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Solyndra, the sequel? Bankrupt
solar firm, DOE facing scrutiny
over panel problems

Fox News, by Joseph Weber Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 12:02:21 PM Post Reply

House Republicans are pressing the Obama administration for more information about a solar-panel company that received a $400 million loan guarantee, then went bankrupt and is now the focus of a criminal investigation. The committee pursuing documents on Colorado-based Abound Solar is the same that investigated the half-billion taxpayer loan to Solyndra, whose bankruptcy rocked the Obama administration. Two more Department of Energy-backed companies have since filed for bankruptcy, with Abound Solar being the latest. Lawmakers are now questioning whether the administration might have known about serious

Obama’s Constitution

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Evans Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:58:50 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is running roughshod over the Constitution, legal scholars say, by disregarding it, changing laws outside the legislative process, and extending federal power in unprecedented ways. The president has “profound disdain for the Constitution,” said David Rivkin, a lawyer at the BakerHostetler law firm in Washington, DC. “Across a whole host of policy areas, President Obama and other high officials in his administration have pushed the envelope of anything attempted before,” said Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional expert at the Cato Institute. Under the president’s judicial philosophy, legislation ideally “streamlines government action” so it can “grow and experiment,”

Fox News poll: 53 percent
say Obama failed on
economy, Libya 'troubling'

Fox News, by Dana Blanton Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/11/2012 11:54:47 AM Post Reply

Slim majorities of American voters say the Obama administration has mostly failed to grow the economy and create jobs. And while a majority says President Obama has mostly succeeded at making America safer, two-thirds of voters are concerned about the administration’s initial false statements on the September 11, 2012 attacks in Libya. That’s according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday. Fifty-two percent of likely voters think the Obama administration has mostly succeeded at making the country safer. That’s the only positive rating for the White House on the issues tested. Fifty-three percent think the administration has

2008 Biden debate: Obama and
I do not support gay marriage

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:53:21 AM Post Reply

During the 2008 Vice Presidential debate, Joe Biden clearly stated neither he nor Obama believed in gay marriage. “Let’s try to avoid nuance Senator,” began debate moderator Gwen Ifell to Joe Biden during the debate. “Do you support gay marriage?” “No.” Biden replied. “Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do not support that.” Biden insisted that the definition of marriage should be “left to the faiths and the people that practice their faiths.”

War on Women? Joe Biden voted
for constitutional amendment
to overturn Roe vs. Wade

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:50:24 AM Post Reply

Abortion activists hope that Vice President Joe Biden will portray campaign rival Paul Ryan as an extremist for being pro-life, but that might be a tall order for a former senator who supported a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe vs. Wade. In 1982, then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., voted for the Human Life Federalism Amendment, which contradicted Roe by declaring that “the right to an abortion is not secured by this Constitution.” The Florida Catholic Conference of Bishops recalls the Hatch Amendment as a “turning point in [the] pro-life cause.”

Biden: 'You Ever See
Me Rope-a-Dope?'

The Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/11/2012 11:44:26 AM Post Reply

Joe Biden, on his way to tonight's vice presidential debate in Kentucky, asks the press, "You ever see me rope-a-dope?" From the pool report: Vice President Biden arrived at about 10:50 a.m. at New Castle Airport. He climbed out of a gray SUV, greeted some military (see below) and then walked toward the press gathered near the wing. Asked about tonight's debate he said, "Looking forward to it." Asked about his strategy, whether it was rope-a-dope, he responded: "You ever see me rope-a-dope?"
Headline split, intro corrected by staff

Russia no longer wants U.S.
aid on nuclear arms security

Washington Post, by Will Englund Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/11/2012 11:34:46 AM Post Reply

MOSCOW — Russia has told the United States that it will not extend the Nunn-Lugar weapons reduction and security agreement after it expires at the end of May, saying it no longer needs to receive foreign aid and is concerned about leaks of nuclear security information. The 21-year-old cooperative program was designed to help secure the nuclear and chemical weapons arsenal of the Soviet Union after the bloc’s collapse. At a cost of about $500 million a year, it has ensured the shipment of nuclear weapons out of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, deactivated more than 7,600 nuclear warheads, destroyed

Obama campaign refers to liberal
bloggers as “tinfoil hat crowd”

Washington Examiner, by Sean Higgins Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:22:39 AM Post Reply

The Obama campaign referred to several major liberal bloggers as the “tinfoil hat crowd” in a statement to Fox News Wednesday. The campaign was responding to the cable channel’s request for a comment on an Internet conspiracy theory many of them had promoted. Shortly after the presidential debate last week, a number of liberal bloggers including ones at Daily Kos, FireDogLake, Democratic Underground, and the Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan, among others, began posting items suggesting that Mitt Romney had cheated during the debate. The theory was that, as some video of the event appeared to suggest,

Taliban Vow to Kill the Pakistani
Girl They Shot for Going to School,
if She Survives

Atlantic, by Alexander Abad-Santos Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/11/2012 11:21:28 AM Post Reply

After being shot in the head and neck by Taliban gunmen on Tuesday, 14-year-old Pakistani blogger, Malala Yousafzai, is in critical condition today and will be transferred to a better equipped hospital. "Doctors have decided to shift Malala to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Rawalpindi where medical facilities are better," one doctor told the BBC, while another doctor, Mumtaz Khan, told the AFP Malala had a 70 percent chance of survival. Lt. Col. Junaid Khan, head of neurosurgery at the Peshawar hospital where Yousufzai was first treated, said she's in "critical" condition and is suffering

Doping: Marist Juices the
Numbers to Help Obama

Breitbart's Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:15:41 AM Post Reply

Never in my life have I seen such obvious, blatant and one-sided skewing of media polls. I've noted before that the media have weaponized polling this election, using their voter surveys to buoy the struggling Obama campaign. Marist and Quinnipiac have been the most egregious polling propagandists this cycle. But, in their latest poll of Ohio, Marist has achieved a new depth. It will go to hell for its cardinal polling sins. Marist's latest survey of OH finds Obama with a comfortable 6-point lead, 51-45, among likely voters. Among independents, however, Romney is leading Obama by 8 points,

Biden’s debate aim: Reclaim edge
after Obama’s subpar showing

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/11/2012 11:11:55 AM Post Reply

With President Obama looking to an unpredictable and gaffe-prone Joseph R. Biden to get his campaign back on track in Thursday’s debate, the pressure on the vice president couldn’t be greater. Vice presidential match-ups usually don’t have the power to change the course of the election, but this year could be different. Mr. Biden is acutely aware that Mr. Obama’s dismal performance in his first faceoff with Republican rival Mitt Romney largely erased Mr. Obama’s lead in several key battleground states, ratcheting up the stakes for his performance Thursday night at Centre College in Danville, Ky.

Reagan on Biden: 'Smooth
But Pure Demagogue'

American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:11:28 AM Post Reply

Ronald Reagan was not impressed with Joe Biden. In fact, writing in his diary in his usual abbreviated style on June 15, 1987, Reagan described Biden this way: He's smooth but pure demagog [sic]-- out to save Am. [America] from Reagan Doctrine. That was a year after Reagan made a note about Biden and Senators Ted Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum, who were busy making "vitriolic attacks on TV" about Reagan's nominee for Chief Justice of the United States, then Associate Justice William Rehnquist. Wrote Reagan: They really are a lynch mob. As America settles in tonight to watch now-Vice

Romney Market Beckons as Victory
in November Grows More
Plausible by the Day

New York Sun, by Lawrence Kudlow Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/11/2012 11:01:31 AM Post Reply

The S&P fell for the fourth day in a row on Wednesday, as investors ran for the exits, fearing a rough market ahead. However, if you’re among those sellers running for the sidelines, you may be making a big mistake. For the first time, I feel comfortable enough tell you that Governor Romney is going to win big. And I firmly believe Mitt Romney is about to usher in a new era — a Reagan-like economic growth revolution. Mr. Romney’s tax reform plan alone will drive the economy into tremendous prosperity.

John Bolton: America's
Next Secretary of State?

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Rick Amato Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 11:00:21 AM Post Reply

"Radical Islam is a severe threat against America that is growing and the White House doesn’t seem to recognize or understand it because it doesn’t fit with their narrative of the Arab Spring. It is for either ideological reasons or for political reasons but either way the White House doesn’t appear to understand the dangers”, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton told me recently. Bolton is also a foreign policy adviser to the Romney campaign. “I’m real concerned because Muslims worldwide understand the dangers of radicalism more than the White House does”, Bolton said.

Diane Sawyer Joins
the Obama Campaign

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 10:56:31 AM Post Reply

Last night, all three broadcast networks found the revelations heard in congressional hearings surrounding the September 11 anniversary attack in Libya (criminally lax security and an obvious White House cover up) unworthy of leading their nightly newscasts. All three hit the story, but all three are killing themselves to downplay an explosive scandal they know could damage Obama's reelection chances. Yep, we're seeing all kinds of dutiful coverage, but as hard as some individual reporters are working, those who control The Narrative will never allow Libya to become one -- not with Their Precious One

In This Reporter's Opinion,
Obama's Terror Victory Is
A 'Major Lie'

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 10:55:29 AM Post Reply

Terrorism: The Obama victory lap following Bin Laden's death has had its share of hurdles, none higher than the one presented this week by a CBS reporter who knows the facts. 'Did we mention that we killed Osama bin Laden?" That pretty much sums up the Obama administration's case for its foreign policy, which — save for this much-hyped rub-out — has been marked by confusion, timidity and failure. What we're supposed to think, of course, is that bin Laden's death (along with drone hits on a few other big terrorists) were fatal blows against the movement he founded,

Cartels flood US with cheap meth

Associated Press, by Jim Salter Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/11/2012 10:54:16 AM Post Reply

ST. LOUIS — Mexican drug cartels are quietly filling the void in the nation's drug market created by the long effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. cities with exceptionally cheap, extraordinarily potent meth from factory-like "superlabs." (Snip) The cartels are expanding into the U.S. meth market just as they did with heroin: developing an inexpensive, highly addictive form of the drug and sending it through the same pipeline already used to funnel marijuana and cocaine, authorities said.

More 'Fudged' Employment
Numbers from Government?

Breitbart's Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 10:52:15 AM Post Reply

The mainstream media are ecstatic; National Public Radio proclaimed the headline breathlessly this morning: jobless claims are at their lowest levels in four years! New claims fell by an astonishing 30,000 in one week! It's an unbelievable improvement in the national job market--"unbelievable" being the key word. The problem, as Zero Hedge notes--and as even the Labor Department admits--the numbers are incomplete: "one large state didn't report some quarterly figures." Conveniently, the drop means that new jobless claims are at the lowest levels since Jan. 2008. Back to where we started, right?

Big Bird:A Metaphor for Obama

American Thinker, by Bruce Johnson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/11/2012 10:50:21 AM Post Reply

There is a suggestive resemblance between the Big Bird character and the President of the past four years. Each seems to follow the same successful formula and also share certain characteristics. They are: ● Congenial, almost too polite (first debate) ● On television every day ● Speak almost exclusively to young people who have been taught to adore them● Have famous addresses ● They are both rich but still getting money from the government

Michelle Hints at Political
Future Beyond Barack

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 10:47:11 AM Post Reply

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama finally came to her husband’s defense over his abysmal presidential debate performance last week. “You know, I'm biased, but I think my husband has done a phenomenal job, not just in the debates but over these last three and a half years, and I continue to be in awe of how poised and consistent and honest he is," Michelle said in Virginia. “It's like when we were on ‘The View’ ... I'm literally sitting there listening to him just lay out things in a conversational way, and I'm thinking, he's right!

Woods sweeps past McIlroy
into World Golf Final semis

Bangkok Post[Thailand], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/11/2012 10:40:55 AM Post Reply

Tiger Woods easily accounted for world number one Rory McIlroy in the first ever matchplay showdown between the pair to reach the semi-finals at the World Golf Final in Belek, Turkey on Thursday. Woods was always ahead in his match, shooting a seven-under-par 64 to McIlroy's one-under-par 70 on the Sultan course at the Antalya club, to advance to a showdown with England's Justin Rose. Rose defeated reigning US Open champion, Webb Simpson with a new course record of nine-under-par 62, compared to Simpson's 67. South African Charl Schwartzel posted a 63 to defeat American Matt Kuchar,

Krauthammer On Libya Cover
Up: Hillary Clinton Told
Video Story While Body Of
Ambassador Was Next To Her

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 10:39:46 AM Post Reply

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's beyond a disconnect, it is utterly damning. There are two scandals going on. The first is the coverup. We now know, and they knew earlier there was no mob, there was no demonstration, there was no incentive about the video. It was all a completely false story. This was simply an attack of our men who infiltrated and killed our people. So everything that Susan Rice said was a confection, it was an invention. And as you showed, it was repeated again and again. You had Hillary Clinton speaking of the video as the body

The Monument Society
Versus the Free Society

Cybercast News Service, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/11/2012 10:28:31 AM Post Reply

Last week, after the first presidential debate, I spoke at an architecture school in downtown Los Angeles. One of the questions the moderator asked was about American exceptionalism. The foam flecked to his lips at the very phrase. What, pray tell, was American exceptionalism, he asked? I answered by referencing the Founding Fathers and the freedoms they guaranteed us via the American Constitutional System of checks and balances. What makes us unique guardians of liberty, I said, is that our system is designed to counterbalance interest against interest — we only act together with the full

The BBC to investigate its
liberal bias? Yeah, right

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 10:23:18 AM Post Reply

Chris Patten wants to launch an inquiry into BBC bias. This is about as convincing as King Herod launching an inquiry into the mysterious disappearance of first-born children from Judea. Fat Pang, as most of us were aware long before his appointment as BBC chairman, is very much part of the problem, not the solution. He is the very embodiment of bien-pensant, metropolitan, gag-makingly politically correct BBC values. Patten has said that he wants the inquiry to concentrate on the BBC's coverage of religion, immigration and Europe. Gosh, that's lucky for him. That means he won't have to address the

Wendy's pigtails get
first touchup since 1983

Associated Press, by Candice Choi Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/11/2012 10:17:22 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK -- Wendy's pigtails are getting a tweak. For the first time since 1983, the Dublin, Ohio-based fast food company is updating its logo in a move intended to signal its ongoing transformation into a higher-end hamburger chain. Instead of the boxy, old-fashioned lettering against a red-and-yellow backdrop, the pared down new look features the chain's name in a casual red font against a clean white backdrop. An image of the smiling, cartoon girl in red pigtails floats above — though this girl looks more vivid and not quite as childlike. In an interview with The Associated Press

Spain keelhauled by Germany
and AAA chicanery

Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 10:15:56 AM Post Reply

As Gary Jenkins from Swordfish says this morning: Spain is junked if it does, and junked if it doesn’t. A key reason for Standard & Poor’s two-notch downgrade of Spain to near junk last night is the refusal of premier Mariano Rajoy to bite the bullet on a rescue. His "hesitation" is "potentially raising the risks to Spain’s rating". By contrast, Moody’s said earlier that it will cut Spain to junk if it DOES request a bail-out. What a marvellous mess. Here is S&P’s rationale: A severe and deepening economic recession that could lead to increasing social

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