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If Obama Loses, Will
Democrats Blame Racism?

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 9:28:29 PM Post Reply

With just weeks left before Americans head to the polls, President Barack Obama maintains a better than even chance to retain the presidency. Since the first presidential debate, however, Mitt Romney has surged in the polls. Pundits have gone from considering Obama a prohibitive favorite, to a narrow favorite, to one of only a handful of presidents who won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote in the space of two weeks. That is momentum and it is disheartening for Democrats who, not one month ago, were already eulogizing Romney’s presidential bid.

MSNBC host: Obama answering to ‘higher
calling' by running again, Romney
just moving on to 'next thing'

Fox News, by Dan Gainor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 9:22:05 PM Post Reply

Political junkies are still laughing at little-known, little-watched MSNBC host Alex Wagner’s Oct. 17 appearance talking with comedian Conan O’Brien. In Wagner’s mind (Do MSNBC hosts actually have those?), Obama isn’t a typical politician. He’s running for office as a “higher calling.” Romney, oft-reviled by nearly every drone taking an MSDNC paycheck, is just a guy following in his daddy’s footsteps doing “the next thing he should be doing with his life.” News junkies were baffled by her conclusion. By “higher calling,” did she mean the Democratic attacks on Romney’s faith, the class warfare or the race-baiting?

Iranian general threatens ‘definite’
retaliation to any Israeli strike

The Times Of Israel (Israel), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffblair- 10/19/2012 9:18:14 PM Post Reply

Israel will “definitely” face fierce retaliation if it attacks Iranian nuclear sites, the acting commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Thursday. The remarks by Gen. Hossein Salami appear to be part of Iranian efforts to portray any strike against it as the trigger for a regional conflict that could draw in Iranian proxies, such as Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, on Israel’s borders. (Snip) “The Iranian nation will overcome the enemies’ threats in the economic field,” Salami said. “This is a battle. The Iranian nation will impose its will on its enemies.”

ObamaCare Calls 30 Hours of
Work Per Week ‘Full-Time’

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 9:18:01 PM Post Reply

A little-known section in the ObamaCare health reform law defines “full-time” work as averaging only 30 hours per week, a definition that will affect some employers who utilize part-time workers to trim the cost of complying with the ObamaCare rule that says businesses with 50 or more workers must provide health insurance or pay a fine. “The term ‘full-time employee’ means, with respect to any month, an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours of service per week,” section 1513 of the law reads. (Scroll down to section 4, paragraph A.)

NBC’s David Gregory Calls Obama
Admin’s Libya Response ‘Sluggish,
Sloppy, And Incoherent’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 9:10:39 PM Post Reply

During an appearance on NBC’s Today Show Friday morning, Meet the Press host David Gregory called the Obama administration’s response to the September 11th violent attacks in Benghazi, Libya, “sluggish, sloppy, and incoherent at some times.” Host Savannah Guthrie had asked Gregory to assess each candidate’s chances in next Monday’s foreign policy-focused president debate. Gregory mentioned that Romney had several “missteps” in the previous debate regarding the Libya question, but also noted that Obama is facing criticism for “his talking points on this, on Jon Stewart saying when four Americans are killed it’s ‘not optimal.’”

Obama’s U.N. worship
jeopardized national security

Washington Times, by John Yoo Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 8:53:35 PM Post Reply

Monday’s presidential debate no doubt will center on the Middle East, as it should. President Obama has stood by while Iran has closed in on nuclear weapons, Syria has massacred its own civilians and al Qaeda terrorists killed our ambassador to Libya. After all the blood and treasure spent in Iraq, we hastily left instead of maintaining a stabilizing presence, and we are following an arbitrary withdrawal schedule in Afghanistan just when our brave troops are achieving success. We have the chance to strike at two of our most dangerous enemies: Syria and Iran. A no-fly-zone and military

Bomb threat prompts 5-hour
evacuation at Texas A&M

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 8:50:26 PM Post Reply

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University's campus was shut down for about five hours Friday after an emailed bomb threat prompted an evacuation of more than 50,000 people and a building-by-building search. A&M Police Lt. Allan Baron said officials were still searching some buildings late Friday afternoon, but no bombs had been found and people were being allowed to come back on campus to retrieve personal belongings and their cars. Evening activities campus, about 100 miles northwest of Houston, were set to go on as planned.

Our less than optimal president

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 8:48:24 PM Post Reply

Jon Stewart has found a way to get conservatives to care about the “Daily Show” — have Barack Obama insult American victims of terrorism. On Wednesday’s program, Mr. Stewart asked the president whether his administration was trying to fix the alleged communications disconnects that the White House claims muddled the response to the violent events in Benghazi, Libya and elsewhere on Sept. 11. “Even you would admit,” Mr. Stewart said, “it was not the optimal response, at least to the American people, as far as all of us being on the same page.” Mr. Obama responded,

Obama heads to Camp David
to prepare for crucial final debate

Guardian [UK], by Ewen MacAskill Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 8:46:04 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama is scheduled to fly to the Camp David presidential retreat near Washington later for three days of seclusion to prepare for the third and final debate with Mitt Romney on Monday as polls suggest the race remains too close to call. Obama and Romney swapped jokes at a charity event in New York on Thursday night but there will be few jokes on Monday at the debate in Boca Raton, Florida, an encounter devoted to foreign affairs. The president had enjoyed high approval ratings in foreign affairs until recently,

Jackson Jr. Remains Off The Job,
But Campaign Still Spending

CBS News [Chicago], by Derrick Blakley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 8:44:43 PM Post Reply

CHICAGO – Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. hasn’t been on the campaign trail for months, as he’s kept out of the public eye while being treated for bipolar disorder, but he’s certainly been spending his campaign cash, and lots of it. CBS 2’s Derrick Blakely reports, in the four months since Jackson took his leave of absence from Congress and dropped out of public view, his campaign has spent tens of thousands of dollars. An examination of federal election records showed Jackson’s campaign has spent $110,099 since June 10, the day his leave of absence started.

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

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