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Activists break into
Swedish nuclear plants

The Local [Sweden], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 6:47:56 PM Post Reply

Activists from environmental rights group Greenpeace managed to break into restricted areas of nuclear power plants Forsmark on the east coast of Sweden and Ringhals in the south. “The fact that we got this far shows a completely insufficient security,” said Annika Jacobsson, head of Greenpeace Sweden, to news agency TT. Greenpeace calls the action a “peaceful stress-test” to draw attention to the lack of security at the plants. (Snip) Activists have previously managed to get into restricted areas, but spokespeople from the plants have said that they have never got close to the reactors.

Valerie Jarrett

WGBH-TV (Boston, MA), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/9/2012 6:46:15 PM Post Reply

Let's start a little bit with Chicago. You're going to hire Michelle Obama, but you then meet Barack Obama at a dinner. Tell me a little bit about your first thoughts about this young man, because what happens eventually is that you really become very important to their lives. You sort of introduce them, to some extent, to Chicago politics. ... ... So 21 years ago this summer I met the president and the first lady. It was before they were married; they were engaged.

Schumer Cites ‘Impartial’ Tax
Report Authored by Obama Donor

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 6:45:16 PM Post Reply

Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) cited Tuesday an “impartial” Congressional Research Service report that says tax cuts on high earners and small businesses have little to no effect on economic growth–a report authored by a campaign donor to President Obama. Schumer, speaking at the National Press Club on Tuesday about tax reform, used the report as a counter to Republican arguments for preserving the Bush tax rates: (Snip) The Washington Free Beacon reported last month that the report’s author, Thomas L. Hungerford, has donated at least $3,400 to Obama and at least $2,450 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008.

Biden To Answer Questions at
Vice Presidential Debate
After Months of No
National TV Interviews

ABC News, by Arlette Saenz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 6:34:45 PM Post Reply

When Vice President Joe Biden steps on the stage at Centre College for the Vice Presidential debate in Kentucky Thursday night, it will be the first time the vice president has been on national television airwaves answering questions from a reporter since the May Meet the Press interview when he expressed his comfort with gay marriage. (Snip) Biden’s lack of subsequent national interviews stands in stark contrast to his Republican counterpart Rep. Paul Ryan, who is creeping towards the 200 interview mark since he entered the race in August. Ryan conducts interviews with local television stations during many of his

Gallup: Romney ahead nationally
in first survey of likely voters

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 6:29:15 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney edged President Obama in Gallup’s first national survey of likely voters in the 2012 race, released Tuesday. Romney took 49 percent support against Obama at 47 percent. Among registered voters, which Gallup has been tracking all year, Obama maintains an advantage of 3 percentage points over Romney, 49 to 46 percent. (Snip) Many believe surveys of likely voters are more accurate than those that only survey registered voters. However, Gallup noted that sometimes, as in 2008, “there was only a marginal difference between the vote choices of registered voters and likely voters,” while other times, as in 1996,

Pelosi Blasts GOP Calls
For State Department Probe

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/9/2012 6:23:05 PM Post Reply

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blasted House Republicans Tuesday for requesting a hearing next week on the State Department's handling of last month's deadly consulate attack in Libya. With Congress in recess for the campaign season, Pelosi argued on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" that if the GOP wants to look into the Libya issue, they should return for votes on other pending legislation, as well. "We're supposed to be in session this week, but they've canceled it rather than passing a middle income tax cut, passing a jobs bill, passing the Violence Against Women Act

Greek police, protesters
clash during Merkel visit

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 6:15:57 PM Post Reply

Athens - Greek police fired teargas and stun grenades at protesters in central Athens on Tuesday when they tried to break through a barrier and reach visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Tens of thousands of demonstrators defied a ban on protests, gathering in Syntagma square to voice their displeasure with the German leader, who many blame for forcing painful cuts on Greece in exchange for two EU-IMF bailout packages worth over 200 billion euros. In the central square next to parliament, four people dressed in German military uniforms and riding on a small jeep, waved black-white-and-red swastika flags and stuck

BH Interview: Prager Wants
Carolla's'Luck' to Rub Off on
University Students

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Christian Toto Original Article

Posted By: jj1319- 10/9/2012 6:10:21 PM Post Reply

Radio talk show host Dennis Prager is fighting back against the era of entitlement thinking with a man known in some circles for encouraging girls to bounce on trampolines. Prager’s decades as a radio performer made it easy for him to look past Adam Carolla’s crass high jinks on "The Man Show" and applaud the thinker beneath the gags. Now, the duo routinely plays before packed crowds, and they've teamed up for a new course at Prager University, the talk show host’s online education realm. “Adam Carolla on Luck”

Obama’s Big Bird Trap: That Debate

Bloomberg, by Mark Silva Original Article

Posted By: Killian Bundy- 10/9/2012 6:00:52 PM Post Reply

Has President Barack Obama walked into a Big Bird trap? The president has had no shortage of fun over the past week with Republican Mitt Romney’s evocation of the Sesame Street favorite in their first debate. The president has played on Romney’s words about cutting federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service despite his own fondness for PBS — “I love Big Bird,” Romney said. The Obama campaign has even cut a TV ad with a cameo appearance by Big Bird.

Sesame Street Is the 1 Percent

National Review Magazine, by Katrina Trinko Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/9/2012 5:53:49 PM Post Reply

President Obama, who has railed against the “fat-cat bankers on Wall Street” and the wealthy, has been an eager defender of Big Bird and public broadcasting this week in light of Mitt Romney’s comments that he would defund it in last week’s debate. But it turns out that many of those behind Big Bird are actually members of the 1 percent themselves (anyone with a total income of $343,927 or more as of 2009), based on their salaries. At Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to the CPB’s 2011 tax forms: Patricia De Stacy Harrison, president and CEO $361,895

A dereliction of debating

Chicago Tribune, by Dennis Byrne Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/9/2012 5:37:40 PM Post Reply

Watching liberals unravel after last week's presidential debate has been almost as entertaining as witnessing the thumping that Republican candidate Mitt Romney applied to the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama. (Snip) It shows Obama's fatal flaw is not just his policies (as bad as they are), but the fact that he isn't and never was cut out to be president. He's not up to it. He's the kid who got thrown into the pool without knowing how to swim. He lacks the experience, composure and certain qualities of leadership required of a president — qualities that Romney put on display.

No White House Press
Briefing in Last 15 Days

The Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/9/2012 5:32:01 PM Post Reply

The White House has not held a press briefing in the last 15 days, according to records on the White House's website. The last one was held on September 24, 2012, by White House press secretary Jay Carney. However, in that 15 day time period, and including today, there have been 11 press gaggles. Nine have been conducted by Carney, while 2 have been held by principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest. Campaign surrogates David Axelrod and traveling press secretary Jen Psaki have participated in the gaggles. But there's a big difference between a gaggle and a press briefing

The truth about the
Ryan-Biden debate

Fox News, by Dick Morris Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 5:17:18 PM Post Reply

The vice presidential debate gives Paul Ryan a unique opportunity to explain Mitt Romney’s economic programs and ideas in front of a massive national audience. We will see Paul Ryan at his best. And that is very, very good. He is not just a vice presidential candidate. He is the author and intellectual founder of the modern Republican agenda. There can be no more profound and articulate a spokesman to defend and elaborate the Romney agenda to America. It is rare that the ideological and substantive creator of a public policy agenda gets to weigh in during a national public debate.

Today is Obama Voter
Freak-Out Day

Slate, by David Weigel Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 5:09:18 PM Post Reply

The long holiday weekend delayed the impact and soul-killing implications of Mitt Romney's poll bounce. Look! There's the Gallup tracking poll, which gives Romney a 49-47 lead! Look! There's the RCP average, which gives Romney his first lead since the summer! Look, there's the CNN Poll of Polls, which sounds legit, even though it includes the all-over-the-map American Research Group. (Snip)The Obama hyper-optimism never made sense to me. Mitt Romney's favorable ratings and issue ratings were cosmically low, because the Obama campaign's stated strategy -- for 13 months! -- was to make them low.

Who is Robert Roche?

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 4:42:59 PM Post Reply

In his report on fraudulent and foreign donations to American politicians, chief among them Barack Obama, Peter Schweizer raises the mysterious case of Robert Roche, an Obama bundler, who, for some time, owned the website Obama.com. That site redirects its traffic, 68 percent of which comes from foreign sources, to the official Obama campaign website. The Schweizer report notes: By October 2, 2008, Obama.com began redirecting all visitors to specific content on my.barackobama.com. Upon arrival to my.barackobama.com, visitors were asked for their name, email, and zip code and presumably were sent solicitation letters, like every other visitor who

Ohio secretary of state asks
Supreme Court to block
early voting

Los Angeles Times, by David Savage Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:41:11 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Ohio’s secretary of state is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a pair of rulings that will open the polls for all voters on the three days prior to the Nov. 6 election, a time when 105,000 Ohioans cast ballots four years ago. The election-year emergency appeal could prompt the high court to revisit its Bush vs. Gore ruling of 2000, which said voting standards must be equal across the state. Ohio had said it planned to offer limited early voting to military families on the weekend before the election.

Stocks retreat ahead of earnings

CNN Money, by HIbah Yousuf Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:40:43 PM Post Reply

New York - U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as investors gear up for the unofficial start of the third-quarter earnings season but despite the day's weakness, the Dow and S&P 500 continue to hover near five-year highs. In fact, the Dow is about 5% away from its all-time closing peak of 14,164.53, reached exactly five years ago today (Snip) Corporate America will be back in the spotlight over the next few weeks as companies open up their books. Analysts are expecting third-quarter earnings for the S&P 500 to decline 1.2%, according to S&P Capital IQ. That would be the worst result

Do you want your
goat scruffy or shiny?

USA Today, by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/9/2012 4:38:15 PM Post Reply

According to a West African proverb, "a goat owned in common always starves." This pithy phrase captures a key truth of human behavior: People are a lot better about taking care of things that belong to them than they are about taking care of things that don't. That's a lesson that applies to more than goats. At the beach place where I'm staying right now, there are some "community" bicycles. They're "free," in the sense that the cost is just built into your rent, so that it doesn't cost any more to use them a lot

Tons of old munitions
explode in Russia

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:33:53 PM Post Reply

Moscow - Four thousand tons of old munitions blew up at a military site in central Russia on Tuesday, releasing a plume of white smoke into the sky and sending panicked locals fleeing for their lives. The Donguz military range 30km south of the city of Orenburg in the Ural mountains region caught fire after the old munitions unexpectedly exploded, the emergency and defence ministries said. A total of 4 000 tons of outdated munitions including 400 tons of aerial bombs and more than 1 300 tons of shells exploded (Snip) '' A neighbouring house cracked in half. You can't

Detroit Lions Standout
and 'Webster' Star Reportedly
Has Days to Live

ABC News, by Erin McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:29:32 PM Post Reply

Former Detroit Lions standout and National Football League great, Alex Karras, who later became a TV star, is reportedly near death, following recent kidney failure. The 77-year-old former defensive tackle has been given only a few days to live, the Detroit Free Press reports. Karras was drafted by the Lions 10th overall in 1958, and he played for the team for his entire NFL career. Following his retirement from football in 1970 at the age of 35, Karras took up acting, playing Mongo in the Mel Brooks movie "Blazing Saddles" and lovable dad George Papadapolis

The Illegal-Donor Loophole

Daily Beast, by Peter Schweizer and Peter J. Boyer Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/9/2012 4:29:06 PM Post Reply

There has been no shortage of media attention paid to the role of money in the current presidential contest. Super PACs, bundlers, 527s, and mega-donors have attracted abundant notice. But there has been surprisingly little focus on perhaps the most secretive and influential financial force in politics today: the wide-open coffers of the Internet. (Snip) Further complicating the issue are websites like Obama.com—which is owned not by the Obama campaign but by Robert Roche, an American businessman and Obama fundraiser who lives in Shanghai. Roche’s China-based media company, Acorn International, runs infomercials on Chinese state television.

Cook County mulling violence
tax on guns and ammunition

Chicago Sun-Times, by Lisa Donovan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:20:43 PM Post Reply

Drawing the ire of the gun lobby, Cook County Board President Preckwinkle is eyeing a violence tax on guns and ammunition sold in the city and suburbs, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. Such a tax alone wouldn’t close a $115 million budget gap in 2013, but it could at least funnel money into the county’s $3 billion operation — where roughly two-thirds of the budget pays for both the county’s public health clinics and two hospitals along with the criminal justice system that includes the courts and jail. “If we were to pursue a tax on something like guns and

Welch can't take the heat: I quit

Fortune, by Stephen Gandel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 4:14:28 PM Post Reply

Jack Welch has left our building, metaphorically that is. Welch said he will no longer contribute to Fortune following critical coverage of the former CEO of General Electric, saying he would get better "traction" elsewhere. On Friday, Welch suggested that the Obama administration, calling them "these Chicago guys," had manipulated the monthly jobs report in order to make the economy look better than it actually is just weeks before the election. Welch has been battered by criticism since making the suggestion on Twitter. Monday morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer said there were a number of

Obama risks millions of
youth votes due to economy,
debate performance

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:10:33 PM Post Reply

Sinking Democratic support and waning political engagement among young people might cost President Barack Obama several million votes in November, according to a survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center. Following Wednesday’s presidential debate, Obama’s support dropped from 65 percent to 58 percent among voters younger than 30, the survey found. Pew determined that Romney’s support in the same demographic rose from 32 percent to 42 percent last week.“The president has lost a significant amount of political support and enthusiasm among 18-to-29 year-olds,” said Paul T. Conway, president of Generation Opportunity,

Emotional Romney tells Iowa
crowd of time he met Navy
SEAL killed in Libya

Fox News, by Chris Laible Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 4:04:25 PM Post Reply

VAN METER, Iowa - Recounting stories of people who have touched his life, an emotional Mitt Romney told an Iowa crowd Tuesday afternoon of the time he met one of the two former Navy SEALs killed in last month's terror attack in Libya. The story started off light-hearted. Romney and his wife, Ann Romney, accidentally crashed a Christmas Party across the street from his home in La Jolla, Calif., mistakenly thinking it was a neighborhood party they were invited to. "We had dinner together and got our pictures with everyone," Romney recalled, as the crowd began laughing. "Turns out,

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