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CIA knew deadly assault on US
consulate was a terror attack just
24 hours later (so why did White
House officials maintain it was a
violent protest for a week?)
Daily Mail [UK], by Jill Reilly    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 8:12:19 AM     Post Reply
The U.S government was told within 24 hours of the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an anti-Islam video. The assault, on the anniversary of September 11 last month, left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American officials dead. The revelation could be damaging as the Obama administration maintained publicly for a week that the attack on the diplomatic mission was a result of the mobs. It is unclear who, if anyone, saw the cable outside the CIA

Marine raises $4,000 to fly
home war dog that he fell
in love with in Afghanistan
Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 8:02:56 AM     Post Reply
Virginia Marine Shaun Duling recently returned home to the U.S. from a year-long deployment in Afghanistan with a broken heart and a worn-in dog collar that belonged to a friend he was forced to leave behind --and that he feared he would never see again. The collar belonged to Bolt, a stray dog that became Duling's closest companion during a long and lonely winter in Afghanistan. When Duling left the country last month to return home to Alexandria, Virginia, Duling and Bolt had become inseparable, making Duling's homecoming painfully bittersweet. 'As I was walking to the helicopter I

Republicans bracing for 'October surprise' as
Gloria Allred 'prepares for Romney revelation'
Daily Mail [UK], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/20/2012 7:56:09 AM     Post Reply
Republicans are bracing themselves for Gloria Allred to make a potentially damaging revelation about Mitt Romney, just weeks before the election. The pro-President Obama lawyer is rumoured to be preparing for her so-called 'October surprise' in which she will strike the Republican presidential hopeful's chances by unearthing some sort of secret or scandal. Ms Allred has refused to comment on the rumours, which first surfaced in a tweet by the Drudge Report's Matt Drudge on Thursday. 'Here she comes. Hearing Gloria Allred out there again, about to make a move. After all, it's her time of the campaign. Team O

  


  

12-Year-Old Defends Herself
with Gun, Proves Need
of 2nd Amendment
Townhall, by Celia Bigelow    Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.- 10/20/2012 7:38:31 AM     Post Reply
As the left continues to advocate for further restrictions on the Second Amendment, others are using it to save their lives. This past Wednesday a young 12-year old girl in Bryan County, Oklahoma was able to protect her life when an intruder kicked in her back door and entered her house. Frantically, she called her mother who advised her to grab their household gun, hide in the closet, and call 911. The intruder made his way through the house, and as he was opening the door of the closet, the young girl shot him through the closet door.

Romney: Obama has
‘incredible shrinking campaign’
Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan    Original Article
Posted By: pineledger- 10/20/2012 7:25:29 AM     Post Reply
Daytona Beach, Fla.--Mitt Romney charged Friday that Democrats have resorted to “silly word games” to try to win the election after President Obama on Friday accused him of “Romnesia” in changing his earlier stances. At a huge rally here on the beach in Florida amid Biketoberfest, a bike rally that draws tens of thousands of motorcycle owners, Mr. Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, pleaded with Florida to deliver its critical votes on Nov. 6. And Mr. Romney continued to make his post-debate case that Mr. Obama has abandoned a positive vision

Panel questions motives in
Benghazi security moves
USA Today, by Oren Dorell    Original Article
Posted By: LOL Thomas- 10/20/2012 7:02:43 AM     Post Reply
The Obama administration rejected requests for more security in Benghazi amid growing signs of terror threats because it wanted to portray Libya as a calm country and foreign policy success, according to leaders of the House Oversight Committee. The administration "made a policy decision to put Libya into a 'normalized' country status as quickly as possible," starting in November, stated a letter to President Obama from Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz. (Snip) That policy was why State withdrew security personnel and resources from Benghazi, including a DC-3 aircraft

David Brooks Advice to Romney:
'Don't nitpick on small foreign
issue of the past' like Benghazi
Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 10/20/2012 6:24:08 AM     Post Reply
Call it counter-intuitive, but Mitt Romney shouldn’t focus heavily on what many conservatives are calling President Barack Obama’s biggest foreign policy blunder during Monday night’s upcoming presidential debate, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks. In his weekly appearance on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Brooks said the debate, which will be dedicated to the topic of foreign affairs, is an opportunity for Romney to talk about other issues than the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. “Don’t nitpick about Benghazi,” Brooks said.

  


  

Obama Abandons Independent Voters
Commentary Magazine, by Seth A. Mandel    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 6:19:29 AM     Post Reply
With the presidential election just two and a half weeks away, it’s no surprise that President Obama is now solely focused on turning out his base. But it’s still somewhat jarring to read stories like today’s New York Times piece on Obama’s closing argument, and Byron York’s report on the same. From the Times: With 19 days left before Americans go to the polls in a closely fought presidential campaign, President Obama is distilling his stump speech into the essential pitch of any political race: Vote.

President Obama’s jokes
can’t hide the truth
Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 6:09:45 AM     Post Reply
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Obama can make all the jokes he want about Mitt Romney’s “binders,” but Obama’s the one in the bind. He’s tossed everything and the kitchen sink at Romney. He’s even thrown in Big Bird. Now he’s calling Mitt “sketchy” — a term women use to describe men who give them the willies. But scare tactics and one-liners won’t work anymore. Romney’s impressive performance in the first debate, and mostly solid showing in the second, has rendered Obama’s attacks mostly ineffectual. Even Obama’s perceived gift in this week’s debate — moderator Candy Crowley “fact-checking”

Banana Boat Is Recalling Its Sunscreen
That's Catching People on Fire
Atlantic Wire, by Serena Dai    Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly- 10/20/2012 6:04:00 AM     Post Reply
Banana Boat is recalling its UltraMist spray-on sunscreens after five people in the past year have literally caught on fire from wearing it, the AP reports. It's not the sunscreen that's the problem—it's the bottle. Allow us to explain: Banana Boat, owned by Energizer Holdings (seller of batteries, razors, sunscreen, and lots of other stuff found near the registers at drugstores) sold more than 20 million bottles that sprayed too much sunscreen out of the valve. The result: it didn't dry fast enough, making it more vulnerable to nearby flames. Poor Brett Sigworth of Massachusetts figured that out

The Three Benghazi Timelines
We Need Answers About
Wall Street Journal, by James Rosen    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 5:56:17 AM     Post Reply
'I do not think," Nixon campaign aide Jeb Magruder told the Senate Watergate committee in the spring of 1973, "there was ever any discussion that there would not be a coverup." Mr. Magruder's lament aptly described the bureaucratic impulse to hide inconvenient facts that seizes every modern White House at some point. His testimony was brought to mind by the growing number of high-profile Republicans accusing the Obama White House of engaging in a coverup in the Benghazi case. Much remains unknown about the terrorist attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador

  



What really went wrong in Benghazi
New York Daily News, by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 5:46:02 AM     Post Reply
The intelligence and security failings that surrounded the murders of four Americans in Libya are coming into focus as far more fundamental than depicted in jousting between Republican Mitt Romney and President Obama. (Snip)The President and Secretary of State Clinton said they take full responsibility — but for what, exactly, is unclear. So, too, the question of how much of the onus Obama intends to bear. After saying he accepts the burdens of office, he tried to skate by the mortal debacle by declaring, “When four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.” No, it’s an outrage that demands accountability.

The Minigolfer
Weekly Standard, by Matthew Continetti    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/20/2012 5:39:06 AM     Post Reply
Viewers of the 2012 debates have witnessed an extraordinary turnaround. John Stuart Mill famously spoke of “a party of order and stability, and a party of progress or reform.” Once upon a time, Barack Obama and Joe Biden could claim the mantle of change and progress. But the televised exchanges between Mitt Romney and Obama and Paul Ryan and Biden have revealed that this is no longer the case. The Republicans are now the ones offering ideas of progress or reform, while the Democrats fiercely fight to protect the established order of entitle-ments,

The Democrats' Rough
Re-entry Into Reality
American Spectator, by Ron Ross    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 5:32:58 AM     Post Reply
Is there a limit to self-delusion? And if there is, what happens when the limit is exceeded? New York Times columnist Gail Collins began her column last week as follows, "When Democrats run into each other on elevators, they exchange glances and sigh. Or make little whimpering sounds." She went on to observe that "Democrats are going bipolar. Democrats spend all their waking hours thinking about the swing states. If Wisconsin starts looking wobbly, their day is ruined." It makes you wonder what their days are going to be like if Obama loses the actual election.

The Real Mitt Romney — on CBS!
National Review Online, by Benjamin Zycher    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 5:27:55 AM     Post Reply
This video, on Mitt Romney’s innumerable good deeds, should receive the widest possible attention. On CBS no less:(Snip for video)An interesting question for which I have only an imperfect answer at best: Why did the Obama campaign believe that their months of demonization would work when inevitably the real Romney would emerge at the debates or sooner? Especially because, unlike Senator McCain in 2008, Romney always was going to have the resources to run a formidable campaign. Anyone who watched the Republican primary debates could see that Romney above all is a man of supreme decency, integrity, and modesty.

  


  

Benghazi just tip of
O’s terror problem
New York Post, by Michael Widlanski    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 5:21:41 AM     Post Reply
The real issue isn’t whether President Obama used the word “terror” the day after the Benghazi terror attack, but whether Obama truly comprehends the Islamist terror threat to America and the West. It’s not simply that Obama and his team spent so many days denying the obvious — that the Benghazi assault was a long-planned operation by an al Qaeda offshoot — or even that the administration reduced security on the ground in Libya, despite local pleas to increase it. It’s that the Obama team is still in denial about the resurgence of the threat,

Obama: 4 Dead Americans
in Libya 'not optimal'
Investor's Business Daily, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/20/2012 5:17:59 AM     Post Reply
Benghazi-gate: The president reveals a disturbing callousness toward our war dead on yet another talk show. When will he tell jihadists to stop clinging to their guns and religion and fearing people not like them? During the second presidential debate President Obama told challenger Mitt Romney that he found suggestions that he and his administration were covering up the truth about the terrorist attack on Benghazi for political reasons "offensive." He said he was the one who had to greet the coffins when they came home. Then they deserve more honor, respect and protection

A Sad Green Story
New York Times, by David Brooks    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 10/20/2012 5:15:28 AM     Post Reply
The period around 2003 was the golden spring of green technology. John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced a bipartisan bill to curb global warming. I got my first ride in a Prius from a conservative foreign policy hawk who said that these new technologies were going to help us end our dependence on Middle Eastern despots. You’d go to Silicon Valley and all the venture capitalists, it seemed, were rushing into clean tech. From that date on the story begins to get a little sadder. Al Gore released his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006. The global warming issue became associated

Republican National Committee has
$83 million in bank; Democratic
National Committee takes out loan
Politico, by Tarini Parti    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/20/2012 5:11:13 AM     Post Reply
The Democratic National Committee was unable to keep up with the Republican National Committee’s fundraising again in September, despite taking out $10.5 million in loans. The DNC raised $20.3 million in September, including the loans, and only $3.7 million of its total fundraising came from individuals and political action committees. The rest came from transfers and offsetting operating expenditures. As of Sept. 30, the DNC reported having $4.6 million in the bank and $20.5 million in total debt – almost double the $11.8 million it owed at the end of August.

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

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