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2 dead, at least 7 injured
in city shootings

Chicago Tribune, by Rosemary R. Sobol Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/20/2012 9:44:33 AM Post Reply

Two young men were killed while at least seven other people including a 16-year-old boy were wounded during shootings Friday and Saturday across the city. Early Saturday in the Rogers Park neighborhood,a 34-year-old man was walking on a sidewalk in the 6900 block of North Ashland Avenue about 2:30 a.m. when someone inside a red sport-utility vehicle fired shots and hit him in the abdomen, according to Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer.He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital and his condition was not known. No one has been arrested for the shooting, Greer said.

It’s Mormon in America

City Journal [New York], by Joel Kotkin Original Article

Posted By: supersid- 10/20/2012 9:41:25 AM Post Reply

Whether or not Mitt Romney makes it to the White House, his candidacy signals that Mormons have arrived in American political life. Just as President Obama’s nomination and election marked a sea change in the country’s tortured racial history, so Romney’s nomination has changed religious boundaries that have persisted for more than 160 years. No religious group has been more persecuted by the U.S. government, or more derided by other faiths present in the country, than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or the LDS Church, as many Mormons refer to it).

GOP: Another $1 trillion
Obama deficit for what?

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/20/2012 9:16:00 AM Post Reply

Hello, I’m Jeff Flake, congressman from Arizona’s Sixth District.Last week, the Obama Administration confirmed that the budget deficit for fiscal year 2012 will be $1.1 trillion dollars. This will mark the fourth year in a row that the federal government has spent more than it has taken in to the tune of over a trillion dollars. With the school year under way across the country, it is not comforting to think that the class of 2012 who were freshmen along with this President graduated without knowing what it was like to be in high school without the term ‘trillion dollar deficit’ being ever present in the news.
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Obama Campaign Relies on
Report from DNC Creditor

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/20/2012 9:15:27 AM Post Reply

RealtyTrac, which advertises itself as the “leading online marketplace of foreclosure properties,” released its Foreclosure Market Report for September and Q3 2012 on Oct. 11. In the report, RealtyTrac reported that foreclosure activity dropped to a 5-year low in September. This week, President Obama’s campaign officials and surrogates adopted the report as a new talking point. On MSNBC, Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter credited Obama with producing “the lowest foreclosure rate in the last five years.” Obama surrogate Jennifer Granholm and campaign press secretary Jen Psaki used the same talking point over the past week.

Does Romney Have an In-Law Problem?

ABC News, by Matthew Mosk Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/20/2012 9:13:43 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney's rise in business and politics has served as a marketing bonanza for two of his wife's closest relatives, both Utah-based businessmen who have benefited from, and are said to have traded on, their connection to the presidential candidate even as they suffered a succession of embarrassing business and legal difficulties. Ann Romney's brother Roderick Davies, who filed for bankruptcy in 2010, and nephew Ryan Davies, who oversaw a now-bankrupt green energy venture, have both been out on the campaign trail to offer support for Romney. But back in Utah, the two men

DNC Owes Union Bank $15M

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/20/2012 9:12:11 AM Post Reply

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) now owes $15 million to the union-owned Amalgamated Bank of New York, campaign finance records show. The DNC received a $7 million loan from the bank in September, in addition to the $8 million loan it took out the previous month, neither of which has been paid back. The loans account for the majority of the committee’s $20 million in total debt. The DNC paid Amalgamated Bank more than $18,000 in loan interest for the month of September, the records show. Amalgamated Bank, often described as “America’s Labor Bank,”

Obama Campaign Borrows
$15M from Bank of America

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/20/2012 9:07:09 AM Post Reply

Obama For America took out a $15 million loan from Bank of America last month, according to the campaign’s October monthly FEC report. The loan was incurred on September 4 and is due November 14, eight days after the election. OFA received an interest rate of 2.5% plus the current Libor rate. Warren Buffett, Obama donor and namesake of the infamous “Buffett Rule,” invested $5 billion in Bank of America last year in an effort to help the ailing financial institution. Last month, two weeks after OFA took out the loan, Bank of America announced

In Connecticut, a
Democrat struggles to pull ahead

Reuters, by Edith Honan Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/20/2012 9:06:35 AM Post Reply

BRIDGEPORT, Ct. - Late last week, Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic contender for Senate in Connecticut, stopped in at El Flamboyan restaurant in Bridgeport. This is one of poorest sections of the state's most populous city and home to the kind of Democratic Party loyalists Murphy needs in droves if he is to win on November 6. With time running out before election day, he is locked in a close race with Republican Linda McMahon to fill the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Joseph Lieberman. McMahon, a nationally-known former wrestling executive, has emerged as a disciplined, aggressive opponent

Romney slams Obama at
rally in Daytona Beach

USA Today, by Aamer Madhani Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/20/2012 9:03:41 AM Post Reply

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.— Mitt Romney blasted President Obama’s reelection effort as the “incredible shrinking campaign” at a rally on Friday, in what is scheduled to be his last appearance on the campaign trail before Monday’s third and final presidential debate. Appearing with his running mate Paul Ryan at a rally at an outdoor band shell overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Romney said the Obama campaign has been reduced to “petty attacks” and “word games.” “The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign,” Romney said. “This is a big country, with big challenges and they keep talking about smaller

What Happens When
a Ponytailed Defense Attorney
Gets Mugged?

American Thinker, by Tina Trent Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/20/2012 8:37:47 AM Post Reply

What happens when ponytailed defense attorney Ron Kuby gets mugged? He screams bloody murder, demands a police crackdown on the alleged assailant, and collaborates with reporters at the New York Daily News to raise the specter of hate crime charges.(snip)The lawyer famous for using every trick in the book to denigrate police and spring violent offenders back onto the street expects a different response from the system when he's the alleged victim of a minor crime -- in this case, a fistfight Kuby acknowledges instigating.

Krauthammer: Obama administration
'lied' on Libya because they
had 'the media in their pocket'

The Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: sparky86- 10/20/2012 8:24:53 AM Post Reply

On Friday night’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, host Sean Hannity asked Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer why the White House waited so long to acknowledge that the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi was a pre-planned terrorist strike. According to Krauthammer, the Obama administration delayed announcing the news primarily to protect the president’s image on foreign policy. “They had two reasons to lie,” Krauthammer said. “The first reason was the fact that the Sept. 11 attack occurred a week after they just spent four days in Charlotte dancing

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.

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