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Markets shut on Tuesday,
focus shifts to Wednesday

Reuters, by John McCrank and Rick Rothacker Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 10:44:22 PM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy will close stock markets for a second day on Tuesday, as Wall Street turned its attention to whether markets would be able to resume functioning on the month's final trading day on Wednesday. Stock markets closed on Monday due to weather for the first time in 27 years. Bond markets closed early, at noon, as winds and waves from Hurricane Sandy lashed the Eastern seaboard. NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group , the largest two U.S. exchange operators, said they intend to reopen Wednesday, conditions permitting. The bond markets will also close on Tuesday,

Stand-Down Order In Benghazi
Attack Still A Mystery

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/29/2012 10:36:51 PM Post Reply

Benghazi: The president says the election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed, but, as in 1980 at another embassy, it should — just as it matters who gave the order to stand down. We have speculated that a reason the cries for military help during the seven-hour assault on our consulate in Benghazi were ignored was due to fears of another "Blackhawk down" incident as in Somalia under President Clinton or a repeat of the Desert One mission that crashed and burned in the Iranian desert in a failed attempt to rescue our hostages in Tehran in 1980. After all, according to

In U.S., 15% of Registered Voters
Have Already Cast Ballots

Gallup, by Lydia Saad Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:32:59 PM Post Reply

Princeton, NJ - Fifteen percent of registered voters nationwide have already cast their ballots in this year's election, according to Gallup Daily tracking for the week ending Oct. 28. That is up sharply from 5% a week earlier. The overall percentage either having already voted or planning to vote before Election Day has also increased -- to 33%, from roughly 25% in each of the prior three weeks. (Snip) Thus far, early voters do not seem to be swaying the election toward either candidate. Romney currently leads Obama 52% to 45% among voters who say they have already cast their ballots.

Tony Blair: the EU needs a president

Telegraph [UK], by Rowena Mason Original Article

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

Tony Blair has said the EU would be better off with a directly elected president, as he warned deep political rifts between countries could lead to a break-up. In a move interpreted by some as a job application, the former prime minister said the EU could do with a strong leader approved by the people. (Snip) "An election for a big post held by one person - this people can understand," he said. "The problem with the European Parliament is that though clearly democratically elected, my experience is people don't feel close to their MEPs." Speaking in Berlin, he said the EU must not allow too big a

Follow live Post-Tropical Storm Sandy
updates from around the city

New York Post, by Yoav Gonan Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:19:58 PM Post Reply

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office tonight confirmed at least five storm-related deaths in New York. The first of which was a 30-year-old man in Flushing, Queens. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was crushed when a tree fell into his home on 166th Street this evening. (Snip) Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert said Monday evening that the power was out for most of Manhattan south of 26th Street. On the east side, the power outage extended from 29th Street south. There were some scattered areas that still had electricity. Olert said the damage stemmed from flooding and the probable loss

Obama Email During Hurricane:
'Got a Phone? Get His Back'

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 10:11:24 PM Post Reply

As Hurricane Sandy rocks the east coast, the Obama campaign soldiers on via email. Tasteless email. With millions out of power, the Obama campaign sent an email this evening with the following text: GOT A PHONE? GET HIS BACK. CALL.BARACKOBAMA.COM If you have a phone, don’t call your loved ones to ensure they’re safe. Call up a random person and push for Barack Obama. Because when the weather gets tough, the tough stump for Obama’s re-election.

Infallible Election Prognosticators
Tend to Have Brief Careers

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 10:07:25 PM Post Reply

Back in May 2011, the leading liberal poll analyst of this election cycle returned to his roots in an op-ed published in the New York Times. Nate Silver, who had parlayed a brilliant record as an independent numbers cruncher in the 2008 presidential election into a gig as the paper’s political blogger in the age of Obama, first made his name as a writer as a baseball guy and one of the leading exponents of new and advanced ways of looking at baseball statistics. On May 9, 2011, Silver penned a piece for the Times explaining why New York Yankees

Chaos in New York as crane
atop luxury building is
left dangling 65 feet up --
and the FACE collapses off
an apartment

Daily Mail (UK), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 10:06:00 PM Post Reply

The storm is beginning to bring chaos to New York City, as a construction crane was left dangling precariously from a 65-story building in Midtown Manhattan and the face of an apartment building in the West Village fell off, leaving the insides of several apartments exposed. Television images show part of a crane hanging off a luxury building on West 57th Street. No injuries have been reported but nearby streets and buildings were cleared as a precaution. Additionally, the fire department reported that it had responded to a multiple-dwelling building collapse at Eight Avenue and 14th Street on Monday night.

Benghazigate produces
a whiff of tyranny

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 10:05:04 PM Post Reply

In our posts about Benghazigate, we have focused on (1) the failure of the Obama administration to provide needed (and requested) security in Benghazi, (2) the Obama administration’s refusal to call for military assistance when our personnel were under deadly attack, and (3) the adminstration’s unwillingness to speak honestly about the attack in the days following it and, it appears, even until this day. Bill Otis identifies a fourth issue, albeit one that’s related to the third: the Department of Justice’s persecution of the producer of an internet video

With week to go, Team
Romney is upbeat about Ohio

Washington Examiner [DC], by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 9:52:49 PM Post Reply

Jason Gloeckner, of Galena, Ohio, never told his wife, Jean, that he voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Never, that is, until a few days ago, when I asked as we waited for Mitt Romney to appear at a rally outside a Columbus-area steel-processing company. "Last time I voted for Obama," Gloeckner told me. "You did?" said Jean, standing nearby, a look of astonishment on her face. "Whoa!" said their friend J.P. Valiulis, who had joined them in waiting for Romney. "The truth comes out." "He was a good talker!" said Jason, trying to justify his vote for Obama.

**Gallup Shock** Romney
Up 52-45% Among Early Voters

Breitbart.com, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: rlwo- 10/29/2012 9:52:04 PM Post Reply

Very early on, before this campaign started in earnest, live or die, I publicly cast my lot with Gallup and Rasmussen. As a poll addict going back to 2000, these are the outlets that have always played it straight.(snip)So when an outlet like Gallup tells me Romney is up seven-points, 52-45%, among those who have already voted, that's very big news.

Conspiracy Theorists Say Obama
Engineered Hurricane Sandy

U.S. News & World Report, by Elizabeth Flock Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 9:34:19 PM Post Reply

As Hurricane Sandy blasts the eastern seaboard just over a week before Election Day, a number of conspiracy theorists have decided President Barack Obama engineered the mega-storm to secure his re-election. InfoWars.com, TheIntelHub.com, and ConsfearacyNewz all posted stories over the last several days alleging that the The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, helped the president engineer Sandy. HAARP, a research program managed by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, studies and conducts experiments relating to the ionosphere, or upper atmosphere.

Sen. McCaskill's mother dies

The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 9:23:24 PM Post Reply

Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D-Mo.) mother, Betty Anne, has died.McCaskill's campaign issued a statement sharing the news that McCaskill's mother passed away Monday at home in St. Louis. The senator canceled campaign events this past week to be with her mother, who was being treated in a St. Louis-area hospital for much of the week. "I am very sad to announce today the passing of my mother, Betty Anne McCaskill. For some time, mom's health has not been good, and our family takes comfort that she is now at rest,"

Politically Driven Law
Enforcement Has Consequences

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Mike PHX- 10/29/2012 9:20:23 PM Post Reply

I had a terrible time getting to my office this morning. I heard on the radio that the reason was a fatal accident on Highway 494, one of the Twin Cities’ major arteries. It turned out that the accident was caused by an unlicensed motorist who ran out of gas on the highway, causing a pile-up. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported:The sequence of events began when a minivan driven by Isidoro Corona, 49, of Minneapolis, ran out of gas in the right lane and came to a stop causing three other vehicles in that lane to crash, the patrol said.

Perils of Pre-Tapes:
President Obama Talks
iPod on Radio as Hurricane Hits

ABC News, by Devin Dwyer & Jake Tapper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/29/2012 9:18:09 PM Post Reply

As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the Mid-Atlantic this morning, and the White House scrambled to get the commander in chief back to Washington, President Obama could be heard on the radio airwaves in battleground Ohio talking about his iPod. “I’ve got a pretty good mix. I’ve got old school. Stevie Wonder and James Brown. I’ve got Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan. And then I’ve got everything from Jay-Z to Eminem to the Fugees to you name it,” Obama told DJ E.J. Greig of Cincinnati’s 101.1 The Wiz in a pre-taped interview. “There’s probably not a group

Why Wall Street is
starving Obama of funds

The Independent (UK), by Nikhil Kumar Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/29/2012 8:29:33 PM Post Reply

Money talks, goes the old cliche, and seldom does it boom more loudly than during the quadrennial battle for the White House.(snip)But four years on, riled by what many of them see as excess regulation and banker-bashing rhetoric from the President, Wall Street types have changed their minds and they are voting with their bank accounts. With less than a week to go until the ballots are cast, donations from the securities and investment sector have netted over $19m (£12m) for Mr Obama's Republican rival, Mitt Romney, who has said he would "repeal ... and replace" the Dodd-Frank

500 people stranded in Atlantic City's
barrier island as resort prepares to
take full force of Sandy - and city
mayor is blamed for failing to
evacuate properly

Daily Mail [UK], by Leslie Larson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 8:26:12 PM Post Reply

Officials frantically tried to reach hundreds of residents trapped in Atlantic City on Monday but as Sandy is set to make land, the stranded locals will now have to stay put and hope for the best. Rising tides put much of the town under water as the city braced for the impact but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie blamed the city's mayor Lorenzo Langford for not taking precautions and forcing residents to move inland. Emergency personnel spent much of the day trying to reach as many as 500 locals, who were trapped on the barrier island,

Military Insider: “Do The
Math…Left On Own To Die
Out There”

Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 8:21:37 PM Post Reply

A longtime Military Insider gives a brief and searing response regarding whether or not U.S.military could have successfully been deployed in time to save Americans under attack by terrorists on September 11th at the American consulate in Benghazi. MILITARY INSIDER: How soon could we have gotten to Benghazi? All that was needed to send those -deleted- scattering was one single F-18. Range of app. 2k. TS of over 1000mph. Do the math. We had that capability less than 500 miles away. NASSIG would have had full

If you like it... put a name
on it! Sales of Beyonce's Obama
earrings go through the roof

Daily Mail [UK], by Hanna Flint Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 8:09:48 PM Post Reply

Badges, T-shirts and iPhone cases are just a few examples of Obama 2012 merchandise you can buy to show your support. But Beyonce took it one blinging step further on Saturday by wearing a pair of earrings with the President's name on them. And now sales for these earrings have gone through the roof with 1000s of pairs being snapped up by fans across the world. The pro-Obama earrings were designed by Puerto Rican jewelry designer, Erika Peña. The minute photos of Beyonce wearing the earrings emerged, she was flooded with orders for the $32 set.

Romney ad in Ohio: So, about the
president betting on American workers…

Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 8:03:58 PM Post Reply

President Obama has been hitting hard on the ostensible success of his taxpayer-funded bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler in any way he can, touting the supposedly approaching comeback of American manufacturing due to his skillful “I bet on American workers” policies and bloviating about how that cold-hearted Mitt Romney would’ve simply let the American auto industry eat cake, or something. It’s been a big campaign theme in the all-important dead-heat battleground state of Ohio, and over the weekend, Team Romney hit back with this new television ad: Last week, the news that Chrysler and its Italian parent Fiat are

Michelle: President Wasn't 'Pointing
Fingers' When He 'Inherited Economy
in Rapid Decline'

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 7:55:16 PM Post Reply

First Lady Michelle Obama said Friday that her husband, President Barack Obama, was not “pointing fingers” and blaming anyone for the economic crisis happening when he took office. But one day before, on Thursday, Obama blamed the policies of “the previous president” for the ongoing weak economy. Appearing at a Las Vegas campaign stop on Friday, Mrs. Obama said that the president did not blame anyone else for the economic crisis he inherited. “He inherited an economy in rapid decline,” she said. “But instead of pointing fingers, instead of placing blame,

Armed Services Chair Demands
of Obama: Whom Did You Order
to Do What on 9/11/12?

Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 7:51:32 PM Post Reply

In light of President Obama's statement in an Oct. 26 interview that the "minute" he found out about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 he issued a directive to subordinates "to make sure we are securing our personnel," House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) has sent a letter to Obama demanding that he reveal exactly whom he ordered to do what on that day. “Although this response did not specifically answer the reporter’s question, your first directive would appear to involve potential actions by the U.S. military,” McKeon said in

Latest Rasmussen Polls Project
Romney To Win 279+ Electoral Votes

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 7:49:24 PM Post Reply

According to the latest Rasmussen state polls, Mitt Romney is in position to win the presidency; he should win at least 279 electoral votes. Romney leads in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, and New Hampshire; Obama leads in Nevada. Wisconsin and Iowa are tied. Were Romney to win both Wisconsin and Iowa, he’d secure another 16 electoral votes, putting him at 295 electoral votes. By way of contrast, George W. Bush won 286 electoral votes in 2004. This is the first time that Rasmussen polls have shown Romney winning enough electoral votes to win the presidency. Rasmussen hasn't moved any of

Exodus: Inner City Blacks
Fleeing Obama, Democrats

Breitbart's Big Government, by Rebel Pundit Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 7:47:21 PM Post Reply

After his meteoric ascent to the top of the American political arena in the country’s history, we are now in the midst of witnessing one of the most stunning collapses of any man ever to hold the office of President of the United States. Over the past few weeks we have begun to see the ultimate unraveling of support for the president, with women and youth fleeing from his side. But what is even more surprising and perhaps unimaginable to the president and his faithful media cult is that he is now also losing members of his

Jonah Goldberg: 'Huge
Progress Obama Didn’t Blame
This Hurricane On A Video'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/29/2012 7:46:26 PM Post Reply

National Review's Jonah Goldberg took a comedic shot at President Obama Monday. Appearing on Fox News's Special Report, Goldberg jokingly said, "It’s huge progress that he didn’t blame this hurricane on a video." Early in the panel discussion, Goldberg said, “I think Charles is a little too hard on Obama. Frankly, it’s huge progress that he didn’t blame this hurricane on a video. And that alone is big step forward for the guy.” This evoked laughter from fellow panelist Kirsten Powers and a comment from syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer who said, “Or on George Bush.”

Desperation: Obama Super
PAC Leaks 'Internal Polls'
to Left-wing Politico

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/29/2012 7:40:25 PM Post Reply

There are all kinds of reputable pollsters whose results never seem to get anyone at the corrupt Politico excited enough to launch a headline -- this includes Scott Rasmussen. But man alive, the corrupt Politico sure does love them some left-wing pollsters, especially PPP, which is associated with the Daily Kos and SEIU. You would think that would be bad enough, but the corrupt Politico just hit a new low by disguising as serious news an affirmation of strategically leaked internal polling from the pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA.

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