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What Obama’s Raddatz
connection really shows us

Daily Caller, by Matt K. Lewis Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 5:58:28 AM Post Reply

There is a line in “A Few Good Men” that I think of every time someone complains about the “good ol’ boys” club. A frustrated Cdr. Galloway (Demi Moore), having failed to outmaneuver Lt. Kaffee (Tom Cruise), asks incredulously: “Is there anyone in this command that you don’t either drink or play softball with?” You can often get your way if you know the right people. I was reminded of this when I read The Daily Caller’s story today which revealed that President Barack Obama was a guest at the wedding of vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz.

Scary Harry

Washington Free Beacon, by C.J. Ciaramella Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 5:53:10 AM Post Reply

Several Democratic candidates in recent months have been hesitant to voice support for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), who, if Democrats retain control of the Senate, must be reelected majority leader when Congress begins a new session next year. Much like the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository he so opposes, Reid seems to be toxic. Reid’s tenure as majority leader in the upper house of Congress has been notable for his iron-fisted control, which has drawn indignation from Republicans. However, in recent months, Reid has also been making headlines as a rabid, partisan attack dog

Ryan's debate prep as
meticulous as he is

CNN, by Dana Bash Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 5:48:48 AM Post Reply

Washington -- Paul Ryan has a constant companion on the campaign trail -- a weighty burden he clearly can't live without. It's an oversized, well-worn brown briefcase that holds about 40 pounds of paperwork that he's been studying nonstop to prepare for his debate with Vice President Joe Biden. Ryan sat down for an exclusive interview with CNN to give some insight into how he is getting ready for his 90-minute face-off. As he held the bulging briefcase in his lap, he told us that this is the way he has gotten ready for moments large and small

The $5 trillion tax cut that isn’t

Washington Post, by Robert J. Samuelson Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/11/2012 5:38:44 AM Post Reply

Let’s review again the math of Mitt Romney’s proposed tax cuts to show why — contrary to the rhetoric from President Obama’s campaign — they do not amount to a $5 trillion tax cut for the rich. We all understand that campaigns involve self-serving exaggerations, simplifications and partial truths. But if politics is to retain any integrity, a line must be drawn at statements and innuendoes that are demonstrably false. That’s happened here. The Obama campaign has distorted the results of a study by the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group, and created a fictitious $5 trillion tax cut.

'NHS doctor quizzed by terror
police over Syria kidnap plot'

Daily Mail [UK], by Chris Greenwood* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 5:38:32 AM Post Reply

A suspected Islamic fundamentalist thought to have fought in Syria while on sabbatical from his job as an NHS doctor was in custody last night. The man was arrested with his wife at Heathrow Airport on Monday after returning to Britain from Egypt. Counter-terrorism officers suspect he was an AK-47 wielding medic among a gang of kidnappers in war-torn Syria. The man is accused of being part of a small British contingent among a 40-strong cell called Al Absi, which aims to convert Syria to sharia law. The group occupied a camp inside the Syrian border and took two veteran

Terrorist bomb cache
near Disneyland in Paris

Daily Express [UK], by Peter Allen Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 5:35:03 AM Post Reply

Terrorist bomb-making equipment has been found hidden in a garage near Disneyland Paris. Overnight raids by police in the eastern suburb of Torcy uncovered the explosives and guns in a four-storey building yesterday. Armed officers surrounded the building as residents were evacuated. Following the find, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said: “We are clearly and objectively confronted with an extremely dangerous terrorist cell” and that everything needed to be done “to prevent the risk of a terrorist attack in France”.He confirmed that “elements used in the manufacture of explosives” were found, including potassium nitrate and sulphur, along with guns.

Joe's World

National Review Online, by Daniel Foster Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 5:31:26 AM Post Reply

We are told, in a variety of journalistic passive constructions, that Vice President Joseph Biden “is expected to have an advantage on foreign policy” in the imminent debate with Representative Paul Ryan, who in his career thus far has been more of a home-front guy. Indeed, among the surfeit of reasons that candidate Obama chose then-Senator Biden as his running mate (all of which, I’m sure, sounded good at the time) was that Biden’s thousand years hanging around the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were supposed to offset Obama’s own thin portfolio on politics among nations.

An ‘Appropriate’ fiasco

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 5:27:58 AM Post Reply

At yesterday’s incendiary, four-hour hearing in Washington, congressional Republicans ripped into two high-ranking State Department officials who struggled to explain away the administration’s utterly baffling behavior before and after the murder of four Americans in Benghazi on Sept. 11. The spectacle was agonizing. The officials — Charlene Lamb and Patrick Kennedy — basically said everything they’d done before the terror assault and everything the administration had said afterward was appropriate, “based on what was known at the time.” Lamb and Kennedy said they’d done the right thing as they sat next to two security experts

Don't tell Mitt! The actor who
brought Big Bird to life
makes $314,000 a year

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 5:21:17 AM Post Reply

It looks like Mitt Romney was on to something when he promised to fire Big Bird during his first presidential debate: Big Bird makes big bucks! Tax returns from PBS's Sesame Workshop show that the television show shelled out at least $314,072 for the actor behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. That makes Caroll Spinney, who has played everyone's favorite yellow-feathered friend since 1969, a true blue member of the One Percent. But Mr Spinney isn't even the highest paid member of the puppetry staff. Jospeh Mazzarino, who plays Murray, Stinky the Stinkweed, the Two-Headed Monster, Papa Bear and

Mexican billionaire making millions from
American government program that
gives poor free cell phones

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 5:18:40 AM Post Reply

The richest man in the world, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, is making millions in profits from a government program that supplies poor Americans with free cell phones. Mr Slim, who is worth an estimated $69billion, owns the parent company of both the service provider and phone producer which creates the phones used in the Lifeline program. The government program was originally enacted under President Reagan's administration in an effort for poor Americans without access to phones to have a way to contact prospective employers, arrange for healthcare, and be in touch with their children's schools. Republicans have since attacked the

Another Reason to End Preferences

Weekly Standard, by Terry Eastland Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/11/2012 5:16:56 AM Post Reply

Arguably the most notable brief filed in the Supreme Court’s big case on affirmative action comes from a pair of lawyers who have just published a book on the subject. The case is Fisher v. Texas, and the coauthors are Richard Sander, who is also an economist, and Stuart Taylor, the legal affairs writer. The argument they press is that “the biggest problem for minorities in higher education is no longer race but rather racial preferences.” If you ask why that is, their answer is “mismatch,” which also serves as the title of their book.

Congress told terrorist attack on
US consulate in Benghazi
was 'a matter of time'

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 5:08:25 AM Post Reply

Security at the lightly-guarded diplomatic site was “weak” despite repeated requests for more protection in the months before the raid that killed the US ambassador to Libya, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Wood told a Congressional committee. He said his special forces troops, who were assigned to protect American diplomats in Libya, were withdrawn weeks before the attack and that Washington ignored warnings that the consulate was vulnerable. In a televised hearing designed to put the Obama administration’s handling of the September 11 assault on trial, Republicans claimed that the State Department had pressured its diplomats to “artificially” reduce security arrangements

Vice Presidential debate - Can Joe Biden
clean up the mess Obama made?

Telegraph [UK], by Peter Foster Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 5:04:37 AM Post Reply

Often in US election cycles, the vice-presidential debate is considered an entertaining but largely inconsequential diversion: politicos might be curious to see how the understudies perform, but the voting public really has eyes only for the two principals. Not this time. After Barack Obama slept-walked through the first presidential debate in Denver, precipitating a revival for Mitt Romney in the polls, the heat is now on Joe Biden to help put a stop to the Romney roll. It is an unaccustomed role for Mr Biden, a loquacious but notoriously unreliable politician who over the last four years has played fool

Obama’s Absurd Big Bird Attack

Daily Beast, by Mark McKinnon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 5:02:43 AM Post Reply

Baghdad. Benghazi. Big Bird. One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Al Qaeda is rebuilding in Iraq. An American ambassador is dead. And Iran may be just months away from amassing enough weapons-grade uranium to wipe Israel off the map. Here at home, 23 million Americans are still looking for work. The national debt is motre than $16 trillion. And while China is the largest foreign owner of our debt, around $5 trillion is owed to the nearly insolvent Social Security Trust Fund and to the federal pension system—

As Romney’s lead in the polls
widens, libs slip further into funk

Hot Air, by Howard Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 4:52:41 AM Post Reply

This wasn’t how it was supposed to be. Barack Obama, despite having placed the country’s future in greater jeopardy than he found it in 2008 and having no second-term plans for dealing with the deficit or entitlements, was supposed to coast to a second term against a hapless, floundering Mitt Romney. Then along came that wretched debate and Romney lied and now he’s ahead in the polls by a full percentage point. Today’s Real Clear Politics average has Romney at 48.2%, the president at 47.2%. Romney now has a lead of between 1 and 5 points

Costa Concordia captain
wants his job back

Telegraph [UK], by Nick Squires Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 4:47:52 AM Post Reply

Rome - Capt Francesco Schettino is also claiming back pay, after it emerged on Wednesday that he had been dismissed by Costa Cruises, the company that owns the Concordia, in July. "Costa Crociere confirms that it has concluded the disciplinary procedure against Schettino, following the sinking of the Costa Concordia, ordering his dismissal," the company said in a statement. The captain has claimed that he managed to save lives on the night of the disaster by steering the listing ship so that it sank in shallows off the coast of Giglio, rather than in open water.

Airport Weapons Suspect Yongda
Huang Harris to Investigators:
'Hey, This Is a Game': Exclusive

ABC News, by Richard Esposito & Jack Date Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/11/2012 4:43:30 AM Post Reply

A Boston-bound man arrested at Los Angeles International Airport wearing what appeared to be a bulletproof vest and transporting weapons in his luggage puzzled investigators by saying, "Hey, this is a game." Yongda Huang Harris, 28, a naturalized U.S. citizen who teaches English in China, was otherwise uncooperative with detectives and the FBI, which had an agent sit in on the questioning at the airport. Like many of the known facts about Harris -- now facing a federal charge for transporting hazardous material on an airplane -- the meaning of the statement, "This is a game," remained unclear to investigators.

Charleston home sales trends hint
at shift to a seller’s market

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Tyrone Richardson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 4:19:28 AM Post Reply

Charleston County has been leading the way in much of the region’s housing rebound, and September was no exception. The area’s most populous county accounted for 502 homes sold, 57 percent of all homes that changed hands last month within the three counties, according to the Charleston Trident Association of Realtors’ monthly home sales report released Wednesday. Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties conbined for 876 sales in September, 13 percent more than the same month a year ago. The association’s monthly reports have been showing encouraging residential real estate trends since the fall of 2011. Sales have been rising,

Red light cameras more of a ‘Go’ sign
for state license plate re-do

Palm Beach Post [FL], by Frank Cerabino Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/11/2012 4:09:45 AM Post Reply

The economic future of Florida apparently relies on the redesign of our license plates. I had no idea what a problem the current license plates have been. But it turns out that they’re wreaking havoc on what was supposed to be a lucrative business of photographing red-light violators at traffic intersections across the state. Since the beginning of the year, about three million license plates of red-light violators in Florida have gone unticketed because the raised lettering on their license plates couldn’t be deciphered by surveillance cameras, according to state officials. Whether it’s sun-bleached paint or the similarity of some letters and

'I was too polite': Obama comes
up with ANOTHER excuse
for his debate disaster

Daily Mail [UK], by Hugo Gye Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 4:06:45 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama has come up with another excuse for his poor performance in last week's presidential debate - he now says he was 'too polite' towards Mitt Romney. The President and his allies have suggested a number of explanations for his disappointing display, from Mr Romney's surprise shift to the political center to even the high altitude of Denver. But this morning Mr Obama argued that his main problem was that he pulled his punches against the Republican candidate--and promised to be more aggressive in the two remaining debates. 'I think it's fair to say I was just too polite

Of Skulls and Podiums

Pajamas Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/11/2012 4:01:01 AM Post Reply

Chris Rock tweeted shortly after the first Obama-Romney debate that “Obama is bringing Bin Laden’s skull & setting it on the podium for the next debate.” But Mitt Romney‘s speech attacking the president’s foreign policy serves notice that Osama’s skull may not be enough to keep him back; the criticism he delivered suggests he’s going to mix it up. (snip) The image he ought to be trying fix in his mind shouldn’t be of Obama wilting under Romney’s humorous chafing but of Obama alone with Putin; of Obama alone with the Chinese premier; of Obama alone with representatives of

Judges approve SC voter ID law,
delay implementation until 2013

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 10/11/2012 3:09:13 AM Post Reply

A panel of three federal judges upheld a South Carolina law requiring voters to show photo identification, but delayed enforcement until next year, in a decision announced Wednesday, less than a month before this year's presidential election. (Snip) The judge declined to let the law take effect immediately, "given the short time left before the 2012 elections and given the numerous steps necessary to properly implement the law ... and ensure that the law would not have discriminatory" effect.

Officials worried Iran will
strike Jews in New York

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 12:30:21 AM Post Reply

The New York Police Department is concerned about an Iranian-sponsored terrorist attack on the city, Commissioner Ray Kelly said Tuesday according to the New York Post. The concern is particularly poignant due to the city's large Jewish population, which stands at over 1.5 million - the largest Jewish population in any city worldwide outside Israel. (Snip) “Within the last year, we’ve seen a worldwide increase in incidents involving the stockpiling of explosives, the surveillance of targets, and a number of very significant plots and attacks,” the Post quoted Yorke as saying. He added that the increase is in direct relation

California's renewable-energy plans
may hinge on presidential race

Los Angeles Times, by Evan Halper Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 12:21:47 AM Post Reply

Sacramento - On 7,300 isolated acres in eastern Kern County, a plan for dozens of wind turbines 20 stories high to generate enough electricity for tens of thousands of homes may hinge on who is elected president. Millions of dollars have been spent laying the groundwork. Permits are in order, contractors are lined up, government planners are on board. But like many other green energy efforts in California, the Avalon Wind Project awaits the fate of key federal subsidies. For Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, such aid represents government run amok, allowing bureaucrats to pick winners and losers in renewable

IRS says ‘tax avoidance’ at heart
of Solyndra bankruptcy plan

Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 12:18:57 AM Post Reply

The Internal Revenue Service urged a bankruptcy judge to reject solar panel maker Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy plan Wednesday, saying it amounts to little more than an avenue for owners of an empty corporate shell to avoid paying taxes. “The undeniable conclusion is that tax benefits drive this plan,” attorneys for the IRS wrote in a bankruptcy pleading. (Snip) What’s more, government attorneys said that as far back as 2010, Solyndra owners had “planned meticulously” to be able to use Solyndra’s net operating losses to offset future tax liabilities.

ABC News’ version of an
impartial debate moderator

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/11/2012 12:15:48 AM Post Reply

Tomorrow’s vice presidential debate will be moderated by Martha Raddatz. The Daily Caller has reported that in 1991, Barack Obama attended Raddatz’s wedding to the future president’s law school classmate and fellow Harvard Law Review member Julius Genachowski. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Obama appointed Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission. Raddatz and Gemachowski divorced in 1997. But they have a son together. So the father of the debate moderator’s child is an Obama administration appointee. Raddatz works for ABC News

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