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GOP pounces after news
of CIA cable on Libya raid

Associated Press, by Kimberly Dozier Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 8:42:24 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama's administration could have known early on that militants, not angry protesters, launched the attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya. Within 24 hours of the deadly attack, the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington that there were eyewitness reports that the attack was carried out by militants, officials told The Associated Press. But for days, the Obama administration blamed it on an out-of-control demonstration over an American-made video ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee,

3 bank failures bring US
2012 total to 46

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 8:38:43 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized GulfSouth Private Bank and First East Side Savings Bank, both in Florida. Regulators also shuttered Excel Bank in Missouri. Regulators arranged for lenders to assume the deposits and purchase essentially all the assets of each of the failed banks. Even so, the three bank failures are expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $86.1 million.

Why Roger Ailes
Won't Walk Away

Daily Beast, by Howard Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 8:37:31 PM Post Reply

A couple of years ago, Roger Ailes would muse from time to time that maybe he would hang it up after the 2012 election and slip gracefully into retirement. Not many people believed him. And with good reason, as it turned out. The Fox News chairman has just signed a new, four-year deal with News Corp., as I reported exclusively on Twitter (hey, tweets are like AP dispatches these days). Those who can’t stand him or Fox will still have Ailes to kick around, at least through 2016. For starters, Ailes, 72, isn’t the retiring type.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wins
right to 'beauty sleep' as defense
trial gets a global broadcast

Daily Mail [UK], by John Clarke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 8:04:45 PM Post Reply

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged terrorist mastermind, complained Sunday to the judge in his death penalty trial that he's not getting enough sleep and he's having trouble concentrating. The accused terrorist has asked he be given a daily court break and that guards not disturb him before 6 am. Amazingly, the judge awarded Mohammed both requests. Mohammed claimed his so-called sleep deprivation was triggering flashbacks to his torture by the CIA. He also said he’s exhausted from the time spent on strip searches, prayer and personal hygiene. 'For Mr. Mohammad, the worst thing about sleep

New Obama ad labels
Romney 'not one of us'

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/19/2012 7:45:55 PM Post Reply

A new commercial from the Obama campaign targeting Ohio slams Mitt Romney for not having supported the auto bailout and declared the Republican Presidential nominee as "not one of us," as the president looks to shore up support in the crucial battleground state. The commercial features autoworkers speaking in praise of the auto bailout, and slams Romney for an editorial he penned in 2008 in which he advocates allowing the auto industry to go bankrupt.

Dan Rather Mocks Republicans
for 'Whining About the
Referee' Candy Crowley

NewsBusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/19/2012 7:38:37 PM Post Reply

Disgraced former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather showed up on MSNBC and CNN this week to stick up for women who stood and mangled the truth with Obama. On MSNBC, he defended Candy Crowley’s pro-Obama moderating and supported Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice on Benghazi-gate on CNN. On Wednesday’s Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow typically humored Old Dan unleashing his Ratherisms (“this race has been as hot as a burning stump”), and he slammed Republicans for “whining” about Crowley, which showed they believed they had lost the debate:

Democratic candidate tells male
debate moderator he is 'prettier
than' Candy Crowley

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/19/2012 7:34:01 PM Post Reply

A Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate joked with the male moderator of a televised debate that he was 'prettier' than Candy Crowley, the CNN who refereed this week's presidential debate. After an intense exchange during Thursday’s Senate debate in Arizona, moderator Brahm Resnik quipped: 'Now I know how Candy Crowley felt, Jeez..' Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon General, responded to the reference to Crowley's difficulties officiating between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney by saying: 'You’re prettier than her.' Resnik filled the awkward silence by laughing and saying

Confused by all the polls?
Pollsters explain the variation

CBS News, by Stephanie Condon Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 7:14:18 PM Post Reply

As recently as two weeks ago, political prognosticators were looking at polls and declaring, "If Romney would have to pull off a miracle to close the gap in national polling, he has no shot at matching the president in the electoral college." This week, with Gallup polling showing Mitt Romney with a strong national lead over President Obama, some conservatives are pointing to the Republican candidate's likely victory. The latest polls out of Wisconsin and Iowa, meanwhile, show Mr. Obama with a modest but clear lead in the two battleground states. For what it's worth,

Fox News Poll: Support
for Obama Dips in Ohio

Fox News, by Dana Blanton Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 6:58:26 PM Post Reply

Despite a dip in support, Barack Obama retains a narrow 46-43 percent edge over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the Buckeye state. That’s according to a Fox News poll of Ohio likely voters released Friday. Obama topped Romney by seven percentage points in Ohio a month ago (49-42 percent). The president has lost ground among independents (down 10 points from September), women (down eight points) and voters under age 35 (down six points). Half of Ohio voters are “extremely” interested in the election. Among these most interested voters, Romney is ahead by 10 percentage

Obama Doctrine: The Rap Sheet So Far ...

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 6:53:23 PM Post Reply

For the vast majority of this presidential election cycle, voters’ focus has been on domestic policy. But on Monday night, President Obama will be on the hot seat over his foreign policy. Obama leads Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on foreign policy issues by a narrow margin; over the past several months, Romney has closed the gap on President Obama. (Snip) In the Middle East, President Obama has condemned vast swaths of the Muslim world to generations of Islamist oppression; what he called the Arab Spring was always an Islamist Uprising. After the storming of our embassy in

'White people are less likely to be gay':
Poll reveals African-American
community has highest percentage
of 'LGBT' adults in U.S.

Daily Mail [UK], by Emily Allen Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 6:44:50 PM Post Reply

White people are less likely to be gay, according to what could be the largest ever study to calculate America's lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender population (LGBT). (Snip) Demographer Gary Gates, of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, said: 'Contemporary media often think of LGBT people as disproportionately white, male, urban and pretty wealthy. 'But this data reveals that, relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of non-white people and clearly is not overly wealthy.'

No phony video tale this time:
Obama White House quickly
labels Beirut bomb terrorist

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/19/2012 6:37:52 PM Post Reply

Beirut, Lebanon - A huge car bomb explosion in Beirut on Friday killed a top Lebanese security official whose investigations implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri seven years ago. The rush-hour bomb in the center of the Lebanese capital killed eight people and wounded about 80 others, heightening fears that Syria's war is spilling over into Lebanon. Among the dead was Wissam al-Hassan, the head of a Lebanese intelligence agency who had also uncovered a recent bomb plot that led to the arrest of a pro-Syrian Lebanese politician,

Mobile phones can cause
brain tumours, court rules.

Telegraph [UK], by Richard Alleyne Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 6:35:29 PM Post Reply

A landmark court case has ruled there is a link between using a mobile phone and brain tumours, paving the way for a flood of legal actions. Innocente Marcolini, 60, an Italian businessman, fell ill after using a handset at work for up to six hours every day for 12 years. Now Italy's Supreme Court in Rome has blamed his phone saying there is a "causal link" between his illness and phone use, the Sun has reported. (Snip) British scientists have claimed there is insufficient evidence to prove any link to mobiles.

Vostok’s microbes elusive in first
measurements of surface water

Nature, by Brian Owens Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 6:28:52 PM Post Reply

A first analysis of the ice that froze onto the drillbit used in last February’s landmark drilling to a pristine Antarctic lake shows no native microbes came up with the lake water, according to Sergey Bulat of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (Russia). The very uppermost layer of Lake Vostok appears to be “lifeless” so far, says Bulat, but that doesn’t mean the rest of it is. (Snip) Bulat and his colleagues counted the microbes present in the ice sample and checked their genetic makeup to figure out the phylotypes. They counted fewer than 10 microbes/ml — about the same magnitude

Madonna Angers Denver Audience By
Pretending To Shoot Guns Into Crowd

KCNC-TV [Denver, CO]*, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/19/2012 5:55:17 PM Post Reply

Denver — Some Colorado fans are upset after music superstar Madonna used guns during a performance. Madonna started her show Thursday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver with a gun scene, which she has used in previous performances. She was also accused of being more than three hours late to the show. People took to social media to complain about how they were offended she used guns and violence as part of her show in light of recent events in the state that included a mass shooting at a theater during a Batman movie on July 20 that left 12 people dead.

Democrats find their issue,
in a binder - Thread Closed

Orange County Register [CA], by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: supersid- 10/19/2012 5:28:26 PM Post Reply

So the other morning a reader emails me a picture of a handful of women demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Ohio Republican Party – in what we expert analysts round about this point in the quadrennial election cycle like to call the critical battleground of the Buckeye State. The women each wore two giant pieces of cardboard, front and back. Ah, I thought, a timely protest. These activists understand that, with Obama’s flatline economy drifting inexorably to a $20 trillion federal debt, we’ll soon be living in cardboard shacks

Rev Billy Graham buys
election ads, urges voting

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 5:15:47 PM Post Reply

"Vote for biblical values this November 6." That's the message from one of the most famous pastors in the U-S. In a full-page ad in major news publications, the Reverend Billy Graham is calling on voters to cast a ballot for their faith. The 93-year-old evangelical preacher met Republican Mitt Romney for the first time last week at his home in North Carolina. But he has not endorsed any candidate for president. Instead, Graham's spokesman says the ads challenge Americans on how to vote, not who to vote for.

It's Past Time to
Stop Blaming Bush

American.com, by Steve Conover Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/19/2012 5:15:18 PM Post Reply

The Obama campaign blames today’s economic doldrums on past Bush policies. But this rhetoric doesn’t square with the record. With the presidential campaign turning white hot, the decade-old “Bush tax cuts” are attracting more blame than ever for the post-Bush economy. Because one facet of Romney’s tax reform proposal is a reduction in all income tax rates, the Obama campaign has been equating it with the “failed policies of the past” (most notably the Bush tax cuts), which allegedly created the mess we’re in.

Herman Cain: ‘Stupid people
are ruining America’

Philadelphia Daily News, by Chris Brennan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 5:11:42 PM Post Reply

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain wants employers to advise their employees about how to vote in the Nov. 6 general election. Cain, speaking to about 30 people at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia Friday as part of his 30-day "Truth Tour," said employers must educate their workers about the presidential candidates' public policy proposals. "Because one of the reasons we had to do this truth tour is that stupid people are ruining America," Cain declared. "Some of them don't know they're stupid. But they are ruining America."

Fidel Castro in 'vegetative
state' after stroke: doctor

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 4:57:38 PM Post Reply

HAVANA — The rumor mill surrounding the health of Fidel Castro churned anew on Friday, despite a letter from the aging Cuban revolutionary published by state media and denials by relatives at home and in the United States that he is on death's door. Social media sites and some news organizations have reported allegations by a Venezuelan doctor that Castro, 86, had suffered a massive stroke, was in a vegetative state, and had only weeks to live, though the same doctor, Jose Rafael Marquina, has made some claims before that have not panned out.

Woman, 80, arrested after tearing
down LaRouche group's
'Obama-Hitler' sign

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 4:48:43 PM Post Reply

Nancy Lack is old enough to remember the rise and fall of Hitler, so when she saw a sign in her Connecticut neighborhood that attempted to liken President Obama to the Nazi dictator, she took action. Lack, who is 80, saw the sign portraying Obama with Hitler's trademark toothbrush mustache on a table set up by supporters of fringe presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche in downtown Hebron. She slammed on her brakes, spryly jumped out of her car and strode toward the display, where she tore down the offensive sign and snatched another two posters off the table. “I just got

Joaquin Phoenix Says
Academy Awards ‘Stupid’

ABC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 4:45:37 PM Post Reply

Joaquin Phoenix is apparently not a fan of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and despite being twice nominated for an Oscar, the actor who is hotly tipped for a nod for “The Master” told Interview magazine he believes the annual awards ceremony is an exercise in self-congratulation. “I think it’s total, utter bulls***, and I don’t want to be a part of it. I don’t believe in it,” he said. “It’s a carrot, but it’s the worst-tasting carrot I’ve ever tasted in my whole life. I don’t want this carrot. It’s totally subjective. Pitting people against each

Dow closes down 200 points
on worries about earnings

NBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 4:39:26 PM Post Reply

Poor corporate earnings reports are pounding the stock market in a sour end to an otherwise strong week. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points for its worst day in four months. Disappointing results from three giants of the Dow — Microsoft, General Electric and McDonald's — were to blame. The broader market fell, too. The Dow sank 205 points, or 1.5 percent, to close at 13,344 Friday. (Snip) The declines were broad. Four stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was relatively heavy at 3.8 billion shares.

Fox Panel Battles Over
Whether The View Would’ve
Treated Michelle Obama
Same As Ann Romney

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 4:37:42 PM Post Reply

During Fox News’ America Live this afternoon, Megyn Kelly‘s panel debated whether The View treated Ann Romney unfairly by asking aggressive questions, compared to the show’s “kid glove” treatment of First Lady Michelle Obama. Kelly began the segment by playing snippets from Ann Romney’s interview on the talk show in which the GOP candidate’s wife immediately faced tough questions about stem-cell research, abortion, and Mormonism. Meanwhile, President Obama and his wife were initially asked about their wedding anniversary. “I don’t think it’s that surprising that a Republican would

Obama racks up newspaper endorsements

The Hill [Washington DC], by Daniel Strauss Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 4:30:41 PM Post Reply

A number of major regional newspapers endorsed a presidential candidate on Friday, with most of the endorsements going to President Obama.The Denver Post, The Tampa Bay Times and The Salt Lake Tribune all endorsed him, same as they did in 2008. But The Orlando Sentinel broke from its 2008 endorsement of Obama and picked Mitt Romney for president this time. The most surprising was the Tribune's endorsement of Obama, given Romney's ties to Utah and its heavily-Mormon population.

Lee Iacocca endorses
Romney for president

Human Events, by John Gizzi Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 4:27:20 PM Post Reply

After a lifetime of voting for and supporting Democrats — and even declining appointment to the U.S. Senate from a Democratic governor — Lee Iacocca Thursday endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president. The blessings of the onetime Chrysler chairman are expected to help Romney in two highly competitive states: Pennsylvania, where the 88-year-old Iacocca was born and raised and is still widely respected, and in Michigan, where Iacocca rose to become a major figure in the auto industry and won international praise for cobbling together the government-backed loans that saved Chrysler in 1980. Iacocca, who now lives in California,

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