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Secret observers find
'shocking' lapses in Newark
airport security, report says

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Steve Strunsky Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 10/7/2012 9:07:46 PM Post Reply

Newark — Screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport are properly executing standard pat-downs of passengers only 16.7 percent of the time and they identify and take appropriate action on prohibited items in only a quarter of all cases, according to a secret internal report. The revelations are contained in a document, obtained by The Star-Ledger, titled "PACE Airport Evaluation" and dated June 8. It was compiled by an undercover team of Transportation Security Administration employees from other airports who were asked to observe screeners at work at Newark Liberty. PACE is an acronym for Presence, Advisements, Communication and Execution,

Report: Exit polls show Hugo Chavez
lost Venezuelan election

The Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/7/2012 9:05:26 PM Post Reply

A Spanish news outlet is reporting that exit polls show socialist president Hugo Chavez has lost his bid for re-election to centrist opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. According to an English language translation of the local report, based on Google Translate, Chavez is headed for defeat: The candidate of the Democratic Unity Table (MUD), Henrique Capriles, is leading against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez in the presidential elections held on Sunday … according to exit polls by consultancy Variance prior to the closing of polling stations. The time set for the closing was 12:30 a.m. Spanish time, however, and

Issa Subpoenas Lt. Col. Andy Wood
For Benghazi Hearing Next Week

International Business Times, by Laura Woods Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/7/2012 9:02:18 PM Post Reply

Lt. Col. Andy Wood, a Utah National Guard Army Green Beret who was the top security official at the United States consulate in Libya, has been subpoenaed by congressional investigators for an upcoming hearing on the deadly Benghazi attacks last month. Wood headed a site security team in Libya. (Snip) Sources said to be familiar with the Libya operation told lawmakers that 13 threats were made in the six months leading up to the Benghazi incident, with repeated requests made for additional security that were denied.

Special Forces Security Leader
Drops Bombshell Against
Obama State Department

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/7/2012 8:58:13 PM Post Reply

Lt. Colonel Andy Wood, who told CBS News he showed the Obama administration just how “dangerous, volatile, and unpredictable” the environment in Libya had become for American personnel there, indicates being shocked that essential security was removed from Libya just one month before the deadly terrorist attack that killed a U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans. Congress will hold hearings on the Benghazi Massacre this week:

Suspense mounts ahead of
Nobel Prize announcements

Agence France-Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/7/2012 8:09:11 PM Post Reply

This year's Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the peace prize could go to Egypt's Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo's poor, Afghan burka opponent Sima Samar or US scholar Gene Sharp. The first Nobel to be announced this year will be the medicine prize on Monday, when the jury in Stockholm reveals the winner or winners around 11:30 am (0930 GMT.) Like every year, most of the speculation in the run-up to the announcements focuses on who will take home the prestigious peace and literature prizes. Betting sites have become a popular feature

Romney to deliver foreign policy
speech amid big questions
on Libya, global economy

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 8:07:33 PM Post Reply

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to give a foreign policy speech Monday that will mark one of his final opportunities before Election Day to show his potential as a world leader -- amid political turmoil in the Middle East and economic collapse in Europe. Romney’s success on foreign policy has thus far had mixed reviews. He has drawn widespread praise from conservatives and fellow Republicans for his full support of Israel’s quest to stop Iran from achieving nuclear capability. However, critics argue Romney made some missteps during his overseas trip this summer. He questioned whether England had enough

Seriously? AP Suggests Rommey Needs
'Diplomacy 101' After Quip About Spain

TownHall, by Elisabeth Meinecke Original Article

Posted By: nhchemist- 10/7/2012 8:06:39 PM Post Reply

It's getting ridiculous. Apparently, Romney hurt Spain's feelings by suggesting the American economy might not want to end up like the one in Spain, and the AP then suggested Romney might take advantage of 'Diplomacy 101' should he become president. First, the AP account: WASHINGTON (AP) — If Mitt Romney becomes president, he might need a crash course in Diplomacy 101. (Snip) "I don't want to go down the path of Spain," Romney said Wednesday night during the first presidential debate.

Tea party activists again
backing US Sen. Brown

Associated Press, by Steve Leblanc Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 7:58:52 PM Post Reply

Boston - Tea party activists are again supporting Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown this election, even though many aren’t thrilled with some of his votes over the past two years. They say any disappointment with Brown is overshadowed by two bigger factors — the threat posed by Brown’s Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren and the desire to help Republicans seize control of the Senate. ‘‘The bottom line is that he’s a Republican in the Senate,’’ said Ted Tripp of the Merrimack Valley Tea Party. ‘‘Republicans have to take control of the Senate so we can stop the liberal agenda and roll

Venezuelan expatriates in
New Orleans brave long
trips, long lines to vote for president

Times Picayune [New Orleans, LA], by Ramon Antonio Vargas Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/7/2012 7:37:31 PM Post Reply

As a throng of expatriate voters from Venezuela belted out the country's national anthem near him Sunday, Daniel Griffith gazed at them and smiled. "Let's scream out loud: Death to oppression!" they sang in part. "Faithful compatriots, your strength is in your unity." Griffith remarked, "If you listen to the words, that's what we are doing here today." Griffith, 27, took a 14-hour bus ride from Miami to New Orleans with his cousin and mother and cast his expatriate ballot for Venezuela's presidential election at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Griffith was among an estimated 8,000 people

Poll: Warren maintains edge over
Brown in Mass. Senate contest

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Peter Schroeder Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 7:35:37 PM Post Reply

Elizabeth Warren is holding a slight edge over Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in their hotly contested Senate race, according to a new poll. One month before election day, the former Obama adviser and Harvard law professor is leading the freshman lawmaker 50 to 45 among likely voters, (Snip) The support for the two candidates shows a healthy break along gender lines, as Warren is pulling nearly two-thirds support from women, while Brown enjoys an 18-point edge among men. Warren's lead also comes despite the fact that Brown enjoys a healthy lead among independents, pulling 62 percent support compared to Warren's

What Jerry Sandusky can expect
in Pa. prison after his sentencing
set for Tuesday

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/7/2012 7:35:08 PM Post Reply

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky will walk into state prison with little more than a watch and wedding band. He’ll be able to work a 30-hour week to make a few dollars. He’ll be able to watch Penn State football but not violent movies. If the former Penn State defensive coach is sentenced Tuesday to a long state prison term, he will find himself far removed from the comfortable suburban life he once led, placed under the many rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Even Sandusky’s own attorney believes that whatever sentence he gets, at age 68

Trending: Romney
riding high post-debate

CNN, by Rachel Streitfeld Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 7:22:36 PM Post Reply

Port St. Lucie, Florida - Mitt Romney used a well-received debate performance to power his way through a three-day swing this weekend in Florida, where audiences seemed newly energized after his perceived victory over President Barack Obama. Speaking to large crowds in St. Petersburg, Apopka and Port St. Lucie, Romney opened up his stump speeches by recapping his match-up against the president. "We had a little debate earlier this week and I enjoyed myself," Romney told a roaring audience of roughly 10,000 in Port St. Lucie Sunday afternoon.

California Governor Orders
Winter Gas Switch

Bloomberg, by Michael B. Marois Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/7/2012 7:19:43 PM Post Reply

California Governor Jerry Brown told state regulators to immediately allow oil refineries to make an early transition to winter-blend gasoline to help bring record prices at the pump under control. “Gas prices in California have risen to their highest levels ever, with unacceptable cost impacts on consumers and small businesses,” Brown said in a statement today. “I am directing the Air Resources Board to immediately take whatever steps are necessary to allow an early transition to winter-blend gasoline.” Winter-blend gasoline typically isn’t sold until after Oct. 31.

Your right to resell your
own stuff is in peril

Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, by Jennifer Waters Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/7/2012 7:09:36 PM Post Reply

CHICAGO — Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4. At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products. (Snip)That’s being challenged now for products that are made abroad,

Princeton Economist: Romney
Tax Plan Mathematically Sound

Breitbart Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/7/2012 6:51:46 PM Post Reply

Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and liberal think tanks have claimed Mitt Romney's plan to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent is bad arithmetic, but a Princeton economics professor, Harvey Rosen, examined Romney's proposals in a paper and concluded Romney's plan would work. The economy would have to grow by 3 percentage points more over the term of his plan than it would have without his plan. Liberals, who often do not understand how the economy works let alone how to expand the economic pie, failed to work in their assumptions that the purpose of Romney's

L.A. trip expected to add at
least $5 million to Obama
war chest

Los Angeles Times, by Michael A. Memoli Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/7/2012 6:48:34 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON – Entering the final 30-day stretch of the campaign, President Obama sets off for Los Angeles on Sunday for a trip that maximizes the three pillars of his reelection bid: money, the advantages of incumbency and a relentless focus on the field operation. One day after his campaign announced that it raised $181 million in September — a sum just shy of what it raised in July and August combined — the president is expected to add at least an additional $5 million in two events Sunday night. First, a “30 Days to Victory” concert, featuring performances

Anatomy of a Disastrous
Debate Performance

PJ Media, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/7/2012 6:26:25 PM Post Reply

The Romney-Obama debate was bizarre for so many reasons. Usually spin masters needle the media immediately to “prove” that their so-so candidate won. But after this debate, almost no one made the argument that Obama was close to winning — so great was the risk for even a toadying media to look ridiculous and so clear-cut the ineptness of the president. Instead, the eventual spin veered to why Obama lost (e.g., altitude, a supposed tranquilizer, a supposed mysterious Kleenex for Romney, a national security crisis, etc.) and was the stuff of fantasies.

Rice on Benghazi: Blame
the intelligence community

Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin Original Article

Posted By: BabyBlueEyes- 10/7/2012 6:23:19 PM Post Reply

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice told Republican senators that her televised statements last month on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were based entirely on information she was given by the intelligence community."In my Sept. 16 Sunday show appearances, I was asked to provide the administration's latest understanding of what happened in Benghazi," Rice wrote in a Thursday letter to Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). "In answering, I relied solely and squarely on the information the intelligence community provided to me and other senior U.S. officials,

Gas prices in California rise
to another new record

Los Angeles Times, by David Colker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/7/2012 6:05:27 PM Post Reply

The pain at the pump continues. The average price of regular gas in California hit a record average of $4.655 on Sunday, according to the AAA's daily fuel gauge report. That's a rise of 4.1 cents overnight. If there is any good news, the rise is slowing. On Saturday, the overnight price rise was 12.8 cents. Furthermore, if you tend to look at the world with a glass-half-full view, the $4.655 price breakthrough Sunday is not a record if inflation is taken into account. The current price of regular would have to hit about $4.93

Dowd: Obama Should Talk
to President Bartlet!

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/7/2012 5:54:38 PM Post Reply

Today, Maureen Dowd decided not to bother writing her column. Instead, she turned over her crayon to Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin quickly decided that if Barack Obama couldn’t suffice as his candidate in a presidential debate, he’d call upon a fictional president, Jed Bartlet, for some advice. Thus, an asinine conversation between a TV president and … well … a TV president ensued. And it channeled exactly what most liberals thought of Obama’s debate performance: BARTLET Were you sleepy? OBAMA Jed — BARTLET Was that the problem? Had you just taken allergy medication? General anesthesia? OBAMA I had an off night.

American woman set to testify against
'terror' preacher Abu Hamza after
she was kidnapped by
his militants in Yemen

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/7/2012 5:33:05 PM Post Reply

An American woman who was kidnapped in Yemen is expected to stand up in court against the Islamic hate preacher who orchestrated her terrifying ordeal. Mary Quin was abducted along with 15 other tourists in 1998 by militants who were instructed by hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri. During the tour group's rescue, she was used as a human shield and four other hostages were killed. Hamza appeared at federal court in New York on Saturday after being extradited from Britain. Hamza faces 11 counts of criminal conduct related to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998, advocating violent jihad

Romney capitalizes on debate win with
new ad showing off 'greatest hits'
of his performance against Obama

Daily Mail [UK], by Hugo Gye, Michael Zennie Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/7/2012 5:24:38 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is continuing to capitalize on his debate victory over President Barack Obama--releasing a dramatic new ad with his greatest hits from the night. He has paired the video with another new TV spot blasting Obama for his 'false' assertions that the Republican candidate's tax plan calls for a $5trillion tax cut at the expense of the middle class. 'And what we're seeing right now in my view is a trick down government approach, which as government thinking it can do things better than free people pursuing their dreams. And it's not working,' Romney declared during the debate.

Combatting military suicides:
limit access to private weapons

New York Times *, by James Dao Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 5:03:31 PM Post Reply

With nearly half of all suicides in the military having been committed with privately owned firearms, the Pentagon and Congress are moving to establish policies intended to separate at-risk service members from their personal weapons. The issue is a thorny one for the Pentagon, with gun-rights advocates and many service members fiercely opposing any policies that could be construed as limiting the private ownership of firearms. (Snip) “This is not about authoritarian regulation,” Dr. Jonathan Woodson, the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said in an interview. “It is about the spouse understanding warning signs and, if there are

Obama’s jobs report isn’t a conspiracy.
But the figures are debatable and
the recovery is dubious

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/7/2012 4:48:54 PM Post Reply

President Obama has his October surprise. Jobs figures for September were released on Friday and they show a fall in unemployment from around 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent. This hardly amounts to a recovery and it might not save Obama from defeat (in October 1980, Jimmy Carter lost the White House with an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent). But it’s enough to revive his campaign after the humiliation of Wednesday’s presidential debate. What’s good for America is good for the incumbent. There’s been a lot of talk about a conspiracy on the administration

Stocks: Investors anxious
about earnings

CNN Money, by Maureen Farrell Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/7/2012 4:42:51 PM Post Reply

New York - Investors are on pins and needles ahead of the start of third-quarter earnings season. As always, aluminum manufacturer Alcoa will kick off the fall season when it reports results after the closing bell Tuesday. A host of companies have already revised their financial estimates down. (Snip) "These earnings are going to set the tone for what earnings season will look like overall," said Ben Halliburton, managing director at Tradition Capital Management. "We seem to be seeing some of the worst pre-announcements coming out since we did in 2008."

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,

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