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Mitt Romney’s testimony in Staples
founder’s divorce case to
be considered for public
release in open court

Boston Globe, by Callum Borchers Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 3:22:27 PM Post Reply

Canton - Mitt Romney’s 1991 testimony in the divorce of Staples founder Tom Stemberg will be considered for public release on Thursday in open court and with television cameras rolling at Norfolk Probate and Family Court. The court on Wednesday rejected Stemberg’s request to close the hearing, siding with the Globe, which is seeking access to the impounded testimony of Romney, now the Republican nominee for president. Stemberg’s ex-wife, Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, appeared in court on Wednesday and supported the release of Romney’s testimony. Robert G. Jones, an attorney for Romney, said the candidate has no position on whether his

The AAUW spin sisters strike again

American Enterprise Institute, by Christina Hoff Sommers Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 10/24/2012 3:12:02 PM Post Reply

This afternoon, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will release its newest “research” report, Graduating with a Pay Gap. This report, according to the AAUW pre-publicity, is “an update of the 2007 AAUW report, Behind the Pay Gap, which found that just one year after college graduation, women are paid only 80 cents for every dollar men are paid.” Can the AAUW be trusted? Consider its record. The 2007 report does give readers the impression that millennial women are facing serious workplace discrimination. But buried on page 18, we find this qualification:

My mother abandoned me when
I was just eight:
Hugh Jackman's secret heartache

UK Daily Mail, by Daily Mail Reporter Original Article

Posted By: yourblueroom- 10/24/2012 3:07:57 PM Post Reply

Hugh Jackman has opened up about his painful childhood in a touching new interview. The Wolverine star, 44, revealed his mother, Grace Watson, walked out on his family when he was just eight. She left Australia for the UK and only broke the news to her five children via telegram. He later discovered she had battled depression and was 'struggling' as a parent.

Genocide and Communism
Threaten South Africa

New American, by Alex Newman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 3:07:16 PM Post Reply

Along a highway on a grassy hill, thousands of white crosses — each one representing an individual victim of brutal farm murders, or plaasmoorde in Afrikaans — are a stark reminder of the reality facing European-descent farmers in the new South Africa. One of the iron crosses was planted last year in memory of two-year-old Willemien Potgieter, who was executed on a farm and left in a pool of her own blood. Her parents were murdered, too — the father hacked to death with a machete. Before leaving, the half-dozen killers tied a note to the gate: “We killed them.

Ford to Shut Two European
Factories With 4,900 Jobs Lost

Bloomberg News, by Alex Webb Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 3:03:00 PM Post Reply

Ford Motor Co. (F) will shut two European assembly plants, its first car-factory closings in the region in a decade, and cut almost 4,900 jobs to stem losses that the company predicts will exceed $1 billion in 2012. (Snip) The European sovereign-debt crisis is set to lead to the biggest annual drop in car sales in 19 years. Manufacturers such as PSA Peugeot Citroen (UG), General Motors Co. (GM)’s Opel brand and Fiat (F) SpA have responded by shutting or outlining plans to close factories in an effort to restore earnings. Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally said last

Europe's manufacturing
gets weaker

CNN Money, by Mark Thompson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:59:57 PM Post Reply

London - A weak performance by eurozone factories in October suggests the region could fall deeper into recession in the fourth quarter, as businesses shed jobs in the face of declining orders. Preliminary data published Wednesday showed the weakest reading for eurozone manufacturing and service activity in 40 months, and a separate reading of business sentiment in Germany -- the region's largest economy - fell to its lowest level since February 2010. (Snip) Eurozone GDP shrank by 0.2% in the second quarter. It is expected to have contracted further in the third.

Republicans in Strong Position
to Keep U.S. House Control

Bloomberg News, by James Rowley & Roxana Tiron Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:53:04 PM Post Reply

Washington - Republicans are in a strong position to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year as political analysts predict that Democrats will be more than a dozen seats short of a majority in the Nov. 6 election. Republican gains in redistricting after the 2010 Census and the retirements of a group of moderate Democrats diminish the chances of a power switch for the 113th Congress. (Snip) Most freshmen backed by the anti-government-spending Tea Party are favored to win re-election, with the exception of Joe Walsh of Illinois. Others such as Allen West of Florida, Dan Benishek

Robin Hood tax gains
traction in Europe

CNN Money, by Ben Rooney Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:49:00 PM Post Reply

Robin Hood may not have roamed Sherwood Forest for hundreds of years, but fans of his "steal from the rich, give to the poor" ethos appear to have made inroads into European tax policy. The European Union's executive body said Tuesday that 10 members of the 27-nation group had agreed to move forward with a Financial Transaction Tax, also known as the Robin Hood tax. (Snip) The idea of taxing financial transactions more broadly really started to gain ground earlier this year, when former French President Nicolas Sarkozy began touting it as a way out of Europe's financial crisis.

Russia says Syrian rebels
have US-made missiles

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:40:32 PM Post Reply

Moscow - Russia's chief military officer says Syrian rebels have acquired portable air defense missiles, including U.S.-made Stinger missiles. Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the military's General Staff, didn't say how many such missiles the rebels had and who supplied them. Makarov said Wednesday in remarks carried by Russian news agencies that some of the weapons could have been delivered by commercial airlines, but he didn't elaborate.

Greece nears 2-year
bailout extension

CNN Money, by Mark Thompson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:38:23 PM Post Reply

London - Greece has reached a new deal with its international lenders, gaining two more years to make painful spending cuts and tax increases, and paving the way for the troubled nation to receive the next installment of bailout funding. A Greek finance ministry spokeswoman told CNN that the package of measures had been completed and Athens would be notifying the euro working group in the coming days, before presenting it to parliament in two draft bills next week. (Snip) By pushing the deadline to 2016, the troika deal will give Samaras breathing room to bring Greece's budget deficit under
Headline corrected by staff.

Nobel Mann Takes On
Revolting Peasants

National Review, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: Mike PHX- 10/24/2012 2:38:16 PM Post Reply

A few readers have asked for my reaction to the news that climatologist Michael Mann has decided to proceed with his suit against NR, me, Rand Simberg and the Competitive Enterprise Institute for mocking his hockey stick. I’m still working on my formal, bland, carefully lawyered official response, so for now just let me do cheap ad hominem cracks. I was intrigued to see in Dr. Mann’s press release of his suit the following biographical detail: Dr. Mann is a climate scientist whose research has focused on global warming.
Author's name corrected by staff.

Letterman: Say, Obama’s kind of
lying about this GM bankruptcy
thing, huh?

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/24/2012 2:34:55 PM Post Reply

Alternate headline: Even Late Night Comedy Shows Must Interview Obama Off the Record. Noel Sheppard picks up David Letterman’s belated realization that Barack Obama — one of his favorite guests — has misrepresented Mitt Romney’s position on GM and the auto bailout for months. Letterman tells MSNBCs Rachel Maddow that he finds it disappointing when a challenger proves to be more honest than an incumbent President:(Snip) If you want your President to be telling the truth, then it’s time for a new President. And when a Democrat has lost David Letterman, and when Letterman
Headline resplit by staff. Snip added by staff.

The True Spy Story Behind Argo

Foreign Policy [Washington, DC], by Nate Jones Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:34:30 PM Post Reply

In the final scenes of the "nail-biting political thriller" Argo -- the true story of how the CIA safely whisked six U.S. Embassy staffers out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis -- a group of Americans disguised as a film crew safely survives three passport checks, the canceling and uncanceling of plane tickets, and a runway car chase by the Revolutionary Guard. But according to the insider account published in 1999 by the CIA's in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, the actual exit was much less dramatic. The Iranian customs official stamping passports at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport "could not

Study: Obama Commercials Excite
Viewers to Vote Against Him

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/24/2012 2:29:49 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama has spent the campaign season trying to disqualify and tear down Mitt Romney, but a new study has found Obama's commercials actually energize voters to vote against the President, not his opponent. Evolving Strategies, a public opinion research firm, found GOP enthusiasm was 42 percent higher in 2012 than it was in 2008 for John McCain because "Democratic ads are goosing Republican enthusiasm." (Snip) But Romney's ads did not turn voters against him, while Obama's commercials did. Here are the Obama ads that were tested: A Medicare ad accusing Romney and Ryan of wanting to gut Medicare.

Congressman Jim Moran’s
son caught on tape teaching
vote fraud techniques

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/24/2012 2:22:03 PM Post Reply

A new undercover video from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas shows Pat Moran, son of longtime incumbent congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) and field director for his father’s re-election campaign, instructing a supporter in how to use fraudulent documents to cast a hundred illegal votes: Note that Project Veritas prominently includes the unedited raw footage of this encounter, to counter the usual whines about false editing. There’s not much question about what happens here. An undercover operative posing as a very enthusiastic supporter

Military voters: Don't shortchange us

Tampa Tribune, by Pete Hegseth Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 10/24/2012 2:19:40 PM Post Reply

On Oct. 28, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act — a bill designed to make voting easier and more accessible for military personnel stationed around the world.(Snip)Despite hard work from state-level leaders in Florida, ballots requested by military members and their spouses are down an alarming 50 percent from 2008, according to the Military Voter Protection Project. Sadly, Florida's numbers are better than most states — many of which are down over 80 percent in that same time period.

Mitt's 'quiet on Benghazi'
strategy is smart

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Cheri Jacobus Original Article

Posted By: hornet- 10/24/2012 2:08:47 PM Post Reply

Since Monday night's debate, I've heard scores of Romney supporters express disappointment and surprise that Mitt Romney did not hammer away at President Obama on growing scandal regarding the attacks in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans. But it likely wasn't a Romney gaffe — Romney's near-silence on Benghazi was on purpose.
Headline split by staff.

Obama's gonna need a bigger
October Surprise than this

American Thinker, by Rosslyn Smith Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/24/2012 1:49:21 PM Post Reply

It looks like that Gloria Allred's October Surprise is Maureen Stemberg, the woman who divorced the Staples founder a quarter of a century ago in a bitterly fought contest and who seems to try to re-litigate the matter every few years since then. Ace of Spades located a less than sympathetic 2006 Boston Herald article in which the former Mrs. Stemberg was trying to embarrass her ex husband and his politically ambitious friend Mitt Romney into giving her more money

Obama reveals victory hopes rely on
'Latino community' rejecting Romney
in candid off-the-record comments
he didn't want made public

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/24/2012 1:42:24 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama has indicated that he believes his re-election prospects rest on a big turnout among Hispanic voters - not necessarily in support of him, but because they have been turned off by Republicans and Mitt Romney. He made his controversial remarks in a conversation with journalists which he demanded should be 'off the record' but which were made public after an editor complained about the unprecedented request. 'Should I win a second term, a big reason I will win a second term is because the Republican nominee and the Republican Party have so alienated the fastest-growing demographic group in the country

White House Insider: The Only
Way Obama Wins This Election
Is To Steal It

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/24/2012 1:31:43 PM Post Reply

As Benghazi news reports now pummel down upon the head of President Barack Obama, a longtime D.C. political operative who has spent the past three years attempting to correct the mistake that was the 2008 election, declares in this brief communication that the only way Obama can now be allowed a second term is if he steals the 2012 election. Ulsterman: Can you confirm the Benghanzi news reports? The emails? Was this the breaking story you referenced earlier? Is momentum still with Romney?

Arrest made in Jessica
Ridgeway case

KUSA-TV [Denver], by Blair Shiff Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/24/2012 1:29:33 PM Post Reply

WESTMINSTER - Westminster Police have made an arrest in the Jessica Ridgeway case. Westminster Police said in a press release Wednesday: "Late Tuesday evening, police received a call that led them to a home near the Ketner Lake Open Space. With this discovery, police [announced] they made an arrest in the Ridgeway murder investigation. Additionally, authorities will file charges against the attacker in the May 28, 2012 attempted abduction at Ketner Lake.

Voters take distortions in stride

Telegram & Gazette [Worcester, MA], by Clive McFarlane Original Article

Posted By: onashi- 10/24/2012 1:29:08 PM Post Reply

The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, founded with the goal of giving every child the education necessary to succeed in the changing marketplace, was the powerbroker behind the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993. The organization spearheaded an unprecedented groundswell of collaboration between Massachusetts educators and policymakers. Former Gov. Bill Weld eventually signed off on the legislation, once a charter school provision was added.

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