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50 years ago, Tampa was on
front line of Cuban Missile Crisis

Tampa Tribune, by Ted Jackovics Original Article

Posted By: Hazymac- 10/21/2012 11:24:47 AM Post Reply

TAMPA -- On a Sunday morning during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, operators at a satellite tracking radar site reported a missile had been launched from Cuba and was heading toward Tampa. Projected impact: 18 miles from MacDill Air Force Base. The Strategic Air Command on Oct. 28, 1962, was on the highest alert in history: DEFCON 2, one step short of imminent war. The president and Pentagon feared a surprise attack, and that's exactly what the missile rocketing toward Tampa appeared to be. But none of the command's bombers or missiles was launched. The report was false;

New York Times quietly
edits story on Iran nuclear
negotiations after White House denial

Daily Caller, by Gregg Re Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 11:04:37 AM Post Reply

The White House scrambled late Saturday to deny a New York Times report claiming Iran has agreed to meet directly with U.S. officials to discuss its nuclear program, sending New York Times editors rushing to quietly but substantially revise their initial reporting on a key foreign policy issue for the second time in as many months. According to the Times, which anonymously quoted senior administration officials, Iran told diplomats it wanted to wait until after the November presidential election to put plans for the meeting in motion. “It has the potential to help Mr. Obama make the case

Obama plans ‘around
the clock' blitz

The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 11:00:14 AM Post Reply

President Obama will spend 48 hours campaigning “around the clock” in a frenzied effort to court swing-state voters two weeks before Election Day. “The America Forward Tour,” beginning Wednesday, will take the president through six swing states and three time zones during a 48-hour period, the campaign said in a statement on Saturday. Obama will hold “late night grass roots” events, “meet with volunteers” and “talk to undecided voters” in Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Florida, Virginia and Ohio on Wednesday and Thursday. Those six swing states will be critical in determining the outcome of the 2012 election.

Romney for president

Houston Chronicle, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:46:06 AM Post Reply

The Chronicle's backing of Barack Obama in 2008 broke a 44-year string of endorsing Republican candidates for president. Like so many others, we were captivated by the Illinois senator's soaring rhetoric and energized by his promise to move American politics beyond partisan gridlock and into an era of hope and change. It hasn't happened. Four years later, President Obama's deeds have failed to match his words, much less his specific vows to cut the national debt by half and bring the nation's unemployment rate to 6 percent. As Texans, it is a particular vexation

Mitt refuses to lose

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 10:43:50 AM Post Reply

On Oct. 3, I raised a question here that reflected President Obama’s strong momentum and Mitt Romney’s apparent readiness to accept defeat. “Are you a good loser, Mitt?” I wrote. I have my answer. I’ve gotten it so many times in the last 17 days that I am now convinced of it. The answer is no, Mitt Romney is not a good loser. He is instead determined to be the next president of the United States. And I am starting to believe he will be. The New & Improved Mitt took the stage in the first debate,

Reno Paper: 'Fluke Takes
Center Stage' to Speak to
'About 10 People' (See Update)

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 10:38:50 AM Post Reply

Saturday evening, via Emerson Marcus and with the Associated Press contributing, the Reno Gazette-Journal, which I hope doesn't try to describe itself as a family newspaper, published an irony-free a 500-word story (HT to a NewBusters tipster) on an appearance by Sandra Fluke earlier in the day "in front of about 10 people at the Sak ‘N Save in north Reno." You can't make this stuff up. The story is currently the "Most Popular" at the paper's rgj.com home page. The Gazette-Journal seems to have been determined to hype Fluke's appearance no matter what so it could

For president

Columbus Dispatch [OH], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:36:11 AM Post Reply

After nearly four years of economic stagnation, massive unemployment, record-setting debt and government intrusions into the economy that have paralyzed the private sector, the United States needs a new direction. For this reason, The Dispatch urges voters to choose Republican Mitt Romney for president in the Nov. 6 election. In 2008, The Dispatch warned of the problems that would result if Barack Obama were chosen as president. Noting the scant experience that Obama offered the nation in 2008 — eight unremarkable years in the Illinois Senate and less than one term

The Great Binder Blunder

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: LINGILLEN- 10/21/2012 10:31:47 AM Post Reply

So the other morning a reader e-mails 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. (snip) But no. The women were chanting “Equal rights, not binders,” and they were protesting the following remarks by Mitt Romney at the presidential debate:

Psst, taxes go up in 2013
for 163 million workers

Associated Press, by Stephen Ohlemacher Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 10:29:17 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama isn't talking about it and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election. A temporary reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year and hardly anyone in Washington is pushing to extend it. Neither Obama nor Romney has proposed an extension, and it probably wouldn't get through Congress anyway, with lawmakers in both parties down on the idea.

Obama campaign accepted
foreign Web donation -- and
may be hiding more

New York Post, by ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/21/2012 10:26:06 AM Post Reply

The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges. Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens. Walker said he used his actual street address

International monitors at US
polling spots draw criticism
from voter fraud groups

The Hill, by Alexander Bolton Original Article

Posted By: redmom- 10/21/2012 10:21:54 AM Post Reply

United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-leaning group combating election fraud. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects, will deploy 44 observers around the county on Election Day to monitor an array of activities, including potential disputes at polling places.

Bye-Bye, Optimus Prime

American Thinker, by William L. Gensert Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/21/2012 10:16:16 AM Post Reply

When a candidate can't run on his past and has no ideas for the future, he must destroy his opponent in the present -- which can be done by distorting his adversary's history and lying about his plans for the future. There is a problem with this approach, however. It works only if people trust the candidate doing the distorting. Should people actually take a look for themselves and not come up with the same conclusion, the disseminator with the poor past and no plans begins to lose credibility.

Romney/Ryan RNC Storm Pennsylvania

Breitbart's Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:10:45 AM Post Reply

The Romney/Ryan campaign and the Republican National Committee have moved 60 staffers into Pennsylvania, according to Sam Stein of the Huffington Post, the latest sign that the Republican Party sees the Keystone State as competitive. Recent polls showed the GOP ticket closing the gap with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, with one poll suggesting Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan could be slightly ahead. Ryan appeared briefly at a campaign stop in western Pennsylvania yesterday at a rally that was organized at the last minute but still attracted 800 supporters.

Too little too late in Libya

Los Angeles Times, by Max Boot Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/21/2012 10:10:12 AM Post Reply

The attack in Benghazi, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, was practically the only foreign policy issue to come up in the second presidential debate, and it's sure to come up again in Monday's final debate, which will be entirely devoted to foreign policy. (Snip) But one issue is unambiguous: There has been a crippling and dangerous lack of security in Libya since Moammar Kadafi was overthrown last year with the help of NATO airstrikes. This was an issue that many observers worried about while the war was ongoing: Was there a plan

Did Obama Give Gloria
Allred's Game Away?

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:08:38 AM Post Reply

For several days, reports have circulated that attorney Gloria Allred--who always seems to surface when a Democrat is in trouble--is about to drop an “October surprise” on the Romney campaign. Speculation has surrounded a story published last week by the left-wing website AlterNet, purporting to tell the story of women who claimed Mitt Romney advised them in the 1980s, in his capacity as a church leader, against having abortions. There is only one problem: the story is not new, and Breitbart News already discussed several aspects of the tale in January 2012

Bad Faith: Insurance claims
a nightmare for elderly

Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Tony Bartelme Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/21/2012 10:06:53 AM Post Reply

Mattie Jewel Poston’s story begins with a gray file box. For in-depth reports on insurance rates, the risks of being hit by a hurricane and other stories, visit post andcourier.com/storm-of-money.[Snip] Stored inside are folders with receipts and bills that Mattie’s husband, Herman, kept for years: bills for burial insurance, receipts for the long-term care insurance he took out in case they couldn’t take care of each other. “He carried that box everywhere we went,” Poston said one afternoon, sitting in a wheelchair in Heartland’s nursing home in West Ashley. “Insurance was a must; it was so important.”

President Of The Free
World Calls Springsteen
“A Couple Times A Week”

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/21/2012 10:05:52 AM Post Reply

Ok – so in the midst of worsening Middle East violence, a stagnant economy, and a fast approaching fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama repeatedly calls a music entertainer and whines he doesn’t have “a campaign song”. Almost as pathetic as that scenario is the actual song Springsteen put together. This is now truly a campaign running on spent fumes…

Fear grips Denver suburbs
after Jessica Ridgeway's murder

Los Angeles Times, by Jenny Deam Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/21/2012 10:01:43 AM Post Reply

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Across Denver's northwestern suburbs, where the foothills loom and one small town melts into the next, danger has pulled up a chair. (Snip) On Oct. 5, just six miles away, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway, a fifth-grader with a sweet smile and eyeglasses in her favorite color, purple, set off for the short walk to a park to meet friends so they could go together to Witt Elementary School. She never arrived, touching off a sweeping search that made headlines nationally and tapped into the kind of fear that can bring parents to their knees. Three days later

NBC/WSJ poll: Presidential
contest now tied

NBC News, by Mark Murray Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 9:46:45 AM Post Reply

Heading into Monday's final debate and with just over two weeks until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are now tied nationally, according the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Obama and Romney both get 47 percent among likely voters in the latest edition of the poll, conducted entirely in the aftermath of the second presidential debate last Monday. In the last national NBC/WSJ poll, which was conducted before debate season began, the president held a narrow, three-point lead over his GOP challenger, 49 percent to 46 percent

McGovern an unwavering,
often unrequited, liberal

Associated Press, by Walter R. Mears Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 9:41:09 AM Post Reply

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, usually understated, Midwestern style. He was a dedicated, decent man, a devoted Democrat even when the party establishment turned away from him in defeat. He wasn't good at political gamesmanship. He suffered his worst blunders when he strayed from straight talk in his doomed 1972 presidential campaign. It didn't fit the man and it shook the credibility he treasured. McGovern was a partisan without the poison that increasingly infected American politics. In his career-long quest for programs

George McGovern dies;
lost 1972 presidential bid

Associated Press, by Kristi Eaton and Walter R. Mears Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 9:38:42 AM Post Reply

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way - and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to make an issue out of the bungled attempt to wiretap the offices of the Democratic National Committee, calling Nixon the most corrupt president in history. A proud liberal who had argued fervently against Vietnam War

'I made sure that Jay-Z was
helping Beyonce out,' Obama
reveals how he ensures the
first-time dad is pulling his
weight with the new baby

Daily Mail [UK], by Leslie Larson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/21/2012 9:33:40 AM Post Reply

Amidst the frenetic schedule of the presidential campaign, President Barack Obama has revealed his key role in giving first-time dad Jay-Z advice on child rearing. The Commander-in-Chief, speaking to Cleveland radio station Z107.9 on Friday, called the rap mogul and his superstar wife Beyonce 'good friends' and dished on what the first couple and the showbiz powerpair talk about when they spend time together. Calling the Grammy Award-winning duo 'down to earth folks,' the President said isn't blinded by their glitz and makes sure

Orwell's Eton tutor is named as Fifth
Man as art critic reveals Andrew
Gow was Cambridge Five spymaster

Daily Mail [UK], by Adam Luck Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/21/2012 9:30:23 AM Post Reply

The final member of the infamous ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring has been unveiled as George Orwell’s former tutor at Eton. Cambridge classics don Andrew Gow is alleged to have been the spymaster and confidant of notorious double agent and so-called ‘Fourth Man’ Anthony Blunt. The revelation is contained in Outsider II, the new memoir by Blunt’s close friend, Brian Sewell, who is convinced that Gow was the final piece in the jigsaw. The Cambridge Five included notorious traitors Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who persuaded MI5 agent Blunt to join Soviet intelligence. Mr Sewell, who became

Wanna Die? Try Government-
Run Healthcare in
the United Kingdom

Townhall, by Daniel J. Mitchell Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/21/2012 9:17:05 AM Post Reply

I’m not a fan of the American healthcare system. It suffers from huge inefficiencies because of problems such as third-party payer, which is caused by government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid along with a system of tax code-driven over-insurance in the supposedly private sector. But regardless of how much I grouse about the damage government causes in the United States, I can say with considerable confidence that the government-run system in the United Kingdom has even larger problems. Here are some of the shocking details from a report in the UK-based Daily Mail.

Bad News: That 5-second food
rule is about 4 too long

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/21/2012 9:15:03 AM Post Reply

Sorry to be the bearer of myth-crushing news, but that rule about germs being too slow to jump onto dropped food within five seconds seems to be untrue. Not that anyone will alter their behavior anyway. Researchers at San Diego State University report that their scientific tests using baby carrots placed on various surfaces found that germs did, in fact, attach themselves to the food well within the famous five-seconds.

A Real American Hero

Foreign Policy, by Todd Gitlin Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/21/2012 9:00:53 AM Post Reply

George McGovern's father was a miner turned Methodist minister, and the future senator grew up poor. No matter, perhaps: There are children of ministers who grew up poor in once-populist strongholds during the Great Depression and then devote their lives to forgetting where they came from or priding themselves on having pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and left the losers trailing in the dust. COMMENTS (0) SHARE: Share on twitter Twitter Share on reddit Reddit More... There were no doubt other 19-year-olds beside George McGovern, who, on hearing the news from Pearl Harbor, rushed off to enlist in the Army Air Forces.

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