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Temporary Medicaid pay
hike confuses doctors

Washington Post, by Phil Galewitz Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 10/23/2012 10:38:16 PM Post Reply

To recruit more doctors to treat the poor, President Obama’s health-care law took a simple approach: temporarily pay doctors more money. Starting Jan. 1, primary-care doctors when treating patients on Medicaid, (Snip) Adding to the uncertainty is that the Obama administration has not issued final rules for the pay hike and most industry officials don’t expect one until after Election Day. In addition, some states have been hesitant to promote the provision because Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has vowed to repeal the health-care law if he is elected.

How not to have an affair
like a French president

France 24, by Sophie Pilgrim Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 10:37:11 PM Post Reply

Do the French really need help in carrying out extramarital affairs? No. But they do need help keeping them secret, according to Canadian entrepreneur Neil Biderman, who is promoting the French launch of his extramarital dating website this week with a daring billboard ad. To illustrate his argument, the poster has taken four French presidents – including current head of state François Hollande – and printed lipstick kisses on their cheeks and foreheads. “What do they all have in common?” it asks. (Snip) They were all found out for having extramarital affairs. Hence the tagline, “They should have thought

Osama Bin Laden TV Movie Recut
to More Prominently Feature
President Obama

Hollywood Reporter, by Pamela McClintock & Aaron Couch Original Article

Posted By: rbwkc- 10/23/2012 10:34:21 PM Post Reply

Harvey Weinstein, a longtime Obama supporter, has added more news and documentary footage to "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," which airs on the National Geographic Channel two days before the presidential election. It’s expected that speeches from President Obama will be all over TV in the days before the election, but he'll also be playing a larger role in a television movie airing on Nov. 4, just two days before the presidential election. Harvey Weinstein, a longtime Obama supporter, bought U.S. rights to SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden in May and recently recut

Qatar’s Emir Visits Gaza,
Pledging $400 Million to Hamas

New York Times, by Jodi Rudoren Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 10/23/2012 10:28:48 PM Post Reply

Jerusalem - The emir of Qatar on Tuesday became the first head of state to visit the Gaza Strip since Hamas took full control of it in 2007, the latest step in an ambitious campaign by the tiny Persian Gulf nation to leverage its outsize pocketbook in support of Islamists across the region — and one that threatened to widen the rift between rival Palestinian factions. The emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, pledged $400 million to build two housing complexes, rehabilitate three main roads and create a prosthetic center, among other projects, a transformational infusion of cash

Bob Woodward: Obama
'mistaken' on sequester

Politico, by Leigh Munsil Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/23/2012 10:28:31 PM Post Reply

Bob Woodward says President Barack Obama got some of his facts wrong on sequester at Monday night’s debate. Woodward’s book, “The Price of Politics,” has been the go-to fact check source for the president’s answer, in which he claimed the idea of using deep, automatic, across-the-board domestic and defense spending cuts to force Congress to address the nation’s burgeoning federal deficit originated from Congress, not from the White House. “What the president said is not correct,” Woodward told POLITICO Tuesday. “He’s mistaken. And it’s refuted by the people who work for him.”

State Department emails from day of
Libya attack show Al Qaeda-tied
group on radar

FOX News, by Chad Pergram Original Article

Posted By: CEP- 10/23/2012 10:26:40 PM Post Reply

A series of internal State Department emails obtained by Fox News shows some some of the initial assessments of last month's deadly consulate attack in Libya, including one email within hours of the attack that noted that the group Ansar al Sharia had claimed responsibility. Ansar al Sharia has been declared by the State Department to be a an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. A member of the group suspected of participating in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi has been arrested and is being held in Tunisia.

US denied access to suspect held
in Libya strike, as debate
builds over nature of attack

Fox News, by Catherine Herridge Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 10:20:49 PM Post Reply

American authorities have been denied access to a Tunisian national being held in connection with the consulate attack in Libya that killed an ambassador and three other Americans, a top Republican lawmaker told Fox News. Ali ani al-Harzi, suspected of ties to extremist groups including Al Qaeda's North Africa affiliate, was arrested in Turkey and has since been transferred to Tunisian authorities, but the U.S. has not been allowed to question him, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said Tuesday. (Snip) Al-Harzi is one of about two-dozen individuals on a list of suspects that is being worked through by the U.S.

Officer, motorist dead in
NY gunfire; man arrested

Associated Press, by Frank Eltman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/23/2012 10:15:57 PM Post Reply

BELLEROSE TERRACE, N.Y. — An ex-convict was arrested on Tuesday on charges he fatally shot a Long Island police officer in broad daylight Tuesday near the Belmont Park racetrack and then killed another driver not far away during a carjacking, authorities said. The suspect was identified as 33-year-old Darrell Fuller, who was on parole after serving time for attempted murder, authorities said. A 911 caller reported hearing gunfire in Queens amid a massive manhunt for Fuller. Responding officers found him in a vehicle — not the one carjacked

Obama Sics His Freaks On Romney:
Allred, Sullivan, Wright…

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 10:13:58 PM Post Reply

Desperation is in the air, and The Chicago Machine's ugliness is just starting to get ginned up. They've already all but accused Romney of being a "felon" and of murdering Joe Soptic's wife, but now that the polls are moving against Obama – and the President's closing argument has been reduced to Big Bird, binders, and bayonets – President Obama's about launch his own personal freak show starring Jeremiah Wright, Gloria Allred, and Andrew Sullivan. (Snip) Today, things got improbably worse when the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan, who has reportedly been a guest of Obama's at the White House, launched

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
to headline Red Rocks show

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: bldrrepub- 10/23/2012 10:13:39 PM Post Reply

Move over, U2. Here comes Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential candidate will be joined by running mate Paul Ryan, Kid Rock and Rodney Atkins for a rally at Red Rocks Amphitheater Tuesday evening. The Republican ticket hopes to use the famous concert venue to juice up the GOP faithful as early voting continues in Colorado. The amphitheater is best known as the setting for the U2 concert film "Under A Blood Red Sky." President Barack Obama will swing through Denver on Wednesday for an afternoon rally in City Park.

Tagg Trutherism: NBC, Salon
Lay Track For Ohio
Vote Conspiracy Theory

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 10:11:13 PM Post Reply

Yesterday, at the Big Journalism ObamaMedia live blog, I made note of a tweet fired off by MSNBC's Luke Russert, where he linked to a wild-eyed MSNBC story "raising questions" about Tagg Romney's connection to a Ohio voting machine company: A financial interest held by Mitt Romney’s son in a voting machine company whose systems are being used in Ohio threatens public confidence in the election’s integrity, according to Jennifer Brunner, the state’s former top elections official. (Snip) Today, NBC News itself jumped into the fever swamp: Now, the integrity of electronic voting machines is back in the spotlight. Reports

In homestretch, Obama, Romney
begin battleground blitz

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/23/2012 10:06:20 PM Post Reply

DAYTON, Ohio — Leaving behind the string of presidential debates that have put his re-election bid in doubt, President Obama embarked Tuesday on a blitz of battleground states in the final two weeks of the campaign, promoting an economic plan for a second term and portraying Republican rival Mitt Romney as unpatriotic and unprepared to lead. With the race closer than ever, thanks in part to Mr. Obama’s mixed performance in debating, the Obama campaign launched a multimedia advertising offensive focusing on “economic patriotism,” detailing the president’s plan for economic recovery with millions of direct-mail

UT Arlington announces
$25.2 million research institute

Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Patrick M. Walker Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 10/23/2012 10:04:15 PM Post Reply

Arlington - In the quest for Tier One status, money is important, of course. But so is knowing the right people. On Monday, those ingredients -- as well as DFW's strength of geography -- came together in the announcement of a planned $25.2 million research institute at the University of Texas at Arlington that one high-ranking official predicts will "help bring life-changing technologies to North America." UT System regents allocated $7.5 million from the Permanent University Fund for the three-part Institute for Research Technologies. The rest of the funding, $18.5 million,

John McCain says he was 'exactly
right' in 2008 when he stated
Obama was not ready to be
commander-in-chief after last
TV debate on foreign policy

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 9:54:47 PM Post Reply

Senator John McCain has said he was 'exactly right' about Barack Obama in 2008 because America's position in the world 'has dramatically deteriorated' over the past four years. Referring to the moment in last night's debate when the President patronised Mitt Romney over his knowledge of the military, McCain said: 'I don't understand why the President wants to take these kind of cheap shots--bayonets and horses? What's that all about?' Speaking to MSNBC he added: 'You know, when I debated then-Senator Obama, I didn't criticise or belittle his lack of experience on national security issues. And he seemed to

The sickening truth about
wind farm syndrome - Thread Closed

New Scientist, by Simon Chapman Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 10/23/2012 9:51:03 PM Post Reply

Hilltop turbines are being blamed for myriad maladies. What is the truth behind these outlandish claims? NEW technology has long attracted "modern health worries". Microwave ovens, television and computer screens and even early telephony all caused anxiety in their time. More recently, cellphones and towers, Wi-Fi and smart electricity meters have followed suit. Another is gathering attention; the very modern malaise known as wind turbine syndrome. I set out to collect the conditions attributed to wind farm exposure. Within hours, I'd found 50 often florid assertions about different

Why I block Twitter's
environmental Taliban

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/23/2012 9:48:45 PM Post Reply

Ever since he christened the green lobby the "environmental Taliban" my respect for George Osborne has risen enormously. What was even more amusing was when four green activist organisations hurried forward to self-identify: In a joint letter to Mr Osborne, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the RSPB and WWF-UK said they would be "most grateful" if he could clarify his comments. Andrew Pendelton, the head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth, said: "If he has made this comment, it is potentially deeply offensive. It is offensive to us as professionals working in these organisations, but also to the millions

White House told of militant claim
two hours after Libya attack: emails

Reuters, by Mark Hosenball & Susan Cornwell Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 10/23/2012 9:37:35 PM Post Reply

Washington - Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show. The emails, obtained by Reuters from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for the attacks. The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.

Obama to talk
with MTV on Friday

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/23/2012 9:24:43 PM Post Reply

President Obama will try to hit young voters where they live -- on MTV. The president will headline Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview With the President at 5 p.m. ET Friday, the music television network said today. "The half-hour special will feature MTV News correspondents Sway Calloway, who will sit down with the president in the White House, and Andrew Jenks, who will be on the ground at a college campus in Washington, D.C., with a group of young voters," MTV said. MTV said viewers can submit possible questions on its Facebook page.

Biden's Brother Awarded
Lucrative Gov't Contracts:
Media Silent Thus

Newsbusters, by Ryan Robertson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 9:06:55 PM Post Reply

The rampant crony capitalism of the federal government simply can't be ignored anymore, but the media has made a habit out of selectively picking and choosing what it wants to report on with this administration. This latest example may ultimately be ignored and denied too however, because it involves the brother of our current vice president. According to Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business, a subsidiary of the construction company called Hill International was handpicked last year to oversee the building of at least 100,000 affordable homes in decimated areas of Iraq. When asked why his company was chosen

Republicans try to sink
the president over his
comment on Battleship

The Hill [Washington DC], by Carlo Muñoz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/23/2012 9:01:38 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney’s campaign on Tuesday launched a rhetorical broadside against President Obama for his debate-night zinger on the future of the Navy, hoping to use the comment to sink the president’s chances in a pair of key swing states. During an exchange in Monday night’s final presidential debate, Obama delivered one of the more memorable lines when he parried Romney’s charge that the Navy is becoming weaker under the president’s leadership. “You mentioned the Navy … and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916,” Obama said. “Well, Governor, we also have fewer

Romney Shredded Obama's
Foreign Policy Failures

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/23/2012 8:53:30 PM Post Reply

Debate: The pundit class thinks Barack Obama "won" Monday's foreign-policy debate. Apparently they didn't hear Mitt Romney's devastating — and unchallenged — critiques of Obama's massive foreign-policy failures. We'll admit we would have preferred the more aggressive Romney from Debate 1 showed up in the last of the three presidential showdowns and that he had forcefully attacked Obama's handling of the Benghazi disaster, among other things. But Romney's goal was obvious: He wanted to come across as a credible leader on the world stage, someone who would steadfastly protect our national security.

Obama Pushed Sequestration
And Defense Spending Cuts

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/23/2012 8:49:56 PM Post Reply

Defense Spending: Despite debate assertions, our commander in chief has in fact presided over a shrinking Navy and an Air Force with planes older than their pilots. And what's worse, he planned it that way. When Mitt Romney accurately said that under President Obama the U.S. Navy had fewer ships than in 1917, our commander-in-chief petulantly and contemptuously responded, "Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed."

Post-ABC tracking poll:
Romney 49 percent, Obama 48

Washington Post, by Jon Cohen Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/23/2012 8:23:31 PM Post Reply

The new Washington Post-ABC News national tracking poll has 49 percent of likely voters supporting Republican Mitt Romney, and 48 percent President Obama, a seesawing result that shows the continued narrowness of the contest. The change from yesterday’s Post-ABC tracking poll, which showed the race 49 to 48 percent the other way, is statistically insignificant, and the numbers do not include any public reaction to the third and final presidential debate Monday night. Almost all of Monday’s interviews were conducted before the debate started. But there are fledgling signs of a fresh advantage for the challenger.

Obama admin threatened with
subpoenas for details
on Delphi pensions

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 7:57:05 PM Post Reply

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp threatened Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Barack Obama on Tuesday: Cough up the Delphi documents or get served with subpoenas. “This is my third letter requesting that the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) come clean about its involvement in the decision-making that led to certain Delphi pension beneficiaries being treated differently during the 2009 General Motors Company (GM) bailout,” Camp wrote in a Tuesday letter to Geither. “To date, Treasury has provided two demonstrably incomplete productions consisting of little more than publicly available documents, redacted e-mails, ex post facto rationale

McCain hammers Obama’s
“lack of maturity”

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 7:50:01 PM Post Reply

Earlier today, I participated in a conference call with Senator John McCain, arranged by Mitt Romney’s campaign as an answer session after the debate. McCain came out attacking Obama for several statements made during the debate, both in McCain’s brief opening remarks and the Q&A session that came afterward. (Snip) McCain traveled to Iraq along with other members of Congress, he stated, in an attempt to close a deal that would have kept thousands of troops in the country. Furthermore, McCain said “I was stunned” by Obama’s remarks on sequestration, since Obama hadn’t bothered to work with Congress at all

U.S. may soon become
world's top oil producer

CBS News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/23/2012 7:45:01 PM Post Reply

New York - U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the U.S. could soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest producer. Driven by high prices and new drilling methods, U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons is on track to rise 7 percent this year to an average of 10.9 million barrels per day. This will be the fourth straight year of crude increases and the biggest single-year gain since 1951. The boom has surprised even the experts. (Snip) The Energy Department forecasts that U.S. production of crude and other liquid hydrocarbons, which includes biofuels, will average

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