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More Americans Working
Part-Time; Unemployment Declines

Bloomberg News, by Michelle Jamrisko & Elizabeth Dexheimer Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:39:05 PM Post Reply

Washington - Britt Zaragoza is among a growing number of part-time workers in a U.S. economy that is simultaneously experiencing slowing growth and declining unemployment. The 48-year-old single mother found employment as a receptionist at a Columbus, Ohio, law firm in August after searching for two years. Not working a full day gives her the flexibility to take care of her 10-year-old son and pursue a career in catering. (Snip) Some 582,000 more Americans, the most since February 2009, were working part-time last month because of slack business conditions or because those jobs were the only work they could find,

Report: Iran pulls elite army unit
from Syria in wake of Tehran protests

Haaretz [Israel] & Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:34:17 PM Post Reply

Iran has pulled members of a special forces unit stationed in Syria, the Sunday Times reported, in response to mounting criticism of the cost of Tehran's involvement in the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Tehran's Grand Bazaar reopened under close police supervision on Saturday, traders said, days after it was shut by clashes between riot police and protesters blaming the government for the collapse of the Iranian currency. On Wednesday, riot police fired tear gas, fought demonstrators and arrested money changers in and around the bazaar. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed speculators for the rial's slide, which is eating into

In second debate Romney needs
to fight fire with fire:
expose Obama’s lies

Hot Air, by Howard Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:15:44 PM Post Reply

One thing that was absent from the first presidential debate was the truth—the word truth that is. A glimpse at the debate transcript reveals that the word never came up at all, while true came up twice in an exchange of more than 16,000 words. Each candidate used it once, Mitt Romney indirectly to accuse the president of lying about his platform, Barack Obama overtly in his admission that health care premiums have risen since the passage of Obamacare two years ago. The Obama campaign has announced plans to change all that in the second debate. In fact they intend

Survey Says GOP
Women Are Prettier

Daily Beast, by Allison Yarrow Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/7/2012 4:09:47 PM Post Reply

They’re calling it the Michele Bachmann effect. And no, it’s not the Minnesota congresswoman’s crusade to ban falafel from public schools. It refers to the relationship between a woman’s politics and her face. Women politicians with “stereotypical feminine facial features” are more often Republicans, found researchers at UCLA]. And the more feminine their features, the more conservative their voting records. They also found the reverse—that women with more masculine facial features tended to be Democrats. Less gender-typical visages tracked with more liberal voting records. The correlation between face and party ideology was stronger for Republican women politicians than Democrats.

The Obama Mandate: The
Gravest Threat to Religious
Freedom in 226 Years

Townhall, by Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:09:37 PM Post Reply

A liberal reporter speaking at a conference in Georgetown recently dismissed conservative alarms about the Obama administration's mandate that forces religious institutions--like Catholic Hospitals and Evangelical colleges--to provide coverage for drugs and procedures that can abortions and that effect sterilizations. "What about the anti-Catholic Bible riots in Philadelphia in the 1840s," she asked. Those led to scores of people actually being killed.'' (Snip) James Madison famously said the people are right to take alarm at the "first advance on their liberties." The Obama Mandate will force us to violate our consciences. President Obama famously said he doesn't know when human

Gun microstamping could
close American factories

Hot Air, by Jazz Shaw Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:01:14 PM Post Reply

I understand that gun owners’ rights and the Second Amendment haven’t really been a touchstone in this year’s elections, but that doesn’t mean that the battle isn’t still being waged. One story out this month hits pretty close to home for me, both figuratively and literally. It involves the Remington Arms plant located in Ilion, a village in upstate New York. (Snip) Microstamping does not work because firing pins are inexpensive and easy to replace. The firing pin for most weapons are easily replaced by someone with a minimum of ability to read and follow the basic cleaning directions for

Romney T-shirt episode offers 'teachable
moment' - for parents and teachers

Inquirer [Philadelphia, PA], by Karen Heller Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/7/2012 3:59:59 PM Post Reply

What happened to Samantha Pawlucy, also known as Romney Girl, most likely feeds into every conservative Pennsylvanian's perception of our city as a cesspool of Democratic liberals. At her public school a week ago Friday, the Port Richmond sophomore says she was dissed on dress-down day because she had the temerity to wear a Romney/Ryan T-shirt, embracing the minority group our city least tolerates: Republicans. Geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon told Samantha that Charles Carroll High - a model of diversity with an enrollment that's one-third black, one-third white, and a third Latino - was a "Democratic" school. In Philadelphia

Obama Hopes to Calm Panicked
Hollywood During Latest
La-La-Land Fundraiser

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:53:13 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama will have to do some serious acting tonight. Obama returns to Hollywood for yet another star-studded fundraiser, but this time he'll have to sell his minions on the notion that his disastrous debate performance Wednesday in Denver was a one-time only affair. (Snip) There’s also no doubt that the president’s Hollywood supporters were deeply shaken by his lackluster performance in this week’s debate with Republican nominee Romney.... The cloud of anxious fallout from Denver has all but overshadowed what otherwise would be considered a particularly glittering and gala L.A. appearance for Obama. His Sunday evening will kick

Oh Snap: Mary Matalin Tells
Krugman 'You're Hardly Credible
on Calling Somebody Else a Liar'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:41:48 PM Post Reply

There were serious fireworks on the set of ABC's This Week Sunday. Mostly at odds were George W. Bush aide Mary Matalin and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman with the former eventually telling the latter, "You're hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar" (Snip) ''Professor, can I ask you? You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare, from the efficiency of Medicare administration to calling it a voucher plan. So you're hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.'' Ouch. That's going to leave a mark.

Former SEAL: Obama campaign
has ‘exploited the military’ [Video]

Daily Caller, by Ginni Thomas Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:32:13 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s campaign has “exploited the military” for political gain, the president of Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund told The Daily Caller. Scott Taylor, a former Navy SEAL, cites the campaign ad touting the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and questioning whether Mitt Romney would have made the same decision. (Snip) “We believe this unprecedented amount of leaks has hindered future operations and could potentially put lives at risk if it hasn’t already, so we’ve basically had enough, and we’re standing up and exercising our First Amendment rights to say something about it,” he said.

Obama courts Hispanic
vote in battleground states

Politico, by Lois Romano Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:27:36 PM Post Reply

Denver - GOP rock star Marco Rubio generated ample excitement when he showed up here earlier this week to fire up Latino support for Mitt Romney, but he’s got nothing on Elena Squarrell. Squarrell is among the thousands of Spanish-speaking volunteers for President Barack Obama in Colorado and nationwide, who for months have been quietly blanketing Latino communities — knocking on doors block after block, showing up at every festival and church gathering, camping out at high schools to register new voters. Soon the 28-year-old college researcher and her team of five will shift their attention to pushing voters to

The president has no clothes

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:17:52 PM Post Reply

Forgive me for comparing Barack Obama to Daffy Duck, but let me spin out an analogy. There’s a Looney Tunes cartoon in which Daffy is desperate for applause from an audience in a theater. Everything Daffy does is met with silence until he swallows dynamite and gasoline and blows himself up. The crowd goes wild. As Daffy’s ghost ascends to the heavens, Bugs Bunny tells him the audience is screaming for more. Says Daffy: “I can only do it once.” It’s beginning to occur to liberals that Barack Obama also could only do it once

Hollande vows to boost security
at Jewish sites in France

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:13:44 PM Post Reply

French President Francois Hollande on Sunday promised the Jewish community a major increase in security after blank bullets were fired near a Parisian synagogue in the most recent incident in a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in France. The BBC cited Hollande as saying there would be "total mobilization of the state to fight all terrorist threats" during a meeting with leaders of the country's Jewish community. The security unit of France’s Jewish communities, SPCJ, reported that the shots fired on October 5 at the synagogue at Argenteuil, a northwest suburb of Paris, were fired just hours after the city’s chief

Chavez says he'll accept
result of Venezuela vote

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/7/2012 3:07:36 PM Post Reply

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will accept the results of the country's election, whether he wins or loses. Chavez told reporters, "We'll respect the results, whatever they are." Chavez spoke after casting his vote in Caracas. He also said voters are turning out in massive numbers in Sunday's election. The Venezuelan leader is running against opposition leader Henrique Capriles in a vote widely viewed as the toughest electoral challenge of Chavez's nearly 14-year-old presidency. Chavez was greeted at the polling center by American actor Danny Glover

Rumors Swirl: How Bad
Will The Obama Foreign
Donor Scandal Be?

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 3:00:24 PM Post Reply

Since last week, the news sphere has been buzzing about the possibility of an Obama campaign foreign donor scandal being the big October surprise of 2012. Since the Washington Examiner first reported the story last week, many are asking how the Obama campaign will handle foreign donation allegations expected to go public Monday in a major magazine and national website story. The Obama campaign has already tried to block the story from publication and although the details of the scandal are still under wraps, we do know taxes and unsecured credit card transactions are about to cause a major headache

Why the unemployment rate
won't keep dropping

Fortune, by Stephen Gandel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 2:57:12 PM Post Reply

It was either an average month for job growth, or one of the best months in nearly three decades. In the September jobs numbers, there was evidence for both. Last month, employers said they added 114,000 workers to their payrolls. Not fast by any means, but not bad. (Snip) The numbers come from a survey of individuals. The unemployment rate can go down because more people have jobs. Great. But it can also go down if a growing number of people say they have given up looking for work. Not so great. And for much of the past year the

Chavez or Capriles? Massive turnout
as Venezuelans vote in pivotal
election for divided nation

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/7/2012 2:54:30 PM Post Reply

Caracas, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez’s crusade to transform Venezuela into a socialist state, which has bitterly divided the nation, was put to the stiffest electoral test of his nearly 14 years in power on Sunday in a closely fought presidential election. Both camps said turnout was high, with millions of Venezuelans casting ballots. Long lines formed at many polling centers, with queues of hundreds of voters snaking along sidewalks and around blocks in many parts of Caracas. Chavez’s challenger, Henrique Capriles, has united the opposition in a contest between two sides that distrust each other

Venezuela: Radical group
promises violence if Chávez
loses election

WLS 890AM [Chicago, IL], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/7/2012 2:53:33 PM Post Reply

CARACAS - In past Venezuelan elections there have been rumors of violence, but they never amounted to much. This time around, with President Hugo Chávez forced to contemplate the possibility of handing over the country to opposition leader Henrique Capriles, some Venezuelan radical groups think that violence is a true possibility. Threatening graffiti messages have popped up on the streets of Caracas portraying slogans like, "Everything with Chávez, bullets without him," "It's not enough to vote, we have to fight" and "There's a candidate, there's a commander, there's a united people ready for combat." But this is not all.

Democrat Turnout Lagging 2008

Breitbart's Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 2:53:31 PM Post Reply

The media polls showing Obama with a solid and consistent lead over Mitt Romney are only accurate IF the democrats equal or improve the turnout they had in 2008. That year, the Democrats had a 7 point advantage over the GOP at the voting booth. It was the Democrats biggest advantage over the GOP in the modern political age. (Snip) In virtually every county in Ohio, the GOP have improved their position over 2008. In the largest counties, their position relative to Dems has improved 6-27 points. If these numbers hold up over the next few weeks, there is no

EPA Celebrates ‘Children
Health Month,’ Encourages
Recruiting Students for
‘Energy Patrols’ at School

Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 2:48:26 PM Post Reply

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is celebrating Children’s Health Month this October by providing information and health tips on its website, including the importance of energy efficiency in schools. (Snip) One of the items in the box reads, “Educate students and staff about how their behaviors affect energy use. Some schools have created student energy patrols to monitor and inform others when energy is wasted.” For example, the Arizona Public School’s website provides information for setting up energy patrols. The website states “emphasize social action through environmental education gives students a chance to do something about environmental problems instead of

‘What’s going on?
Am I really happy?’

CNN, by Jamie Gumbrecht Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/7/2012 2:46:44 PM Post Reply

Bedford,New Hampshire -Tyler York lives in a comfortable space above a three-car garage. He has his own entrance and kitchenette stocked with Capri Sun and frozen bagels. There's a queen-sized bed, a plush leather couch and a large, flat-screen TV. The land around the house is wooded with old oaks and maples, and the yard is curated by the former president of the local garden club. There's an in-ground pool out back with an HGTV-inspired slide. It's a great life, and none of it belongs to him. His actual possessions,

'Argo': Former ambassador Ken
Taylor sets the record straight

Toronto Star, by Jim Coyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 2:38:14 PM Post Reply

New York - It hasn’t been unusual over the last 20 years, when Ken Taylor returns to his home in New York from abroad, for a U.S. customs inspector to look at his passport, glance up, back at the photo and name, and say, “Hey, I studied you in high school!” The experience always impresses two things on Canada’s former ambassador to Iran. One, even for celebrated international heroes, time passes. And two, that for his role in rescuing six U.S. diplomats in 1980 after the tumultuous days of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution, he has a place in history. (Snip)

When masterful Mittens
Romney took the gloves off

Telegraph [UK], by Matthew Norman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/7/2012 2:22:12 PM Post Reply

The fog of war has finally descended over what had been an oddly serene campaign, and without a week’s worth of post-debate polling one cannot gauge how dramatically this race has been altered. But one thing seems clear. If the fug that descended over Barack Obama’s brain on Wednesday does not lift, there is a real chance, if not a probability, that America will awake on November 7 to President-elect Romney.(Snip)He entered the debating phone kiosk as the bland and wimpy Clark Kent, and emerged soaring skyward with his knickers outside his trousers. Sharp, cogent, controlled, aggressive, even magisterial,

Libyan Prime Minister
Mustafa Abu Shagur to
stand down

BBC, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/7/2012 2:19:50 PM Post Reply

Libya's Prime Minister-elect is to stand down after failing for a second time to win parliamentary approval for a new cabinet. Mustafa Abu Shagur had called for the formation of an "emergency government", consisting of just 10 ministries. The General National Congress (GNC) voted 125 to 44 against the proposal. Seventeen members abstained, according to a Libyan national television report. The GNC now has three to four weeks to elect a new premier. The national assembly was elected in July in Libya's first free elections in decades, following the overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi.

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