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Volt no jolt:
LG Chem employees idle

WOOD-TV.com, by Ken Kolker Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/20/2012 4:58:52 AM Post Reply

Holland, Mich.--Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery plant heavily funded by taxpayers, tell Target 8 that they have so little work to do that they spend hours playing cards and board games, reading magazines or watching movies. They say it's been going on for months. "There would be up to 40 of us that would just sit in there during the day," said former LG Chem employee Nicole Merryman, who said she quit in May.

The Onion Endorses
John Edwards For President

The Onion, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 4:57:02 AM Post Reply

Choosing who should be entrusted to lead our nation’s government is not a responsibility that should be taken lightly, and never has that maxim been truer than in this current election cycle. Our economy is stagnant, our culture is dangerously stratified, and our way of life is threatened by a host of dangers both foreign and domestic. In this newspaper’s more than two centuries of covering the national scene, few moments in history have felt more crucial or, indeed, perilous. And so the time has come to decide who is best equipped to lead our country

The Glory Days

Foreign Policy, by Jonathan Alter Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 4:47:39 AM Post Reply

Tina Brown, the founder of the Daily Beast and editor of Newsweek, announced this week that the print magazine was headed to the morgue file, dead after nearly 80 years. A digital offering called Newsweek Global will take its place. Those of us who worked at Newsweek through the turn of the century wish the new venture well, but we can't escape the feeling that there's been a death in the family. Until the Washington Post Co. sold the magazine in 2010, I qualified as a "lifer," a concept that no longer exists in the American workplace.

Former Obama advisor: Our foreign policy
is a mess — especially in the Middle East

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 4:42:34 AM Post Reply

With the last of the three presidential debates taking place in just three days, and with Barack Obama on his heels in polling after the first two, one would expect Obama allies to come out of the woodwork to sing his praises on foreign policy, the topic of Monday night’s forum. After all, Democrats — including Obama himself — bragged six weeks ago at the Democratic convention that Obama would bury Mitt Romney in this arena. Instead, former Obama administration Defense undersecretary and State Department adviser Rosa Brooks writes at Foreign Policy

Stocking the Cabinet: Who Might
Serve in a Romney Administration?

National Journal, by Jim O'Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 4:36:21 AM Post Reply

The day after his election as governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Mitt Romney welcomed reporters to his transition headquarters in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, informed his new constituents that managing the state’s pressing budget crisis would be his top priority, and began fleshing out the top posts within his pending administration. A decade later, a President Romney would again face immediate fiscal problems. But a vastly different set of circumstances would shape the personnel decisions that Romney could make during his transition to the Oval Office. For one, Romney, despite a 1994 U.S. Senate challenge to Democrat Edward Kennedy,

Obama Attack Ad Selectively
Edits Romney on Abortion

Breitbart's Big Government, by Dr. Susan Berry Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/20/2012 12:07:31 AM Post Reply

A new Obama campaign ad directed at women voters states that Republican candidate Mitt Romney would ban abortion, but uses a Romney quote that has been cut off to distort the candidate’s stance toward the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The quote is from a Republican primary debate during which moderator Anderson Cooper asked the candidates, “If Roe v. Wade were overturned, Congress passed a federal ban on all abortions and it came to your desk, would you sign it? Yes or no?” The ad depicts Romney’s response as, “I’d be delighted to sign that bill,”

If elected, Romney wants
a say in 'fiscal cliff'

Associated Press, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/20/2012 12:02:05 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's transition team is quietly talking with government officials and Capitol Hill to develop a plan, if he's elected, to prevent massive cuts to the defense budget and extend tax cuts first passed under President George W. Bush. The Republican's goal is to put his own stamp on legislation to fix the so-called fiscal cliff well before his Jan. 20 inauguration. The tax cuts are set to expire Jan. 1, and economists in both political parties say the reductions in spending combined with higher taxes would likely throw the country

Joe Biden is just being Joe, and
the edginess works for some

Washington Post, by Krissah Thompson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/19/2012 11:45:18 PM Post Reply

Down-home and laid-back, Joe Biden has been traveling the country saying what few politicians could about their opponents, for better or worse. Mitt Romney is “etch-a-sketchy,” the vice president said this week. Last month, he told a Hispanic audience: “Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his.’’ At a campaign rally Thursday in Las Vegas, he said Paul Ryan and other young Republican leaders in Congress, nicknamed “young guns,” have “their bullets aimed at you.” Biden has a long history of edgy verbal blurts — in 2007, he described then-Sen. Barack Obama

Rupert Murdoch, other potential
buyers eye L.A. Times

Los Angeles Times, by Meg James Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 10:16:44 PM Post Reply

With Tribune Co. expected to emerge from bankruptcy soon, News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is looking to acquire two of its trophy properties — the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Tribune Co.'s debt holders — two investment firms and a bank — will become majority owners of the company after it exits bankruptcy, which could happen by year's end. News Corp. executives have had preliminary talks with these debt holders about acquiring the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, according to two ranking News Corp. executives and others familiar with the situation.

Comedian Paul Rodriguez
Slams Eva Longoria, Rosie
Perez for 'Mean-Spirited'
Romney Comments

Hollywood Reporter, by Tina Daunt Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 9:54:30 PM Post Reply

"If I said mean-spirited things about President Obama, I'd be called a racist, a bigot," he tells Fox News. Comedian Paul Rodriquez put all joking aside this week to take some serious jabs at Barack Obama supporters Eva Longoria and Rosie Perez for making "mean-spirited" comments about Mitt Romney. Rodriquez, who recently made in a Latino-targeted ad supporting Mitt Romney's presidential bid, told Fox News Latino that while the two actresses have a right to support Obama, they have gone overboard in their criticism

GOP sees food fight
as kids trash USDA
fruit, vegetable guidelines

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/19/2012 9:38:06 PM Post Reply

House Republicans say new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines aimed at forcing students to eat fruits and vegetables are a failure because students across the country are simply tossing the healthy fare into the trash. "[T]here remains great concern with the amount of food waste generated at school cafeterias, much of it brought on by requiring students to take fruits and vegetables rather than simply offer them," Reps. John Kline (R-Minn.), Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) and Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) told USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack in a letter sent Thursday.

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.

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