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Why the Obama Bubble
Still Hasn’t Burst

Townhall, by Star Parker Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/8/2012 8:26:47 AM Post Reply

Can there be political bubbles like financial bubbles? Financial bubbles, inflated by hopes and dreams, burst when reality negates any possibility that those hopes and dreams will be realized. At that point, sky high stock or bond or real estate prices come crashing down to earth. Can the same thing happen in politics? Can a skilled politician, who has become popular with soaring rhetoric and promises, deflate when it starts becoming clear that he is not going to deliver? Of course, I am thinking about our president.

Why Obama Will Lose
All Three Debates

American Thinker, by Monty Pelerin Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/8/2012 8:18:16 AM Post Reply

President Obama had a terrible debate last week. Supporters and opponents were shocked that he could be so off his game. They shouldn't have been. That they were indicates that they don't understand Obama's serious, likely insurmountable re-election problem. Obama supporters and detractors expect the old Obama to show better form in the next debate. But that is not going to happen! It cannot, because Obama's critical problem is not correctable.

£10bn welfare cuts: Tories to wage
war as jobless with big families
are to lose benefits

Daily Express [UK], by Macer Hall Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/8/2012 7:52:09 AM Post Reply

George Osborne will today step up the Government’s war on scroungers by announcing an extra £10billion in welfare cuts. The Chancellor is to use his speech to the Tory conference in Birmingham to confirm that handouts to the jobless and low paid need to be further squeezed to save more cash for repaying the Treasury’s record deficit. A key part of the crackdown will be on teenagers who leave school and do not go into training, further education or a job who will find their access to handouts such as housing benefit severely curtailed. But Mr Osborne will make

'This movie... if it weren't true, it
would be terrible': The fascinating
story of how the CIA turned to
Hollywood to help save six Iranian
hostages in 1979 and eventually
inspired the new thriller 'Argo'

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/8/2012 7:43:31 AM Post Reply

The plot of the new film 'Argo', in which a CIA operative poses as a Hollywood bigwig scouting locations in Tehran during political upheaval and secretly rescues six hostages, is almost as unbelievable as the true story behind the silver screen adaptation. But CIA master of disguise Antonio Mendez is real, as are the six Americans saved in the daring rescue mission in 1979 during the Iran hostage crisis. For almost three months, the group hid out in Iran, sheltered by the Canadian government until Mr Mendez flew in with fake business cards and a ridiculous cover story--and the Iranian

Enter Detroit at your own risk!
Police issue shocking warning
to baseball fans

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/8/2012 7:34:46 AM Post Reply

Police officers in Detroit greeted football fans attending Saturday night’s Tigers game with a shock warning: 'Enter Detroit at Your Own Risk.'[Snip] Under the heading 'Attention: Enter Detroit at Your Own Risk', the flyer warns that Detroit is America’s most violent city, with the highest homicide rate, while it’s police force is grossly understaffed and under paid. 'We're not discouraging people from coming, I love the city, I want them to realize we don't have enough man hours,' police union president Joe Duncan told My Fox Detroit. In an attempt to save $350 million during

Obama: This election is not
about ‘clinging on to an office’

Washington Post, by Bill Turque Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/8/2012 7:05:18 AM Post Reply

At his second fundraiser of the evening in Los Angeles on Sunday, President Obama told a group of donors that the last days of his re-election campaign is not about “clinging on to an office. It’s not about power. It’s not about perks. It’s not about winning. It’s about can we sustain over the next 30 days and then over the next four years … the sense that there’s something about this country that allows everybody to get a fair shot.”

Pharmacy linked to meningitis outbreak now
pulls ALL products from shelves after
seven dead and thousands at risk

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/8/2012 6:56:57 AM Post Reply

The pharmacy behind a steroid linked to at least seven deaths and now a growing 91 confirmed cases of a rare form of fungal meningitis in the U.S. has issued a recall of all its products. The New England Compounding Center's voluntary recall comes after the Food and Drug Administration told health professionals not to use any of their distributed products, notably their spinal steroid injections linked to the outbreak in nine states.[Snip] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted updated figures to its website on Sunday showing there are 91 confirmed cases of the

The big three who can
help save Afghanistan

Telegraph [UK], by Shashank Joshi Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/8/2012 6:45:44 AM Post Reply

Exactly 11 years ago, with the wounds of 9/11 still fresh, the United States and Britain invaded Afghanistan. They arrived in anger, collected allies along the way, and grew in ambition. Today that anger has faded, those allies depleted, and their ambition exhausted. The campaign is already the longest in American history, far surpassing the Revolutionary and Vietnam wars. Though combat forces are not due to depart for another two years, there is a palpable sense of counting down the clock. Last month, for instance, Nato stopped training Afghan Local Police and abandoned routine joint patrols below battalion level.

AARP Stands by as Obama
Gets Mugged by Reality

American Spectator, by David Catron Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 6:35:13 AM Post Reply

During last week's presidential debate, realizing that he was taking a beating on the Medicare solvency issue, Barack Obama issued the following cri de coeur: "AARP thinks that the savings that we obtained from Medicare bolster the system, lengthen the Medicare trust fund by eight years." Later, after enduring several more blows to his credibility, the President went on to claim AARP agreed with him that Romney's plan would weaken Medicare. Oddly, the "senior advocacy organization" took offense at these remarks. Having provided full-throated support to the President and the Democrats on Obamacare, and resisted Medicare reform,

General Motors is Alive—For Now

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill McMorris Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 6:13:54 AM Post Reply

A backroom deal hatched by General Motors during the auto bailout to fulfill the Obama administration’s demand for a quick bankruptcy could be reversed, draining the automaker of nearly all of its cash on hand and leaving it in worse shape than it was when it collapsed in 2009. As GM teetered on the edge of bankruptcy in June 2009, it cut a $367 million “lock-up agreement” with several major creditors in order to prevent its Canadian subsidiary from going under. The move spared the subsidiary from fulfilling the $1 billion debt it owed the creditors—

Battleground Tracking Poll:
Dems less enthusiastic

Politico, by James Hohmann Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/8/2012 5:59:23 AM Post Reply

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Barack Obama has a worsening enthusiasm problem. A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of likely voters showed Obama ahead of Mitt Romney 49 percent to 48 percent nationally, a statistical tie and a point closer than a week ago. The head-to-head numbers have held remarkably steady through the past three weeks, but there’s been a notable shift of intensity from the Democrats to the Republicans since the party conventions over a month ago. Most of the poll’s calls were made before Romney’s strong performance at the first presidential debate in Denver.

Use Serotonin to Remedy
Electoral Dysfunction

National Review Online, by Wesley J. Smith Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 5:54:37 AM Post Reply

The New York Times Sunday Review is getting odder and odder. This week, in an article entitled ”Is America Man Enough to Vote?” Victoria Bassetti cites a 2009 study showing that male voters for McCain in ’08 suffered reduced testosterone from the humiliation of supporting the losing candidate, while Obama males enjoyed increased hormonal virility to the point, one researcher speculated, there could be an “Obama baby boom.” This could have significant civic ramifications because the testosterone deprived are more likely to stop voting “because it hurts too much.”

At Harvard Law School in 1991,
Obama approved of restricting
speech to protect minorities

Daily Caller, by Charles C. Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/8/2012 5:46:17 AM Post Reply

At the height of early-1990s conservative backlash over political correctness and “speech codes” on U.S. college campuses, Barack Obama participated in a panel event geared toward denying that restrictions on free expression were problematic, or happening at all. The 1991 Harvard Law School yearbook quoted the future President of the United States virtually shrugging his shoulders at the thought that non-liberal white students might take offense at restrictions on speech that minority students found objectionable. “I don’t see a lot of conservatives getting upset if minorities feel silenced,” Obama said, flipping the argument around.

Exclusive: Libya Cable Detailed Threats

Daily Beast, by Eli Lake Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 5:40:23 AM Post Reply

Just two days before the 9/11 anniversary attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, two leaders of the Libyan militias responsible for keeping order in the city threatened to withdraw their men. The brinksmanship is detailed in a cable approved by Ambassador Chris Stevens and sent on the day he died in the attack, the worst assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission since the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. The dispatch, which was marked “sensitive” but not “classified,” contained a number of other updates on the chaotic situation on the ground in post-Gaddafi Libya.

Obama’s Drone Dilemma

Slate, by Eric Posner Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 5:35:43 AM Post Reply

The Wall Street Journal recently reported on debates within the Obama administration about the legality of the drone war in Pakistan. State Department legal adviser Harold Koh, the former dean of Yale Law School and even more former darling of the left for his criticisms of the Bush administration’s aggressive theories of executive power, plays a prominent role in them. Koh apparently concluded that the drone war “veers near the edge” of illegality but does not quite tumble over it. That is a questionable judgment. The U.N. Charter permits countries to use military force abroad only with the approval

Post-Debate Polls Show
Senate Back in Play

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 5:28:52 AM Post Reply

A week is a lifetime in politics. Just seven days ago, even some Republicans were writing off Mitt Romney’s chances of being elected president. But as the latest polls taken since his victory in Wednesday’s debate show, the race is up for grabs again. Even more significant, the altered political environment that stems from the puncturing of the Obama balloon of inevitability may be having some effect on other races as well. The first polls after the debate showed a dramatic movement toward Romney in swing states. The national tracking polls also

Oversight eyed in outbreak

Boston Herald, by Chris Cassidy & Gary J. Remal Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 5:21:38 AM Post Reply

Gov. Deval Patrick’s beleaguered health department — already reeling from an evidence-tampering crisis at the state drug lab — now faces a new wave of intense scrutiny after a terrifying nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to a Bay State pharmacy. “How could something like this happen?” said state Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, the co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Health, who is considering holding hearings and launching an investigation into whether the state’s Department of Public Health could have done more to prevent the outbreak.

Chavez Wins 3rd Re-Election
in Tightest Race Yet

Associated Press, by Frank Bajak & Ian James Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/8/2012 5:07:20 AM Post Reply

Caracas, Venezuela-President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela's opposition. The state governor who lost Sunday's presidential vote, Henrique Capriles, had accused the flamboyant incumbent of unfairly leveraging to his advantage Venezuela's oil wealth to finance his campaign as well as flaunting his near total control of state institutions. Capriles also narrowed Chavez's margin of victory to his smallest yet in a presidential contest.

Romney's Foreign Policy Address:
'The Mantle of Leadership'

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 5:02:34 AM Post Reply

The following excerpts of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy address, which will be delivered later today at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, have been released for preview by the Romney campaign:Of all the leaders who have called Lexington, Virginia their home, none is more distinguished than George Marshall—the Chief of Staff of the Army who became Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, who helped to vanquish fascism and then plan Europe’s rescue from despair. His commitment to peace was born of his direct knowledge of the awful costs and consequences of war.

Why I’m Voting for Mitt Romney

Daily Beast, by Buzz Bissinger Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 4:55:12 AM Post Reply

When I told my wife Lisa that I was writing a column supporting Mitt Romney for president, her reaction was both impressive and revealing: “Why don’t you write about the infield fly rule?” It is impressive that anyone actually understands the infield fly rule, one of those arcane mysteries of life in baseball that became the subject of a riot in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 6-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves Friday in the first ever Wild Card One versus Wild Card Two playoff game.(Snip)At the debate, Romney did not simply act like he wanted to be president.

Romney's debate win opens
cracks in Obama fire wall

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/8/2012 4:46:28 AM Post Reply

Wednesday night's presidential debate in which Mitt Romney shellacked Barack Obama attracted the biggest audience since the debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan seven days before the 1980 election.. About 70 million Americans watched, a little more than half the 131 million voter turnout in 2008. That's an estimate, because the ratings companies don't count those watching on C-SPAN, PBS or the Internet. Did the debates matter? The first state polls, conducted by Rasmussen and We Ask America on Thursday night, suggest the answer is yes. Rasmussen reported that Romney was down 1 point

Obama’s crooked campaign cash-o-matic
machine revisited

Michellemalkin.com, by Michelle Malkin Original Article

Posted By: steveW- 10/8/2012 1:22:43 AM Post Reply

In advance of the new Obama donor scandal story that many conservatives have been buzzing about and which is purportedly set to hit the pages of Newsweek/Daily Beast tomorrow morning, I’m reprinting a selection of my previous blog posts over the last four years that exposed various aspects of the Obama crooked campaign cash-o-matic machine. I hear that the new story/investigation will delve deep into online/credit card vulnerabilities and donations from foreign nationals — both subjects which this blog and many other conservative websites have covered extensively since the 2008 campaign.

Romney  to slam  Obama  on warfare

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin & Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/8/2012 1:14:45 AM Post Reply

Port St. Luci, Fla. - Mitt Romney on Monday will accuse the Obama administration of fundamentally misunderstanding the threat of radical Islam, using a major foreign-policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute to say President Obama is rejecting six decades of bipartisan consensus by not flexing more U.S. muscle on the world stage. (Snip) According to excerpts, he will say the president’s first reaction was to blame an Internet video mocking Islam, and only belatedly to spot “the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose their dark ideology on others.” “Hope is not a strategy,” Mr. Romney will

NATO resumes training of
Afghan police recruits

Washington Times, by Kristina Wong Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/8/2012 1:11:26 AM Post Reply

Special operations forces in Afghanistan have resumed training Afghan Local Police recruits after a suspension last month in response to two insider attacks by recruits on their international coalition trainers in August, U.S. officials say. So far, more than half of the 16,000-member police force has been re-vetted and less than 1 percent have been removed, a special operations spokesman said. (Snip) U.S. officials at first praised the Afghan Local Police training program for insulation from insider attacks, but training was suspended Sept. 2 after five special operators were killed in two such attacks. In one attack, a local police

Bachmann's bid for re-election
no longer a lock?

Washington Times, by David Eldridge Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/8/2012 1:08:54 AM Post Reply

Michele Bachmann, the Republican fundraising juggernaut who won her Sixth Congressional District seat in Minnesota two years ago by more than 12 percentage points, is suddenly in a tight contest for re-election. One day after the Cook Political Report downgraded the conservative-leaning Sixth District from "likely Republican" to "leans Republican," Mrs. Bachmann's 2012 opponent, businessman Jim Graves, took to the airwaves Saturday to trumpet his chances of upsetting the three-term congresswoman. (Snip) Mr. Graves has been campaigning for weeks on his own internal poll that shows him within striking distance – two points – of the incumbent, who became a

Update: Tanks in the streets as
Venezuelan electoral council
declares Hugo Chavez victory

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/8/2012 12:56:58 AM Post Reply

Update 10:50 p.m.: According to the Associated Press, Venezuela’s electoral council has declared that Hugo Chavez beat Henriques Capriles in Sunday’s presidential election with about 54 percent of the vote, despite exit polls showing otherwise. Venezuela Twitter users have claimed Chavez’s victory was wrought with election fraud, and that the socialist incumbent president sent tanks into the streets of his country as those exit poll reports showed him losing. A picture of the tanks surfaced on Twitter Sunday evening. (Snip) A Spanish news outlet reported earlier on Sunday that exit polls showed Capriles defeated the socialist president by a narrow

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