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British firm secured Benghazi consulate
contract with little experience

Tegraph [UK], by Damien McElroy* Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/15/2012 11:49:14 AM Post Reply

Sources have told the Daily Telegraph that just five unarmed locally hired Libyans were placed on duty at the compound on eight-hour shifts under a deal that fell outside the State Department's global security contracting system. Blue Mountain, the Camarthen firm that won a $387,000 (£241,000) one year contract from the US State Department to protect the compound in May, sent just one British employee, recruited from the celebrity bodyguard circuit, to oversee the work. The compound was overrun by a mob of Islamic extremists on the morning of September 12 in an apparent planned attack that resulted in the death

Bill Maher: ‘The Planet
Is Too Crowded and We
Need to Promote Death’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:48:20 AM Post Reply

HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher says he’s “consistently pro-death” – and “not one of those people who thinks all life is precious.” Even dogs can create life, he said in an Oct. 7 interview on satellite radio. Maher explained his views on life and death when Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and host of StarTalk Radio, raised the death penalty. “You support the death penalty, according to my notes,” Tyson said. “Isn’t it largely Republican? They may not have birthed the idea, but?” “Yeah, I guess so,” Maher said. “I mean I have a

Hillary Clinton: Benghazi
after 9/11/12 Shows ‘Undimmed
Promise of the Arab Spring’

Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:44:02 AM Post Reply

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., that the residents of Benghazi “overran extremist bases and insisted that militias disarm and accept the rule of law” after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, which “points to the undimmed promise of the Arab Spring.” “And on their own initiative, the people of Benghazi overran extremist bases and insisted that militias disarm and accept the rule of law.

Voters don't like Nancy Pelosi

Washington Examiner (D.C.), by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 11:41:04 AM Post Reply

Democrats believe she is poised to become House speaker again, but American voters don't like Rep. Nancy Pelosi, at least when compared to the other congressional leaders. Rasmussen Reports tells Secrets that she suffers from a 53 percent unfavorable rating. Just 33 percent of likely voters view her favorably. Only Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a lower favorable rating, 25 percent, but his unfavorables aren't as bad as Pelosi's, at 47 percent. Ratings of GOP leaders are not much better. House Speaker John Boehner's favorable/unfavorable rating is 32 percent/43 percent. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's are 29 percent/36 percent.

The new Middle East coverup:
Biden caught in Syria debate
falsehood

Washington Post, by Marc Thiessen Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/15/2012 11:39:29 AM Post Reply

First there was the Libya coverup. Now, we have the Syria coverup. In last week’s vice presidential debate, Joe Biden asserted that the United States was working to isolate al-Qaeda in Syria by ensuring that aid was directed to moderate elements of the Syrian opposition. “We are working hand and glove with the Turks, with the Jordanians, with the Saudis, and with all the people in the region attempting to identify the people who deserve the help so that when Assad goes — and he will go — there will be a legitimate government

The Big Lie: Obama Did
Not Call Benghazi Attack
Terrorism on Sep. 12

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:38:34 AM Post Reply

For several days, and again on this week's Sunday morning shows, President Barack Obama's spokespeople, both at the White House and at the Obama campaign, have claimed that he called the Benghazi attack "terrorism" from the outset, in his Sep. 12 address from the Rose Garden. The media have pushed back, noting that the White House rejected terrorism as an explanation in the days that followed. But there is an even simpler reason to reject the Obama camp's explanation: it is a demonstrable lie, as a reading of Obama's actual remarks instantly reveals. Obama mentioned the word "terror"

Background Briefing on Libya:
Background Conference Call With
Senior State Department Officials
Washington, DC - October 9, 2012

United States Department of State, by Office of the Spokesperson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/15/2012 11:38:08 AM Post Reply

OPERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the State Department call on Libya. (Snip) MODERATOR: Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us on such relatively short notice, late on a Tuesday evening. You know that since the beginning, we’ve been working with Congress on trying to ascertain the facts and convey the facts of what happened on 9/11 in Benghazi. In the last 24 hours and in the next 24 hours, we’re going to be engaging with Congress, and we wanted to give you a sense, in the press, of what we’ve been telling them.

SEAL Team VI Family: 'Obama’s Rules
Are Getting Our Warriors Killed'

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Patrick S. Poole Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:30:49 AM Post Reply

Just three months after the raid by Navy SEAL Team VI that killed Osama bin Laden, those same SEALs were in the news yet again--but for an entirely different reason. On August 6, 2011, while on their way to assist an ongoing mission in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, the CH-47D Chinook helicopter that they were riding in was shot down by an RPG fired by a Taliban fire team approaching their landing zone in Tangi Valley. All 38 American and Afghan service members who were aboard perished, including 17 Navy SEALS, 5 Navy Special Operations support

Top Oversight Dem on Libya
Hearings: 'Turning into
a Witch Hunt'

Weekly Standard, by Michael Warren Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 11:17:23 AM Post Reply

Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told CBS's Bob Schieffer Sunday that the committee's hearings into the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Libya were "turning into a witch hunt." "Do you think this is simply a witch hunt?" asked Schieffer, the host of Face the Nation. "I think it’s turning into a witch hunt, and we can do better," Cummings responded. Cummings suggested that Republicans, including the House committee's chairman Darrell Issa, are politicizing the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last month that killed four Americans,

Romney, Obama camps
raise concerns about debate
moderator Candy Crowley

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Daniel Strauss Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 11:14:54 AM Post Reply

The campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney have reportedly voiced concerns that Candy Crowley isn’t planning to abide by the terms that were set for the second presidential debate on Tuesday night. Lawyers for the two camps have written to the Commission on Presidential Debates questioning whether Crowley intends to take a more active role during the town-hall event than the campaigns agreed to, according to Time. Crowley, who is a host on CNN, has made comments recently that suggest she plans to aggressively question the candidates during the debate at Hofstra University in New York.

Candy Crowley: ‘I’m not
a fly on the wall’

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/15/2012 11:11:57 AM Post Reply

The town-hall debate is the one presidential faceoff in which the audience gets to ask the questions. But don’t tell that to moderator Candy Crowley. Like any journalist worthy of the assignment, Crowley concedes that the debate on Tuesday night isn’t about her, but she just as eagerly acknowledges her role in it. “I understand that I’m there. I’m not a fly on the wall,” she told Politico recently. “We don’t want the candidates to spout talking points. That doesn’t help voters … I’m going to react organically to what’s happening.” In a move that has unnerved both campaigns,

Lindsey Graham’s collaboration
with Democrats points to tea-
party primary challenge in ’14

Daily Caller, by W. James Antle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:58:14 AM Post Reply

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s opposition to political ads targeting several Democratic senate incumbents could create a significant re-election issue for him in 2014. When Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul launched an ad campaign against Democrats who opposed his proposal to end foreign aid to Libya, Egypt and Pakistan, Graham took the unusual step of defending the Democrats from a fellow Republican. Graham held a conference call with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to slam both the ad and Paul’s foreign aid bill.

Hillary Clinton Off to Peru
Amid Libya Questions

Associated Press, by Jake Wade Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/15/2012 10:56:02 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken off for Peru to talk women's empowerment amid a political drama in Washington over the handling of last month's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Clinton left Monday for the long-planned event in Lima after a weekend of more criticism from Republicans over the Obama administration's initial explanation of the Sept. 11 attack and security at the consulate where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. Republicans have seized on the attack as a sign of weakness in President Barack Obama's foreign policy.

Colorado: Wild West, Wild Voters

U.S. News & World Report, by Rebekah Metzler Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:49:41 AM Post Reply

DENVER – As with many who voted for President Barack Obama four years ago, some Coloradans are disappointed with the still struggling economy and his inability—or unwillingness—to deliver on promises he made. Colorado's unemployment rate of 8.2 percent in August has hovered just above the national average. Jeff Rodriguez, former building contractor now working at a golf course and volunteer with the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, says at first he thought it was his fault his business failed. (Snip)"But it's like, this ain't my fault, it's the government's fault," he says. Rodriguez was one of hundreds at a Hispanics for Romney event

Skewed Presidential Polls Should
Be Trashed, Not Published

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 10:45:25 AM Post Reply

With the public and the pundits hungry for more information about the election, the focus on polling seems to be greater than ever. Unfortunately for the pollsters, so has skepticism about their results. Part of that lies in the natural unwillingness of partisans to accept that their side is losing. Thus, Republicans take polls that show their side winning as truthful while scoffing at those that show Democrats ahead; Democrats play the same game. We’ve seen a lot of this during this election cycle. But as much as we should guard against the partisan knee-jerk when reacting

West-side ZIP code nears
$1 million in presidential donations

American-Statesman, AustinTX, by Chuck Lindell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:44:21 AM Post Reply

People who live and work in one affluent Austin-area ZIP code have sent almost $1 million to the 2012 presidential candidates, making western Travis County a focal point for national political giving. Only three other Texas ZIP codes have provided more donations than 78746, which stretches from Lost Creek to Davenport Ranch and includes West Lake Hills, Rollingwood and parts of West Austin. President Barack Obama is by far the largest recipient of political donations from 78746, amassing more than $438,000 this election cycle, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit that monitors campaign finances.

WashPost Buries Its Tilted Sample,
GOP 'Zeal' for Romney on A-4

Newsbusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 10:42:46 AM Post Reply

It’s always wise to look inside the paper for the real news when The Washington Post reports on improving polls for Republicans. The headline in Monday’s paper is “GOP’s zeal for Romney grows,” but adds underneath “Race is still close after 1st debate; Poll shows little change among likely voters.” On the front page, reporter Dan Balz and pollster Jon Cohen urged on readers that “Even as voters overwhelmingly perceive that Romney won the first debate, the vast majority say their opinion of the president did not shift as a result.” Only inside do you learn

Hoping for a swing in his favor:
Obama hunkers down at opulent golf
resort for debate preparations -
but aides make sure he hasn't
got his clubs with him

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:42:23 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama, who said that debate preparation before his disastrous showing in Denver was 'a drag' is practicing at a top notch golf resort in Virginia. Obama is hunkered down for hours of debate practice on Sunday at Kingsmill Resort, a luxury vacation spot in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was shuttling between a house on the campus where he is staying and the resort's main building, where aides are set up for debate practice. He only broke off to deliver pizzas to workers at the local campaign office, where he said his debate preparation was 'going great'.

Introducing 'Ryan Girl'
Singing 'Let's Get Fiscal'

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:29:26 AM Post Reply

In 2008, the YouTube video "Crush on Obama" introducing "Obama Girl" swept the nation with astonishing speed and media attention. On Saturday, a new video hit YouTube called "Let's Get Fiscal" featuring Maredith Walker as "Ryan Girl" singing and aerobicizing to a reworked version of Olivia Newton John's 1980s hit "Let's Get Physical" (video follows with lyrics and commentary):You’re saying all the things that I know are right, making good calculations-They want us to think you’re bad, but I can do the math.

Obama's Big Tax Increases
on Small Business

American.com, by Stan Veuger Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/15/2012 10:28:58 AM Post Reply

It is quite a stretch for President Obama to argue that he wants to cut taxes for small businesses. In reality, he is proposing to increase taxes on small businesses by around $49 billion. President Obama has touted his treatment of small businesses repeatedly over the course of the campaign, and last week’s presidential debate was no exception. “I also lowered taxes for small businesses 18 times. And what I want to do is continue the tax rate — the tax cuts that we put into place for small businesses and families,” argued Obama.
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Welcome Back to the Woman
Wars, Camille Paglia…

PJ Media, by Leslie Loftis Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:26:20 AM Post Reply

The quality of discourse for women today is poor. The many and varied reasons for this will make a post for another day, but for the moment, note that the Mommy Wars and hookup culture discussions might be heartfelt but rarely resolve anything. Notable recent examples of unproductive chattering: Naomi Wolf has created a new range of vagina puns with her anecdotal account of her technicolor orgasms in her latest book Vagina. The Life of Julia is a left-looking faceless cartoon claiming that women need government to take care of them. (I linked to Iowahawk’s parody because

A Son of Europe Reflects
on the EU's Nobel Prize

American.com, by Vaclav Smil Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/15/2012 10:25:07 AM Post Reply

The Nobel Committee should have named the U.S. and NATO as equal co-recipients for their role in transforming Europe ‘from a continent of war to a continent of peace.’ Europe is always on my mind. After all, I am about as European as they come, born in the very center of the continent, with family history so typical of those ancient crossroads where Germans, Czechs, Jews, Austrians, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, French, Swedes, and Russians came to fight, settle, intermarry, live, and die. I had also lived on both sides of the Iron Curtain before it finally fell in 1989.

Romney distances himself from
Bush-era neoconservatives

Los Angeles Times, by Paul Richter Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/15/2012 10:15:35 AM Post Reply

Washington-As he seeks to appeal more to moderates, Mitt Romney is putting new distance between his campaign and some prominent Republican allies who are pressing him to adopt the rousing but politically risky foreign policy principles of former President George W. Bush. The battle to set Romney's foreign policy has raged all year inside his presidential campaign, but has intensified in recent weeks as Republicans have sensed a political opportunity in the Obama administration's shifting characterizations of the terrorist attack that killed four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. A senior Republican strategist close to the campaign

Police in Riot Gear Quell
Skateboarder Melee

NBC 4, (Los Angeles), by Michelle Valles & Jason Kandel Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:13:16 AM Post Reply

The mob of skateboarders and skate fans who ran amok through Hollywood on Saturday night, captured on a YouTube video by a driver caught in the middle of the mayhem, garnered national attention just as it attracted a swift crackdown by riot police. Skaters were seen vandalizing businesses and throwing bottles, while bystanders are seen running — resulting in the deployment of more than 100 Los Angeles police officers in riot gear. The incident began before 9 p.m. as about 1,500 skaters and skate fans showed up to a theater that only holds 600 people to watch a free

Battleground Poll: Mitt more likable

Politico, by James Hohmann Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 10:08:53 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is finally getting his Sally Field moment: They like him. At least more than they used to. President Barack Obama clings to a 1-percentage-point national lead in a head-to-head matchup with the GOP nominee, but the first presidential debate has significantly improved Romney’s personal image. A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters puts Obama ahead of Romney 49 percent to 48 percent, a statistical tie and the same as the week before. Across the 10 states identified by POLITICO as competitive, Romney leads 50 percent to 48

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