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Libya Singles Out Islamist as
a Commander in Consulate
Attack, Libyans Say

New York Times, by David D. Kirkpatrick Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/17/2012 2:34:57 PM Post Reply

CAIRO — Libyan authorities have singled out Ahmed Abu Khattala, a leader of the Benghazi-based Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, as a commander in the attack that killed the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, last month, Libyans involved in the investigation said on Wednesday. Witnesses at the scene of the attack on the American Mission in Benghazi have said they saw Mr. Abu Khattala leading the assault, and his personal involvement is the latest link between the attack and his brigade, Ansar al-Sharia, a puritanical militant group that wants to advance Islamic law in Libya.

Obama's missed debate opportunities
against Romney may cost him

Christian Science Monitor, by Jeremy Mayer Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:33:02 PM Post Reply

President Obama had a tough assignment for Tuesday night’s presidential debate. He had to repair the self-inflicted damage he did with his pathetic performance in the first debate, energize the Democratic base with aggressive attacks on Mitt Romney and a sharp defense of his record, but not alienate the sliver of undecided voters in swing states who will decide the presidency. And he had to do this in a town hall format, where direct attack on your opponent is a little more challenging. By contrast, all Mr. Romney had to do was avoid gaffes and keep up his reasoned critique

Abbott lays off 550

Chicago Tribune, by Peter Frost Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/17/2012 2:32:33 PM Post Reply

Abbott Laboratories on Wednesday laid off 550 workers across several of its business units and said it plans to cut "several hundred" additional workers in 2013. The North Chicago-based company said the job cuts, 100 of which were in Chicagoland, affect workers in its nutrition, medical devices, established pharmaceuticals and diagnostics units. None were in the company's proprietary pharmaceutical division, which will be spun off Jan. 1 as an independent company called AbbVie, a spokesman said. Abbott revealed the cuts in its third-quarter earnings release. The company took a $478 million pre-tax

Libya rebels 'executed' Gaddafi
loyalists, says rights group (Video)

Global Post [Boston], by Priyanka Boghani Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:29:17 PM Post Reply

Libyan rebels appeared to have "summarily executed" Gaddafi loyalists when they overran the dictator's hometown last year, said Human Rights Watch. The report by the rights group, released Wednesday, claimed that some of the rebels in the militias that fought to ouster Muammar Gaddafi committed war crimes, according to the Associated Press. (Snip) The press release from HRW said the report "presents evidence that Misrata-based militias captured and disarmed members of the Gaddafi convoy and, after bringing them under their total control, subjected them to brutal beatings.""The evidence suggests that opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of

Daily multivitamin pill can lower risk
of cancer, says first study of its kind

Daily Mail [UK], by Jenny Hope Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:26:25 PM Post Reply

Taking a daily multivitamin pill can lower the risk of cancer, says the first study of its kind. Regular use for more than 10 years cuts the chances of men developing the disease by eight per cent – a modest but worthwhile reduction, claim researchers. They cannot identify a single vitamin or combination that works, but say the benefit comes from a broad combination of low dose vitamins. The US study only involved men so the same effect cannot be assumed for women, but experts believe it is likely to be similar. Almost 15,000 doctors took part in the study

Teacher in Egypt cut schoolgirls’
hair to punish them
for not wearing headscarf

Associated Press, by Haggag Salama Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:23:02 PM Post Reply

Luxor, Egypt - A teacher in southern Egypt punished two 12-year-old schoolgirls for not wearing the Muslim headscarf by cutting their hair, the father of one girl said Wednesday, in an incident that stokes concerns over personal rights following the rise of Islamist political movements. The governor of Luxor province where the incident occurred called the teacher’s actions “shameful” and said she had been transferred to another school. But rights groups say that some Islamic conservatives have been emboldened by the success of groups like Muslim Brotherhood and the ultraconservative Salafi trend in parliamentary and presidential elections and have been

UN agency funded with Saudi money
wants to edit worldwide textbooks

Fox News, by Ben Evansky Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:19:28 PM Post Reply

The UN agency that promotes education wants a say in how future textbooks are written, and Saudi Arabia -- a nation whose own school books have been criticized for promoting hatred of Christians and Jews -- is helping to bankroll the effort. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is currently working with member states to revise its strategy for the publication of textbooks and learning materials. According to UNESCO's website, experts from 21 countries met in Paris last month at a meeting financed by a $29,000 Saudi donation and focused in part on "ways to ensure that

President brings his
A-game, still fails

New York Daily News, by Derek Hunter Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:16:17 PM Post Reply

Last night’s debate was another huge victory for Mitt Romney. Not because he landed any knock-out blows but because President Obama failed to land any solid punches. When a candidate has momentum and he doesn’t lose, then he wins. The President was more energetic than he was in the first debate, but he was still forced to deal with the reality of his failed record. (Snip) That set the tone for the night – Romney laying out a vision for the next four years and the President’s reminding voters of his failures of the past four.

Not a Game Changer

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/17/2012 2:15:09 PM Post Reply

Too bad for President Obama that he saved his aggressive performance for his second debate with Mitt Romney. If he had done as well in the first debate, the presidential race might look different today.But it doesn’t. That Obama was stronger last night doesn’t mitigate the dire effects of the first nationally televised clash with Romney on Oct. 3. It’s the first debate that matters most. It usually has the biggest audience. It sets the stage for the subsequent debates and indeed for the rest of the campaign.

Michelle Obama: 'On Nov. 7
We're Going to Party Hard'

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2012 2:13:49 PM Post Reply

At a fundraiser today in New York, First Lady Michelle Obama expressed confidence in her husband's chances for reelection. "On Nov. 7 we're going to party hard," she said. Election Day this year is November 6. From the pool report: "After hearing my husband talk about his values and his vision at the debate last night, I'm pretty fired up," she said. "Let me tell I am so glad last night was such an awesome, awesome event," she said.

Obama touts fair pay for women,
despite records showing women
paid less in his own White House
[Video]

Daily Caller, by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 2:12:40 PM Post Reply

At Tuesday’s Hofstra University presidential debate, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney duked it out over pay equity for women, just as they have fought over female votes in the national polls. While Obama made the empathetic case for his single mother and his belief in equal pay — pointing out that the first bill he signed as president was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act — he did not address reports this year that demonstrated that his own White House pays women less than men.
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Can Romney Expand the Map?

Real Clear Politics, by Dick Morris Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/17/2012 2:08:56 PM Post Reply

Originally, the Romney and Obama campaigns chose the swing states on which they should focus by comparing election results from previous years and figuring out which were most likely or least likely to vote for each candidate. The result was a consensus that North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada and Colorado were the most likely to swing one way or the other. As a result of this analysis, the two campaigns have dumped an unbelievable amount of money into advertising in these “battleground” states and have largely ignored the rest of the country.

Interrupted by the moderator, denied
time to respond: the debate was hard
on Mitt. But he was right about Libya

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/17/2012 2:08:08 PM Post Reply

The post-debate narrative is kinder to Romney than I expected. I agree with Jonah Goldberg that the Prez won on points, but he's still no Bill Clinton (Janet Daley’s right--he was aggressive where he should have been empathetic). Moreover, some polls show that Romney still enjoys a healthy lead among viewers when it comes to trust on the economic issues. And there’s a growing sense that the debate wasn’t entirely fair. Consider the questions. Many were on subjects that came from a very liberal perspective--we need gender balance in the workplace, assault weapons kill, illegal immigrants deserve
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Federal jobs filled
despite hiring freeze

Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/17/2012 2:02:56 PM Post Reply

The General Services Administration is advertising to fill more than a dozen jobs and has approved hiring more than 40 employees since July, when the agency’s top official announced a “targeted hiring freeze” in the wake of ongoing spending scandals. The agency disclosed the recent hires after The Washington Times raised questions this week about an online, internal chat in which a GSA official noted that there was “no hard hiring freeze” and the agency continued filling critical positions. Indeed, more than a dozen GSA jobs were posted on a federal government hiring website as of Tuesday.

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

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