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Home of the carousel preserves,
expands its legacy

The Buffalo News, by Michelle Kearns Original Article

Posted By: ramona- 10/14/2012 9:32:47 AM Post Reply

Just past the gift shop and through doors that swing open like a saloon entrance, there is a work- room strewn with tools. A small crew of men in their 70s and 80s gathers there to joke, build and paint the things that are slowly bringing Allan Herschell’s old carousel factory back to life as a museum. “This was brand-new when I started,” said Mel Brundage, 76, looking down at his apron, gray with paint splatters. “I look like Leonardo da Vinci.” The splatters are from his 14 years as a volunteer . . .

It's official in Florida:
Blacks can't be held to
same standards

American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/14/2012 9:24:10 AM Post Reply

The deep internal contradictions of liberal race dogma have reached their logical, horrifying conclusion at the hands of the Florida State Board of Education. CBS Tampa reports: The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race. On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level.

Endeavour: So LA, No Parking
zones everywhere

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/14/2012 9:18:44 AM Post Reply

It was supposed to be over by now, the complex movement of the 155,000-pound space shuttle Endeavour from a United Airlines terminal at LAX airport to the California Science Center. But it’s taken far longer than planned. Moving crews removed signs and cut down trees along city streets. But the 78-foot wingspan plus thousands of spectators all along the route have slowed the process greatly.

Joe Biden, 'Practicing Catholic'

American Thinker, by Jeannie DeAngelis Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/14/2012 9:08:50 AM Post Reply

Amid all the smirking, chortling, and "give me a break, kid" sniggering that ill-mannered Joe Biden exhibited at the 2012 vice presidential debate, when he piously explained his stance on abortion, he exposed in totality the hypocrisy of liberal thinking. Toward the end of the debate, Biden's friend and one time houseguest, moderator Martha Raddatz, posed the following question to the candidates: "We have two Catholic candidates ... [a]nd I would like to ask you both to tell me what role your religion has played in your own personal views on abortion[.]"
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Dems finally go bonkers

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/14/2012 8:42:34 AM Post Reply

After enduring three days of outlandish claims and grievances about American life at the Charlotte convention, I wrote that “something shocking is happening to the Democratic Party.” Five weeks later, I must amend the observation. The soul-sapping transformation is no longer “happening.” It is complete.The Democratic Party has lost its mind and its way. Its political philosophy of inclusion and progress has been consumed by virulent strains of anger, dishonesty and intolerance. Its leaders don’t just want to win an election; they want to silence any American who disagrees with them.

Black Christians:
Shame! Shame! Shame!

American Thinker, by Lloyd Marcus Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/14/2012 8:29:14 AM Post Reply

Increasingly, I am hearing the following mantra/narrative from black Christians:"I'm voting for Obama because he is the lesser of the two evils." This is an extremely weak attempt to justify their racism and loyalty to The Black Code (never side with a white against a fellow black). From a Christian point of view, how can any Bible-believer conclude that Mitt Romney is more evil than Barack Obama?

Pussy Riot members face
tough life in penal colony

Associated Press, by Max Seddon Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/14/2012 8:13:15 AM Post Reply

MOSCOW — It's a far cry from Stalin's gulag, but the guiding principle of the Russian penal colony -- the destination of two members of punk band Pussy Riot -- remains the same: isolate inmates and wear them down through "corrective labor." Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will have to quickly learn the inner laws of prison life, survive the dire food and medical care, and risk bullying from inmates either offended by their "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin or under orders to pressure them. "Everyone knows the rule: Trust no one, never fear and never forgive," said Svetlana Bakhmina,

Ohio in the swing (state) of things

New York Daily News, by Celeste Katz & Jonathan Lemire Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/14/2012 7:58:43 AM Post Reply

DAYTON, OHIO — Meet the woman who might decide whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be the next President of the United States. Sue Smith is 49 years old, a mother of three and a resident of Ohio, the most contested swing state on the electoral map. But she is more than just a voter in the biggest battleground state of all. She is undecided about whom to support. “There are days when I lean one way and then the other,” Smith says. And although most of her friends and relatives have made up their minds,

Heroes or villains? Koch brothers’
largess stirs controversy

Wichita Eagle, Kan., by Bill Wilson & Roy Wenzl Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/14/2012 7:46:52 AM Post Reply

WICHITA, Kan.- In January 2009, just days after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, Charles and David Koch met in their company headquarters in Wichita with their longtime political strategist, Rich Fink. The country was headed toward bankruptcy, they agreed. Fink told them bluntly that Obama’s administration represented the worst of what Charles and David fear most: a bloated, regulation-heavy, free-spending government that could plunge the country into another deep recession. That day, Fink advised two of the richest men in the nation that it would be the fight of their lives to stop the government spending spree and

Drought leads restaurants to
raise prices, cut portions

Los Angeles Times, by Tiffany Hsu Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/14/2012 7:39:37 AM Post Reply

Smokin' Jonny's BBQ opened less than a year ago, but pricey corn on the cob has already disappeared from the menu. Rising beef prices are causing owner Jon Sekiguchi headaches as well. His Gardena restaurant sells beef ribs only on the weekends, when customers are more willing to splurge. And he's struggling to find affordable beef sausage for his $6.95 smoked sausage sandwich. Scorching weather this summer in the Midwest left crops parched and livestock famished. Restaurants, already struggling with high fuel costs and a sluggish economy, are starting to feel the pinch of higher food costs.

Hezbollah’s CFO flees to
Israel carrying stolen money,
classified documents

Al Arabiya, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/14/2012 7:38:07 AM Post Reply

Hezbollah’s CFO has fled to Israel taking with him large sum of stolen money, classified documents and maps, local news media reported on Friday. The news website, Now Lebanon, cited Hezbollah officials saying that the 29-year old telecommunication engineer, Hussein Fahs, has crossed to Israel carrying with him $5 million in embezzled money from the group. Fahs is also head of Hezbollah’s operational communications network. In September, Fahs, who is native of southern Lebanon, was arrested along with other four Hezbollah members over the suspicion of embezzling the group’s funds and collaborating with Israel, Yoni Alpert’s Terror Watch reported.

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

Chicago Sun Times, by NATASHA KORECKI Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/14/2012 7:29:27 AM Post Reply

The snowballing troubles of Jesse Jackson Jr. took a new turn Friday with the revelation that federal investigators have launched a probe into “suspicious activity” in the South Shore congessman’s finances. Focusing on a completely new area of scrutiny for the son of the famed civil rights leader, the investigation is not related to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s attempted sale of a U.S. Senate seat, a scandal that has ensnared Jackson in the past, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times. Rather, the probe — based in the Washington, D.C., FBI field office —is focusing on “suspicious activity” involving the congressman’s finances

Maine Dem Dill: I haven’t spoken
to party leaders in months

The Hill, by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: mainelysane- 10/14/2012 7:17:09 AM Post Reply

Maine Democrat Cynthia Dill is rare among her fellow Democratic candidates in that her run for Senate is entirely independent of the national party.But that’s not by choice. Dill hasn’t received the endorsement of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and she doesn’t have the financial or technical backing of the party. Though DSCC chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has said Democrats would be monitoring the race, they’ve offered no indication that they’ll be investing funds in Dill’s bid,

A Messenger Who Does the Shooting

New York Times, by Amy Chozick Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 10/14/2012 7:06:36 AM Post Reply

TWO days after President Obama’s first debate against Mitt Romney, Stephanie Cutter, a deputy campaign manager for the Obama re-election effort, decided to tweak Mr. Romney for his attack on federal funding for PBS. On Twitter, Ms. Cutter, known for her dry sense of humor and sharp edge, circulated a photo of Big Bird outside an Obama rally with the hashtag #ProtectSesameStreetNotWallStreet to her 42,700-plus

Teen killed, 17 others
wounded across city

Chicago Tribune, by Adam Sege, Carlos Sadovi* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/14/2012 6:54:58 AM Post Reply

A 7-year-old boy was killed and his 18-year-old friend critically injured in a shooting late Saturday in the West Woodlawn neighborhood, and at least 15 others were wounded by gunfire since about 5:45 p.m. Saturday. The 17-year-old may have been targeted due to a feud between two rival gangs, one of which police say he belonged to. He and the 18-year-old were on their way to meet a girl when someone walked up and opened fire in the 6300 block of South Rhodes Avenue just before 9:30 p.m., according to police. The younger teen died after being taken

Tagg Romney getting lots of
credit for father’s revival

Washington Post, by Jason Horowitz Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/14/2012 6:34:46 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON--Ten minutes into the momentum-reversing debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama in Denver, Tagg Romney, the Republican candidate’s oldest son, received a hug from his mother. “This is good,” Ann Romney whispered in his ear. A new story line about the dynamics within the Romney campaign depicts Tagg and his mother wrenching control of Mitt’s once-faltering candidacy from paid strategists. But Tagg, who recounted the debate scene to a Republican well-wisher at an event Thursday, insisted the conspiracy theories aren’t true. Those stories, he said, are “more fairy tale than truth” and insisted there was no

Pew Research Center survey finds declining
support for government safety nets

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Jennifer Berry Hawes Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/14/2012 6:30:07 AM Post Reply

Jasmine McIntyre is thankful for the social safety net supporting her and her unborn child at the Florence Crittenton home. Without the residential program for at-risk teen moms, she would have scant money, little education and a bleak future.Instead, she is pursuing a job and is ready to enroll in college courses.[Snip] The question of how much--and for how long--tax dollars should support social safety nets has garnered much recent debate, from campaign podiums to the homes of regular folks making do with less. An in-depth Pew Research Center survey in June suggested that people like Wilborn shouldn’t get her

Closing Arguments Hit Airwaves

Wall Street Journal, by Neil King, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/14/2012 6:28:26 AM Post Reply

The endless presidential campaign is about to enter its last lap, and with it will come a final fusillade of TV ads as both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama seek to make closing arguments for why the country would be better off with them, and worse off with the other guy. If you live in a battleground state, brace yourself. Another couple hundred million dollars in ad spending is about to rain down on your living rooms in the last weeks of the campaign. As they prepare for their final push, the campaigns and a number of outside groups

Explaining Romney's Surge

Townhall, by Hugh Hewitt Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/14/2012 6:22:38 AM Post Reply

"Tonight the part of Wile E. Coyote will be played by Vice President Joe Biden." Thursday night's debate between Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan went according to the super-secret plan of Karl Rove to not only defeat but deeply embarrass the Democratic Party. Rove had previously arranged for President Obama to take two Ambien before the first debate. Not even a maniacal, all-powerful Rove could be blamed for the Democrats decision to attempt to cover-up the details of the terrible tragedy in Benghazi or the serial malfeasances before or after the attack of 9/11 that killed

Global warming stopped 16 years ago,
reveals Met Office report quietly released...
and here is the chart to prove it

Daily Mail [UK], by David Rose Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/14/2012 6:16:01 AM Post Reply

The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week. The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years. The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued

Cheney "Disturbed" by
Biden's Debate Performance

Slate, by Daniel Politi Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/14/2012 6:14:38 AM Post Reply

Former vice president Dick Cheney said he found Vice President Joe Biden’s behavior at the debate Thursday night “very disturbing,” adding that it was “the most emotionally unstable debate performance in modern American politics,” reports Mediaite. George W. Bush’s vice president phoned in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Friday and outright questioned whether Biden had the right temperament to serve as president, noting that he “is not the type of personality I’d like to see in the Oval Office.” Cheney said that when he was at the White House and met with lawmakers, then-senator Biden

On Libya, Biden was full of 'malarkey'

Washington Examiner [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/14/2012 6:04:46 AM Post Reply

Vice President Biden didn't just double down on the administration's story of the attack in Benghazi, Libya. He emptied the bank account and put the deed to the house on the table. Asked why the administration initially claimed for more than a week that the incident grew out of a street protest over a YouTube video, Biden said that's what they knew at the time. "That's exactly what we were told ... by the intelligence community. The intelligence community told us that. As they learned more facts about exactly what happened, they changed their assessment," he told moderator Martha Raddatz.

Street gang MS-13 infamous for vicious
machete killings is first to be declared
an international criminal group

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/14/2012 6:01:20 AM Post Reply

The ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has been designated as an international criminal group on Thursday, marking an unprecedented crackdown targeting the finances of the sprawling gang infamous for hacking and stabbing victims with machetes. The Treasury Department formally designated MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal organization. The aim is to freeze it out of the U.S. financial system and seize what are estimated to be millions of dollars in criminal profits from drug and human smuggling and other crimes committed in this country. The gang was founded by immigrants fleeing El Salvador's civil war more than two decades ago.

Sunday shows return to usual suspects:
Issa, Gibbs, Graham, Axelrod

Investors Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/14/2012 5:59:26 AM Post Reply

With Joe Biden's unseemly mugging done for now, the Sunday morning talk programs return to their usual roster of Washington-centric guests. Face the Nation is full of Congress: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Reps. Darrell Issa and Elijah Cummings to talk about Benghazi-gate and its impact on the presidential campaign, which is fine with the Republicans. Cummings will defend the president. On CNN's State of the Union DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz pops up to chat with Candy Crowley, who will moderate the next presidential debate Tuesday, a townhall forum on Long Island.

Shut up and play nice: How the
Western world is limiting free speech

Washington Post, by Jonathan Turley Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/14/2012 5:46:25 AM Post Reply

Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exceptions designed to maintain social harmony. In the face of the violence that frequently results from anti-religious expression, some world leaders seem to be losing their patience with free speech.

You've never had it so good...
but prepare for the
return of rationing

Daily Express [UK], by Geraint Jones Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/14/2012 5:42:57 AM Post Reply

On July 4, 1954, almost nine years after the end of the Second World War, food rationing in Britain finally ended. The years of scraping together meals from whatever was to be found in an understocked larder were over. The next half century saw nothing short of a revolution in food production and consumption. New mechanised farming techniques and more effective pesticides combined to send production levels soaring.[Snip] Now those years are being viewed as a golden age, when cheap, plentiful supplies of food flooded the market and families had unprecedented choice in their daily diet. Why?

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