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Sandy slams into Northeast;
at least 10 dead, more
than 3.1M without power

Associated Press, by Erin McClam & Katie Zezima Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:31:38 PM Post Reply

Atlantic City, N.J. — Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding its tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street. At least 10 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm, which brought the presidential campaign to a halt a week before Election Day. For New York City at least, Sandy was not the dayslong onslaught many had feared, and the wind and rain that sent water sloshing into Manhattan from three sides began dying down within hours.

Romney embraces executive authority

Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:28:53 PM Post Reply

Avon Lake, Ohio — Facing off in last week’s foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney nodded in agreement with much of what President Obama has done with his powers as chief executive — including a full-on embrace of the president’s claim to sole authority to expand drone strikes to kill terrorist suspects. The Republican presidential nominee has reserved the right to deploy U.S. military power to world hot spots, as Mr. Obama did in Libya, and to greenlight unilateral action against Iran. To the dismay of civil liberties activists, he has shifted his position on indefinite detention, agreeing with the

Sandy slams into New Jersey,
swamps Lower Manhattan

Washington Post, by Fredrick Kunkle* Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:25:08 PM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy, one of the largest and fiercest storms to menace the East Coast in years, lost some power but still packed a devastating wallop that slammed into New Jersey on Monday evening with torrential rains, howling winds and a widespread flooding. Atlantic City was hit hard, and some parts of Lower Manhattan were inundated, with water forming white water cascades in Ground Zero and New York’s financial district. Sandy — which was reclassified as a nontropical storm because of its unusual meteorological dynamics — came ashore at 8 p.m. in Atlantic City, carrying

ABC News Moves Pensylvania,
Minnesota from ‘Safe’ to ‘Lean’ Obama

ABC News, by Amy Walter Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/29/2012 11:24:23 PM Post Reply

Here is the one map you will see today that does not include rain, flooding or wind figures. With one week to go, states that were once considered Obama strongholds now look less solid. Republican groups are putting resources into Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Team Obama brushes off these incursions as wishful thinking by Republicans, but noticeably they are putting money and muscle into both states. Minnesota has been added to Bill Clinton’s schedule. And, Obama campaign officials admitted that they will once again start running ads in Pennsylvania. So, what is

Obama’s discrediting victory

Washington Post, by Michael Gerson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:22:53 PM Post Reply

If Barack Obama loses his bid for reelection, the main reason can be traced to one period of time and one choice. In late 2009, the Democratic-controlled House and Senate had both passed health-reform legislation and were proceeding with reconciliation talks. But in January 2010, Democrats lost Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat — as well as their filibuster-proof Senate majority — in a protest against Obamacare. It was a remarkable revolt, in the bluest of states. “If there isn’t any recognition that we got the message and we are trying to recalibrate and do things differently,”

Sandy Unlikely to Prompt
Change in Date of Election

Wall Street Journal, by Naftali Bendavid Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 11:20:31 PM Post Reply

As Hurricane Sandy threatens to cause widespread power outages lasting into next week, some voters are asking whether Election Day could be changed from Nov. 6. The answer is yes, but it would take an act of Congress. Congress established Election Day in 1845, designating the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Congress could change the date if conditions got bad enough, setting another date for this year—or even permanently. States' reliance on voting by electronic machines raises the prospect of a disruption from Hurricane Sandy, which caused widespread power outages in several

Sandy unlikely to damage
US economy, analysts say

Associated Press, by Christopher S. Rugaber & * Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 11:03:34 PM Post Reply

Washington - Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, stranding travelers around the globe. Insurers are bracing for possible damages of $5 billion. Retailers face shrunken sales. (Snip) But for the overall economy, damage from the storm will likely be limited. And any economic growth lost to the storm in the short run will likely be restored once reconstruction begins, analysts say. Americans may even spend more before the storm when they stock up on extra food, water and batteries. Preliminary estimates are that damage will range between $10 billion and $20 billion. That could top last year's

Fake Sandy storm photos
fool some, amuse others

MSNBC, by Helen A.S. Popkin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:59:39 PM Post Reply

Earlier Monday, as Sandy bore down on the East Coast, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told Poynter.org via a spokeswoman, "There are now 10 pictures per second being posted with the hashtag #sandy — most are images of people prepping for the storm and images of scenes outdoors." Then there are the Sandy photos — on Instagram, Facebook and elsewhere — that are totally fake (Snip) For the most part, however, these fake shots seem to be coming from East Coasters like me who are so tired of stressing out over this that we've turned to the best coping mechanism of all, making fun of stuff.

Zimmerman murder case: Judge
denies request for gag order

NBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:55:15 PM Post Reply

A Florida judge has denied a prosecutor’s request for a gag order to prevent George Zimmerman’s attorney from posting documents and other information online. (Snip) In her two-page order Monday, Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson wrote that she found no "overriding pattern of prejudicial commentary" and noted that a dozen media companies that had opposed the order were right when they argued that the state had failed to demonstrate prejudice. Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda had argued that Zimmerman’s lawyer, Mark O’Mara, has used a website set up to assist Zimmerman and

Romney and Ryan announce
'storm relief' efforts for Tuesday

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/29/2012 10:48:11 PM Post Reply

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan scheduled "storm relief" events Tuesday after previously canceling planned campaign rallies. Romney will attend an event in Kettering, Ohio, Tuesday morning with race car driver Richard Petty and country music artist Randy Owen. (Snip) The Romney campaign did not advise what the event would entail, but a Republican source indicated attendees would be asked to bring disaster relief supplies to the event, and that Romney might give brief remarks. Ryan, who was originally scheduled to campaign Tuesday in

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

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