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What Worried the White House
About Iran Negotiation Leaks?

Commentary Magazine, by Seth A. Mandel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/22/2012 5:14:28 PM Post Reply

As Jonathan wrote, the New York Times caused a stir over the weekend with its report that the Obama administration agreed to one-on-one talks with Iran over its nuclear program. The story has been interpreted (and reinterpreted) with respect to its utility to the president before tonight’s foreign policy debate depending on the perceived nature of the leaks. So when the story first broke, it was assumed the Obama administration thought this would be politically beneficial on the eve of the debate. When the vigorous denials came—convincing enough to get the Times to change its story without alerting its

Rep. Issa hits back at Democrats
in Libya blame game

Human Events, by Hope Hodge Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/22/2012 5:04:43 PM Post Reply

As the Obama administration continues to deflect questions about inadequate security and misinformation following the murders of four Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, House Democrats have been working to create a separate stir, hitting at House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) with accusations that documents Issa released Friday in an attempt to shed light on the true Benghazi story represented a “reckless and dangerous” disclosure of sensitive information and U.S. sources. The 166-page document packet, prominently marked

In Virginia and Iowa, the
electorate is shifting right

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/22/2012 5:01:58 PM Post Reply

The Romney camp and GOP operatives on the ground in key swing states think the wind is at their back. A senior Republican told me Sunday night that Mitt Romney is up by two to three points in Virginia, which President Obama won by nearly seven points in 2008. That is consistent with public polling since early October. This Republican expects Romney to keep Obama’s lead in populous Fairfax County below 100,000 (in 2008 Obama racked up a 110,000-vote advantage in Fairfax and won the state by more than 230,000 votes). Republicans are optimistic Romney can carry the exurb

Our First 'Red Diaper Baby' President?

American Spectator, by Paul Kengor Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/22/2012 5:01:42 PM Post Reply

All the pieces fit, so why do historians and biographers ignore the question. As president, Barack Obama is many things -- many unprecedented things. There's the commendable: the truly historic achievement (with apologies to Bill Clinton) of being the first black president. There's the dubious: the lamentable distinction (christened by Newt Gingrich) of being the first "food stamp president." But here's an intriguing, provocative thought: Is Barack Obama our first "Red Diaper Baby" president? Gee, that would be unprecedented. Now, before deeming the question over-the-top, out-of-bounds,

Missouri Senate Race
Model For the Nation

Scripps News Service, by Star Parker Original Article

Posted By: Jakester2344- 10/22/2012 4:57:06 PM Post Reply

A new poll from Wenzel Strategies shows Rep. Todd Akin leading incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill in the race for the Senate seat in Missouri. It’s big news that Akin is still alive and kicking despite being abandoned by the national Republican Party leadership. Akin, who refused to succumb to pressure from his own party leadership to get out of the race after poorly expressing himself in an interview on the issue of rape and abortion, has been left to his own resources and friends to raise funds. According to the just published fundraising report for the last quarter, going through September,

Voter fraud billboards that drew
complaints of racism and intimidation
will come down, Clear Channel says

Plain Dealer [Cleveland, OH], by Patrick O'Donnell Original Article

Posted By: Harlowe- 10/22/2012 4:20:14 PM Post Reply

Clear Channel Outdoor will remove 30 billboards across the city that drew complaints of racism and intimidation with their message of "Voter fraud is a felony," the company said Saturday night. Jim Cullinan, a spokesman for Clear Channel Outdoor, said the billboards will come down immediately. He said the company continues its donation of 10 other billboards that will have messages to counter the offending ones. City Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, who objected to the billboards and helped lead the push for others to respond to them, called Clear Channel's decision "fantastic news."

'When you get married you
bet on forever': Husband of
murdered Starbucks barista,
21, reveals his anguish as it
emerges his wife died from
multiple gunshot wounds

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 4:15:47 PM Post Reply

The husband of murdered Starbucks barista Whitney Heichel today revealed his anguish as it emerged she died after being shot multiple times. The body of Whitney, 21, was found in a remote wooded area on Friday, three days after she failed to turn up for her 7am shift just two minutes from her home in Gresham, Oregon. On Monday, medical examiner Dr Christopher Young revealed she died from multiple gunshot wounds, but declined to release further results from the autopsy. 'It's very difficult,' her husband, Clint Heichel,

Obama’s Bear-Hugger Invited To Debate

ABC News, by Mary Bruce Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 4:05:41 PM Post Reply

BOCA RATON, Fla. — President Obama’s campaign has invited Scott Van Duzer, the bear-hugging Florida restaurant owner who gave Obama a lift last month, to be a guest at tonight’s presidential debate. Obama got a friendly boost — literally — from Van Duzer when he made a surprise stop at his Ft. Pierce, Fla., restaurant. The pizza shop owner enthusiastically embraced the president, physically lifting him off the ground. “Look at that!” the president exclaimed when he was back on solid ground. “Man, are you a powerlifter or what?”

Nate Silver’s Flawed Model - Thread Closed

National Review Online, by Josh Jordan Original Article

Posted By: rightwingkevin- 10/22/2012 3:59:42 PM Post Reply

In that same post, Silver touts that a “SurveyUSA poll showing Mr. Obama with a one-point lead in Florida is really the slightly better result for him.” That SurveyUSA poll indeed had Obama up by one point, but had a Democratic party-ID advantage of nine points. In 2008 Democrats had a three-point advantage, and in 2010 the parties were even.

Obama heads to 'Tonight
Show' Wednesday

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 3:50:30 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will be sitting down with Jay Leno on the set of "The Tonight Show" Wednesday, less than two weeks before Election Day. NBC says Wednesday night's appearance will be Obama's fifth on "The Tonight Show," his third since he became president. Obama has been making the late-night rounds as the presidential campaign has picked up steam. He was on CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman" last month, and chatted with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" last week.Mitt Romney has avoided the late-night talk shows since he became the Republican party's

Media Screams 'Tie'...
With 15 Days to Go

Breitbart News, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 3:45:33 PM Post Reply

The media desperation is palpable this morning. Now they're all stuck on and grabbing hold tight of the word "tie" and phrases like, "It will all come down to ground game." Newflash: We have fifteen days and one debate to go. This thing could still break one way or another. So to pretend that where the race is now is where it will always be, is just wrong. But the media doesn't want to talk about that because they know that if the race breaks it is highly unlikely

From McGovern to Obama

American.com, by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/22/2012 3:40:45 PM Post Reply

If you look at the map of the states where McGovern ran ahead of his national average, you see something very much like the map of the states carried by Obama. Others who knew George McGovern much more closely than I have written warm remembrances of the former South Dakota senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee; see, for example, Bob Dole’s article in the Washington Post. But I feel some personal closeness to him, not just as a not entirely unrepentant McGovern voter and supporter in 1972, but also as a one-time neighbor — in Diamond Lake, Illinois, in 1947.

NBC/WSJ poll: Obama leads
by 45 points with Latinos

NBC News, by Domenico Monatanaro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 3:40:02 PM Post Reply

Hispanic voters continue to say they prefer President Obama by wide margins over Republican nominee Mitt Romney amid signs that the race is tightening among the broader electorate, according to new data in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll. Obama leads Romney 70 percent to 25 percent among likely Latino voters (and 69 percent to 23 percent among registered voters), a slight uptick for Romney from the 70 percent to 25 percent lead the president held a month ago. But Latino enthusiasm has ticked up since last month, up from its lows earlier this cycle but still not yet on

Freedom of speech is
deader in Australia

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/22/2012 3:35:00 PM Post Reply

A few months ago I wrote that freedom of speech is dead in Australia. This was prompted by two incidents--the trial of blogger and broadcaster Andrew Bolt, who had had the temerity to suggest that white-looking Australians with only a tiny proportion of aboriginal blood in them might possibly be taking the p*** by using their supposed "traditional owner" ethnic status to screw money, influence and sympathy out of Australia's guilt-ridden welfare system.[Snip] Now to this list of shame we can add a third item of gob-smacking imbecility: the consignment of Australia's most popular broadcaster, Alan Jones, to a political

The New Yorker endorses Obama in
pompous and purple prose. Some-
body's drunk too many martinis…

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/22/2012 3:26:06 PM Post Reply

The New Yorker has endorsed President Obama. The headline was just two words long: “The Choice.” The article was roughly 3,600. In the house style of the New Yorker, it might be called “loquacious”. To you and me, it’s just “too long.” The endorsement is hardly enthusiastic. To his supporters, Obama has been “a disappointment” and the magazine revives the charge that he spent too little. On healthcare, he “achieved the achievable” and his Nobel Prize was “an act as patronizing as it was premature.” As a personality, “Obama is … a human being, a flawed and complicated one,

The Tragic Demise of Fannie Mae

American.com, by Alex Pollock Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/22/2012 3:25:59 PM Post Reply

James R. Hagerty’s new book, The Fateful History of Fannie Mae: New Deal Birth to Mortgage Crisis Fall, shows how hard it is for administrations throughout history to know what they are really doing in their political attempts to manipulate the housing market. As Hagerty explains, the Eisenhower administration, working through the Housing Act of 1954, tried to wean Fannie off the government’s credit and make it operate with private capital. It succeeded instead in creating the essence of the fateful and costly government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) structure.

Bundlers Gwen Stefani,
Madeleine Albright Helped
Obama Raise $180M

National Journal, by Chris Frates Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 3:25:00 PM Post Reply

More than 750 fundraisers for President Obama have raised at least $180 million for his re-election and the list of bundlers includes boldface names like former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, who raised at least $200K and $500K respectively. Michael Beckel of the Center for Public Integrity has more: President Barack Obama's re-election campaign added 120 new fundraising "bundlers" during the third quarter who have brought in at least $17.5 million, including a former secretary of state and a platinum blonde pop star who has sold more than 40 million albums.

Republicans bring back
Obama 'bitter' remarks in Pa. ad

Fox News, by Chris Stirewalt Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/22/2012 3:17:59 PM Post Reply

A new ad from the super PAC backing House Republicans invokes President Obama's 2008 comments about "bitter" small-town Americans clinging to guns, religion and their prejudices against outsiders. The ad is aimed at Democratic Rep. Mark Critz , but could have blowback for the president in the crucial western Pennsylvania district where it's running. The president made those hidden-camera comments, during a 2008 fundraiser in California, in reference to Pennsylvania voters. Obama said at the time that, as jobs disappear in the area, "It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion

Hina Khan, Pakistani school girl,
threatened by Taliban

Global Post [Boston], by Mariya Karimjee Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 3:09:09 PM Post Reply

Karachi, Pakistan - Hina Khan, a school girl from Pakistan's Swat district who has publicly criticized the Taliban for their ban on women's education, has claimed that her life has been threatened by the Taliban and that the Pakistani government has taken no steps to provide for her and her family's safety. (Snip) According to Al Jazeera English, a few days ago, Khan found a large a large red "X" painted on the gate of her Islamabad home, where she moved in 2006 after her education was threatened in Swat. Her father received a phone call the following day from

Lions and Tigers and Bears
and Romney and Obama, oh my!

Washington Times, by Eric Golub Original Article

Posted By: surgedr- 10/22/2012 3:06:43 PM Post Reply

PHOENIX, October 19, 2012 – Welcome to C-Span's coverage of the third and final 2012 presidential debate. Due to President Obama and Governor Romney nearly coming to blows in the second debate, we had our highest ratings since we learned how to track ratings online last week. This was good because the first debate was even more boring than our usual lineup. For those of you who want to watch something interesting, we recommend you switch to ESPN. During the third debate, Monday Night Football will feature the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions.

Britain risking national security by
dealings with Huawei, says ex
MoD man

Telegraph [UK], by Naomi Scherbel-Ball, Rowena Mason Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/22/2012 3:04:05 PM Post Reply

Britain is risking national security by giving too much access to a Chinese telecoms giant, the Ministry of Defence’s former head of cyber security has warned. Major General Jonathan Shaw, former assistant chief of defence staff, suggested Britain needs to be more careful about its relationship with Huawei, amid concerns in the US and Australia about the potential for corporate espionage. In frank comments to Exaro, the investigative website, the former civil servant accused the government of putting the economy before national security. Major General Jonathan Shaw, former assistant chief of defence staff, suggested Britain needs to be more
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Turkey leads the way in cracking
down on press freedom: Report

Reuters, by Daren Butler Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 3:03:38 PM Post Reply

Istanbul - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government has waged one of the world’s biggest crackdowns on press freedom in recent years, jailing more journalists than Iran, China or Eritrea, a leading media watchdog said on Monday. The damning report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) added to a chorus of criticism from the European Union and rights groups of the EU-candidate country’s mass detention of reporters, most of whom are kept in detention while their cases are dealt with. (Snip) The U.S.-based watchdog criticised Erdogan’s public disparagement of journalists, the use of pressure tactics to encourage self-censorship, and
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Caterpillar cuts 2012
outlook on weak economy

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 3:01:35 PM Post Reply

Caterpillar says the world’s economy is weaker than it thought, and it doesn’t expect growth to pick up until the second half of next year. The Peoria-based company on Monday cut its 2012 revenue and profit guidance, and took a very cautious view toward its performance in 2013. Caterpillar makes the yellow-painted excavators, heavy tractors, and other construction equipment often seen on road-building projects. It’s the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and also makes engines. Its results are watched closely for signs of where the broader economy is headed.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
uses strong rhetoric
against Elizabeth Warren

Global Post [Boston], by Noah Bierman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 2:57:46 PM Post Reply

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is supporting Senator Scott Brown for his moderation, but the vociferous defender of Wall Street used some of the strongest language of the campaign to describe Democratic Elizabeth Warren -- comparing her philosophy with Soviet communism. The comments were published in The New York Times’s The Caucus blog on Sunday, based on a Friday interview Bloomberg gave to the paper. “You can question whether he’s too conservative,” Bloomberg said. “You can question, in my mind, whether she’s God’s gift to regulation, close the banks and get rid of corporate profits, and we’d all bring

Earthquake experts get six years
in jail for failing to warn
people in Italian town

Associated Press, by Annalisa Camilli Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/22/2012 2:54:28 PM Post Reply

L'Aquila, Italy - An Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter on Monday for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. The court in L'Aquila also sentenced the defendants to six years in prison. Each one is a member of the national Great Risks Commission. In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately. Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no reliable way of predicting
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