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Egypt's liberals and
Islamists clash; 110 injured

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:46:19 PM Post Reply

Cairo - Opponents and supporters of Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi clashed in Cairo on Friday in the first street violence between rival factions since the Islamist leader took office. Islamists and their opponents threw stones and bottles, and some fought hand-to-hand, showing how feelings still run high between the rival groups trying to shape the new Egypt after decades of autocracy, even though the streets have generally been calmer since Mursi's election in June.
Headline corrected by staff.

Paul Ryan shows electorate getting
to know him he is no
pushover in debate with Joe Biden

Boston Globe, by Glen Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:40:19 PM Post Reply

Presidential campaigns are akin to gestational periods, with months of campaigning giving voters time to slowly form their impressions of a candidate. Against that backdrop, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin stepped onto likely his biggest stage yet on Thursday night and showed an American electorate still getting to know the Republican vice presidential nominee that he is no pushover. In a contentious 90-minute debate with Vice President Joe Biden, Ryan engaged in a frontal assault on a politician nearly three decades his elder. And he didn’t cower even when the discussion started with and kept coming back to foreign affairs

Taliban's 'Radio Mullah' sent
hit squad after Pakistani schoolgirl

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/12/2012 2:39:03 PM Post Reply

One of the Taliban's most feared commanders, Maulana Fazlullah, carefully briefed two killers from his special hit squad on their next target. The gunmen weren't going after any army officer, politician or western diplomat. Their target was a 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who had angered the Taliban by speaking out for "western-style" girls' education. Tuesday's shooting of Malala Yousufzai was the culmination of years of campaigning that had pitted the fearless, smiling young girl against one of Pakistan's most ruthless Taliban commanders.

Wholesale prices up 1.1
percent in September

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:34:51 PM Post Reply

Washington - A second month of sharp gains in gasoline costs drove wholesale prices higher in September. But outside of the surge in energy, prices were well contained. Wholesale prices rose 1.1 percent in September following a 1.7 percent gain in August which had been the largest one-month increase in more than three years, the Labor Department said Friday. (Snip) Core prices, which exclude food and energy, were unchanged in September, the best showing since they held steady in October 2011. In August, core prices rose 0.2 percent.

EU Nobel peace award
sparks backlash

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:32:47 PM Post Reply

Paris - The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the crisis-torn EU on Friday sparked a stunned Twitter backlash, many reacting with derision and anger, although some netizens came to its defence. "Let's forget about #Malala & peers, brave community workers, prisoners of conscience, & give the Nobel Peace Prize to, drumroll, the EU," one person from Egypt named @RawahBadrawi said. (Snip) But many on Twitter wondered why the prize was given to a union of states currently wracked by a severe financial crisis, which has led to high unemployment and violent protests in some countries.

Biden adds more confusion to Libya
story with debate claim on security

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:29:45 PM Post Reply

Vice President Biden's claim at Thursday's debate that the administration wasn't told of requests for more diplomatic security in the run-up to the Libya terror attack added only more confusion to an already muddled narrative. In addition to raising eyebrows over that comment, the vice president went a step further and threw the intelligence community under the bus -- putting the blame squarely on their shoulders for the faulty narrative, (Snip) Two former security officers who testified at that hearing, including former top security official Eric Nordstrom, expressed frustration at how their appeals for more resources were rebuffed.

Ron Paul Won't Endorse Romney,
Sees "Essentially No Difference"

New American, by Jack Kenny Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:24:16 PM Post Reply

Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman who has twice run for the Republican presidential nomination, won't endorse the nominee of his party. Though Paul said last week it was "very unlikely" he would endorse former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, he made it definitive in an interview October 12 on the CNBC program Futures Now. "No," he said, plainly and unequivocally, when asked about an endorsement. Neither the GOP challenger nor PresidentObama will change the course of fiscal and monetary policy that is leading to what has been called the "fiscal cliff," Paul said, because both are captive of special interests.And

Romney: Biden contradicted
sworn Libya testimony

Associated Press, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:17:08 PM Post Reply

Richmong, Va. - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is accusing Vice President Joe Biden of contradicting sworn testimony by State Department officials regarding the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Libya on the Sept. 11 anniversary. In a campaign debate Thursday night, Biden said "we weren't told" about requests for additional security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. A State Department official told Congress this week that requests for extra protection there had been denied. Romney says the public has a right to know exactly what happened before the attacks. He adds that questions about it shouldn't be brushed

Bribe wasn’t big enough, so city
inspector’s conviction overturned,
appeals court rules

Chicago Sun-Times, by Kim Janssen Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:14:59 PM Post Reply

A City of Chicago zoning inspector found guilty of taking bribes has had his conviction overturned — in part, because the bribes weren’t big enough. Dominick Owens, 46, twice took bribes of $600 to issue certifications of occupancy for four newly constructed homes he hadn’t inspected, a jury found following a trial in November. Originally suspected of taking more than $20,000 in bribes in 2005 and 2006, he was sentenced in March by Judge Blanche M. Manning to a year and a day in federal prison. But the sentence was reversed Thursday in a ruling issued by the Seventh Circuit

Close the borders to Muslim
immigrants: Salim Mansur’s
House of Commons testimony

Ottawa Citizen [Canada], by Robert Sibley Original Article

Posted By: PrairieAnemone- 10/12/2012 2:11:16 PM Post Reply

When Salim Mansur, a political scientist at the University of Western Ontario, asked me to provide a promotion blurb for his 2011 book Delectable Lie: A Liberal Repudiation of Multiculturalism, I was only too happy to oblige. Here’s what I wrote: “In an age of ideological conformity such as ours, it takes courage to speak against the prevailing orthodoxy. This is a courageous book. Professor Mansur exposes how multiculturalism corrodes the values and traditions that sustain Canada as a liberal democratic order. The result is a book to galvanize Canadians against the apostles of extremist progressivism.”
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Biden Shows His Foreign
Policy Prowess By Claiming
Syria Five Times Larger Than Libya

Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:10:48 PM Post Reply

During the Vice Presidential debate on Thursday night, Joe Biden claimed, incorrectly, that Syria is five times larger than Libya. Biden made the claim during one of the many exchanges on foreign policy, in which Biden was trying to paint the Romney/Ryan ticket as lacking in foreign policy gravitas. In his haste, Biden said Syria was "geographically" five times larger than Libya, explaining the reason the Obama administration had not intervened directly there. His full statement was that Syria "is a different country, it is five times as large geographically, it has one fifth the population."

Without Asking Congress, Obama
Puts U.S. Troops on Syria Border

New American, by Alex Newman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:06:29 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration has now publicly announced that it deployed U.S. troops near the Syrian border in neighboring Jordan without ever seeking congressional permission, supposedly in an effort to help the Jordanian government deal with refugees from Syria while ensuring that the civil war does not spill over into the broader region. Concerns about chemical and biological weapons falling into the “wrong hands” were also cited to justify the latest deployment, but some lawmakers are upset, warning that the U.S. is now even closer to overt military intervention in Syria. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking at a NATO conference

White House throws
Hillary under the 2012 bus

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:03:28 PM Post Reply

The White House is throwing Hillary Clinton under the 2012 election bus. Top officials have already claimed the nation’s intelligence agencies did not alert the White House to the growing danger facing the State Department’s facility in Benghazi, Libya, which was destroyed Sept. 11 by a jihadi attack on the 11th anniversary of the atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The claim was repeated Oct. 11 by Vice President Joe Biden during the vice presidential debate (Snip) “These kinds of issues are handling in the State Department by security officials,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said during Friday’s press

Art Cashin: A Close US Presidential
Election Could Lead
To Riots In The Streets

Business Insider, by Matthew Boesler Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 2:00:31 PM Post Reply

Art Cashin of UBS describes an alarming vision in his daily note. Cashin shares some of the conversation he and his drinking buddies – "The Friends of Fermentation" – have been having recently about the presidential election. Given the extremely polarized political climate in America today, Cashin says things could get ugly if the race is close. (Snip) The FoF discussion worried that the challenges might spill out into the streets, perhaps starting as demonstrations and quickly devolving into riot-like occasions. Could we be seeing the end of the American tradition of the orderly transfer of power? Could we be

The new US visa rush:
Build a charter school,
get a green card

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/12/2012 1:56:41 PM Post Reply

It's been a turbulent period for charter schools in the United States, with financial analysts raising concerns about their stability and regulators in several states shutting down schools for poor performance. The volatility has made it tough for startup schools to get financing. But an unlikely source of new capital has emerged to fill the gap: foreign investors. Wealthy individuals from as far away as China, Nigeria, Russia and Australia are spending tens of millions of dollars to build classrooms, libraries, basketball courts and science labs for American charter schools.
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Sen. Corker: Obama must have
known what happened in Libya

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/12/2012 1:37:25 PM Post Reply

This morning, I spoke with Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who had just returned from Libya, about the Benghazi debacle. He was animated and clearly flabbergasted at the administration’s reaction. “It baffles me that the vice president of the United States would continue to say things that don’t square with the facts on the ground, “ he said in reference to VP Joe Biden’s remarks in the debate Thursday night. He reiterated, “There was no protest. There was no reaction to the [anti-Muslim video], and they knew it in 24 hours. I don’t understand what they are doing.”

FARC congratulates Chávez
on his electoral win

El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/12/2012 1:34:34 PM Post Reply

The rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) congratulated the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and his countrymen on the election held on October 7, when he was reelected for his third consecutive six-year term in office. In a statement dated October 8 and and released on Friday on FARC website, the rebel group noted that the Venezuelan vote last October 7 was a "model of democracy," Efe reported. Chávez is to remain in power until 2019, after he won the election with 55.26% of the votes cast (over 8.13 million ballots)

Sec'y Clinton: Still no
clear picture of Benghazi

Associated Press, by Matthew Lee Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 1:27:31 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the precise details of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya are still unclear. But she says the Obama administration is committed to uncovering the truth.One month after the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, Clinton said Friday that there is still "much" the administration doesn't know about what happened. Clinton said no one in the administration was motivated by anything other than determining the facts of the case

Biden Walks Back a Criticism
of Romney on Iraq

New York Times, by Richard Oppel Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/12/2012 1:20:46 PM Post Reply

Little noticed in last night’s debate: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. seemed to go out of his way to alter what has been a high-profile — and unfair — criticism by President Obama of the Romney campaign’s statements about Iraq. On the trail, Mr. Obama has made a talking point of what he characterizes as Mitt Romney’s stated belief that ending the war in Iraq was a tragedy. He even mentioned it in his speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, seen by more than 30 million viewers: “My opponent said that it was ‘tragic’

German Energy Plan Plagued
by Lack of Progress

Der Spiegel, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: mark of fish- 10/12/2012 1:13:58 PM Post Reply

German Economics Minister Philipp Rösler is standing in the boiler room of a row house in the town of Hönow, near Berlin. He doesn't look at all pleased with what he's seeing: an un-insulated heating pipe. What a waste of money and energy!
The owner of the building, Petra Röfke, 54, and her partner Hartmut, 58, look embarrassed. But the minister has some good advice for them. Wrapping a little foam insulation around the pipe would help save a lot of energy, he says, adding: "I have the same kind of pipe in my house."
Headline split, intro corrected by staff

Confusing Strength With Aggression

Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 1:10:43 PM Post Reply

The vice presidential debate was uniquely important because if Paul Ryan won it or did well, the Romney-Ryan ticket's momentum would be continued or speed up. If he did not, that momentum would slow or stop. So the night carried implications. The debate, obviously, was the Republican versus the Democrat, a particular kind of conservative versus a particular kind of liberal, one philosophical approach versus another. Beyond that there was some iconic weight to it. It was age versus youth; full, white-haired man versus lean, black-haired man. Youth is energy—new ideas and new ways.

Dems in coal states
diverge on Obama policies

Associated Press, by Donna Cassata Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 1:08:31 PM Post Reply

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio - Friends of coal are certain they know the enemy. They fault President Barack Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency for new clean air rules they deride as a devastating blow to a multibillion-dollar industry, the lifeblood of Appalachia for generations. The agency standards imposed earlier this year tightened limits on existing coal powered-plant emissions. Guidelines on restricting greenhouse gases could affect new plants as early as 2013. Obama's moves on clean air and fossil fuels have complicated the lives of Democrats in coal-rich states that count on mining for jobs and economic growth.

Obama's Cool Chills Military
Families With Heartless Form Letters

Investors Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 1:06:32 PM Post Reply

President Obama has been sending identically worded, typewritten form letters to the parents of soldiers, Marines and Navy SEALs killed in action. Is "No Drama Obama" cool or ice-hearted? For years now, the commander in chief has sent to families of fallen troops form letters that he's done little more than sign his name to. Is it a gaffe? A symptom of heartlessness? A refrigerator has more warmth. Latent anti-military sentiment? If this is the explanation, it would have to border on contempt for those who wear the uniform. In contrast, according to Ricochet.com's Diane Ellis, Obama's predecessor

Catholic Bishops: Biden Didn't
Tell the Truth About the
Obamacare's Abortion Drug Mandate

Weekly Standard, by John McCormack Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/12/2012 1:01:00 PM Post Reply

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement Friday saying that Vice President Joe Biden falsely described Obamcare's contraception and abortifacient mandate: Last night, the following statement was made during the Vice Presidential debate regarding the decision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force virtually all employers to include sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion, in the health insurance coverage they provide their employees: "With regard to the assault on the Catholic Church, let me make it absolutely clear. No religious institution—Catholic or otherwise,

Preventable tragedy

Columbus Dispatch, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/12/2012 12:59:58 PM Post Reply

Testimony in a congressional hearing Wednesday on the Sept. 11 outrage against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi fueled a growing suspicion: President Barack Obama’s administration was more concerned about projecting the image of improving stability in Libya, to bolster his re-election chances, than it was about ensuring the security of Americans on the ground there. The fact of a successful terrorist attack against the U.S. on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — a day, above all others, when security for American officials in volatile countries should be at its utmost — is demoralizing and infuriating.

Secret Service Agent
Arrested After Being Found
Passed Out In Miami

CBS News, by Jim DeFede Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 12:58:41 PM Post Reply

MIAMI — U.S. Secret Service agent Aaron Francis Engler was found early Friday morning passed out on the sidewalk near the intersection of Brickell Avenue and 7th after President Barack Obama had left South Florida. According to the arrest report, Miami police officers were in the area on an unrelated call when they noticed Engler passed out. When the officers checked on the man he grew combative and started to fight with officers, according to the police report. (snip)Law enforcement sources told CBS4 Engler told police he was an agent out of Washington

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