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Barney Frank saluted by
local gay community

Washington Examiner (D.C.), by Jenny Rogers Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/29/2012 5:25:44 PM Post Reply

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., can add one more line to his resume before he leaves Washington next year -- Washington Blade readers have crowned him Best Gay Politician in the paper's annual Best of Gay D.C. poll. Frank wasn't the only political type on the list. D.C. Councilman David Catania won the poll's Local Hero category. Frank and Catania were honored alongside other familiar faces, including Best LGBT TV personality Chuck Bell of NBC4 and Best Drag Queen Ba'Naka Devereux. Congratulations to all.

Scott Brown pulls
out Senate debate

WCVB-TV (Boston, MA), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/29/2012 5:06:36 PM Post Reply

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is pulling out of the fourth and final debate of the Senate campaign. A Brown spokesman said the Republican incumbent decided not to participate in the campaign "out of concern for the hardship faced by people in the path of Hurricane Sandy." The campaign said Brown felt it was not appropriate to go forward with a political debate when a disaster strikes. Just last week, Brown pledged to attend the debate and even offered Democrat Elizabeth Warren a ride to the debate in his truck.

Stevie Wonder Release
Pro-Obama Song: "Keep
Moving Forward"

Vibe Magazine, by Stacy-Ann Ellis Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/29/2012 4:48:54 PM Post Reply

President Obama has received one of the most aurally pleasing forms of endorsement with less than 2 weeks away from the election. Stevie Wonder has released “Keep Moving Forward,” a song urging American citizens to vote while reminding them of President Obama’s accomplishments and why he should be given four more years. Over an entrancing, snake charmer, Bollywood-like beat, Stevie sums up the President’s reelection campaign in four minutes and eight seconds. “Keep moving forward, we can’t afford to go backwards now,” he sings. He touches on Obama's removing of US troops from Iraq

Obama Pretends to Be
Well-Read, Proves He Isn’t

Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/29/2012 4:39:43 PM Post Reply

I’ve written previously about the opportunity that the Democratic Party seemed to have in recent years to woo libertarians into their camp. Even right-leaning libertarians were frustrated by the Bush administration’s spending and some of the national security infrastructure put in place after September 11. In addition, the surging support on the left for gay marriage and other social issues seemed to present an opening if the Democrats nominated in 2008 an even modestly pro-market candidate. They didn’t, and instead nominated Barack Obama, who promised to increase the federal government’s reach into private life, enact a top-town government-run

In Avon Lake, Mitt Romney tells capacity
crowd Ohio will decide presidency,
vows 'real change from day one'

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

Posted By: Harlowe- 10/29/2012 4:39:06 PM Post Reply

Avon Lake – Ohioans will determine the outcome of next week’s presidential election, said Republican candidate Mitt Romney. The former governor of Massachusetts spoke to a capacity crowd of 2,900 people at the Avon Lake High School gymnasium and its overflow room. "We're going to get real change in place from day one," Romney said. (Snip) The crowd cheered when Romney outlined the first point of his economic plan, which is to take full advantage of America’s oil, coal and natural gas recourse.

Will Charlotte Taxpayers Be on
the Hook For Democrats' Party?

American Spectator, by David N. Bass Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/29/2012 4:36:25 PM Post Reply

It’s embarrassing enough that Democrats held their 2012 convention in North Carolina, a state that Mitt Romney will probably carry. Adding to the "uh oh" factor: the Charlotte host committee raising money for the Democrats' convention has come up $12.5 million short of its original fundraising goal, according to election filings from the FEC made public Oct. 15. Of the amounts still owed to public and private venues and vendors, the host committees owe $161,000 to the City of Charlotte — $133,000 for convention center operations and $28,000 for volunteer shuttles. The Charlotte Observer reports that,

National Hurricane Center:
No Warnings Issued for Sandy

Accuweather, by Meghan Evans Original Article

Posted By: FormerDem- 10/29/2012 4:34:37 PM Post Reply

AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers urged the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to reverse its decision not to issue hurricane or tropical storm warnings for Sandy north of North Carolina. "To indicate that there is a landfalling hurricane and to issue warnings about it is the most effective thing that can be done to warn the public," Myers said. There has not been one hurricane watch or warning issued by the National Hurricane Center for New Jersey despite the anticipated landfall of Hurricane Sandy near Atlantic City this evening.

Game Over, Man

Hot Air, by Duane Patterson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/29/2012 4:33:47 PM Post Reply

Last Thursday, Hugh Hewitt interviewed John McIntyre, principal contributor to Real Clear Politics, for an overview of what all the recent wave of polling data tells us. The transcript of their interview is here. The two takeaways were this: 1) In the ten most recent national polls included in RCP’s average, one number was remarkably consistent – Barack Obama’s number is pegged at 47%. Asked what that told John McIntyre, he replied, “[Obama's] likely to lose.” 2) Hugh questioned J-Mac what he made of Ohio numbers that don’t necessarily square with the rest of the national numbers,

Sandy Grounds More Than
10,000 Flights, Train Traffic Derailed

ABC News, by Jim Avila & Matt Hosford Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 4:29:25 PM Post Reply

Traffic in and out of airports and train stations from North Carolina to Boston have virtually shut down today, and may not be back in service until later this week. More than 10,000 flights have been cancelled as a result of Hurricane Sandy, according to FlightAware, effectively shutting down commercial air traffic along the East Coast. These cancellations are creating a ripple effect that is being felt across the entire country, forcing delays as far west as Seattle and San Francisco. Sandy is even grounding planes in Europe where flights to the U.S. are being canceled because

Sandy insurance losses
could hit $10 billion

CNN Money, by Jennifer Liberto Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 4:25:52 PM Post Reply

Washington - Hurricane Sandy's devastating windy march up the U.S. east coast is expected to cause as much as $10 billion in insured losses, according to a disaster modeling firm. The storm is expected to hit New Jersey Monday night as a Category 1 hurricane. It has already wreaked havoc, with winds gusting up to 115 miles per hour, pushing water into coastal Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. By noon on Monday, high winds from the approaching storm has already cut power lines, leaving 300,000 households and businesses without power, utility companies told CNN.

GOP still on top of Colorado
voter turnout

KUSA-TV [Denver], by Brandon Rittiman Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 10/29/2012 4:17:20 PM Post Reply

DENVER - In early voting figures released Monday, Republicans in Colorado were still turning out in greater numbers than Democrats, though their lead tightened from the week before. To date, 804,000 ballots were cast. Here are the party affiliations of those voters: - 38 percent Republicans - 36 percent Democrats - 26 percent Unaffiliated/third party This represents a 2-point turnout lead for the GOP in Colorado. Last week's report showed a 3-point advantage.

'I was born a boy, became a girl, and
now I want to be a boy again':
Britain's youngest sex swap patient *

Daily Mail [UK], by Katy Winter Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 4:08:57 PM Post Reply

Ria Cooper made headlines last year when she became Britain’s youngest sex change patient aged 17, after years of begging her family and the NHS to turn her in to a girl. But now, having lived as a women for less than a year the 18-year has decided to change back in to a man after suffering huge mental anguish as a woman. She has cancelled the full sex change operation that was scheduled for January and ceased the female hormone therapy that has seen her develop breasts saying that she has found the changes overwhelming and that they have

Shouldn't there be a 'three
strikes you're out rule' for
liberal pundits?

American Thinker, by Doug Mainwaring Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 4:04:36 PM Post Reply

In his Washington Post column last week, E.J. Dionne once again tried to kill off the Tea Party movement, asserting that "Tea party thinking is dead," as if the claim would somehow make it true. I could be wrong, but I'm beginning to think Mr. Dionne doesn't like the Tea Party and would prefer to see it vanish from the face of the Earth. Two and half years ago, in the pages of the Washington Post, Mr. Dionne declared: "The Tea Party is nothing new. It represents a relatively small minority of Americans on the right end of politics,

Outrageous: Labor Department
May Delay Jobs Report

Breitbart Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 3:59:16 PM Post Reply

This morning on a campaign conference call, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod pre-spun the release of the upcoming Friday jobs report. According to some reports, Axelrod predicted the numbers would not give Romney a boost. There was also a prediction released by a major pollster today that predicted a bad jobs report could be a game-changer and tip the race to Romney decisively. And then what happened…? Well, lo and behold, the U.S. Labor Department releases a statement stating the hurricane might delay the release of the jobs report: The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it hasn’t made

Spellcheck generation 'failing
to write simple words'

Telegraph [UK], by Graeme Paton Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:57:41 PM Post Reply

Children are struggling to write “simple and everyday words” because of an increasing reliance on spellcheckers, according to research. Pupils are failing to spot the difference between words such as “their” and “there” or “cloths” and “clothes” amid confusion over the English language, it was claimed. The Oxford University Press found that children in primary and secondary schools were increasingly encouraged to look up complex words using dictionaries and electronic spellcheckers. (Snip) In most cases, they failed to pick out silent letters or the difference between a single or double letter in words such as “disappeared” or “tomorrow”.

Hacking the President’s DNA

Atlantic [Washington, DC], by Andrew Hessel Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:50:08 PM Post Reply

This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly performed in-house, by a single employee, could more efficiently be crowd-sourced to a larger group of people via the Internet. (Snip) In 2008, casual DNA-design competitions with small prizes arose; then in 2011, with the launch of GE’s $100 million breast-cancer challenge, the field moved on to serious contests. By early 2015, as personalized gene therapies for end-stage cancer became medicine’s cutting edge, virus-design Web sites began appearing, where people could upload information about their disease and

Messina, Axelrod, set Obama
spin machine to max
as Election Day nears

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:41:23 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s aides are spinning like whirling dervishes, eager to knock down any data showing that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is gaining ground in critical swing states. In North Carolina where the polls favor Romney and Obama has not allocated any time to headline a get-out-the-vote rally, “we really believe that North Carolina is within our reach,” David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, told reporters during a morning conference call. (Snip) In Ohio, Obama has ”led in 14 [polls], tied in 2,” said Messina, who did not mention the Oct. 29 poll by Rasmussen that showed Romney ahead by

Pennsylvania GOP aims
to deliver state for Romney

Human Events, by John Gizzi Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:37:57 PM Post Reply

Lancaster Township, Pa. - With 10 days to go before Pennsylvanians decide whether their 20 electoral votes will go to President Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the enthusiasm level among Keystone State Republicans is clearly at an all-time high. The latest Rasmussen Poll showed Obama leading Romney by a slim 51 to 46 percent among likely voters—fueling hopes among GOP activists that they can deliver Pennsylvania for their presidential nominee for the first time in 24 years. Modern history notwithstanding, a Romney win in Pennsylvania would also be something of an upset since Democrats have nearly 4.3 million

Changing Demographics Won't Mean
the End of Republican Party

Creators Syndicate Inc, by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/29/2012 3:22:32 PM Post Reply

When reading one of the endless stories about a just-released poll Thursday night, a pair of numbers struck my eye: 60 and 37. Those were the percentages of white voters supporting Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in the ABC/Washington Post tracking poll. Overall, the poll showed Romney leading Obama 50 to 47 percent. The reason those two numbers struck my eye is that they are identical to the percentages of white voters supporting Republicans and Democrats in elections for the House of Representatives in the 2010 exit poll.

Truther Martin Sheen
Calls Romney 'Stupid'

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:16:07 PM Post Reply

Actor Martin Sheen, about to start shooting a film based on the notion that 9/11 was an inside job, thinks Mitt Romney is stupid. Sheen, who recently told us President Barack Obama would win in a cakewalk, opened up about the GOP challenger to The Huffington Post. He first focused on Romney's recent presidential debate performance and later dropped some Occupy Wall Street lingo on the interviewer. (Snip) " He’s never had to compete for a job or face eviction or struggle to get a college loan. He’s a guy that the old phrase applies to: ‘he was born on

CNN: Obama Deficit
Math Doesn't Add Up

New American, by Thomas R. Eddlem Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:06:25 PM Post Reply

CNN's Erin Burnett took only four minutes on October 23 to destroy the Obama administration's claim that the president's budget plan would eliminate $4 trillion in deficit spending over the next decade, a television segment that sent the Obama campaign into damage control mode for the past week. While the Obama administration followed up with new figures for CNN reporters, Burnett concluded in an October 25 segment that even with the new figures the Obama campaign's math “it still doesn't seem to add up.” (Snip) Burnett then used an audio segment of Senior Obama Campaign Advisor David Axelrod, who admitted

Bill Clinton Going to
Minnesota to Save Obama

Breitbart's Big Government, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:02:55 PM Post Reply

How worried is the Obama campaign about Minnesota, one of the bluest of blue states? This worried: they’re sending Bill Clinton there for a visit tomorrow. Clinton is taking his show around the country to states where Obama’s firewall is collapsing: Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Ohio. A Star Tribune Minnesota Poll, published Sunday, shows that Obama’s lead has plummeted to the point where there is only a three-point differential between Obama and Mitt Romney, which is within the poll’s margin of error.

Iran naval task force 'docks in Sudan'

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 3:00:20 PM Post Reply

An Iranian naval task force has docked in Sudan, carrying with it a "message of peace and security to neighbouring countries", Iranian state media report. The vessels, which include a corvette and freighter, set sail from Iran last month, the Irna news agency said. Their arrival comes six days after explosions destroyed an arms factory in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Sudan has complained to the UN that Israel bombed the factory, which is believed to have been operated by Iran. (Snip) The Iranian navy was quoted as saying the visit was aimed at "conveying the message of peace and friendship

Obama says 'first order
of business' in second
term would be deficit

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Daniel Strauss Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 2:53:27 PM Post Reply

President Obama in a second interview has highlighted deficit reduction and immigration reform as issues he'd tackle in a second term. In an interview with MSNBC's Mika Brezezinski and Joe Scarborough, Obama said the "first order of business" would be deficit reduction, and that his administration would also focus on immigration. Obama said the shadow of across-the-board spending cuts, which are set to begin in January under a deal last summer to raise the debt ceiling, would likely help Congress reach a deal on deficit reduction plans. Both Democrats and Republicans are interested in coming up with an

Dempsey: Africa Command
change not tied to Libya

Associated Press, by Robert Burns Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 2:52:00 PM Post Reply

Washington - The top U.S. military officer is denying reports that Army Gen. Carter Ham’s planned departure as head of U.S. Africa Command is linked to the Sept. 11 attack in Libya. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey issued a written statement Monday calling speculation about the reasons for Ham’s move ‘‘absolutely false.’’ (Snip) Last week, Panetta said he, Dempsey and Ham all felt very strongly that it would have been a mistake to insert U.S. forces into Benghazi during the attack, which killed four Americans.

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