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What Women Want
In a President

ABC News, by Matthew Dowd Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 6:00:36 PM Post Reply

Mel Gibson played a chauvinistic advertising executive in the movie “What Women Want” who had an accident that gave him the power to hear women’s thoughts and feelings. I don’t have that power, but I am going to speculate on what many women might want in a man — in this election cycle and more broadly. Again, this is just the humble opinion of one man (and I emphasize man) who grew up with four sisters, has a daughter, two ex-wives and three sons who have dated a broad variety of women. Figuring out what women want isn’t

Glenn Beck, Red State Hero,
Has New Blue Jeans Line

ABC News, by Gregory J. Krieg Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 5:51:43 PM Post Reply

Radio host Glenn Beck‘s boycott of his once-beloved Levi’s jeans brand, which began last year when he took exception to the “Palestinian kind of march” shown in one of their television commercials, has inspired a new boutique denim line, “cut and sewn in Kentucky in a factory that has been operating since the late 1920s.” Beck, who signed a new 5-year, $100 million radio deal with Premiere Networks last month, is said by his 1791 Supply & Co. to have played an intimate role in the crafting of the new designs, one “classic-fit,” another “straight leg,” both listed at $129.99.

Tightening Polls Give
GOP Hope in Pa.

NBC 10 [Philadelphia PA], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 5:48:31 PM Post Reply

Is Pennsylvania for the taking for Republicans next month? Tightening independent polls are giving hope to the GOP in Pennsylvania, although the presidential campaigns show no signs of bringing their candidates or TV ads back to the state. Instead, Pennsylvania's highest-profile politicians are finding themselves increasingly busy on the campaign trail, including Gov. Tom Corbett and U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, both Republicans, and former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat. In State College on Monday night, Toomey made time for a crowd of several dozen at a Centre County Republican Party dinner

Iowa Surge: Obama-Romney
Tied; Romney Gains
Seven Points

Breitbart Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 5:42:09 PM Post Reply

Proving Mitt Romney's momentum in the swing states is real, a new American Research Group (ARG) poll found Romney and President Obama tied at 48% in Iowa in a D+1 poll. Last month, before Romney dominated Obama in their first presidential debate, Obama led by 7 points in the ARG poll of Iowa, a state Obama won by nearly 10 points in 2008. Romney leads by 4 points among independents in the new poll, which surveyed 600 likely voters October 11-14 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5%.

Van Jones: Romney a
‘D*****’ in Last Debate

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/16/2012 5:38:03 PM Post Reply

Former White House green jobs czar Van Jones said Mitt Romney acted “kind of like a d*****” during the first presidential debate, in a CNN panel Tuesday. VAN JONES: I think if you’re in a situation — this is kind of basic. You had two guys up there: One was acting kind of like a d*****, and one was acting kind of like a wimp. And between a wimp and a d*****– GLORIA BORGER: Those are strong words, Van. JONES: Those are strong words, but — if that’s the divide, I think people are going to want
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Oh no! We can’t let Romney win,
he’ll let lobbyists in the White House!!!

Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/16/2012 5:23:56 PM Post Reply

If Romney wins, will lobbyists defile the White House that Obama has kept so clean and so pure? That’s what Politico suggests with this piece today headlined “Lobbyists ready for a comeback under Romney.” President Barack Obama’s gone further than any president to keep lobbyists out of the White House — even signing executive orders to do it. In crafting and signing those executive orders, I wonder if Obama relied on the help of White House deputy counsel Cassandra Butts (1), White House special assistant Martha Coven (2), or the chief of staff or the White

Rep. King: Al Qaeda a greater
threat now than before 9/11

Washington Times, by David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/16/2012 5:23:27 PM Post Reply

U.S. Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and Chairman of the House's Homeland Security Committee, said Tuesday that al Qaeda is a greater threat now than it was before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "That is the consensus of most intelligence experts," he said on CNN's "Starting Point." "What they've done is they are now more under the radar screen, they're more spread out, and they're harder to define.

The claws are out in Downing
Street: Cameron's Larry and
Osborne's Freya scrap for
supremacy on the
steps of No.10

Daily Mail [UK], by Matt Chorley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 5:20:58 PM Post Reply

David Cameron and George Osborne have insisted they enjoy better relations in Downing Street that previous occupants of Number 10 and 11. But there was an angry confrontation between neighbours on the famous street this morning, with claws out while the police looked on indifferently. Fortunately the dawn battle was between Freya, the Chancellor's cat, and Larry, the PM's pet puss, who was seen scampering back into Number 10 to lick his wounds. Today the Prime Minister's official spokesman refused to get drawn into the cat fight. Relations between the two cats have been strained since Larry lost his place

French business erupts in fury
against "disastrous" François Hollande

Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/16/2012 5:17:12 PM Post Reply

“The situation is very serious. Some business leaders are in a state of quasi-panic,” said Laurence Parisot, head of employers’ group MEDEF. “The pace of bankruptcies has accelerated over the summer. We are seeing a general loss of confidence by investors. Large foreign investors are shunning France altogether. It’s becoming really dramatic.” MEDEF, France’s equivalent of the CBI, said the threat has risen from “a storm warning to a hurricane warning”, adding that the Socialist government of François Hollande has yet to understand the “extreme gravity” of the crisis.

Romney's Second Act

National Review Online, by Robert Costa Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 5:01:04 PM Post Reply

Hempstead, N.Y. — Before that memorable Denver showdown with President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney spent hours holding mock debates. He’d put on a dark suit, stand at a lectern in a hotel ballroom, and play-act with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who has been impersonating Democratic nominees in debate preparation since the Clinton years. To the surprise of Romney insiders, those sessions were inspired. Romney was good, and he thoroughly enjoyed the 90-minute run-throughs. Instead of merely reviewing material with his aides, as he did before the Republican-primary debates, Romney had a live foil,

Ryan did wash dirty dishes
during soup kitchen visit

NBC News, by Alex Moe & Betsy Cline Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 4:54:54 PM Post Reply

LYNCHBURG, VA -- Amid questions and criticisms related to Paul Ryan’s visit this weekend to an Ohio soup kitchen, the charity’s president said the Republican vice presidential candidate did, in fact, scrub dirty dishes though his visit wasn’t officially sanctioned. The question of whether the Wisconsin congressman cleaned dishes that were actually dirty – as opposed to re-washing already clean dishes so as to get a good photo opportunity -- Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society President Brian Antal clarified that Ryan did clean soiled dishes. This differs from what Antal had told The Washington Post Monday.

President Obama,
Bill Collector-In-Chief

Weekly Standard, by Mark Hemingway Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/16/2012 4:50:42 PM Post Reply

A few weeks ago, I inveighed against the increasingly Orwellian psychological tactics being employed by the Obama campaign. It didn't seem like things could get much worse than asking you to upload photos of your personal pledges to the president, and smart phone apps that show maps telling you the political affiliation of your neighbors. I was wrong. So very, very wrong. Here's the email I recently got from the Obama campaign: According to our records associated with this email address -- hopefully it's yours if you're reading this! --

Don’t expect a gamechanger
in tonight’s debate

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 4:29:13 PM Post Reply

Once again, the two presidential candidates will square off tonight in a debate, their second of three and the third in the overall series. Mitt Romney thumped Barack Obama in the first, by universal acclamation, while the irrelevant VP debate had a more mixed (and partisan) result. However, Pew reported last night that independents liked Paul Ryan better than Joe Biden, by double digits: (Snip) Republican voters overwhelmingly say Ryan did the better job in the debate (88%); a comparable percentage of Democrats (89%) say Biden did the better job. Among independents, 50% say Ryan did better, 39% say Biden.

Dumpster-diving for dinner
and medical trials for cash:
Extreme cheapskate accountant
reveals $4,000-per-month
money-saving secrets

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 4:22:58 PM Post Reply

A New York City woman who dumpster-dives for all her food, doesn’t use toilet paper or do laundry, in an effort to have $250,000 in savings by next year has shared her secrets of frugality. Kay Hashimoto, a Certified Public Accountant, hasn’t bought toiletries in ten years, but owns her own home in Harlem, which she bought in 2010 and paid off in nine months. Her money-saving methods, featured in the new series Extreme Cheapskates with premieres tonight, includes using soap to wash herself off after using the toilet, participating in medical trials, cutting her own hair, washing

Hillary in 2008: “That buck
stopped in the Oval Office”

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 4:20:03 PM Post Reply

Who could have predicted four years ago that electing a President with no executive experience might end up producing a chief executive that ran away from responsibility for his administration’s actions? The same woman who just took responsibility for this administration’s failures in Benghazi, as it turns out. BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski finds this nugget from January 2008, in which Hillary Clinton tells a Missouri crowd that America needs a President who understands that “the buck stop[s] in the White House,” and presumably not Foggy Bottom or Langley: (Snip) Hillary Clinton also said at rally in Missouri in January, “I believe

‘Friday Night Lights’
Author Buzz Bissinger:
Media Colleagues Outraged
That I’ll Vote Romney

Newsbusters, by Matthew Sheffield Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 4:13:35 PM Post Reply

For a political perspective that claims to love peace and tolerance, left-wing Democrats sure seem to be a rather angry lot. We saw it last week during the explosion over a black actress endorsing Mitt Romney for president. History repeated itself just a few days later when outraged Democrats lashed out at journalist and author Buzz Bissinger for doing the same thing. Things were a bit different this time because in addition to people savaging him on Twitter, Bissinger also found himself being called a “traitor” by his supposedly objective media industry colleagues. The experience appears to

Ethanol Mandates Plague Developing
Countries With Rising Food Prices

New American, by Brian Koenig Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 4:13:27 PM Post Reply

The expanding use of ethanol in U.S. oil production, prompted by government mandates that require the use of biofuel in gasoline, is escalating the price of corn while plaguing poor countries with rising food prices. Critics worldwide are now questioning the federal government’s ethanol mandates, as the use of American-produced corn for biofuel has added more than $6.5 billion to the food import bills of developing countries, particularly in North Africa and Central America. (Snip) The quantity of U.S. maize that goes into producing ethanol equals a sizable 15 percent of global corn production, which in turn has inflated food

Food price crisis:
What crisis?

BBC News [UK], by Richard Anderson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 4:12:20 PM Post Reply

Without water, crops cannot grow and the world cannot eat. And this year, there hasn't been enough of it. The US has seen its worst drought in more than 50 years, vast swathes of Russia have been left parched by lack of rain, India has had a dry monsoon, while rainfall in South America early in the year fell well below expectations. As a direct result, harvests of many crops have been decimated, forcing the price of some cereals back up towards levels last seen four years ago, a time when high prices sparked riots in 12 countries across the world

Republicans determined not to let Barack
Obama off the hook despite Hillary
Clinton insistence she bears
responsibility for Benghazi

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 4:09:47 PM Post Reply

Republicans are showing no sign of letting up on President Barack Obama over the death of four U.S. officials in Benghazi despite Hillary Clinton, his Secretary of State, taking 'responsibility' for the debacle. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, blasted Obama and Clinton after her intervention, which threw the president a potential lifeline in tonight's second presidential debate against Mitt Romney. 'I think it’s a 3 a.m. call,' he told MSNBC, referring to the famous Clinton ad aimed against Obama in 2008. 'The buck stops at the White House. That's what Hillary Clinton said

WaPo Dept. of Burying the Lede:Jesse Jaackson Jr.
Thought he was reincarnated chariot driver - Thread Closed

The Examiner, by Sean Higgins Original Article

Posted By: whiskey- 10/16/2012 4:09:12 PM Post Reply

In a story on the front page of the Washington Post about the controversies surrounding reclusive Illinois Democratic congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., readers have to wade through 23 paragraphs before they hit the story’s most interesting nugget of information:

Obama could drive 'a stake through
his own heart' in do-or-die debate
against Romney tonight

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 4:05:50 PM Post Reply

The Romney campaign goes into tonight's second presidential debate confident that the race has shifted decisively in their direction and that a below par performance by Barack Obama could doom him to defeat on November 6. A senior adviser to Mitt Romney told MailOnline: 'The President could drive a stake through the heart of his own campaign tonight if he's not careful. 'If he doesn't give a vigorous enough defence of his last four years in office, if he tries to place blame everywhere else, if he doesn't articulate what the next four years will look like beyond just giving

Cavalcade of Stars Hits
Obama for America Website

ABC News, by Jilian Fama Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/16/2012 4:05:35 PM Post Reply

Obama is pulling out the big guns just in time for the second presidential debate. The president has tapped his network of celebrity supporters, releasing a slew of star-studded ads on the Obama for America campaign website. At least five videos in the past few days have been posted on Obama’s campaign YouTube channel. They cover topics including early voting, gay rights, and the importance of getting out and voting (for Obama, of course.) Rap mogul Jay- Z, long-time supporter and friend of the Obamas, released a special wed ad supporting the president called “The Power of Our Voice.”

Soda Industry Sues NYC
Over Supersized Soda Ban

New American, by Raven Clabough Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 4:02:06 PM Post Reply

In September, New York City became the first to approve a ban that prohibits the sale of sugary drinks over 16 ounces in restaurants, movie theaters, and stadiums. However, the soda industry is prepared to fight and has filed a lawsuit against the ban. The Board of Health approved the ban last month, which is set to take effect in March of 2013. The ban does not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy drinks, or even alcoholic beverages. Likewise, it does not apply to drinks sold in grocery stores. Establishments that do not comply with the ban could face

American Crossroads makes
$11M ad buy to help Romney

Washington Examiner, by David Freddoso Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 3:59:00 PM Post Reply

American Crossroads has announced an $11.1 million ad buy. The conservative super PAC is going up with this ad on cable and network television in precisely the eight states you’d expect: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia. Ads will also run on Pandora Internet radio and two college football conference networks — the Big Ten and the SEC. The ad, clearly aimed at women, features a mother who poses questions for President Obama about the grim economy while sitting at her kitchen table:

China's coming dominance
will transform the West

Telegraph [UK], by Ed West Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/16/2012 3:58:56 PM Post Reply

Chinese world domination is not far off, a theme I normally come around to when I’ve had too much to drink (if you see me in a bar raising the issue, please call me a cab before I bore someone to death). The United States of America has overshadowed all our lives. It is not just its financial and military muscle--in almost every sphere of human activity America’s dominance has dwarfed that of any other country in a way that even Victorian Britain was unable to achieve, especially in its hold on popular culture. Had a US city hosting

Professors donate to Obama, opine
about election in the news

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Bob Cusack Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/16/2012 3:54:48 PM Post Reply

At least a half-dozen professors who gave political donations to President Obama have been quoted in news articles opining about his administration and the 2012 race for the White House. The findings of The Hill’s months-long investigation come as Republicans have been crying foul, alleging a media bias for Obama and against Mitt Romney. (Snip) The scholars say they didn’t tell reporters that they had donated to Obama, but would have had they been asked. It is not common practice for journalists to inquire about such political donations, however.

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