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Libya Attack Gains Steam
as Issue in Race for President

New York Times, by Peter Baker & Trip Gabriel* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/12/2012 7:04:16 PM Post Reply

Washington — The Obama administration’s handling of the Libya attack has opened up a new front in the presidential campaign just weeks before Election Day, as Republicans seize on it to question the president’s performance as commander in chief. The dispute over the episode escalated after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said during the debate on Thursday night that “we weren’t told” that Americans on the ground wanted security bolstered, despite testimony that requests were made to and turned down by the administration. Mitt Romney’s campaign on Friday accused the vice president of trying “to mislead the American

No plans yet for
Obama to return to Charlotte
after DNC promise

WSOC- TV (NC), by Scott Wickersham Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 7:04:03 PM Post Reply

A spokesman for the Obama campaign told Eyewitness News that as of Friday there are no plans for President Barack Obama to return to Charlotte and honor the promise he made during the Democratic National Convention to return after his speech was moved indoors.(snip)I have my ticket, my golden ticket,” said Lakisha Lucky, who still carries her ticket to Bank of America stadium in her car. Lucky hopes the president honors the promise he made the day they canceled events at the stadium.

Feds probe ‘suspicious activity’
in Jesse Jackson Jr.’s finances: sources

Chicago Sun-Times, by Natasha Korecki Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/12/2012 7:03:09 PM Post Reply

Spelling potentially new trouble for U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., federal investigators have launched a probe into the South Shore congressman’s finances — a completely new area of scrutiny, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times. The investigation — based in the Washington, D.C., FBI field office — is not related to the attempted sale of the U.S. Senate seat that figured in former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption conviction, but is focusing on “suspicious activity” involving the congressman’s finances related to his House seat and the possibility of inappropriate expenditures, sources said.

Twenty years later, Sid's slide
and the fall of the Pittsburgh
Pirates still stuns

Yahoo! Sports, by Jay Busbee Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 10/12/2012 6:59:48 PM Post Reply

In 1992, Barry Bonds was in the midst of one of the most astonishing performance streaks in baseball history. (snip) David Justice, standing on third, scored easily to tie the game, and behind him, chugging towards home was Sid Bream. Twenty years ago Sunday, the race was on between Sid Bream's woefully slow legs and Barry Bonds' left arm in what today remains as one of the most iconic moments in Major League Baseball history.

White House Blames State
Department, House Republicans
for Lack of Security in Benghazi

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/12/2012 6:57:08 PM Post Reply

Backing up Vice President Joe Biden’s claim the previous night about being unaware of a request for more security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House Friday asserted the responsibility lay with the State Department. “What I am saying, when it comes to the number of personnel, who are in place at consulates and embassies and other diplomatic facilities around the world, those decisions are appropriately made at the State Department by security personnel,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. “When it comes to funding, this president makes sure

Lamb to the slaughter

Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin Original Article

Posted By: Emerson- 10/12/2012 6:55:23 PM Post Reply

In an often heated congressional hearing Wednesday, lawmakers and witnesses alike pointed to State Department official Charlene Lamb as the person most directly responsible for rejecting multiple requests for increased security at the U.S. diplomatic missions in Libya prior to the Sept. 11 attack. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) excoriated the State Department for rejecting requests from the U.S. Embassy in Libya for an extension of temporary security forces that were withdrawn in the months prior to the attack that killed Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

State Dept. Confirms: Marines
on 9/11/12 Were Protecting
U.S. Embassy--in Barbados

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Burke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/12/2012 6:44:15 PM Post Reply

When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, there were no U.S. Marines deployed in Libya to defend U.S. diplomats, diplomatic facilities and classified information and equipment. However, says the State Department, a Marine Security Detachment was deployed on that day to carry out those duties at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados. “U.S. Marine Security Guards serve at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, and at other diplomatic missions around the world, to protect and safeguard American diplomacy,” Rebecca Ross, the

Obama has dinner
with contest winners

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 6:36:41 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is meeting with three winners of a campaign contest and their guests for dinner at a restaurant in a popular Washington neighborhood. Obama's motorcade took him to Smith Commons Dining Room and Public House on Friday in the city's H Street neighborhood, which has undergone redevelopment in recent years. He was having dinner with supporters from North Carolina, Ohio and Colorado, three battleground states in next month's election.

Michelle Obama To Speak
in Chapel Hill on Tuesday

WCHL Chapel Hill, NC, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 6:05:17 PM Post Reply

CHAPEL HILL- Next Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama will speak to students and grassroots supporters in Chapel Hill two days before early voting begins on October 18. The event will take place at Carmichael Arena on the UNC campus. Doors open at 11 o'clock in the morning. North Carolina-based band Delta Rae will perform event prior to the First Lady’s remarks. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required due to limited space, and will be available to the public starting on a first-come, first-served basis at the pick-up locations below.

Gov't to allow Indians to
possess eagle feathers

Associated Press, by Pete Yost Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 6:02:10 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department is going to allow members of federally recognized Indian tribes to possess eagle feathers, although that's a federal crime. This is a significant religious and cultural issue for many tribes, who were consulted in advance about the policy the department announced Friday. The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and other federal wildlife laws criminalize the killing of eagles and possession of feathers and bird parts, but the Constitution and federal laws also give tribes local sovereignty for self-government. Under the new policy, tribal members will not be prosecuted

Administration welcomed wolves
into the sheepfold

Jewish World Review, by Diana West Original Article

Posted By: onashi- 10/12/2012 5:59:15 PM Post Reply

Imagine, pre-9/11/12, that you were responsible for arranging the defense of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Would you have considered American interests and personnel best protected by bringing in a local security outfit called the February 17 Martyrs Brigade? The question has yet to come up in House hearings, but I think it holds the key to the Obama administration's betrayal of the American people in "Benghazi-gate."

Biden, Obama and the Politics
of Personal Destruction

FrontPage Magazine, by Caroline Glick Original Article

Posted By: onashi- 10/12/2012 5:52:23 PM Post Reply

Thursday the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger published a column called “Obama and the L-word.” In it he described with disgust and dismay the way the Obama administration has been playing fast and loose with the term “liar” to describe Mitt Romney since Romney trounced Obama in last week’s presidential debate. Henninger noted that the use of the term cheapens and coarsens the political discourse in the US in a manner that is unprecedented in US politics. He also noted rightly that this is not part of the American political tradition.

Protests in Cairo turn violent
for first time in months

Associated Press, by Maggie Michael Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 5:51:42 PM Post Reply

CAIRO - Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's new Islamist president clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in the first such violence since Mohammed Morsi took office more than three months ago, as liberal and secular activists erupted with anger accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of trying to take over the country. The two sides hurled stones and chunks of concrete and beat each other for sticks for several hours, leaving more than 100 injured, according to the state news agency. Two buses used by the Brotherhood to bring in supporters were set aflame behind the Egyptian Museum

Secret Service agent arrested
in Miami after passing
out drunk on a sidewalk

New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 5:36:42 PM Post Reply

The Secret Service has another embarrassment on its hands after one of its agents was found passed out on a Miami sidewalk and arrested — just hours after President Obama left town. Aaron Francis Engler was found early Friday morning by a Miami police officer who was responding to an unrelated call, CBS Miami reported. When the officer tried to stir the sleeping Secret Service man, he allegedly got belligerent -- hitting the cop on the chin. Other officers were called to help restrain him.

The Clinton-Obama rift

The Daily Caller, by Edward Klein Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/12/2012 5:25:04 PM Post Reply

After Bill Clinton delivered his electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention, many political observers concluded that the Clintons and Obamas had called a truce to their long-running feud. Under their armistice, Clinton agreed to make speeches and appear in TV commercials for Obama, acting like a booster rocket for the Democratic ticket in the remaining weeks of the campaign. It was a pretty picture, but as I have learned from several sources inside the Clinton camp, it turned out to be a case of wishful thinking. In fact, since the convention, Clinton and Obama have

Robert Kennedy Documents Show
$150,000 Mafia Plan to Kill Castro

Fox News Latino, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NYBruin- 10/12/2012 5:15:44 PM Post Reply

A CIA document outlining a Mafia-connected plan to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro for $150,000 is among thousands of Robert F. Kennedy documents made public Thursday, just days before the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. In the 1964 plan, the mob and "patriotic Cuban exiles" eventually settled on a payment of $100,000 for assassinating Castro, $20,000 for his brother Raúl and $20,000 for revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, plus $2,500 for expenses.

Clinton defends
US support for
Arab Spring nations

Agence France Presse, by Jo Biddle Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 5:14:59 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday defended US support for Arab Spring nations as "a strategic necessity," vowing never to retreat amid a firestorm over the attack on a US mission in Libya. "We will not return to the false choice between freedom and stability. And we will not pull back our support for emerging democracies when the going gets rough," Clinton told a US think tank. "That would be a costly strategic mistake that would, I believe, undermine both our interests and our values."

How the H1N1 flu
could kill your cat

Toronto Star, by Lesley Clarula Taylor Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 5:13:54 PM Post Reply

The flu may make you sick this winter, but it could kill your cat. “Most people don’t realize that humans can pass diseases to animals,” said Dr. Christiane Löhr, an Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine pathologist. (Snip) Veterinary medicine researchers in Ohio followed up with a study, published last December, of a widespread H1N1 infection rate in 400 healthy cats, although few developed symptoms. Löhr and Truijillo are collecting data now to find out more about how this rare “reverse zoonosis” is happening. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, discovered an alarmingly high and unexpected

Obama's Housing Agency Spending
Millions to Transform Inner
Cities Into ‘Sustainable Communities’

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 5:08:53 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration’s effort to create government-sanctioned “sustainable communities” moved ahead this week, with the announcement of almost $5 million in planning grants. Seventeen poor communities across the U.S. will share the $4.95 million to draft plans for the “next generation" of public housing and other "sustainable" neighborhood improvements, such as better schools, anti-crime efforts, and greater access to health care and grocery stores.

Obama to Appear as Guest
on ‘The Daily Show’ on Oct. 18

New York Times, by Bill Carter Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/12/2012 5:07:28 PM Post Reply

Perhaps looking for another outlet to reach his base constituency, President Obama has agreed to appear as a guest with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Oct. 18. The President can probably expect to have to fend off some comic assaults from Mr. Stewart about his first debate performance; like other late-night hosts Mr. Stewart has eviscerated Mr. Obama for that appearance last week. But this guest appearance will come two days after the second presidential debate, and the story of the first may have been superseded by then –

White House defends Biden's
debate demeanor

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/12/2012 5:06:55 PM Post Reply

If Vice President Joseph R. Biden smiled too much during his debate Thursday night, the White House said the blame lies with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and his position on the Obama administration's 2009 stimulus plan. Many viewers said Mr. Biden appeared condescending or arrogant by smiling and laughing while Mr. Ryan, the vice presidential nominee from Wisconsin, was speaking during their debate in Danville, Ky. But White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday the vice president likely couldn't help himself. "When Congressman Ryan starts attacking the administration over the [stimulus bill] and the split-screen shows the vice president smiling,

Was Biden too mean in the
veep debate for ‘Iowa nice’ voters?

Yahoo! News, by Walter Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/12/2012 5:01:10 PM Post Reply

NEWTON, Iowa – Right under the picture of Marilyn Monroe, the muted television set at the Newton Family Restaurant was tuned to the Fox News recap of the vice-presidential debate as the on-screen headline blared, “The Gloves Are Off.” But chatting with the 7 a.m. Friday breakfast crowd, many of them night-shift workers and retirees, it was hard to find anyone who actually watched the bare-knuckle brawl between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. That’s not entirely true, because Joyce Gilbreaith, a retiree sharing sausage patties and hash-brown potatoes with her husband Bill, admitted to me: “I watched about 10 minutes

State Department: Al Qaeda
Could Have Full List of
Yemenis Working With US

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 4:57:48 PM Post Reply

Yesterday afternoon, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland admitted in the aftermath of the murder of one of our Yemen embassy security forces that al Qaeda may have a complete list of our Yemeni embassy personnel: Question: Is it safe to assume that he was targeted by al-Qaida, who may have also a list of all the national – Yemeni national employees at the Embassy? Ms. Nuland: Well, Said, I’m sure you can understand if I stress the fact that the Yemenis are investigating. We are supporting their investigation. It is premature – this happened today – for us to be

State Dept: We're Too
'Dumb' To Understand
Obama's Libya Explanation

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 4:54:06 PM Post Reply

In a disastrous question-answer session at the State Department yesterday, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland first tried to claim that the murder of our ambassador to Libya may have been touched off by a demonstration about the YouTube video after all. Then she claimed that even though the State Department had no reports of any demonstration, the intelligence community may have told them that a demonstration happened. Then when Nuland was questioned on that astonishing assessment, she literally said she was “dumb.” Seriously. (Snip) Ms. Nuland: Look, I’m generally dumber than most of the rest of the government. I mean,

Mr. Malarkey, full of Baloney

Human Events, by Mark LaRochelle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/12/2012 4:44:51 PM Post Reply

In his debate with Paul Ryan, Vice President made so many false statements that a fact-checker hardly knows where to begin. In the interest of brevity, here are Biden’s three biggest whoppers:(Snip) FACT: The U.S. Embassy in Libya requested “an increase in the number of our permanently assigned RSO [Resident Security Officer] staff,” as well as “five TDY DS [Temporary Duty Diplomatic Security] agents for 45-60 days rotations in Benghazi.” According to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, “multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the Committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya

Crossroads GPS pours $8.1
million into House races

The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/12/2012 4:41:51 PM Post Reply

Crossroads GPS is pouring $8.1 million into 11 competitive districts nationwide, an advertising effort that will span radio and airwaves for three weeks.Starting on Oct. 13, the super-PAC will target Democrat John Hernandez in California's 21st District, Rep. Leonard Boswell in Iowa's 3rd District, Cheri Bustos in Illinois's 17th District, Brendan Mullen in Indiana's 2nd District, Gary McDowell in Michigan's 1st District, Steven Horsford in Nevada's 4th District, Rep. Tim Bishop in New York's 1st District and Rep. Louise Slaughter in New York's 25th District. Those ads are generally boilerplate, targeting the candidates on everything from supporting

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