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Chinese residents take
to streets after
man reported killed

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 1:56:11 PM Post Reply

BEIJING - Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the city of Luzhou in southwestern China on Wednesday, after reports a truck driver was beaten to death by policemen, residents said. Pictures and video on China's popular microblogging site Sina Weibo showed an apparently dead man sprawled out on the ground next to a truck as police held back onlookers.(snip)China's Communist Party has been trying to keep a lid on protests ahead of a meeting in Beijing next month which will usher in a new generation of leaders.

U.S. violent crime up
for first time in years

CNN, by Terry Frieden Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/17/2012 1:55:12 PM Post Reply

The rate of U.S. violent crime went up last year for the first time in nearly two decades due to a jump in assaults, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in telephone surveys showed a 22 percent increase in assaults, pushing up the overall rate for violent crime for the first time since 1993. Crime rates have been declining steadily over the period and last year's increase compares with a record low figure for 2010. Statistics showed that the rate of assault victims increased from 19.3 per 1,000

Election 2012 Likely Voters
Trial Heat: Obama vs. Romney

Gallup, by Gallup Original Article

Posted By: phillyred- 10/17/2012 1:38:03 PM Post Reply

All registered voters are asked: "Suppose the presidential election were held today, and it included Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's candidates and Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as the Republican Party's candidates. Who would you vote for [ROTATED: Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the Democrats (or) Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, the Republicans]?" Those who are undecided are further asked if they lean more toward Obama and Biden or Romney and Ryan and their leanings are incorporated into the results.
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Presidential debate: Libya
questioner says Obama
didn’t answer

Washington Post, by Erik Wemple Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 1:19:52 PM Post Reply

Kerry Ladka stood before President Obama at last night’s town hall-style debate and asked the question that would touch off an onstage verbal brawl and, later, an intense national discussion. Here’s how it went: Q: It’s Kerry, Kerry Ladka. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Great to see you here. Q: This question actually comes from a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola yesterday. We were sitting around talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware of reports that the State Department refused extra security for our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the attacks

The Race: Both sides get
help from musical friends

Associated Press, by Tom Raum Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 1:06:04 PM Post Reply

Only one campaign debate is left, just 20 days remain and the two presidential tickets are furiously fighting down to what could be a photo finish. It's time to bring in the closers and amp up the patriotic music. President Barack Obama's campaign is enlisting rocker Bruce Springsteen, 62, whose 1984 song "Born in the U.S.A." is one of his best-known and most frequently performed singles. Springsteen will make a joint appearance with former President Bill Clinton on Thursday at a Democratic rally - minus Obama - in Parma, Ohio.(Snip) Mitt Romney's GOP campaign is bringing back veteran

Moderator Candy Crowley talks
about debate on 'The View'

Entertainment Weekly, by Erin Strecker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 12:57:32 PM Post Reply

After handling Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama last night, the five ladies of The View were easy for CNN’s Candy Crowley. Crowley stopped by the show this morning to discuss the debate. Right away, Barbara Walters asked her about one of the discussion’s buzziest moments, when Mitt Romney was making a point about when the administration labeled the Libya attacks terror attacks, and Obama said it was the day after. Romney disputed this, and Crowley jumped in to agree with the President – you can watch the whole exchange here. Today, Crowley said she understood some people

Oil and gas leases, acres, and
permits all down under Obama

Washington Examiner, by Conn Carroll Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 12:52:00 PM Post Reply

During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, President Obama claimed, “Very little of what Governor Romney just said is true. We’ve opened up public lands. We’re actually drilling more on public lands than in the previous administration and the previous president was an oil man.” But here are the facts, according to the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land management. In 2008 under President Bush, there were a total of 55,085 oil and gas leases in effect on federal land. In 2011 under Obama, there were just 49,174, a decrease of 11 percent. In 2008 under Bush, there were

Ken Blackwell: Tea Party
‘Obamaphone’ ad is not racist

Washington Examiner (D.C.), by Kelsey Osterman Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 12:50:53 PM Post Reply

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said the accusations leveled against The Tea Party Victory Fund's new "Obamaphone" ad are "pretty sophomoric." Think Progress, The Nation and other publications have criticized the ad as being racist, but Blackwell, who heads the Tea Party group that ran the ad, told the Examiner in a phone interview that this assertion is "ridiculous on its face." "The ad draws a bright line of division between two sharply different views of the world," the former mayor of Cincinnati said. "...This ad, taken in its totality, attacks the President's policies, practices and worldview

Illiberal Liberals

Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 12:43:26 PM Post Reply

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama’s claims about “creating jobs” with one plain and inescapable fact — “there hasn’t been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office.” Whatever number of jobs were created during the Obama administration, more have

Bulldozer from Eastern Iowa company
sends heavy-duty message to Obama

The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), by James Q. Lynch Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 12:41:36 PM Post Reply

Dick Steines’ employer and co-workers sent him to President Obama’s rally in Mount Vernon to deliver a message: They did build it. Steines delivered it in the form of a red, white and blue bulldozer with “Romney-Ryan 2012” painted across the blade. Mount Vernon was just the first stop for the heavy-duty message. Steines said he will be on the road for the Romney-Ryan campaign for the next three weeks displaying the bulldozer at “strategic locations.” The bulldozer from J.J. Scheckel Heavy Equipment Corporation in Bellevue quickly became the center of attention at a pro-Romney rally at Memorial Park in Mount Vernon
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1 killed, 6 wounded in overnight
shootings across Chicago

Chicago Tribune, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 12:28:36 PM Post Reply

A man was fatally shot as he parked his car in his garage in the Bridgeport neighborhood this morning and at least six people were wounded in overnight shootings across Chicago, police said. The man was declared dead at 3:50 a.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital at 3:50 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The man, believed to be 55 years old. was shot in the lower back at about 12:40 a.m. in an alley in the 3000 block of South Haynes Court, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman, citing early reports.

Police: We don’t expect
election day riots

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Alexander Bolton Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 12:21:04 PM Post Reply

Police departments around the nation are not anticipating civil unrest on Election Day despite arguments between liberals and conservatives over whether President Obama’s defeat could spark riots. In 2008, police departments in Oakland, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia revealed they were taking special precautions in case public reaction to the election spiraled out of control. Tensions were running high four years ago after the disputed results of the 2000 presidential election and long lines at polling places in poor urban areas in 2004. James Carville said a month before Obama’s historic victory in 2008 that

Clapping seal Michelle
disgraces ‘Presidential’ Debate

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 10/17/2012 12:08:15 PM Post Reply

When Barack Obama lies, only his wife claps. The ‘undecideds’ in Candy’s audience wouldn’t do it, but ‘liddle’ Barry’s wife came through. If last night’s presidential debate proved anything, it is that there’s nothing remotely presidential about presidential debates other than the street theatre it provides for the current crop of unprofessional media rogues. “At the second presidential debate on Tuesday night, a camera caught first lady Michelle Obama clapping after moderator Candy Crowley told Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney that President Obama called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” soon after the attack on the U.S. consulate.”

FLOTUS: 'Barack
doesn't have a big ego'

Politico, by Jennifer Epstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 12:03:54 PM Post Reply

It may seem like President Obama has a big ego, but the first lady says that isn't the case. (Snip) "You know, Barack doesn't have a big ego," Michelle Obama said in an excerpt from an interview with CNN that aired Tuesday. "You see this in, you know, how he leads the country," the first lady said, staying on message in an interview taped weeks ago to air before debate coverage. "I mean, he is very open to other people's opinions. And he's always willing to compromise and he's always, always listening. So that would kind

Reporters Preparing to Cover
Debate By Drinking Free Beer

New York Observer, by Hunter Walker Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 11:56:19 AM Post Reply

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Some of the reporters covering tonight’s presidential debate at Hofstra University in Long Island may be F.W.I.–filing while intoxicated. Anheuser-Busch is apparently a sponsor of tonight’s rhetorical battle and the beer company has set up a “hospitality tent” outside the media filing center where reporters are being treated to free food, brews and souvenir glasses. The beers being served at the debate are apparently Anheuser-Busch’s “small batch” brews. Bartenders inside the tent confirmed they were indeed quite “busy” this evening. Anheuser-Busch, which has apparently been the “official beer” of the the

Jeremy Epstein, First Questioner in
Debate, Says He's No
Longer Undecided

NBC [New York], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/17/2012 11:49:27 AM Post Reply

The Long Island college student who asked President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney the first question in Tuesday night's debate says he is no longer an undecided voter. Jeremy Epstein, a 20-year-old student at Adelphi University, said on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown" Wednesday that he felt both Obama and Romney were "sincere" and "both gave good answers" when he asked about concerns that he would not be able to get a job when he finishes school.

WH Lists Prisoner Re-Entry
Programs as Budget Priority--
or Black Families Only

Cybercast News Service, by Melanie Hunter Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 11:45:34 AM Post Reply

The White House’s fiscal year 2013 budget includes $831 million for Department of Justice prisoner re-entry programs, which are designed to help inmates who have been released from prison find a job and to reduce recidivism rate. Take a look at the Obama White House’s Office of Management and Budget, and you’ll find the program is mentioned under the fact sheet on key issues titled, “An Economy Built to Last and Security for African American Families.” owever, there is no mention of prisoner re-entry programs under any other header – not under the fact sheet on middle class families,

Obama Says "When I Was
President" At Debate

Real Clear Politics, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:40:41 AM Post Reply

President Obama spoke of being president in the past tense during last night's second presidential debate with Mitt Romney: "The way we're going to create jobs here is not just changing our tax code, but also to double our exports. And we are on pace to double our exports, one of the commitments I made when I was president. That's creating tens of thousands of jobs all across the country."

White House Insider:
Second Debate: Obama Won –
But Romney Didn’t Lose

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/17/2012 11:39:45 AM Post Reply

A brief update from a longtime D.C. political operative shows calm in the storm that is the final weeks of a presidential campaign – and regarding last night’s most recent debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the sentiment appears to be NO WORRIES. (Snip)Obama won. Just deal with it and move on. I’d call it a toss up until the moderator stopped the governor’s momentum on Benghazi. You already did something on that yourself. That was about as blatant a moment of media bias smack in the middle of a debate that I can recall.

John Kerry Slams Romney’s
‘Petulant’ Debate Performance

Mediaite, by Alex Alvarez Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 11:37:12 AM Post Reply

Sen. John Kerry appeared on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, where he shared that, after having played the role of Mitt Romney during President Barack Obama‘s debate prep, he’d have to have an “exorcism of Romney out of my being.” He didn’t share any “trade secrets” (as in, whether he strolled around the stage while Obama was speaking), but he did say that he found Romney to have been “petulant” during the debate: It’s time to get really serious about what’s on the table here, and this choice. I don’t… I’m perplexed. I mean, I look at… Mitt Romney, first of

Reporters applaud Obama's
slam on Romney's wealth

Washington Times [DC], by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:25:54 AM Post Reply

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The room set aside for reporters to watch Tuesday night's debate erupted into applause after President Obama ridiculed the size of Mitt Romney's personal wealth. Mr. Romney was trying to make the point that both his and Mr. Obama's investment funds probably include investments in China — something the president has attacked Mr. Romney for. "Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?" Mr. Romney said. "You know, I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours, so it — it doesn't take as long," Mr. Obama retorted.

State Department hasn't ruled
out role of anti-Islam video
in Libya strike, sources say

Fox News, by Justin Fishel Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/17/2012 11:22:11 AM Post Reply

The State Department has not ruled out the possibility that the deadly terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were motivated by an anti-Islamic video, despite a growing chorus of criticism over the Obama administration's initial claims that the violence was a "spontaneous" outgrowth of a protest over the video. The assault on the consulate that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans occurred on Sept. 11, the anniversary of the terrorists attacks in the U.S., and authorities now suspect it was carried out by extremists with ties to Al Qaeda.

Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to
Benefit Jihadists in Syria

New York Times, by David E. Sanger Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/17/2012 11:20:33 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats. That conclusion, of which President Obama and other senior officials are aware from classified assessments of the Syrian conflict that has now claimed more than 25,000 lives, casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy of minimal

Bizarre Coincidence:
Democrats Get More Time
in All Three Debates

National Review Online, by Katrina Trinko Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/17/2012 11:08:32 AM Post Reply

If you want more time to get your message out in debates, it’s good to be a Democrat. According to the CNN debate clock, President Obama spoke at greater length than Mitt Romney during both debates, as did Vice President Biden during his debate with Paul Ryan. In the first debate, Obama spoke for 3 minutes, 14 seconds more than Romney – which means he got 8 percent more talking time than Romney. In last night’s debate, Obama spoke for 4 minutes and 18 seconds longer than Romney, giving him 11 percent more talking time. Obama talked for 52 percent

'Binders Full of Women'
vs. White House Women
Treated Like 'Meat'

Breitbart News, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:07:25 AM Post Reply

As a longtime watcher of politics for going on thirty years, I've seen both parties and the corrupt media grab hold of some inane nonsense in my time, but this "binders full of women" meme is so inane I actually had to ask around to understand what the corrupt media and the left was on about and why the execrable Carol Costello was labeling it the "Binder Blunder" on CNN. I'm still not sure I understand it, but here's the transcript from the debate: MS. CROWLEY: Governor Romney, pay equity for women.

Once Biden, Twice Barack

American Thinker, by William L. Gensert Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/17/2012 11:02:14 AM Post Reply

Let's face it, how can you improve on perfection? And make no mistake, Romney's shellacking of Barack the King in the first debate was perfection. Obama minions in the press couldn't spin abysmal failure -- maybe that would have been possible for moderate failure, but with the spectacularly horrible performance the President turned in on October 3rd, it was impossible. In the end, almost the only person in America who thought Obama won was Barack Obama -- and that in itself says a lot.(snip) The questions in this debate were different -- pay equity, gun control

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