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Obama stoops, doesn’t conquer

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/25/2012 11:14:59 PM Post Reply

”L’etat, c’est moi.” — Louis XIV “This nation. Me.” — Barack Obama, third presidential debate Okay, okay. I’ll give you the context. Obama was talking about “when Tunisians began to protest, this nation, me, my administration, stood with them.” Still. How many democratic leaders (de Gaulle excluded) would place the word “me” in such regal proximity to the word “nation”? Obama would have made a very good Bourbon. He’s certainly not a very good debater. He showed it again Monday night. Obama lost. His tone was petty and small. Arguing about Iran’s nuclear program

An appeal to America’s heart

Washington Post, by Michael Gerson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/25/2012 11:11:50 PM Post Reply

The last days of the 2012 presidential election are a study in contrasts. Barack Obama has chosen to end his final campaign with an appeal both sour and small — Big Bird, binders and Romnesia. It is little wonder that Mitt Romney’s personal favorability rating now exceeds the president’s. Obama’s closing message is remarkable for its aggression, mocking tone and sheer triviality. The Romney campaign is ending larger than it has been. Romney has used his final weeks to position himself — his critics would say reposition himself — as a moderate conservative, dedicated to bipartisan progress. Obama attacks Romney

'Breast ironing': the agony
of young Cameroonian girls

France 24, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 11:08:52 PM Post Reply

During puberty, thousands of Cameroonian girls fall victim to a painful practice: the women in their families, sometimes even their own mothers, try to make their growing breasts disappear by crushing them. They believe this “protects” the girls from experiencing their sexuality too soon. According to a 2005 investigation by two doctors, almost a quarter of Cameroonian women have been victims of this practice. This “ironing” or “massaging” of the breasts, as it is sometimes euphemistically called, has also been reported in Togo and Guinea. (Snip) By making their breasts disappear, the mothers believe they can control the girls’ effect

Hezbollah crosses Syrian border
with bloody assault
on Assad's enemies

Independent [UK], by Loveday Morris Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 11:04:00 PM Post Reply

It is a fortnight since Amr Al Ali was smuggled unconscious over the border to Lebanon, with a graze to his lips from a ricocheting bullet and deep wounds in his legs and hands after an exploding rocket turned a breeze-block wall in front of him into concrete shrapnel. Yet the Free Syrian Army fighter says his enemy was not President Bashar al-Assad's soldiers, but militants from the armed wing of the Shia movement Hezbollah, a long-standing ally of Iran and the Syrian regime.Rebel fighters and fleeing residents have told The Independent that Hezbollah began a major assault on the Syrian

New Hampshire's voters feel weight
of state's increasing significance

Guardian [UK], by Paul Harris Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 10:56:29 PM Post Reply

Concord - Sitting on a bench on the pretty main street of Concord, New Hampshire's tiny capital city, Gerry Taylor does not have time for either President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney. "I am seriously thinking of not voting. I am not convinced by either of them. I will wait until the last morning to decide what differences lie between the two of them," Taylor said as he waited for a local garage to fix his car. Such sentiments are not uncommon in this small New England state (Snip) Some also believe New Hampshire is a bellwether state

Baldwin defends 2007 Iran vote

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Daniel Bice Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 10/25/2012 10:55:00 PM Post Reply

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin is standing by her decision to vote "present" on a 2007 resolution condemning Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning the Holocaust and advocating the destruction of the state of Israel. But Baldwin acknowledged it takes some effort to spell out why she voted as she did. "It's a tough decision," Baldwin said of her vote during a Wednesday meeting with Journal Sentinel editors and reporters. "It's hard to explain, as we've spent several minutes getting into this." The resolution - which called on the U.N. Security Council to charge Ahmadinejad with inciting genocide -

Survey exposes French
anxieties over Muslim ‘threat’

France 24, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 10:52:28 PM Post Reply

Six out of ten French people believe the influence of Islam in France is “too big” and 43 percent see the religion as a “threat” to national identity, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Thursday. (Snip) Only 17 percent of respondents believed Islam “enriched” France’s culture and 40 percent said it was neither a threat to the country’s national identity nor of benefit to its culture. “Our poll demonstrates a hardening of French views towards this religion and a strengthening of a negative perception of Islam,” said Ifop’s Jérôme Fourquet on Thursday. The place of Islam

Wisconsin company announces
layoffs ahead of Biden arrival

Washington Examiner, by Alan Blinder Original Article

Posted By: tisHimself- 10/25/2012 10:50:40 PM Post Reply

Bad news will greet Vice President Joe Biden when he arrives in Wisconsin Thursday night. Hours earlier, Oshkosh's largest employer announced that it will lay off 450 employees in January. Oshkosh Corp., a truck manufacturer with Pentagon contracts, blamed the "difficult decisions" on looming cuts to the nation's defense budget. "As Oshkosh and others in the defense industry have discussed on numerous occasions, domestic military vehicle production volumes will decline significantly in 2013 due to the reduction in U.S. defense budgets and the fact that military spending is returning to peacetime levels," the company said in a statement.

Marin Homeowner Sued By Alleged
Burglar Who Shot Him In Face

CBS News [San Francisco], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 10:30:15 PM Post Reply

Greenbrae - A homeowner who police say survived being shot in the jaw during a burglary has received startling news: The burglary suspect sued him for returning fire. The Marin Independent Journal reported Wednesday that Samuel Cutrufelli filed the suit claiming 90-year-old Jay Leone negligently shot him. Cutrufelli is charged with two counts of attempted murder after Leone was shot in the face on Jan. 3. Police said Cutrufelli was wounded when Leone returned fire. Leone has vowed to countersue. In an exclusive January interview at his bedside at Marin General Hospital, Leone told CBS 5 he had to outwit

ARA Libertad-Romney family
link makes Cristina criticize
the Republican candidate

MercoPress [Montevideo, Uruguay], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/25/2012 10:27:57 PM Post Reply

Argentine President Cristina Fernández joined the US presidential campaign harshly criticizing Republican candidate Mitt Romney and stating she is “more alike” the current head of state, Democrat Barack Obama, who is running for re-election. “We can see that the things a candidate says are like the ones that some say here about the social plans, that they are people who don't want to work,” Cristina Fernández said referring to Romney. “Our way of thinking is similar to that of the current President” she continued, as she added: “Romney is more conservative, but obviously it’s up to the US people to decide”.

Is the Obama campaign taking
commercial ideas from Vladimir Putin?

Foreign Policy, by Joshua Keating Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/25/2012 9:29:17 PM Post Reply

I see the Obama campaign has a new YouTube ad featuring Girls star (and fellow Oberlin alum!) Lena Dunham: "Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy," she says, referring to casting your first ballot for Obama. (What were you thinking?) It's a clever conceit, but feels a bit familiar. Perhaps because the same joke was used in an ad for Vladimir Putin's presidential campaign earlier this year: A suggestive ad rallying support for Putin's presidential campaign shows a young woman seeking a fortune-teller's advice. "Let's find out, cutie,

Romnesia

American Thinker, by Matthew May Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 9:13:18 PM Post Reply

We are all Republicans -- we are all Federalists. A new birth of freedom. My hat is in the ring. The New Deal. The silent majority. The New Frontier. The buck stops here...Romnesia? As he has demonstrated in all other aspects of his presidency, Barack Obama cannot match any of his predecessors (with the possible exceptions of James Buchanan and Jimmy Carter) in any area. This has become evident again in his lame attempt to coin a memorable political phrase, action, or idea. Romnesia is his latest lead zeppelin. "Romnesia" is Obama's idea of a clever

Day 2 of MSNBC’s Blackout on Libya

Newsbusters, by Jeffrey Meyer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 9:06:42 PM Post Reply

It appears as though MSNBC has gone into overdrive covering up for the Obama administration over the terrorist attack on our consulate in Libya. Following emails uncovered by CBS News late Tuesday evening showing the White House knew within two hours that the attack was terrorist related, MSNBC has run a grand total of two stories on these shocking developments. Unlike yesterday, NBC's Today did provide a news brief on the emails Thursday morning as well as a story during Wednesday night’s Nightly News, but their sister cable network MSNBC has only covered the story once today,

Amazon reports first
quarterly net loss in years

Reuters, by Alistair Barr Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/25/2012 8:50:54 PM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon.com Inc reported its first quarterly net loss in more than five years on Thursday as the world's largest Internet retailer spent heavily and suffered from an economic slowdown in Europe. Amazon shares slipped slightly to $220.75 in after-hours trading after the results. The company said its third-quarter net loss was $274 million, or 60 cents a share, versus net income of $63 million, or 14 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2011. Part of the loss related to an impairment charge from Amazon's investment in daily deal company LivingSocial.

Jerry Brown tax hike suddenly on
the ropes. Does he have time to save it?

Christian Science Monitor, by Daniel B. Wood Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/25/2012 8:46:37 PM Post Reply

Los Angeles - Support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to raise billions in taxes – necessary to square California’s budget and avoid draconian budget cuts that would be triggered automatically – has suddenly and seriously slipped to below 50 percent, two major state polls say. (Snip) According to the new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, support for Brown’s initiative has plunged nine percentage points in the past month to just 46 percent of registered voters. A separate poll by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) put support among likely voters at 48 percent, below the 50 percent needed

Benghazi Consulate Could Have
Used Marines With Bayonets

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/25/2012 8:37:10 PM Post Reply

Scandal: More than six hours after terrorists attacked our consulate, former Navy SEALs manned a blood-soaked machine gun to defend U.S. territory. Meanwhile Apache helicopters sat on the ground in Italy. At 4 a.m. local time on Sept. 11 — six hours and 20 minutes after the initial attack began — former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at the CIA annex not far from the consulate by a mortar shell. (Snip) During that eternity, Woods and Doherty might have wondered between gunfire and explosions where the military, with bases strewn across Europe, was.

Mitt Romney Was Right:
U.S. Needs A Bigger Navy

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/25/2012 8:31:14 PM Post Reply

Common Defense: The president says it's OK to have fewer ships because today's vessels have much better capabilities. But each ship can be in only one place at a time. (Snip) As we've noted, we can have the most capable ships in the world, but they can't be everywhere at once with all of them constantly at sea. Some need to be in port, being refueled and refitted, their crews resting. The rest have multiple commitments, such as defending the Taiwan Strait, keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, chasing pirates off Somalia, and contesting Beijing in

Satellite images show gulags still
operational in North Korea

Telegraph [UK], by Julian Ryall Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 8:27:32 PM Post Reply

Tokyo - Satellite images suggest that contrary to reports that Pyongyang had shut down its largest labour prison in June, Camp 22 is still serving as a penal gulag for thousands of inmates. Media reports in South Korea had suggested that the camp, officially known as Penal Labour Colony 22, had been abandoned and the inmates dispersed to other prisons. Imagery collected by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea as recently as October 11 indicates the camp continues to function, it said in a report. (Snip) The camp is in fact a collection of interconnected detention facilities

Obama requires help with voting

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Joshua Altman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 8:22:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama appeared to need some help on Thursday as he cast his early ballot in Chicago. Obama, using a touch-screen voting machine, required the assistance of one of the poll workers a few minutes into the process. It took Obama about three or four minutes to go through the ballot, according to a White House pool report, which noted that a poll worker had to help the president finalize his vote, which took a few additional minutes.

8,803,335: Another New
Record for Disability—Up
975 Per Day Under Obama

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 8:19:11 PM Post Reply

The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social Security Administration. This month 8,803,335 disabled workers are collecting benefits, up from the previous record of 8,786,049 set in September. In February 2009, the first full month after President Barack Obama took office, there were 7,469,240 workers collecting federal disability insurance. Thus, so far in Obama’s term, the number of workers collecting disability has increased by 1,334,095. That works out to a net increase of about 29,646 per month (1,334,095 divided by 45 months), or an average increase of

Ted Turner on More U.S. Soldiers
Dying by Suicide Than
Combat: ‘I Think It’s Good’

Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 8:17:41 PM Post Reply

Appearing on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Wednesday's evening, CNN founder Ted Turner said it is "good" that more U.S. soldiers are now dying by suicide than in combat. Morgan said: "You made the point to me in the break there that more American servicemen are-- Turner interrupted: --are dying now from suicide over there than are dying in combat." (Snip) “I think it’s good, because it’s so clear that we are programmed, and we’re born, to love and help each other, not to kill each other, destroy each other,” the media mogul said. “That’s an aberration, that’s left over

Barack Obama votes
early in Chicago, is asked
to show ID [Video]

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 8:07:31 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama was asked for photo identification before he could cast his ballot Thursday in Chicago. Obama voted at 4:20 p.m. local time, “punching his choices into a touch-screen machine after signing forms and showing his driver’s license,” according to the White House press pool report. “Now ignore the fact that there’s no gray hair on that picture,” he told the elections official. “I’m just glad I renewed my driver’s license.” (Snip) Obama and other Democrats — most notably, Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials — have railed against voter ID laws, claiming they serve as barriers to

WAPO/ABC Poll: Romney jumps
out to 3-point lead

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiruato Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 8:02:32 PM Post Reply

Republican nominee Mitt Romney has expanded his lead over President Barack Obama in the latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll to 3 percentage points. It was a 2-point increase from Wednesday (Snip) It's also significant because it means that Romney has hit 50 percent in three tracking polls today: WaPo/ABC, Gallup and Rasmussen. The 47-percent mark for Obama is his lowest since before the national conventions in late September. It's also a 4-point swing from Monday, when Obama held a 1-point advantage over Romney. Other crucial numbers for Romney: He leads the president 52-43 on the question of which candidate would

Obama Campaign to Girls:
Have Sex with Vote for O

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 10/25/2012 7:54:15 PM Post Reply

This afternoon, the Obama campaign released its latest ad from a celebrity. This one was from Lena Dunham, 26-year-old creator of HBO’s raunchy series Girls. It’s an astoundingly tasteless ad comparing voting for the first time to losing your virginity. Really. And Dunham recommends that if you’re going to have sex – er, vote – for the first time, you should really do it with President Barack Obama.

Father of Slain SEAL: Who
Made the Decision
Not to Save My Son?

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 7:51:04 PM Post Reply

Charles Woods, the father Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publically broadcast memorial service for the slain Americans at Andrews Air Force Base only days after the attack. And, in a recent radio appearance, Woods publicly questions who made the call not to send in back-up forces to possibly save his son’s life, as well as the three other Americans killed in Benghazi (which includes the American ambassador to Libya).“When [Obama] came over to our little area” at

For America's future,
The Post endorses Mitt
Romney for president

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 7:26:07 PM Post Reply

Four frustratingly long years ago, a war-weary and economically battered America took a flier on a savior. It didn’t work out. Now, in 12 days, the nation will return to the polls — to reject, or to ratify, the results of the great Barack Obama experiment. That is, to reject or to ratify the notion that hoping for change is a sound footing for productive national policy. But, by the evidence, it is not. It cannot create jobs. It cannot reduce deficits. It cannot restore foreign confidence in America

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