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Yes, Atlas Will “Shrug,” Eventually

Townhall, by Austin Hill Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/21/2012 11:00:32 PM Post Reply

“People call this the ‘new normal.’ Let me assure you there is nothing normal about this at all. It’s the new ‘abnormal,’ and it won’t last, because as free people we won’t stand for it…” With those remarks, business magnate and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes drew thunderous applause from his audience last Wednesday. (Snip) Forbes had just finished explaining why a confluence of cheap credit, billions of dollars in stimulus spending, lots of new taxes and government regulations, and the ensuing government debt have all failed to stimulate our economy. He was confirming with his technical explanation, what many

Scottish independence: Trident
could move to US or France,
says Alex Salmond

The Scotsman [Scotland], by Scott MacNab Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/21/2012 10:54:40 PM Post Reply

Alex almond has said Trident could be relocated to the US or France after independence, as he ruled out the prospect of a “Cyprus-style” leaseback scheme that would see the nuclear weapons system remain in Scotland. The First Minister’s comments came amid growing concerns that it would be prohibitively expensive for the UK government to move the submarine-based system, which is based in Faslane on the Clyde, south of the Border if Scots vote to leave the UK in 2014. (Snip) The SNP plan to write opposition to nuclear weapons into the constitution of an independent state, making possession of

Catholic group hits back
on contraception mandate

Human Events, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/21/2012 10:40:14 PM Post Reply

Although conservatives are often disappointed with some of the projects the national Catholic Charities organization puts its money behind, a new endeavor unveiled by the organization’s Chicago chapter last week received prolonged applause on the right. Against a back-drop of scenes of the homeless and inner-city shelters, a new hard-hitting TV spot narrated by actress Cheryl Rhoads points out that Catholic Charities of Chicago is “one of the largest charities that serves the poor, but their services to the poor could be at risk with the $5 million fine that President Obama’s new mandate would force them to pay.” (Snip)

San Diego media baron
promotes conservative causes

Associated Press, by Elliot Spagat Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:37:06 PM Post Reply

SAN DIEGO — The new media barons of America's eighth-largest city are upfront about wanting to use their newspaper to promote their agenda of downtown development and politically conservative causes — and they are making their points in a brash, bare-knuckle style. Douglas Manchester and his partner John Lynch gave their 143-year-old newspaper a new slogan — "The World's Greatest Country & America's Finest City" — ran a front-page editorial that declared their plan to reshape the city's downtown waterfront their highest priority, and forecast doom if President Barack Obama wins re-election.

GM is alive in Defiance, Ohio.
But Obama’s hopes here may not be

Washington Post, by Rosalind S. Helderman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:33:13 PM Post Reply

In DEFIANCE, Ohio — For more than 50 years, the economic fate of this tiny town in northwest Ohio has been inextricably linked to the health of General Motors, its largest employer. And so when two local lawyers put up a billboard in the cornfield across from Defiance’s GM plant with a picture of the GM logo above the word “alive” and a photo of Osama bin Laden above the word “dead,” you might have expected nods of approval. Instead, in this deeply conservative corner of the state not far from the Indiana border, the billboard — and two others

Obamacare’s rhetoric vs. its reality

Washington Post, by Robert J. Samuelson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:29:24 PM Post Reply

Just recently, the Internal Revenue Service issued an 18-page, single-spaced notice explaining how to distinguish between full-time and part-time workers under the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). The difference matters, because the act requires employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide health insurance for those workers. At the same time, no company has to buy insurance for part-time employees, defined as those working less than 30 hours a week. Here’s a sample: This notice expands the safe harbor method described in a previous notice to provide employers the option to use a look-back measurement

How the administration
got in trouble on Libya

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:27:40 PM Post Reply

I suspect, although we will know for sure tomorrow night, that President Obama will claim organizational incompetence in connection with acknowledging that the Libya jihadist operation was, well, a planned jihadist operation. The Associated Press reports how quickly confirmation came that this was not a spontaneous mob action. The AP tells us that within 24 hours of the attack “the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington that there were eyewitness reports that the attack was carried out by militants.” However, the report continues, “It is unclear

Obama Asks Jeremiah
Wright For Election Help

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/21/2012 10:27:01 PM Post Reply

President Obama is getting so desperate about Romney-trending election polls that he is calling on an old, discarded ally to help his get out the vote effort: Rev. Jeremiah Wright. According to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, “If Obama looks as if he's going black, he could turn off white people. So he's largely been lying low on the race issues - visibly pushing for the Latino vote, the gay vote, the women's vote, but not the black vote. But last weekend, he held a conference call with a collection of black preachers that included his old pastor, Jeremiah

Outclassed by Dems in 2008,
GOP mobilizes revamped
ground offensive

Washington Times, by Ralph Z. Hallow Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:23:45 PM Post Reply

Convinced they were outclassed by the Obama campaign’s ground game four years ago, Republican Party officials say they are ringing more doorbells, making more personal phone calls and soliciting more early ballots this year to level the playing field for nominee Mitt Romney. In Ohio, considered the most important state for Mr. Romney and running mate Paul Ryan, Mr. Obama’s 2008 get-out-the-vote effort, backed by union and urban church volunteers, helped him to a 4-point win over Republican John McCain. The Democrats’ ground game also helped the party pick up two congressional seats long held by Republicans and wrested control

Obama leads in latest poll
as Romney loses bounce

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:20:31 PM Post Reply

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Mitt Romney’s first debate bounce has evaporated and President Obama once again has taken a slim lead in The Washington Times/Zogby Poll released Sunday night — though the survey showed Mr. Romney’s backers are far more energized about him than the president’s backers are about their candidate. Mr. Obama leads 49.7 percent to 47.3 percent over Mr. Romney, the Republican nominee, with 3 percent undecided. Just as striking, however, is that Mr. Obama’s air of inevitability is slipping, with 49 percent saying they expect him to win re-election

Forget October, Anonymous
Sources Say November
Surprise in the Works

Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/21/2012 10:17:22 PM Post Reply

Anonymous reports coming out of the Middle East indicate President Obama may be planning military action to take place in the days before the U.S. presidential election. Certain individuals currently deployed in various U.S. land, sea, and/or air missions in the Middle East are indicating they've heard about possibilities that could take place one to two days before the election: perhaps against Iran, perhaps elsewhere in the Middle East. These individuals have no idea what might be coming, but some of them indicate receiving upgraded clearances and travel documents that will allow them to move

Britain 'is creating jobs faster than US'
and may soon exit longest double-dip
recession since the Second World War

Daily Mail [UK], by Ben Griffiths Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/21/2012 10:06:26 PM Post Reply

The economy is expected to return to growth this week as figures suggested Britain is creating jobs at a faster rate than the United States. If predictions prove correct, the end of the longest double-dip recession since the Second World War will be a much-needed boost to Chancellor George Osborne. It comes just days after employment figures reached an all-time high. The total number of those in work has risen by 1.75 per cent, or 510,000 jobs, in the past year to 29.59million – the highest since records began in 1971, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Hollywood can be a lonely
place for Mitt Romney supporters

New York Daily News, by Nancy Dillon Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 9:42:31 PM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — They sometimes feel like the loneliest people in Hollywood, biting their tongues on set and meeting behind closed doors. They are Mitt Romney supporters in an industry famous for its lefty leanings and overrun with A-list Democrats — from George Clooney, Eva Longoria and Scarlett Johansson to director Steven Spielberg and studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg. Some have made speeches on Romney’s behalf, but most are reluctant to stand up and be counted as the election draws near. “There’s a quiet group of people in Hollywood who are meeting and growing and supporting Gov. Romney.

Rep. Walden to head NRCC

Human Events, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 9:33:36 PM Post Reply

Two weeks after dropping strong hints he might want a third term as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas) not only ruled it out, but last week, made it clear he was supporting the colleague who has long wanted the campaign post. The next NRCC chairman will be Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, a strong conservative and close ally of both Sessions and House Speaker John Boehner. Sessions, whose spokesman said he was only “jesting” when he told POLITICO that he might seek a third term at the NRCC helm, has signaled he wants to

Romney’s situation ahead of
debate recalls his race
for governor

Washington Post, by Ned Martel Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/21/2012 9:29:33 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has been there before: entering a third, crucial debate in a topsy-turvy contest. Ten years ago, he battled Democrat Shannon O’Brien in his bid to land the open governor’s job in Massachusetts. On Monday, he’ll face off against President Obama in the final showdown before the November vote. The circumstances are strangely similar: Going into that last debate in Massachusetts, Romney had eroded O’Brien’s lead but had to make up for a few bad moments in the second. The final confrontation, on Oct. 29, 2002, was his last opportunity to dominate the race. And he seized it,

Iran Rejects Report on
Talks with US in November

Fars News Agency (Iran), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffblair- 10/21/2012 9:11:35 PM Post Reply

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi dismissed a recent report by the New York Times alleging that Tehran and Washington are slated to hold direct talks in November, stressing that there will be no talks between the two countries. Speaking to reporters in a joint press conference with Central Africa's Foreign Minister Antoine Gambi in Tehran on Sunday, Salehi dismissed the New York Times report, and reiterated, "We do not have anything called negotiations with the US."

Mitt Romney’s toughest debate

Politico, by Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/21/2012 8:54:30 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has a clear-eyed and self-aware view of his chances in the final debate Monday, according to top advisers: It will be almost impossible to win, since the debate is focused exclusively on foreign policy, a strength for President Barack Obama. (Snip) Even if Romney does bring his A game, Obama joked last week about his debate strategy for winning the showdown in Florida: “Spoiler alert: We got bin Laden.” It’s not a joke that he said it, or that he uses that conquest to maximum political advantage in debates and speeches to show strength and achievement.

Huge al-Qaeda attack
foiled, says Jordan

Telegraph [UK], by Kadhim Shubber & Adrian Blomfeld Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/21/2012 8:17:13 PM Post Reply

Jordan claims to have thwarted one of the largest terrorist attacks ever planned in the Middle East after foiling an al-Qaeda plot to kill diplomats and detonate a series of bombs in Amman. Ending a four-month surveillance operation, the Jordanian intelligence service arrested 11 suspected militants with links to al-Qaeda. Officials in Amman said the suspects had aimed to dwarf the bombing of three hotels in the city in 2005, an attack that claimed more than 60 lives. Using arms smuggled in from Syria, the militants aimed to bring death and destruction across the capital, according to Jordan's General Intelligence

McCain voters defecting to
Obama are older white males

Reuters, by Gabriel Debenedetti Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/21/2012 8:16:14 PM Post Reply

In today's highly polarized political environment it is somewhat surprising to find voters who backed John McCain in 2008 and now support President Barack Obama, but they exist. Roughly 5 percent of respondents in Reuters/Ipsos polls said they chose the Republican contender in 2008 and will switch to Obama in 2012. This number peaked at around 9 percent two separate times over the summer, according to data collected since January. Who are these defectors? Jeff Waltrip, 56, is a retired electrician and retail worker who has voted Republican all his life. But in his view Obama

Romney/Biden 2012? TheDC’s
short guide to a
presidential ‘split decision’

Daily Caller, by Will Rahn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/21/2012 7:42:50 PM Post Reply

As such an result would likely extend their time in the sun by several weeks, the political talking class has become fixated on the prospect of a “split decision” on Election Day. This scenario encompasses two different outcomes: One in which a candidate wins the electoral vote while the other wins the popular vote, and one wherein both candidates get 269 of the 538 votes in the Electoral College. (Snip) The New York Times polling guru Nate Silver has used his model to predict a 0.4 percent chance that the race ends in an Electoral College tie, but says Mitt

Bill Clinton is Melting
Down All Over Again

Frontpage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/21/2012 7:37:16 PM Post Reply

Bill Clinton is supposed to be the secret weapon in this race. The Oxford draft dodging grad who can appeal to working Americans because he has a Southern accent. The problem is that Bill also has a history of melting down during campaigns. Clinton’s incredible campaigning abilities have been largely overstated. Clinton won two presidential elections against ridiculously weak Republican candidates who barely showed up. That’s also how he became Governor of Arkansas. He blew the 2008 primaries and now he’s beginning to melt down all over again.

PM ‘knows nothing’ of
Iran-US talks agreement

Jerusalem Post, by Herb Keinon Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/21/2012 7:35:15 PM Post Reply

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday denied knowledge of an agreement in principle for direct talks between the US and Iran, but said any such talks – if they did take place – would only be used by Iran to buy time. “Israel doesn’t know about these contacts and I can’t confirm that they’ve actually taken place,” Netanyahu said, adding that in talks Tehran has held with the P5+1 – the US, China, Russia, Germany, Britain and France – Iran dragged its feet to gain time and advance its nuclear program. “In the last year alone, in the course

Obama, Media Reportedly Preparing
to Slam Romney as Flip-Flopper on China

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: rolanddd- 10/21/2012 7:24:40 PM Post Reply

It hasn’t been a good weekend for the President. The NBC/WSJ poll, released earlier today, shows the race tied at 47 percent. ... The latest Gallup poll has Romney up 7 points, 52-45. NRO hears that the latest attempt by the President’s team to check Romney’s momentum will come via a years-old video in which Romney sounds more conciliatory toward the PRC. Romney, of course, will be portrayed as a flip-flopper. It will be another instance of “Romnesia.”

Netanyahu says doesn't know
of any U.S.-Iran talks

Reuters, by Ori Lewis Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/21/2012 7:23:52 PM Post Reply

Jeruslem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he didn't know about any U.S. plans to talk bilaterally with Iran, saying tougher sanctions and a "credible military option" were the best ways to peacefully halt Tehran's nuclear program. The White House had earlier denied a New York Times report that Washington and Tehran had agreed in principle to hold bilateral negotiations to halt what the West fears is a plan by the Islamic Republic to develop nuclear weapons. Addressing reporters at a civil defense drill to rehearse for a possible earthquake, Netanyahu accused Iran of having used talks

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/21/2012 7:23:35 PM Post Reply

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided. See daily tracking history. These numbers are unchanged from the morning of the second presidential debate. They suggest that the president’s stronger performance in that debate stopped his slide in the polls but did not regain lost ground. The first debate had a bigger impact, changing the race from a two-point Obama advantage to a two-point Romney edge.

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