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Englewood gunshot victim was
in city for brother's birthday

Chicago Tribune, by Peter Nickeas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 2:45:32 PM Post Reply

A 34-year-old southwest suburban man who was in the city to celebrate his brother's birthday Friday was shot to death about 11:30 p.m. Friday on an Englewood street, according to police. A dark SUV heading east on 71st Street pulled up on the 7100 block of Eggleston Avenue and someone inside opened fire south on 71st, hitting Lafayette Johnson as he stood between a Ford Taurus and an SUV. He lived in the 2600 block of West 89th Street in Evergreen Park and died where he fell. Nearby were two siblings who grieved in different ways.

Romney raps Obama on 'Big Bird'

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/13/2012 2:44:32 PM Post Reply

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney told supporters in Ohio Saturday his campaign is about big issues while President Obama talks about "smaller things." Speaking at a rally at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Romney repeated his criticism of Obama on a range of issues including jobs, healthcare and energy policy, and ridiculed the president for making a campaign issue of the GOP nominee's remark that he would "fire ['Sesame Street' character] Big Bird" by cutting federal funding for public broadcasting.

Suicide of B.C. girl in YouTube
clip sets off police probe

Canadian Press, by Terri Theodore Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/13/2012 2:41:45 PM Post Reply

Vancouver - A video glimpse into the life of a now-dead teenage girl who said she was being relentlessly bullied has prompted a police investigation, expressions of concern and a renewed call to end such cruelty. RCMP said Friday that serious-crime teams are working together, conducting interviews and reviewing contributing factors to the death of 15-year-old Amanda Todd. (Snip) “Those involved in bullying, depending on the form of the bullying and what the end result of the bullying is, certainly can result in criminal charges.” But Thiessen added it’s “extremely difficult” to get the evidence police need and that’s why officers

Magnets kill cancer cells in lab

Belfast Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/13/2012 2:30:38 PM Post Reply

A magnetic method of killing cancer cells has been developed by scientists in South Korea. The technique uses a magnetic field to flip a "self-destruct" switch in tumours. Researchers have demonstrated that the process works in bowel cancer cells and living laboratory fish. Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is one of the body's ways of getting rid of old, faulty or infected cells. In response to certain signals, the doomed cell shrinks and breaks into fragments. These are then engulfed and consumed by amoeba-like immune cells.

Russia says it will not renew
arms agreement with U.S.

Reuters, by Thomas Grove Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/13/2012 2:24:15 PM Post Reply

Moscow - Russia will not renew a decades-old agreement with Washington on dismantling nuclear and chemical weapons when it expires next year, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Wednesday. The death of the 1991 agreement, which had been renewed twice, is the latest in a series of hitches in relations between the United States and Russia and casts doubt on the future of the much-vaunted "reset" in relations between the Cold War-era foes.

Gunmen kill Yemeni who worked
at U.S. embassy in Yemen

Reuters, by Mohammed Ghobari Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/13/2012 2:19:16 PM Post Reply

Masked gunmen shot dead a Yemeni man who worked in the security office of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa on Thursday, in an attack a Yemeni security source said appeared to be the work of al Qaeda. The incident was the latest of a wave of attacks on officials in the impoverished Arab state, which is battling Islamist militants with Washington's help. The attackers, on a motorcycle, opened fire on Qassem Aqlan - who headed an embassy security investigation team - near his house in the center of Yemen's capital, the source told Reuters.

Women could save Japan's
economy: IMF's Lagarde

Agence France Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/13/2012 1:42:35 PM Post Reply

Women could rescue Japan's chronically underperforming economy if more of them went to work, the female director of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday. Christine Lagarde said Japan's shrinking and greying workforce, which has left the country struggling to pay welfare bills, could really benefit from an injection of female talent. "Because there is this ageing problem... we believe that women could actually help very much," Lagarde told reporters in Tokyo, where the IMF is holding its annual meetings(Snip)"Today you have five out of 10 Japanese women out of the job market, as opposed to two out of 10

The Nebraska town with
only 11 residents that sells
more than FOUR MILLION
cans of beer every year - because
it's next to a Native American
reservation

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 1:42:08 PM Post Reply

An American Indian tribe is considering taking its case to state court after its lawsuit against four beer stores in Whiteclay, Nebraska was thrown out last week by a federal judge. The Oglala Sioux Tribe governs the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, just over the state line from Whiteclay. Last year the four beer stores named in the suit sold the equivalent of 4.3 million 12-ounce beer cans even though according to the latest census, Whiteclay has only 11 residents.

Racial preferences for the privileged

New York Post, by Linda Chavez Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 1:30:20 PM Post Reply

The Supreme Court this week took up a case that just might put an end to race-based college admissions. The justices heard arguments Wednesday involving a University of Texas affirmative-action program, whose whole purpose seems to be to give special preference to black and Hispanic applicants who come from middle-income and affluent homes. Long past are the days when affirmative-action proponents could argue they were simply trying to help disadvantaged minorities. Now the rallying cry is simply to bolster the number of black and Hispanic students on campus — even if it means denying admission to better-qualified

Woman can’t sue CEO
after abortion, court rules

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/13/2012 12:14:15 PM Post Reply

Newark, N.J. — A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a woman who dated Nets CEO Brett Yormark can’t sue him after she had an abortion. Reyna Purcell claims Yormark promised to stay in their relationship and take her on vacation if she ended her pregnancy. Purcell claims she wanted to keep the baby. She had an abortion in February 2011. Yormark ended the relationship shortly after. Purcell sued Yormark last year. A judge dismissed the case, saying the promise was not in writing and attorneys were not present. Purcell appealed. The appeals court on Friday upheld the lower

Crowds surge at Romney
campaign events as GOP
candidate rides the wave
of momentum

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 12:11:30 PM Post Reply

The crowds tell the story. As Election Day nears, Mitt Romney is drawing large and excited throngs. Look to dusty Iowa cornfields, rain-soaked Virginia parks, the muddy fields of the Shelby County Fairgrounds, where a crowd of 9,500 - almost half of this western Ohio town - gathered among the barns and stables on a frigid October evening this week to glimpse the Republican presidential contender. Romney's debate performance against President Barack Obama last week - and his energetic appearances following it up - have fueled a rise in enthusiasm on the campaign trail. Whether or not it will

How the 2012 Election
Is Stacked for the GOP

New York Magazine, by Jonathan Chait Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/13/2012 11:58:28 AM Post Reply

One thing you may have missed even if you’re following the election really, really closely is that Americans get to vote this November to decide control of not on one or even two but three bodies: The president, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The relative importance of the three could be apportioned about 50:25:25. The ratio of news coverage to the race for control is about 80:19:1. Hardly any public polls exist. Every couple of weeks, the handful of Congressional handicappers update their projections, based on entrail-reading

Romney and Ryan bask
in newfound momentum

Los Angeles Times, by Seema Mehta Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/13/2012 11:56:13 AM Post Reply

Lancaster, Ohio — Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan reunited on the campaign trail Friday, on a surge of fresh momentum from their debate performances and gains in the polls. “You know what, there’s a growing crescendo of enthusiasm. People recognize this is not an ordinary campaign, this is a critical time for our country,” Romney told 5,000 supporters gathered in the picturesque town square here. “There’s more energy and passion, people getting behind this campaign. We’re taking back this country, going to get it strong again.” Against a backdrop of a billowing, three-story-high American flag,

Joe Biden’s laugh-filled
debate wasn’t so funny
on national security

New York Daily News, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/13/2012 11:47:28 AM Post Reply

The heat generated by Joe Biden at Thursday night’s vice presidential debate cooled into object lessons in the danger of bombast by a top United States government official. Biden’s smirking theatricality while facing Republican Paul Ryan included exasperated putdowns and, at times, broad factual assertions whose grounding in truth was tenuous. So it goes in skewering an opponent’s record. Have a merry, if you like. But the vice president went beyond the bounds where there is license to play fast and loose. He did a disservice by extending his bluster into real-time issues of security and international relations. First, there was Libya.

Obama Didn’t Save Us

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/13/2012 11:42:12 AM Post Reply

About the only talking point Joe Biden didn’t repeat in his debate with Paul Ryan was the one lionizing President Obama for having saved the country from another Great Depression. Biden used it in his speech at the Democratic convention, as did others, and it remains a hardy perennial of Obama lore. The president, ever immodest, has credited himself for this achievement. Last year Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told him, it’s “your legacy.” Andrew Sullivan, in a recent Newsweek cover story likening Obama to Ronald Reagan, twice credited the president with having “prevented a second Great Depression.”

Are Budget Cuts to Blame for
Benghazi Attack, as Biden Suggested?

Daily Beast, by Eli Lake Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/13/2012 11:37:50 AM Post Reply

The post-debate fact checkers are taking Vice President Joe Biden to task for saying the administration never received requests for more diplomatic security in Libya. when in fact the State Department has already admitted it rejected those very requests. But more nuanced was Biden’s suggestion, albeit oblique, that funding cuts were somehow related to the relative lack of security in Benghazi leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks there. “The congressman here cut embassy security in his budget by $300 million below what we asked for,” said Biden in Thursday night’s debate,

Prostitute patrons can’t
hide their faces anymore

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 11:22:13 AM Post Reply

Gone are the days of the nameless, faceless "john." Men who buy sex are now likely to end up with their faces splashed across the Internet or the morning newspaper. A Maine tourist town shaken up by authorities’ promises to reveal the identities of dozens of clients of a fitness instructor accused of prostitution is just the latest place to enlist public shaming as a preventive measure.Fresno, Calif., sponsors a website called "Operation Reveal" that features mug shots of suspected johns, while Oklahoma City has the vigilante-style "JohnTV." In Arlington, Texas, a highway billboard

Romney-Ryan ticket hits
Obama admin on Ohio
made tanks

Fox News, by Joy Lin Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/13/2012 11:15:13 AM Post Reply

Lancaster, Ohio–The Romney-Ryan campaign has seized on Vice President Joe Biden's assertion during Thursday's debate that Ohio-made M1 Abrams tanks are no longer needed. The GOP ticket began running radio ads and making automated phone calls in Ohio on Friday featuring the vice president's quote, according to Republican state communications director Chris Maloney. "The military says we need a smaller, leaner Army. We need more special forces. ...We don’t need more M1 tanks.(SnipThe vice president's words, which broke no new policy ground, were a reminder of the Pentagon's decision this year to halt the production line from 2014 to

'US must ignore violence
to boost ME democracies'

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/13/2012 10:57:25 AM Post Reply

Washington-The United States must look past the violence and extremism that has erupted after the "Arab Spring" revolutions and boost support for the region's young democracies to forge long-term security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. Clinton, seeking to reinforce the Obama administration's Middle East policy following a wave of anti-American violence and last month's deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, said Washington cannot be deterred by "the violent acts of a small number of extremists." "We recognize that these transitions are not America's to manage, and certainly not ours to win or lose,"

J. K. Rowling and the Deadly Tedium

National Review, by Katherine Connell Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/13/2012 10:55:32 AM Post Reply

The Harry Potter series was such a cultural juggernaut that many people who would not normally have read children’s novels about a training school for wizards felt compelled to point out that the books lacked literary merit. (Snip)Rowling’s detractors missed what made the Potter books so captivating: the story. Five years after the final installment in the Harry Potter series was released, Little, Brown has published Rowling’s first novel aimed at adults, The Casual Vacancy. She was clearly determined to try her hand at something completely different, and she succeeded, in a way: Instead of a magical world

Maine town awaits list of
clients eyed in hooker scandal

Boston Herald, by John Zaremba Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 10:49:08 AM Post Reply

KENNEBUNK, Maine — With equal parts dread, gallows humor and gawking curiosity, residents of this bucolic seaside burg are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see if any of their neighbors are among the more than 150 men accused of paying a Zumba dance instructor for sex. “You’re familiar with ‘The Scarlet Letter’? This is the same thing, only now it’s the letter Z for Zumba,” said Gisele Nedeau, who runs Ashby’s Deli with her husband, Mark. Police yesterday had planned to publish the names of some of those summoned to court in connection with

Breaking: Al Qaeda Leader
Zawahiri Calls for Holy War
on U.S. and Israel Over
Anti-Muslim Video

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 10:35:56 AM Post Reply

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al Qaeda since Osama bin Laden's assassination, called for a holy war against the United States and Israel Saturday over the anti-Muslim video that triggered protests throughout the Middle East last month. According to Agence France Presse and other sources, Zawahiri released a seven minute audio hailing "the honourable people.. who stormed the US embassy in Benghazi and those who protested outside the US mission in Cairo where they replaced the US flag with that of Islam and jihad." In the audio released by media arm As-Sahab and posted on militant websites Saturday,

Ryan’s Benghazi Surprise

National Review Online, by Larry Kudlow Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/13/2012 10:31:32 AM Post Reply

The irony of ironies: The Biden-Ryan debate was more about foreign policy than the economy and jobs. And yet another irony: Paul Ryan, an expert on all things fiscal, revealed a much better knowledge base of foreign policy than anyone thought existed. Shows how smart and well-rounded he really is. In fact, Ryan’s Benghazi slam, right out of the chute, won him the debate. This terrorist attack is going to be a huge presidential-race issue. Americans are furious at the Obama-Biden-Clinton stupidity and mismanagement surrounding the tragic Benghazi deaths.

Joltin’ Joe Should Leave
and Go Away

Oregon Magazine, by Art Hyland Original Article

Posted By: teapartyM- 10/13/2012 10:27:39 AM Post Reply

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon Going to the candidates debate Laugh about it, shout about it When you’ve got to choose Ev’ry way you look at it, you lose Hey, hey, hey, the song, Mrs. Robinson, is now FORTY-FIVE years old. Well, enough about disappearing decades for those in the Baby Boomer generation. But what about the lines from the song, how were they heard by people back then? And since then.

GOP weekly address:
Mitt Romney ‘gets it’ on
small biz, regulations

The Hill [Washington DC], by Ben Geman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/13/2012 10:27:09 AM Post Reply

A Republican House candidate from Oklahoma said Saturday that Mitt Romney will help small businesses that President Obama is burying in costly red tape. “If we’re serious about keeping jobs here and bringing jobs home, we need to stop burdening small businesses with excessive and unnecessary regulations. We need to get government out of the way,” said Markwayne Mullin in the GOP's weekly address. “Mitt Romney gets it; he’s made supporting small businesses a key plank of his jobs plan. And the Republican majority in the House has passed several bipartisan, common-sense proposals to address excessive regulations

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