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Time: Candy Crowley's 'Moderator Role
Under Scrutiny – Before the Debate'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:28:49 AM Post Reply

With less than 48 hours to go before Tuesday's presidential debate, the moderator's role is being questioned because of things Candy Crowley has said on CNN. Time's Mark Halperin reported late Sunday: While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns and the bipartisan commission sponsoring the debates suggests CNN‘s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities.

Andrew Sullivan: Romney Will
'Launch a New Global War'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:22:05 AM Post Reply

"The key difference between these two candidates is that one is going to do all he can to avoid a new war in the Middle East and the other one is going to hand over U.S. policy to Bibi Netanyahu and launch a new global war." So actually said the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday (video follows with commentary): As readers know, Sullivan has been in a full-scale panic since the President's horrible debate performance in Denver. Obviously, as an unabashed Barack Obama supporter, it's clear which candidate he's saying will

U.S. to End Pro-Democracy
Broadcasts in Russia

Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:16:51 AM Post Reply

America’s broadcast voice in Russia will soon be silenced following Moscow’s ratification of a new law that will force a legendary broadcasting company to abandon the Russian airwaves. Radio Liberty (RL), a division of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE), recently fired a large portion of its staff after the passage of a Russian law prohibiting foreign-owned media outlets from broadcasting on AM frequencies. The unexpected mass layoffs came as a shock to RL journalists and Russian human rights activists alike, and spurred accusations that the Obama administration is kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir

Elizabeth Warren obtained federal
fee waivers despite high 6-figure
income and 8-figure net worth

Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/15/2012 9:13:31 AM Post Reply

Elizabeth Warren has built her progressive rock star image and her campaign by attacking the wealthy factory owners and others who supposedly do not pay their “fair share” and take advantage of loopholes to live off of infrastructure paid for by others. Yet Warren appears to be one of those people who takes advantage. Warren falsely and without any legitimate legal basis claimed to be Cherokee for employment purposes. Warren also chintzed by failing to register for the Massachusetts Bar despite an active practice of law in Cambridge since the mid-1990s,

ACLU sues Morgan Stanley alleging
discrimination in subprime mortgages

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/15/2012 9:12:58 AM Post Reply

The American Civil Liberties Union is filing what it says is the first lawsuit against an investment bank, Morgan Stanley, alleging discrimination for packaging subprime mortgage loans into securities. The ACLU and other plaintiffs will file the case on behalf of five Detroit residents and its Michigan affiliate, claiming the investment bank encouraged a mortgage lender to make loans with justifiably high costs and a strong possibility of foreclosure to enrich its business of selling securities to institutional investors. "With this lawsuit, real victims of the subprime lending scandal are stepping forward to hold investment banks

Iran Strikes Back

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:12:05 AM Post Reply

Iranian hackers took over a University of Michigan computer network during a massive cyber attack on U.S. financial systems last week that continued following comments on the strike by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. According to reports by a leading Internet security-monitoring firm, the cyber attacks against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and several other U.S. financial institutions began Oct. 8 when hackers gained control of the university’s College of Engineering network in Ann Arbor. The attack then used automated malicious software to simulate hundreds of thousands of attempts by customers to log in to the banks’ remote

Obama donors get to dine with the
Least Interesting Man in the World

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/15/2012 9:11:38 AM Post Reply

Politicians this cycle have been raffling off dinners with themselves in return for donations. As you can see from this photo, the resulting soirees are full of excitement, lots of great food, ObamaCare promises and a whole lot of fun. Throughout these evening events with awed supporters the incumbent president is as animated as he was during the debate with Gov. Mitt Romney. In fact, this Democrat president has proven to be the Least Interesting Man in the World.

Capital Crime

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: duhem- 10/15/2012 8:42:38 AM Post Reply

Following my weekend column on the Administration’s disgraceful behavior over Benghazi, a commenter called Pilipo Underwood pops up: "Mawk Steyn’s sophistry is simply astounding! Willard Romney started the politics before we even knew the basics of the attack in Benghzi. And his essays just drip with vituperation. Such a chip on his shoulder, one thinks he would have learned after his Conviction for Hate Speech." If only Capitalization could Make It So. I’ve never been Convicted of Hate Speech.

Get Ready for the
‘O’Romney Factor’

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 10/15/2012 8:38:45 AM Post Reply

The Obama Team is signaling that “aggressive” is the operative word to describe tomorrow night’s presidential debate. The mainstream media’s still smarting from Obama the pussy without claws at the first televised debate. Tomorrow night tables will be turned to make it appear that Barack Obama and not Mitt Romney is the one trying to restore America; that he will provide those “Jobs, jobs, jobs!” and put the flagging American economy on a better footing in round two. In other words, cunning Obama, who’s been cramming for the debate, will try to take over Romney’s persona on prime time TV.

Bill & Hillary Forever

New York Magazine, by John Heilemann Original Article

Posted By: Oblio- 10/15/2012 8:37:38 AM Post Reply

Four years ago, on September 11, Barack Obama made the pilgrimage to Harlem to have lunch with Bill Clinton. The meal was the first tête-à-tête between the soon-to-be president and the former one since the unpleasantness of the Democratic nomination contest, and feelings on both sides were still raw and fraught with suspicion. Clinton’s staff had wanted to include a Harlem stroll and photo op as part of the visit, but Obama’s people demurred—a standoff that led each camp to ascribe race-related motives to the other

Barack Obama's
October Surprises

American Thinker, by Steve McCann Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/15/2012 7:29:49 AM Post Reply

In October 1972, and twelve days before the presidential election, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made a surprise announcement of a peace agreement ending the war in Vietnam, thus giving birth to the term "October Surprise." In nearly every election cycle since, one party or the other has attempted to spring some last minute opposition research or policy announcement in the immediate weeks prior to an election. However the Democrats, with their near stranglehold on the mainstream media, have been overwhelmingly more successful in the use of this strategy. That is until this year.

New Hampshire Public Radio
Edits Debate Tape to
Favor the Democrat

American Thinker, by Mike Johnson Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/15/2012 7:28:16 AM Post Reply

New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) conducted a gubernatorial debate on 19 September 2012. One of the questions had to do with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an effort to limit greenhouse gases by auctioning CO2 allowances (sounds like cap and trade to me). Republican Ovide Lamontagne favors repeal of RGGI, while Democrat Maggie Hassan favors keeping it.(snip)Subsequently, NHPR has rebroadcast the debate, and Ms. Hassan's answer has been changed

Care? No, this is a pathway
to killing people that
doctors deem worthless - Thread Closed

Daily Mail [UK], by Melanie Phillips Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/15/2012 6:47:52 AM Post Reply

For relatives anxious about a frail loved one in hospital, few things could surely sound more reassuring than a ‘care pathway’. It sounds like a well-worked-out schedule for providing the best possible approach to treating a patient. Accordingly, when relatives have been asked to sign up to the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), that’s precisely what they thought they were agreeing to.[Snip] Terminally ill patients have been heavily sedated and deprived of essential nutrients and fluids in order to make them die more quickly. And there are claims that it is increasingly being applied without the knowledge of patients’ families

Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as
thousands descend on Google HQ

Telegraph [UK], by Jennifer O'Mahoney Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/15/2012 6:20:15 AM Post Reply

Thousands of Muslims have pledged a series of protests against Google HQ for a "hateful and offensive" anti-Islam video, saying they now live in an "age of mockery". A protest by 10,000 Muslims outside the offices of Google in London today is just the first in an orchestrated attempt to force the company to remove an anti-Islamic film from website YouTube in Britain. Thousands had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow to take part in the demonstration, ahead of a planned million-strong march in Hyde Park in coming weeks. Anger over 'The Innocence of Muslims', an American-produced film

Joe Biden Makes History

American Spectator, by Paul Kengor Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 6:14:31 AM Post Reply

Joe Biden's antics against Paul Ryan have taken a few days to sink in, and should take longer still. For starters, try to imagine being Paul Ryan last Thursday: a young politician in the hot seat, the eyes of the world pressing upon him, as he tries to make careful and succinct statements in a most-intense environment, while all along, literally nearly every minute -- Biden interrupted Ryan 80-plus times -- his opponent smirks, scoffs, laughs uncontrollably, flaps his arms, and, generally, acts like a petulant child.

Biden's Other Big Debate Lie

American Spectator, by David Catron Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/15/2012 6:13:23 AM Post Reply

Most of the criticism aimed at Joe Biden relating to his disgraceful performance in last Thursday’s VP debate has related to his transparent lie about what the Obama administration knew about the September 11 terrorist attack on our Benghazi consulate. (Snip) Another lie that may cause as much damage to his boss’s re-election prospects involves the one he told about ObamaCare’s contraception mandate. Whereas his tale about September 11 thwarted the MSM’s attempt to bury the Benghazi story, what he said about the contraception mandate actually disinterred a story they thought they had safely deep-sixed until after the election

Much Ado about Honey Boo Boo

National Review Online, by Betsy Woodruff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/15/2012 5:54:07 AM Post Reply

Well, we did our best. To Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, George Washington, Winston Churchill, and Co., thanks for trying, but game over. If it wasn’t already embarrassingly obvious, one little factoid should confirm for everyone that the West has fallen, and fallen hard — the fact that Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, a TLC reality show about the life and times of a seven-year-old beauty-pageant contestant, reportedly had more viewers than the Republican National Convention. At least, that seems to be the general consensus among cultural commentators, despite the dubiousness of that factoid.

Global warming 'stopped in 1997'

Daily Express [UK], by John Ingham Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/15/2012 5:53:24 AM Post Reply

Global warming stopped 15 years ago and the average temperature has not risen at all since 1997, the Met Office said last night. But critics said the Met Office had released the figures onto the internet without publicity--in contrast to the attention it gave to those released six months ago that reinforced the case for global warming. Those figures went up to 2010--the hottest year on record--and showed a continuing warming trend. Campaigners yesterday slammed the Met Office tactics and questioned the Government’s drive for costly green energy such as wind turbines which add about £100 a year to domestic

First Brother

Slate, by Tim Naftali Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:50:12 AM Post Reply

“I had the strong feeling,” recalled McGeorge Bundy, John F. Kennedy’s national security adviser, two weeks after the Bay of Pigs in 1961, “that if the military had said calling off the air strikes would have caused the operation to fail, the president would have reversed his decision.” Autopsies are never pretty, especially when they are government fiascos. Just before the start of the operation a poorly advised president, who already had misgivings about a covert operation, made a stupid military decision. He decided to take a risk

Britain's withdrawl from Afghanistan
will speed up with plans to bring
4,000 troops home in mass
pullout next year

Daily Mail [UK], by Tim Shipman Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/15/2012 5:40:59 AM Post Reply

Britain will bring home 4,000 troops from Afghanistan next year under plans to speed up the pace of British withdrawal. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond revealed the mass pullout, the first senior minister to put a concrete number on the scale of the drawdown. David Cameron has previously announced that British combat operations in Afghanistan will be over by the end of 2014. But Mr Hammond said commanders have advised the government that Afghan forces will be able to cope if nearly half of the UK's 9,000-strong force in Helmand province pulls out next year. Initial plans would have seen

Obama Libya story changes subtly

Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:36:21 AM Post Reply

Friday’s Team Obama line: Biden was speaking only for himself and the president when he said, “We weren’t told they wanted more security” in Libya, according to Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes (reported in Foreign Policy). Sunday’s Team Obama line: “I think the vice president was talking about what the White House knew. … [N]o doubt, some of these matters went into the security department at the state security agency at the State Department. But it didn’t come to the White House …” says Obama Senior Campaign Manager David Axelrod on Fox News Sunday.

Schumer to Tax Reform: Drop Dead

Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: The Patriot Code- 10/15/2012 5:32:47 AM Post Reply

The polls say voters want more bipartisanship, and one possibility in 2013 is tax reform that trades lower rates for fewer loopholes. Well, so much for that. The man who wants to be the next leader of the Senate Democrats has declared that this "old-style of tax reform is obsolete."

Don't ration operations for the elderly
so they can be given to younger
patients, surgeons warn

Daily Mail [UK], by Jenny Hope Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/15/2012 5:31:33 AM Post Reply

Older patients must not be denied NHS operations on the grounds of their age, a report by surgeons says. It provides damning evidence of variations in surgical care based on patients' ages, with the chances of being operated on peaking in middle age and plummeting for those in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Older heart attack victims, breast cancer patients and those needing new hips and knees are missing out on treatment routinely offered to younger patients even though they could benefit, it says.[Snip] Instead, they are being denied access to surgical treatment because of out-of-date assumptions based on their

Obama's Great Alaska Shutout

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/15/2012 5:31:04 AM Post Reply

President Obama is campaigning as a champion of the oil and gas boom he's had nothing to do with, and even as his regulators try to stifle it. The latest example is the Interior Department's little-noticed August decision to close off from drilling nearly half of the 23.5 million acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The area is called the National Petroleum Reserve because in 1976 Congress designated it as a strategic oil and natural gas stockpile to meet the "energy needs of the nation." Alaska favors exploration in nearly the entire reserve.

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