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Princeton Economist: Obama
Campaign Is Misrepresenting My
Study on Romney's Tax Plan

Weekly Standard, by John McCormack Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/8/2012 10:01:49 AM Post Reply

Last night, the Obama campaign blasted out another email claiming that Mitt Romney's tax plan would either require raising taxes on the middle class or blowing a hole in the deficit. "Even the studies that Romney has cited to claim his plan adds up still show he would need to raise middle-class taxes," said the Obama campaign press release. "In fact, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein and Princeton economist Harvey Rosen both concede that paying for Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000." But that's not true. Princeton professor Harvey Rosen tells

Battleground Poll: Romney
Up 16 with Independents,
Up 13 In Enthusiasm

Breitbart Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/8/2012 9:56:42 AM Post Reply

In 2008, President Barack Obama won the independent vote over John McCain by a margin of eight points, 52-44. This morning, a new Battleground Poll has Mitt Romney massacring Obama among indies by a whopping 16 points, 51-35. That's a 24-point swing among independents since 2008, a group that makes up anywhere from a quarter to a third of voters, and yet Battleground still has Obama in the lead 49-48…? (Snip)The Battleground Poll also shows an 13 point enthusiasm gap in Romney's favor. Only 73% of Obama's supporters are "extremely likely" to vote, compared to 86% of Romney's supporters.
Intro corrected by staff

Labour has built a
client state in Scotland

Telegraph [UK], by Graeme Archer Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/8/2012 9:55:42 AM Post Reply

At a conference dinner last night--before we all indulged ourselves by sharing our view of what the Prime Minister must say in his speech--the guests mingled in the bar, introducing themselves to each other. Our host was a public-relations company, and most of the other participants worked in some form of communications. I admitted to one woman that though my badge says Telegraph, I was really in Birmingham as a normal party activist. "What on earth made you join the Conservative Party?" she asked me. It's a good question, and I suppose there are as many answers as there are

Mosque with 4 times capacity of
St Paul’s Cathedral planned in London

Indian Express (New Delhi), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: crabam- 10/8/2012 9:47:39 AM Post Reply

A 10,000-capacity ‘mega-mosque’, which will be the size of Battersea Power Station, has been planned for West Ham, near the Olympic Park in east London. The mosque will hold four times as many worshippers as St Paul’s Cathedral, have an Islamic library, sports facilities and eight flats for visiting clerics. Architects have described the mosque as a ‘contemporary Islamic sacred space’. The plan has been submitted by Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary movement once described as an ''ante-chamber of fundamentalism''.
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Hit-Man Mitt Shamed By
‘Frontline’; ‘Nashville’: Review

Bloomberg Businessweek, by Greg Evans Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/8/2012 9:41:38 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney declared in last week’s presidential debate that he’d do away with the Public Broadcasting Service. Maybe it was because he’d been given an advance look at “Frontline’s” essential election primer, “The Choice 2012”. (Snip) Consider “The Choice,” which views Romney as a shape- shifting businessman, “a turnaround specialist” who “crafted himself to meet the politics of the moment.” Barack Obama is an astute, if pie-in-the-sky, politician, “whose promise to unite the country ran into the harsh reality of politics.”

Obama called the clear debate
winner—by NFL replacement refs

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/8/2012 9:37:36 AM Post Reply

Fallon: First Lady Michelle Obama says she would choose Will Smith or Denzel Washington to play her husband in a movie. Or as Democrats put it, “Any way they could play him in a debate?" Conan: Debate prep: Mitt Romney vs a GOP senator playing Obama. Obama prepares for Romney by debating an ATM machine. Fallon: A new survey finds that over 35% of Americans plan on voting before Election Day. Not for president, just for “Dancing with the Stars.”

Claim: Obama campaign illegally
solicited foreign donors via
social media website

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 9:36:51 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has been soliciting foreigners for donations, an explosive report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI) shows. Those foreign donors are allegedly visiting the Obama campaign’s donation solicitation Web pages through a social media website the campaign controls, and through an outside website that serves mostly Internet users from outside the United States. About 20 percent of visitors to the “my.barackobama.com” social media website “originated from foreign locations,” the report found. That Web address is owned and controlled by the Obama re-election campaign. “At no point during the [website's] subscription process

Corruption: Exposing Barack
Obama’s Illegal Foreign
Campaign Money Loophole

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/8/2012 9:23:21 AM Post Reply

A new report obtained by Townhall from the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute [GAI] shows the Obama campaign has potentially violated federal election law by failing to prevent the use of fraudulent or foreign credit card transactions on the official Obama for America [OFA] donation webpage. For the past eight months, GAI has been investigating the potential influence of foreign online campaign donations in House, Senate and presidential elections. The report was conducted using spidering software and found thousands of foreign sites linking to campaign donation pages. The investigation was conducted with the guidance of a former U.S. attorney.

Security Team Commander
Says Ambassador Stevens
Wanted His Team to Stay
in Libya Past August

ABC News, by Jake Tapper Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/8/2012 9:18:35 AM Post Reply

U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens wanted a Security Support Team, made up of 16 special operations soldiers, to stay with him in Libya after their deployment was scheduled to end in August, the commander of that security team told ABC News.(Snip)But a senior State Department official told ABC News that the embassy’s Regional Security Officer never specifically requested that the SST’s tour be extended past August, and the official maintained there was no net loss of security personnel. The Regional Security Officer “asked for a number of U.S. shooters

Report: Obama.com Vulnerable to
Illegal Foreign Campaign Donations

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/8/2012 9:08:23 AM Post Reply

The Internet and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have democratized elections, made the world more interconnected, and allowed the velocity of information to be faster than ever before. But an extensive eight-month investigation by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released on Monday found these same forces can also be the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty (visit campaignfundingrisks.com to download the full report). These technologies allow foreign donors to anonymously circumvent U.S. campaign finance laws and directly influence elections by donating repeatedly

Bombshell: Obama.com Owned by
Bundler in Shanghai with Business
Ties to Chinese Government

Breitbart's Big Government, by Wynton Hall Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/8/2012 9:05:42 AM Post Reply

In an explosive report set to send shockwaves through official Washington, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a 108-page GAI investigation into the threat of foreign and fraudulent Internet campaign donations in U.S. federal elections (visit campaignfundingrisks.com to download the full report). Breitbart News obtained an advance copy of the bombshell report which reveals that the Obama.com website is not owned by the president’s campaign but rather by Obama bundler Robert Roche, a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai, China. Roche is the chairman of a Chinese infomercial company, Acorn International

Texas Pushes $10,000 Degree

Wall Street Journal, by Nathan Koppel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/8/2012 8:43:54 AM Post Reply

For sale: a college education for $10,000 or less. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is renewing his call for such lower-cost undergraduate degrees, in what he hopes will be the state's signature response to the national problem of rising college tuition and student debt. "A $10,000 degree provides an opportunity for students to earn a low-cost, high-quality degree that will get them where they want to go in their careers and their lives," the Republican governor said in a statement last week. The governor has repeatedly urged schools to find ways to teach students more efficiently.

Still a Conservative Provocateur,
Carlson Angles for Clicks, Not Fights

Daily Caller, by Brian Stelter Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/8/2012 8:32:39 AM Post Reply

A week ago, Tucker Carlson cued up a video of President Obama that had been sent to him by a source. The video, recorded in 2007 when Mr. Obama was a presidential candidate, showed him speaking to a black audience about “quiet riots” in the black community and the differences in the federal government’s responses to the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina.Mr. Carlson had covered the speech before — back in 2007, when he was the host of a daily talk show on MSNBC.

Romney surge post-debate overtakes Obama

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/8/2012 8:32:29 AM Post Reply

Based on his commanding debate performance, Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Obama's lead in the most recent days to pull into a tie among registered voters nationally in a brand-new Gallup Tracking Poll. Gallup's standard tracking poll uses a seven-day rolling average, in this case, the night of the debate and three nights on either side. Obama enjoyed a four- to six-point lead during the three days before the Oct. 3 Denver debate. But in the three days after, that lead evaporated into a dead heat at 47% each.

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.”

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