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Mark Leibovich's Cover
Profile of Paul Ryan for
NYT Mag Steeped in His
Typical Anti-Republican Hostility

Newsbusters, by Clay Waters Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 1:58:46 PM Post Reply

"Paul Ryan Can't Lose," a 5,000-word cover story by Mark Leibovich, the New York Times magazine's chief national correspondent, conformed to the writer's history of cynical, unsympathetic profiles of Republican candidates. According to Leibovich, Newt Gingrich is "among the more divisive political figures of recent decade," always threatening to become "Nasty Newt," former vice president Al Gore is a "compelling" "pop culture icon." Offered the fat target of Vice President Joe Biden, Leibovich instead buttered him up. Yet former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney didn't escape: "Critics deride him as a Prince of Darkness

Did EPA Illegally Experiment
On Human Beings?

Investor's Business Daily, by Steve Milloy Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/23/2012 1:50:26 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued in federal court for conducting illegal experiments on human beings. A federal judge will now determine whether the EPA has violated federal law and the most sacrosanct moral standards of scientific research or whether the EPA has been lying to Congress and the public about the dangers of air pollution. Based on thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, since 2004 and continuing through the Obama administration, the EPA has intentionally exposed hundreds of human subjects to extraordinarily high levels of air pollutants such as diesel exhaust

Trump adviser knocks
down speculation that Obama
revelation is about cocaine

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 1:40:08 PM Post Reply

An adviser to Donald Trump told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that speculation that the real estate mogul’s “very big” revelation about President Barack Obama expected this week has to do with college-era allegations involving cocaine is not true. “Mr. Trump’s announcement is substantially more important to the American people than these allegations made against the president,” Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump, told TheDC by phone on Tuesday.

Too little too late, Mr
President? Romney DOUBLES
his lead in new national
poll just hours after Obama
goes to war in final TV debate

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden & Hugo Gye Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 1:30:04 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has doubled his lead in a new national poll just hours after the explosive final presidential debate - and with just two weeks to go until election day, it is unclear whether Barack Obama will be able to make up the gap. The Republican candidate held a four-point lead in the Rasmussen tracking poll released on Tuesday, with 50 per cent of the vote compared to 46 per cent for the President. In Monday's poll he led by two points. In addition, Romney's lead was five points in swing states and as many as nine points among

Why is Uncertainty So
Unbelievable to Paul Krugman?

Fox News, by Elizabeth MacDonald Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 1:22:37 PM Post Reply

As the presidential campaign winds down, some economists have been playing down the role of economic and political uncertainty in hamstringing the U.S. economic recovery.(snip) Krugman says in his column: “One of the central talking points of right-wing economists is that ‘uncertainty’ caused by Obama is holding the economy back.” He adds: “It’s not at all about Obama,” and concludes that recent research led by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University instead shows that “the U.S. economy is being held back by Republican extremism, by the GOP’s unprecedented willingness to hold the full faith and credit of American [sic] hostage

Big Bird, Binders, Bayonets:
Who Sank Whose Battleship?

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/23/2012 1:19:41 PM Post Reply

It was the foreign policy debate that just quite… wasn’t. (Snip) In the early questions, Romney didn’t go after the administration’s double-speak, video-blaming, and preparedness in the Benghazi attack. The challengers then agreed against military intervention in Syria. Pundits were quickly calling this matchup the “big hug” compared to last week’s rumble on Long Island. Then the last debate in this uncomfortably tight race soon veered into teachers’ unions, balancing the budget, encouraging small business, ObamaCare, and the auto bailout.
Intro repaired by staff

Last night's debate: no clear winner,
but the Obama campaign is now
spiteful, petulant and lightweight

Telegraph [UK], by Thomas Pascoe Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 1:10:41 PM Post Reply

The final presidential debate was not a great advertisement for the genre. After a strong start, Mitt Romney appeared content to sit back and give Barack Obama sufficient floor time to dig himself a big hole. The hole proved large enough for both men. This debate added little to our understanding of foreign policy, although it did tell us where both camps believe the race will be won. Mr Romney's more measured style implies he believes there are sufficient floating voters unimpressed by the President's histrionics to tip the scale in favour of a more sober performer. Mr Obama appealed

How 9/11 'Mastermind' Got
an Orange Beard at Gitmo

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 1:06:04 PM Post Reply

The Pentagon has given a partial explanation to a Guantanamo mystery: How the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks managed to dye his beard. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's bushy grey beard has been colored a rusty orange during court appearances. Spectators had assumed he used henna, which is used by some Muslims as a hair dye. A Pentagon spokesman says Mohammed used "natural means," such as juice from berries that he receives in his meals. Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale said Tuesday that Mohammed did not receive any "outside" means to color his beard.

New Afghanistan drones to be remote-
controlled from Britain as RAF doubles
its unmanned aircraft strike force

Daily Mail [UK], by Mario Ledwith Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 1:05:48 PM Post Reply

The UK will double the number of unmanned RAF drones in Afghanistan to ten with the new aircraft to be operated remotely from Britain. The aircrafts, which are capable of firing missiles and carrying out surveillance, have been the subject of criticism due to civilian deaths during attacks. A Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed that pilots based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire would fly the five recently-bought vehicles. The hi-tech Reaper drones are primarily used to gather intelligence on enemy activity on the ground, but they also carry 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles for precision strikes on insurgents. Five of

Waiting for a blowout election
to settle the dust for Romney

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/23/2012 1:01:13 PM Post Reply

Barring a really major blunder — such as revealing that he was born in Lower Volta or endorsing interspecies marriage (the next big civil rights issue) — this election is beginning to look like it’s Mitt Romney’s to lose. On the morning after the third and mercifully last presidential debate, nearly all the major polls show the race tied or Mr. Romney narrowly ahead. The Gallup poll, the oldest such, dating from 1936, shows a Romney lead of 6 percentage points, well outside the margin of error.

McCain: Obama’s Sarcasm
“Inappropriate” and “Unpresidential”

Commentary Magazine, by Alana Goodman Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 12:59:51 PM Post Reply

Sen. John McCain blasted President Obama’s “horses and bayonets” zinger as “unpresidential” on a conference call this morning, saying it showed a “lack of maturity.” “I don’t know why the president of the United States feels it’s necessary to denigrate and insult his opponent,” said McCain. “It’s not only bad taste, and, frankly, inappropriate for a president of the United States, but it’s also wrong.” Obama said last night that America’s shrinking Navy isn’t a concern, because “we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed.”

Obama camp pushing
second-term plan, ‘Blueprint
for America’s Future’

Washington Post, by Jerry Markon and Amy Gardner Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 12:56:19 PM Post Reply

Delray Beach, Fla. – President Obama’s campaign has begun pushing a more positive closing argument for the campaign’s final days, releasing a plan to try and detail what a second Obama term would look like.(snip)There are no new proposals in the plan Obama is touting; it is a repackaging of proposals he has been offering on the campaign trail for months, such as plans to use half the savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for domestic infrastructure investment; create incentives for companies to bring jobs back to the United States

PhillyDeals: Small-business
owners plan to delay hiring process
until after election

Philly.com, by Joseph N. DiStefano Original Article

Posted By: phillyred- 10/23/2012 12:33:04 PM Post Reply

Pennsylvania small-business owners are delaying hiring plans to see who wins the fall elections, Philadelphia-based accounting firm ParenteBeard says, after surveying 70 Pennsylvania small-business bosses. Four in 10 said they're waiting for the vote before executing their current plans to add staff, John Nealon, head of the firm's small-business accounting practice, told me.
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When Islamists scream Jew-hatred
in the face of the liberal Left, it
hears only 'anti-colonialism'

Telegraph [UK], by Alan Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 12:28:04 PM Post Reply

The extremist Islamist Sheik Raed Saleh has been at it again. Watch this hate-filled rant from the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, broadcast on Al-Jazeera on September 21: Our souls and our blood we will give to you, oh Prophet of Allah. As for you, you haters, you midgets, you little insolent people … listen to us, so we can show you who you really are. You are slaves to global Zionism. Astonishingly, when Saleh won his appeal against deportation from the UK earlier this year, many on the liberal-Left celebrated. Jeremy Corbyn MP called a press conference

Trumped-Up Charges? Republicans
Rejected Man’s Claims That Obama
Sold Cocaine In College

Radaronline.com, by David Perel Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/23/2012 11:47:40 AM Post Reply

A man claiming to be a close pal to President Obama during college made contact with Republican operatives recently, ready to go public with claims that Obama used and sold cocaine in college, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively. The operatives tried to spread the story through the media and the Romney campaign, a source close to the situation told Radar. “At first he wanted to do a book,” a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com about the alleged college pal. “But there just wasn’t enough time before the election.

President Romney

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: MDMuskrat- 10/23/2012 11:12:44 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is more than holding his own with Barack Obama tonight. Only two other challengers have done as well debating foreign policy with an incumbent president—Ronald Reagan (snip) [and] Bill Clinton against George H.W. Bush in 1992. Reagan and Clinton won. Romney is now on track to becoming the third challenger to win in the last 32 years—and the first in 80 years to defeat an incumbent who didn't have a primary challenge. Tonight, Romney seems as fully capable as—probably more capable than—Barack Obama of being the next president. He probably will be.

Biden rouses crowd at
Lorain High School, blasts
Republican opponents (videos,
slideshow & photos)

Morning Journal [Lorain OH], by Rick Payerchin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 11:06:19 AM Post Reply

LORAIN — Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd in Lorain that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and running mate Rep. Paul Ryan should not bet against the American people. Biden spoke to 1,295 people at Lorain High School yesterday where he made a campaign appearance.Biden blasted the Republican candidates and touted what he called President Obama’s record helping America’s middle class and manufacturing. There is no “quit” in Ohio or America, Biden said, adding forward is the only direction to go.

D.C. caught off guard
by Obama sequester vow

Politico, by Philip Ewing Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/23/2012 10:50:52 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama startled Washington during Monday night's foreign policy debate when he said billions in automatic Pentagon cuts “will not happen" — a line that could weaken his bargaining power during an epic spending and tax fight expected when Congress returns. (Snip) "I was astonished, I almost fell out of my chair when the president said, 'Don't worry, sequestration won't happen.' We've been begging the president to sit down with us to avoid what his own secretary of defense said would be a devastating blow to our national security. He just said, 'Don't worry, sequestration won't happen.'

Paul Ryan to talk about
'upward mobility' in Wednesday
speech at Cleveland State University

Plain Dealer [Cleveland OH], by Henry J. Gomez Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 10:47:24 AM Post Reply

CLEVELAND, Ohio- U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan is headed back to Northeast Ohio to stump for himself and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Ryan, the GOP's vice presidential candidate, will speak Wednesday afternoon at Cleveland State University, the Romney campaign announced today. The event will come a week after Ryan's last visit to the region -- an Oct. 18 rally in Berea with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Snip) Ryan also is expected in Ohio on Saturday, though details have not been announced. Romney will campaign Thursday in Cincinnati and elsewhere in the state Friday.

Climate change still
a no-show at debates

Politico, by Andrew Restuccia Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/23/2012 10:47:08 AM Post Reply

Scientists warn the planet is facing a global climate crisis that could result in unprecedented sea-level rise, drought and food shortages. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to the presidential debates. Neither President Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney mentioned the words climate change or global warming during three presidential debates that spanned more than four hours. And their running mates ignored the issue too. (Snip) The absence of climate change talk has made waves in the environmental community, which launched an aggressive campaign to bring the issue to the forefront of the debates.

Obama wins by a landslide
in kids’ online election

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 10:28:42 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK -- It’s a landslide for President Barack Obama—at least among people too young to vote. Nickelodeon’s Linda Ellerbee said Monday that the president captured 65 percent of the vote to beat Republican Mitt Romney in the network’s “Kids Pick the President” vote. More than 520,000 people cast online ballots through the children’s network’s website over one week earlier this month. Since it began in 1988, the kids have presaged the adults’ vote all but once, when more youngsters voted for John Kerry over George W. Bush in 2004.

Black firefighter discrimination
lawsuit tab twice as high
as expected

Chicago Sun-Times, by Fran Spielman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 10:20:48 AM Post Reply

Chicago taxpayers must pay $78.4 million by Dec. 26 — twice as much as previously anticipated — to compensate nearly 6,000 African-American would-be firefighters bypassed by the city’s discriminatory handling of a 1995 entrance exam, a plaintiff’s attorney disclosed Monday. Last year, the city agreed to hire 111 bypassed black firefighters and pay $30 million to $40 million in damages to about 5,900 others who would never get that chance to comply with a federal judge’s order.

Cold case: 1852 probate claim
finally being closed

Cincinnati Enquirer [OH], by Kimball Perry Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 10:17:44 AM Post Reply

The Civil War was still nine years away when Hamilton County’s oldest continuing court case was filed in 1852 on behalf of a blind Cincinnati banker looking to commemorate his wife and his beliefs. Now, 160 years later, the Probate Court case involving the estate of Ethan Stone is likely coming to a close. And with the case’s end comes a surprising revelation: Some Cincinnati residents, it turns out, don’t own their own land. “My guess is it’s the oldest case in the state of Ohio, possibly in the country, where paperwork has been continuously filed,”

Bill and Hillary Clinton
Share Romantic
Moment in Haiti

ABC News Radio, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 10:17:41 AM Post Reply

As President Obama and Mitt Romney faced off in their final debate about foreign policy, two of America’s most experienced global politicians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton, traveled on a one-day trip to Haiti. The purpose of the trip was philanthropic, but the couple left a little room for romance, reminiscing about the last time they were in the country together for their honeymoon more than 37 years ago.(snip)When it was Secretary Clinton’s turn to speak, she also told the crowd that the she and her husband “fell in love” with Haiti

Mitt Romney's gains grow, Obama's total
slips on new Rove Electoral Map

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/23/2012 10:11:22 AM Post Reply

Karl Rove's analysis of this week's Electoral Map changes: "Mitt Romney gained ground in three out of the four states that changed status in this week's Electoral College map. Missouri moved to 'safe' Romney, and Oregon and Minnesota moved from 'safe' Obama to 'lean' Obama. Connecticut moved from 'lean' to 'safe' Obama, but its seven Electoral College votes were neutralized by Oregon's and Minnesota's shifts.

ABC and CNN Declare ‘False’
What Krauthammer Touted as
Romney’s ‘High Point’

Newsbusters, by Brent Baker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 10:07:19 AM Post Reply

“The high point of that debate for Romney is when he devastatingly leveled the charge of Obama going around the world on ‘an apology tour,’” Charles Krauthammer asserted on the Fox News Channel following Monday night’s third presidential debate. But what Krauthammer saw as so powerful for Mitt Romney, ABC and CNN tried to discredit based on the flimsy reasoning that Obama didn’t use the word “apologize.” ABC’s Jonathan Karl insisted: “The President didn’t apologize for America...there’s no way you could really call it ‘an apology tour.’”

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