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Even If Obama Did Cook The
Jobs Numbers, They Still Stink

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 10:34:12 AM Post Reply

Jobs: When jobs data came out Friday showing the unemployment rate had suddenly plunged to 7.8%, former GE CEO Jack Welch tweeted that "these Chicago guys will do anything . .. can't debate so change numbers." In the past, we've tended to dismiss such conspiracy talk when it comes to the government's jobs data. After all, those are career professionals, not political hacks, crunching the numbers. So let's leave aside the fact that the BLS numbers suggest that while the economy created just 114,000 jobs in September, the number of people employed somehow rocketed up by 873,000

Mexico's Cartels Increase
Their Muscle In The U.S.

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/6/2012 10:31:00 AM Post Reply

Leadership: President Obama made much of his duty to protect at Wednesday's debate. But his record shows little heed for that, not just in Benghazi, but also inside America, which may be Mexico's new cartel battlefield. According to a CBS News report, three of Mexico's cartels are fighting pitched battles in Chicago, and it's their turf wars that are driving its murder rate skyward in violence that shockingly resembles that of Juarez, Mexico. Chicago recorded 391 murders this year, a sharp 40% rise for the year, signaling even to laymen that there's a new thug on the block adapting

Infield fly rule: Disputed call causes near-
riot at Cardinals-Braves wild-card playoff

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/6/2012 10:08:13 AM Post Reply

ATLANTA — Andrelton Simmons lifted a pop fly into shallow left field. Not a hard-hit ball, by any means, but at least 50 feet beyond the infield. St. Louis shortstop Pete Kozma drifted back, throwing up his hand in that universal baseball gesture, "I've got it." Only one problem. Right before the ball came down, the rookie veered out of the way, apparently thinking left fielder Matt Holliday was going to take it. The ball dropped harmlessly in the grass. The crowd roared, thinking the Atlanta Braves had loaded the bases with one out. Only one problem.

GOP Chair: Obama's 'words
have no credibility'

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/6/2012 10:06:56 AM Post Reply

I'm Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. This week, America watched the first debate between President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney, and it crystallized the choice we face on November 6th. It was painfully clear during the debate that President Obama has no new ideas to fix the economy.

Obama Unfiltered

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/6/2012 9:50:44 AM Post Reply

Do you think Barack Obama knows who Ernie Banks is? Count me a skeptic. The purported White Sox fanatic couldn’t name a single player for the home team on the South Side, so I doubt he knows Wrigley Field from his beloved “Cominskey Field.” But even if the president was never gripped by the Cub slugger’s infectious calling card — “Let’s play two today!” — he has now heard the Mitt Romney version: “It’s fun, isn’t it?” That’s how the GOP nominee bucked up a befuddled Jim Lehrer during Wednesday night’s ground-shifting debate. It was only 20 minutes in

Race tightening, but
Obama's still in the lead

Los Angeles Times, by Paul West Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/6/2012 9:46:28 AM Post Reply

Washington— A large drop in the nation's jobless rate gave President Obama an unexpected boost Friday in his increasingly competitive contest with Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The decline to 7.8% brought the unemployment rate below 8% for the first time since the first full month of Obama's presidency and cheered the president's partisans. Based on the reactions to past reports, it's unlikely to change voters' overall sense of how the country is doing economically. Still, the announcement did have one big benefit for Obama: shifting attention away from his lackluster performance in the first presidential debate less than 36 hours

New Weekly Romney Remarks: Sadly,
fewer jobs created in September than August

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/6/2012 9:45:10 AM Post Reply

Hello, this is Mitt Romney. And this week, we saw several reminders of the clear choice we face in this election — and why we can’t afford four more years like the last four years. First came a new economic study about the debt that President Obama has put in place and, of course, about the debt that he’s planning on adding in a second term. Simply to pay the interest this debt, middle-class families will face a $4,000-a-year tax hike.

Unemployment rate drops,
but enthusiasm fades fast

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Ed Beeson Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/6/2012 9:34:10 AM Post Reply

The lumbering U.S. economy and President Obama's re-election campaign got a jolt yesterday when the federal Labor Department reported the country’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly four years. But the enthusiasm proved to be short-lived, both among economists and on Wall Street. (Snip) Meanwhile, a separate critical measure of the nation’s job market remained unchanged last month. The U-6 data which takes into account not just those who are unemployed and looking for work, but also those who want a job but aren’t looking and those can only find part-time jobs remained stuck at 14.7 percent.

Obama’s Old Friends React to the Debate

New Yorker, by David Remnick Original Article

Posted By: BabyBlueEyes- 10/6/2012 8:44:00 AM Post Reply

When Barack Obama was a student at Harvard Law School, he was never known as a particularly good debater. In class, if he thought that a fellow student had said something foolish, he showed no forensic bloodlust. He did not go out of his way to defeat someone in argument; instead he tried, always with a certain decorous courtesy, to try to persuade, to reframe his interlocutor’s view, to signal his understanding while disagreeing. Obama became president of the law review—the first African-American to do so

Biofuels and the food
that’s going up in smoke

Telegraph [UK], by Geoffrey Lean Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 8:35:42 AM Post Reply

The new EU policy on biofuels is resisted by the industry, but its limits are actually not harsh enough. 'It’s possibly,” someone remarked to me this week, “one of the worst things ever to come out of Brussels.” Quite a condemnation, everything considered--and all the more so for coming from an Action Aid campaigner against poverty and climate change. For the EU biofuels policy is supposed to tackle both. But that was putting it mildly. The growing use of energy from crops has driven up food prices and hunger, spurred enormous corporate land grabs in poor countries

Winter power cuts feared as
Britain runs out of energy

Daily Express [UK], by John Ingham Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 8:25:57 AM Post Reply

Britain faces power cuts by the winter of 2015 as ageing power plants are shut down, a shocking report warned yesterday. Energy regulator Ofgem also said consumers face massive rises in electricity bills as generators are forced to rely on expensive gas to fuel power stations. The battle to keep the lights on is also being compromised by EU anti-pollution laws which are forcing the early shutdown of coal-fired power stations. At the same time Britain’s nuclear plants are also closing. The shutdowns will lead to a 30 per cent cut in the UK’s electricity generating capacity.

Shocker: Free Birth Control
Means Fewer Abortions

Mother Jones, by Erika Eichelberger Original Article

Posted By: rinohunter- 10/6/2012 8:03:41 AM Post Reply

That's according to a new study published on Thursday by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis. The project gave free birth control to more than 9,000 local women and girls, many of whom were poor or uninsured, and tracked them for two years. There were 6.3 births per 1,000 teenagers in the study group, compared to the 2010 national rate of 34 per 1,000. As for abortions, there were fewer than eight per 1,000 women in the study, compared with the almost 20 per 1,000 nationally.
Staff has split headline.

Rays of hope as Britain switches to
new light bulbs and a grey autumn

Telegraph [UK], by Harry Wallop Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/6/2012 7:58:37 AM Post Reply

Now there is a full ban, a strange, grey spell has been cast over the house - but there may be a solution. Light. Is that so much to ask for? On these autumnal evenings, as I cycle back from the office in the dark, I dream of a cosy home, glowing with rosy-cheeked children and rooms lit up with good cheer to welcome me. But no. Each day, as I turn the key in the latch, I am reminded of the curse that has been inflicted upon our family. A month after the final stage of the

The Eyes Have It: Obama
Blinks 1,000 Times More
than Romney During 1st Debate

Smart Politics [University of Minnesota], by Eric Ostermeier Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 6:38:28 AM Post Reply

The president blinked at a rate of 71 times per minute while speaking during Wednesday's debate - 1,000 times more than Romney (53 per minute). Mitt Romney almost universally received the nod as the winner of the first presidential debate - not simply for scoring the most political points, but also in terms of style. For while Romney seemed in his element, Barack Obama was criticized for appearing uncomfortable, grim, and dour - and was often caught looking down at his notes, particularly during split-screen shots. But there was another facet of the president's non-verbal communication

If He’s Lost the New Yorker…

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 6:13:02 AM Post Reply

…then it is hard to imagine who still believes the myth of Barack Obama. Next week’s New Yorker cover:(Snip for graphic)So I guess it’s unanimous. Clint Eastwood was right. But here is what I don’t understand: why isn’t everyone embarrassed to be a liberal? Or, put another way, a Democrat? How is it that some people can witness the latest liberal fiasco–Romney sneaked a crib sheet into the debate! That’s the only way he could remember all those facts! No one could actually know all that stuff!–and say, hey, I don’t mind associating with those people!

Finally, unemployment numbers
inch in the right direction

New York Daily News, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/6/2012 6:07:04 AM Post Reply

Approaching the end of four years in office, President Obama can finally say that employment in America is essentially back where it was when he started. That’s not saying very much. The jobless rate fell to 7.8% in September on an increase in the number of Americans who reported that they were on payrolls. (Snip)How wonderful the world must look through the rosiest of rose-colored glasses! At this rate of job growth, years will pass before the U.S. again has as many jobs as it did in January 2008.

How the Liberal Media
Ruined Obama

American Thinker, by Lisa Fritsch Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/6/2012 5:59:00 AM Post Reply

It's not an "Incumbent Curse," as MSNBC would call Obama's performance at Wednesday's first presidential debate. It was not Obama's fear of coming across as the angry black man, as Michael Eric Dyson surmised, that prevented Obama from driving a strong debate on the issues with Mitt Romney. And it was not that Mitt Romney has been practicing since June for the debates, per David Axelrod's analysis. Nor was it a question of Obama losing the debate stylistically rather than substantively.

ExxonMobil returns fire at Obama

The Hill (DC), by Ben Geman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:58:34 AM Post Reply

ExxonMobil is returning fire after President Obama singled out the oil giant in Wednesday’s debate when calling for an end to billions of dollars in industry tax breaks. “To hear President Barack Obama in last night’s first presidential debate, you would think he was running against ExxonMobil this November given his tendency to single us out for criticism,” wrote Ken Cohen, an Exxon executive, on the company’s blog Thursday. He cited other instances in which Obama has cited Exxon, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, when touting proposals

Not the Man He Thought He Knew

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:51:15 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama has an explanation for his poor performance in Wednesday night's debate: The other guy was an impostor. "When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney," the president said at a Denver rally yesterday: (Snip)Jeremiah Wright and Mitt Romney are two of the most important men in Barack Obama's life, and for reasons that transcend the merely personal. His dealings with them are crucial to his relationships, respectively, with God and with his country. He called Wright his "spiritual mentor" and credited him with saving his soul;

National Geographic denies political
bias influenced decision to release
pro-Obama film before election

Daily Caller, by Greg Re Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/6/2012 5:42:49 AM Post Reply

National Geographic Channel President Howard Owens denied Thursday that the network’s decision to air a pro-Obama video just two days before the November election was motivated in any way by political considerations. “Harvey obviously doesn’t schedule our network,” Owens said, referring to The Weinstein Co. Co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose company is producing “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” a thriller based on President Barack Obama’s decision to kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. “[We're] not political. We are opportunistic, from a programming perspective.” Instead, Owens said National Geographic wanted to release

“Green on Blue” Deadlier
than Pentagon Lets On

Commentary, by Michael Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:38:03 AM Post Reply

We can be thankful that most Obama administration officials have finally abandoned their silly notion that an inane and bigoted film was responsible for the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and the well-coordinated assault on several American embassies and consulates. The attacks were premeditated and motivated more by ideology than by grievance. Perhaps it’s time the Pentagon accept that the same holds true with “Green on Blue” violence or “insider attacks,” in the new Pentagon parlance. (As an aside, it’s always a bad sign when the Pentagon spends more time fighting over what to call American enemies

Cleveland Shop Owner: Big
Day Until Obama Showed Up

Wall Street Journal, by Laura Meckler Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:30:01 AM Post Reply

CLEVELAND—Not everyone was excited to see President Barack Obama stop by the famed Cleveland West Side Market on Friday. Terry Leu, the owner of Rolston Poultry, says Mr. Obama’s visit cost him 40 minutes worth of chicken sales. He wasn’t shy about telling Mr. Obama that much directly. The president shook his hand and asked him how business was going. “Terrible since you got here,” Mr. Leu said. The president didn’t appear to be amused. “I was having a big day until he showed up,” he said in a subsequent interview with Washington Wire.

Dishonest Unemployment Numbers

American Spectator, by Robert P. Kirchhoefer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:24:42 AM Post Reply

A flashback to a CNN article from just before the 2004 election era shows just how unbelievable today's new unemployment numbers are. In September 2004, new numbers came out, showing a drop in unemployment from 5.5% to 5.4%. At that time, with a much lower unemployment number than we have today (around 8% today), the increase in new jobs that caused a 0.1% decrease in unemployment was 144,000. So, let's get this straight. With 144,000 new jobs in a smaller U.S. population (about 295 million in 2004 vs. about 314 million today),

America’s Paper of Torpor

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:19:39 AM Post Reply

The real problem with The New York Times is not that it’s liberal but that it’s boring. Over the years, I’ve appeared in various “newspapers of record” around the world, many of which lean left but none of which go to quite the lengths to anesthetize a story that these guys do. Imagine if you’d heard something at work the following morning about the first debate, or you’d switched on MSNBC late on Wednesday night and caught Chris Matthews in full meltdown, or you’d read a despairing Tweet from Bill Maher or heard that Rush was c**k-a-hoop.

Whom do the unemployed
blame for being out of work?

Washington Post, by D.W. Gibson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/6/2012 5:16:08 AM Post Reply

When people are out of work, there’s a lot of blame to go around. President Obama faults the “failed policies of the past,” which he says Mitt Romney would bring back. Romney says Obama had four years to fix things and couldn’t. So Democrats blame Republicans, Republicans blame Democrats, libertarians blame the Federal Reserve, businesses blame regulations, regulators blame Wall Street, and everyone blames China. But whom do the unemployed themselves blame? I spent the summer and fall of 2011 driving across the country and interviewing jobless Americans. Those out of work do not need belated coaching

Biden ‘fact-checks’ Obama

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/6/2012 5:10:54 AM Post Reply

‘Honest” Joe Biden strikes again. On Thursday, Biden told an Iowa crowd: “On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we’re gonna ask — yes — we’re gonna ask the wealthy to pay more . . . “You know the phrase they always use? Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.” Now, the admission that Team Obama is looking to hike taxes a trillion bucks is nothing if not, well, honest. Biden tried to “clarify” himself, but his words may be the truest statement

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