (Snip) The Turkish-Syrian border is hot and volatile. Near the

Obama’s “egghead” problem

Salon Magazine, by Kevin Mattson Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/4/2012 2:54:51 PM Post Reply

Last night, I watched Barack Obama morph into Adlai Stevenson, the one-time governor from Illinois who lost the run for the presidency in 1952 and 1956 — and the man for whom one of the worst tags in American political lexicon was coined: “egghead.” The pundits and analysts all agree: Mitt Romney won the debate. But Obama also lost it. And he lost it, in part, by coming off as too professorial and not defining himself sharply enough. There were plenty of opportunities to dredge up Romney’s infamous “47 percent” comment

Palin Warns: Obama Camp Will
Not Go Down Without Swinging;
Will Pull Something

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 2:48:16 PM Post Reply

"Now we have to be aware in the next couple debates also if Mitt Romney continues to gain and gain and gain just by being truthful and experienced and intelligent, that doing a good job as a presidential candidate, these guys in the Obama camp, they're not going go down without swinging. They're going pull something," former Governor Sarah Palin warned after tonight's debate. "And the American public, with the media's help, these lapdogs in the media, kind of going along with what Obama and his people want to do to shake some things up if Mitt Romney

US citizen sentenced to
life in Iraqi prison

Associated Press, by Sinan Salaheddin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 2:44:53 PM Post Reply

Baghdad - An Iraqi court has sentenced an American citizen to life in prison on charges of assisting al-Qaida and financing terrorist activities in Iraq, according to a government statement released Thursday. (Snip)The ministry released excerpts from a confession it said Khalil made in which he allegedly admitted to receiving money from a Syrian man in the United Arab Emirates to pay for terror attacks.
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Whistleblowers say State cut security
in Libya over last six months

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 2:42:29 PM Post Reply

Plenty of people wonder why the Obama administration didn’t do more to secure our consulate in Benghazi — but did they do less? Did the State Department reduce security in Benghazi and Libya over the last six months? Eli Lake at the Daily Beast reports that whistleblowers allege that State cut the protection around its missions, including in Benghazi, where a terrorist attack killed four Americans, including the US Ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens: In the six months leading up to the assault on the United States consulate in Benghazi, the State Department reduced the number of trained Americans guarding U.S.

The Out-of-Thin-Air Candidate?

Power Line, by Steven Hayward Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 2:42:11 PM Post Reply

I would not have believed it if I hadn’t seen this CurrentTV clip, but Al Gore really does think the thin air in 5,000-feet Denver might explain Obama’s sorry performance last night. (But Al, I thought our air was getting thicker all the time from greenhouse gas emissions?) You know you’re in trouble when Al Gore notes you stink at presidential debates. But maybe Al is on to something here. Since Obama has been a lighter-than-air politician from the beginning, maybe he only floats at sea level (like Chicago, Columbia University, Cambridge, MA, Washington DC, etc)?

5 Reasons Why It’s Too
Early to Write Off Obama

National Journal, by Ron Fornier Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 2:41:41 PM Post Reply

It seems only yesterday that conventional wisdom had Mitt Romney buried and President Obama reelected. Maybe because it was only yesterday, and now the chattering class is likely to lurch to another false extreme. Take a breath, Washington. That was my lead on Sept. 18, when polls showed Obama opening a lead, GOP strategists criticized their nominee, and Romney's advisers turned against one another. Now, as predictable as a sunrise in the east, the narrative is poised to shift after Romney thumped Obama on style points in their first debate. Democratic allies already are dumping on Obama.

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