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‘Tattooed Guy’ Was
Pivotal in Armstrong Case

New York Times, by Ian Lovett Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/18/2012 5:29:42 AM Post Reply

UPLAND, Calif. — The long road to Lance Armstrong’s downfall began here, across the world from the French Alps where he climbed to the pinnacle of cycling, at a strip-mall tattoo parlor in the foothills east of Los Angeles. Covered in ink from his legs to his neck, Kayle Leogrande, the owner of this shop, competed full time as a professional cyclist for only a couple of years. He met Armstrong only once, he said, at a 2005 race in Ojai, Calif. “I talked to him briefly after the race,” Leogrande, now 35, said. “I’m sure he thought,

The Union Racket

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill McMorris Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2012 5:24:52 AM Post Reply

The union that launched the career of Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard is being accused of strong-arming a group of nursing homes to increase membership rolls. HealthBridge and CareOne, two nursing home companies, are suing the New England Health Care Employees Union (Service Employees International Union Chapter 1199 New England), accusing the labor leaders of using political threats and dangerous workplace sabotage to force several non-union shops into their ranks. The explosive charges stem from a July labor walkout in which identification badges were removed from elderly patients’ doors, including from some who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s,

Is Romney a Safer
Choice for Women?

National Review Online, by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2012 5:19:33 AM Post Reply

An interesting story from last winter: An e-mail friend, a staunch Republican who lives in an affluent suburb far from Washington, was watching one of the Republican debates with his wife, a staunch Democrat. He was surprised by her response to Mitt Romney. “He’s a grown-up. He’s someone who is reliable,” he told me she said. “People will feel safe if he is in charge.” I’ve been thinking about that e-mail in the wake of the first presidential debate on October 3 and the vice-presidential debate last week.

Bam’s Benghazi bull: case closed

New York Post, by Michael A. Walsh Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2012 5:11:46 AM Post Reply

Between President Obama and CNN’s Candy Crowley, Tuesday night’s debate seemed to “confirm” a blatant, provable falsehood — that Obama has always called the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Libya last month an act of terrorism. Please. Let’s review: After a brief statement deploring the loss of life on Sept. 12, Obama and his flunkies (Press Secretary Jay Carney, UN Ambassador Susan Rice) put on a prolonged full-court press to convince the American people that an obscure You Tube video, “Innocence of Muslims” —

Addicted to Race

Weekly Standard, by Noemie Emery Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2012 5:07:55 AM Post Reply

Slowly but surely, the toxin of bias is being leached out of American culture, if incrementally and by degrees. A Catholic was elected president in 1960, and since then Catholic nominees and candidates have become commonplace. A Jew was nominated in 2000 for vice president, and was a help to his ticket. In 2004 and 2008 respectively, Joe Lieberman and Rudy Giuliani ran for president, and their names and religions did not become issues. The country’s first black president was elected four years ago by a fairly large margin. This year, a black woman and a Hispanic

Romney won the second debate

Fox News, by Dick Morris Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2012 5:03:36 AM Post Reply

By scoring big on the economy, gas prices, and Libya, Romney continued his victorious string of debate wins. He looked more presidential than Obama did and showed himself to be an articulate, capable, attractive, compassionate leader with sound ideas. Obama came over as boorish and Biden-esque. He did not learn from his Vice President's mistakes. When a president gets into a bar room brawl, he loses his dignity and his aura, key assets for an incumbent. Romney was polite but firm. Obama seemed quarrelsome, frustrated, nasty, and cranky. But the key reason for the Romney win was substantive:

The Four Ls and Four States: What's
Next in the Obama-Romney Duel

National Journal, by Major Garrett Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2012 4:58:29 AM Post Reply

From now until the third and final presidential debate, and quite probably even after that, President Obama and Mitt Romney will fight on the ground, over the airwaves, and in social media over the four Ls and four swing states. Each of the Ls is a symbol of a larger issue. They are, in no particular order: Libya, Ledbetter, Lying, and Lame. The four swing states are Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada (more on them in minute). 1. Libya is about presidential leadership, accountability, the U.S. approach to perils and possibilities of the so-called Arab Spring

Mack, Nelson take gloves off in Senate debate

Sun Sentinel, by Brittany Wallman Original Article

Posted By: charliecoconut- 10/18/2012 2:56:06 AM Post Reply

Before their first and only debate in Florida's U.S. Senate race, Connie and Bill Nelson shook hands Wednesday night. And then it got ugly. U.S. Rep. Mack, the Republican challenger from Fort Myers, ripped Democratic Sen. Nelson with the same accusations repeatedly – his voting for tax hikes 150 times, his sticking cows on family land to get out of paying property taxes, his gutting of Medicare to pay for Obamacare Trouble was, Nelson said, none of it was true.

CNN Explains

Powerline, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/18/2012 2:00:57 AM Post Reply

TMZ says it has obtained an email from CNN’s Managing Editor, Mark Whitaker, to CNN personnel. The email sets out talking points in response to criticism of Candy Crowley’s performance as a debate moderator last night. It is pretty funny; this is the complete email, according to TMZ: Let’s start with a big round of applause for Candy Crowley for a superb job under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. She and her team had to select and sequence questions in a matter of hours, and then she had to deal with the tricky format, the nervous questioners,

Candy Crowley Plays
Biggest Loser with Obama

American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke Original Article

Posted By: Up2Here- 10/18/2012 12:56:27 AM Post Reply

You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias in debate moderation, Candy Crowley would have minded her p's and q's in last night's presidential debate.(Snip) Enter Crowley's Passion. She snuck into the ring, without Obama even tagging her, and hit Romney from behind with a chair while the ref, Crowley's Brain, was looking the other way. And, as was established later, she was wrong. It was, as Thomas Sowell wrote recently, a display of what Obama himself is guilty of: confident ignorance. Also striking, however,

Is It Harmful to Release Gang Maps?

Atlantic Monthly, by Eric Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: Up2Here- 10/18/2012 12:43:09 AM Post Reply

Chicago police commissioner Garry McCarthy drew heavy criticism this summer when crime statistics showed, in mid-June, that homicides were up 38 percent over the previous year. When the rise in murders first became noticeable, back in March, McCarthy announced the city would conduct a so-called "gang audit" to help police get a handle on the problem. The audit found that Chicago now has some 625 gang factions — up from 500 about a decade ago, according to Chicago magazine. In the aftermath of the audit WBEZ took steps to compile an interactive map of gang territory throughout the city.

Care One, HealthBridge nursing homes
accuse SEIU affiliates of extortion
in RICO lawsuit

Courier News [Somerville, NJ], by Sergio Bichao Original Article

Posted By: Up2Here- 10/18/2012 12:24:35 AM Post Reply

Two of the largest health care labor unions are engaged in racketeering and endangering the lives of elderly residents, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a chain of nursing homes in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Instead of bargaining, the Fort Lee-based Care One and HealthBridge companies say that two local affiliates of the Service Employees International Union are resorting to criminal activities, defamation and sabotage to get contracts approved and workers organized. The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages,

Obama's 'war on women'
canard is not fooling women

Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2012 12:09:34 AM Post Reply

When President Obama speaks about women's issues, it's a safe bet he's telling tall tales. When Democrats talk of a "war on women," they are usually waging a war on facts. And women, it seems, aren't fooled. (Snip) But wielding an Obamacare provision on "women's preventive care," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius imposed a new rule requiring almost all employers to cover every penny of contraception, sterilization and morning-after pills. That means if you offer health insurance that doesn't cover sterilization, you're breaking the law. If you offer health insurance that covers all contraception, but requires a $5-a-month

Obama Debate Coach Named Mao
as Favorite Political Philosopher

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 11:57:17 PM Post Reply

Everybody realizes at this point that one of President Barack Obama’s debate coaches is 2004 losing presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). But it’s been largely overlooked that another one of his debate coaches is Anita Dunn. You may remember Anita Dunn. She’s the former White House staffer who said this to a group of high schoolers in June 2009: The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa -- not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple

Man arrested in purported plot to
bomb New York Federal Reserve

Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/17/2012 11:28:38 PM Post Reply

A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man, who the FBI said came to the United States on a student visa this year to conduct a terrorist attack, was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound car bomb outside the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Quazi Mohammad Reswanul Ahsan Nafis, of Queens, was arrested by members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force after he assembled what he thought was the bomb inside a van in a New York City warehouse, parked it next to the Federal Reserve and tried to detonate it with a cellphone

‘The View’ Co-Hosts Freak
Out When Hasselbeck
Suggests Hollywood Is For Obama

Newsbusters, by Jeffrey Meyer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:24:43 PM Post Reply

The View has a long reputation for its liberal slant, but when one of its own calls out the liberal bias among celebrities, hysteria ensues. Such was the case on Wednesday when the lone conservative Elizabeth Hasselbeck spoke out against the overwhelming liberal presence that dominates Hollywood. [See video below break. MP3 audio here.]The segment initially focused on whether or not celebrities should be publicly endorsing candidates, which for the most part was a fairly tame discussion. Well, it was, until Hasslbeck responded to comments made by Whoopi Goldberg, who said:

Obama Mocks Romney in
Iowa Over 'Binders'

ABC News, by Gregory J. Krieg Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:19:47 PM Post Reply

President Obama, Mitt Romney, and their surrogates were back on the road today, fanning out across battleground states as the campaigns hustled to magnify and manage perceptions about Tuesday night's bruising debate in New York. Obama, who delivered to his base the kind of energetic and aggressive performance they had been clamoring for since Romney had the run of the candidates' first meeting, flew into Iowa for an afternoon rally before heading for the Buckeye state to speak with supporters at Ohio University in Athens. It was the president's 31st trip to Ohio since he took office.

Stick-it-to-rich tax plan
may backfire on France

Washington Times, by Maya Vidon-White Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/17/2012 11:14:20 PM Post Reply

PARIS — France’s Socialist government is proposing a slew of taxes — on art, on businesses, on the rich — that are drawing criticism for stifling entrepreneurship and scaring off the wealthy. “Unfortunately, I think the politics we are leading in France will turn out to be catastrophic for the economy, which is already in bad shape,” said French economist Marc Touati, author of “When the Eurozone Explodes.” “This is a serious mistake, something you learn in [Economy 101] — it will aggravate the recession and therefore shrink the tax base.” Led by President Francois Hollande, the French government

Group of white farmers who had
their land seized in Zimbabwe
plead with William Hague not
to lift sanctions on Robert Mugabe

Independent [UK], by Kim Sengupta Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 11:09:12 PM Post Reply

A group of farmers who had their land seized in Zimbabwe are launching a campaign today to protest against a proposed lifting of sanctions against Robert Mugabe’s regime by the European Union. The 11 farmers and their families have won successive court cases over the takeover including one through the legal channels of the World Bank and another presided over by an officially sanctioned judge in Harare. They were awarded compensations totalling £ 17.5 million, but no money has been forthcoming for over three years and now there is fear that the Zimbabwe authorities will have no incentive left to

Obama yet to confirm
‘terrorist’ act in Libya

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 11:06:27 PM Post Reply

Despite numerous public events including a speech at the United Nations and two presidential debates, President Obama still hasn’t publicly and plainly acknowledged to Americans that terrorists killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya on Sept. 11. (Snip) White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that the president believed it was a terrorist attack even though, at the time, intelligence officials were telling him that the attack appeared to stem from protests of the video. He also said that whether it was a spontaneous protest or an organized attack, it should be considered a

Government: Violent crimes
rose 18 percent in 2011

Associated Press, by Pete Yost Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/17/2012 11:05:37 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18 percent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade. But academic experts said the new government data fall short of signaling a reversal of the long decline in crime. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the increase in the number of violent crimes was the result of an upward swing in simple assaults, which rose 22 percent, from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million last year. The incidence of rape, sexual assault and robbery remained largely unchanged,

Officials: Obama ready to veto
a bill blocking ‘fiscal cliff’ without
tax hike for rich

Washington Post, by Lori Montgomery Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/17/2012 11:04:34 PM Post Reply

President Obama is prepared to veto legislation to block year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, collectively known as the “fiscal cliff,” unless Republicans bow to his demand to raise tax rates for the wealthy, administration officials said. Freed from the political and economic constraints that have tied his hands in the past, Obama is ready to play hardball with Republicans, who have so far successfully resisted a deal to tame the debt that includes higher taxes, Obama’s allies say. In the days after the November election, the tables will be turned: Taxes

Kofi Annan: To bring peace, you
have to deal with terrorists

Times of Israel [Jerusalem], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 10:55:29 PM Post Reply

London - It seems ironic today that when David Ben-Gurion read out Israel’s Declaration of Independence in May 1948, the text mentioned the United Nations seven times. In effect, the organization had given Israel its international birth certificate half a year earlier, when it passed Resolution 181, which declared the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. (Snip) When Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006, the US and the EU — the Quartet’s major funders — said they would not work with the organization, which both classify as a terrorist group. Annan believes this was a mistake

The Hidden Price of Food from China

Spiegel [Hamburg, Germany], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 10:46:56 PM Post Reply

In recent years, China has become a major food supplier to Europe. But the low-cost goods are grown in an environment rife with pesticides and antibiotics, disproportionately cited for contamination and subject to an inspection regime full of holes. A recent norovirus outbreak in Germany has only heightened worries. Qufu, the city in China's southwestern Shandong Province where Confucius was born, isn't exactly an attractive place. (Snip) China, which already sews together our clothes, assembles our smartphones and makes our children's toys, is now becoming an important food supplier for Germany.

Romney Surges in Wisconsin,
Tied with Obama

Breitbart's Big Government, by MIke Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 10:36:43 PM Post Reply

The last Marquette University poll of Wisconsin was conducted the last week of September, prior to the first presidential debate. It found Obama with a comfortable 11-point lead among likely voters, 53-42. Among the broader universe of registered voters, Obama enjoyed a 14-point lead over Romney, 54-40. (Snip) In the University's latest poll of Wisconsin, released this afternoon, Obama's comfortable lead has been wiped out. His headline support dropped four points and Romney's support surged upward six points. The race is essentially tied, with Obama getting support from 49% of likely voters to Romney's 48%.

Crowley Let Obama Have
Last Word 8 of 11 Times

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2012 10:32:28 PM Post Reply

What are the odds for getting the last word in a debate with Barack Obama? If the moderator is Obama-sycophant Candy Crowley, the odds are 8 to 3 against you. That’s what happened to Mitt Romney in the second presidential debate. Of the eleven questions Crowley allowed to be asked, eight times Obama got the last word, while Crowley deigned to give Romney only three. Not only did Obama receive three more minutes to speak, he was also given the gift of ending the discussion. (Snip) The only reason the number favors Obama 8 to 3 and not 9 to

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