Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy

Latest Articles

Post New Article

Hurricane Sandy: death toll rises
as storm hits land - live

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/30/2012 2:44:41 AM Post Reply

Latest 06.40 Here is some footage of Hurricane Sandy thrashing Atlantic City as it made landfall overnight. 06.18 BuzzFeed has tracked back tweets about flooding on the NYSE trading floor to Twitter account @comfortablysmug . The rumour was reported on CNN but later debunked by a spokesman for the NYSE after the claims began to gain traction.[Snip] 06.08 Several major commuter subway tunnels under the East River in New York City could be closed for at least four days, according to MTA spokesperson Kevin Ortiz. In the next few days officials will need to assess the flood damage

Manhattan goes dark + + 6 Million
without power + + 16 dead as
Superstorm Sandy throws a 13
foot wall of water at US coast

Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Duell* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/30/2012 2:22:12 AM Post Reply

New York City looks like the set of a disaster movie this morning after a night of being battered by Superstorm Sandy. It hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day. The US city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway, and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way as Sandy zeroed in. A 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides resulted in severe flooding to subways and road tunnels. Torrents of water poured into building works at Ground Zero,

CNN political reporter not happy
about favorable Romney coverage

Fox News, by Richard Benedetto Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 1:01:00 AM Post Reply

There was a time when news reporters who covered politics were expected to keep their partisan leanings or preferences to themselves. That time is nearly gone. Over the past 20 years or so, when a new generation of reporters came on the scene, the principle of maintaining a neutral façade slowly but surely began to erode. (Snip) But Hamby is not alone is letting his partisanship show. We see it quite often in Tweets by reporters reacting to on-the-spot events. It is not becoming, and hurts reporter credibility, not especially high these days. News reporters need all the reader and

Stunning Images of
Manhattan Under Water

Business Insider, by Joe Weisenthal Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:54:01 AM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy has resulted in an extraordinary amount of flooding in Manhattan (particularly lower Manhattan) as storm surges have broken all kinds of records. As of the middle of the night on Monday, the water has receded a bit. For example, the Battery area now has no water, after having well more than a foot of water earlier. But the city is far from out of the woods, as another high tide is coming on Tuesday morning. The damage, power outages, and potential disruptions are all enormous, as you can see from the images below.

Democrats try to tip Montana
Senate race by funding
third-party candidate

Powerline, by Paul Mirengoff & Denny Rehberg Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:48:43 AM Post Reply

Sen. Jon Tester, a liberal Democrat, is attempting to hold off Republican challenger Rep. Denny Rehberg in a tight Montana Senate race. Rehberg is a Power Line Pick Six candidate. For Republicans to gain control of the Senate, they almost certainly need to win this race. Tester has been highly unconvincing in his belated attempts to convince Montana voters that he’s not in the pocket of the Obama administration on all the big issues. In a two way race with Rehberg, Tester would likely be toast. However, there’s a third candidate in Montana — Dan Cox of the Libertarian Party.

CEO Cook Remakes Apple for
Post-Jobs Era as Forstall Exits: Tech

Bloomberg News, by Adam Satariano & Peter Burrows Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:41:56 AM Post Reply

San Francisco - Apple Inc. (AAPL) said mobile software head Scott Forstall and retail chief John Browett are departing as Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook embarks on a sweeping management overhaul at the world’s most valuable company. Forstall will leave next year and serve as an adviser to Cook until then, Cupertino, California-based Apple said yesterday in a statement. (Snip) Cook dismissed Forstall after he refused to sign a public letter to Apple customers apologizing for the mapping software’s flaws, according to a person briefed on the matter. Cook signed the letter instead.

At least 10 dead, 5.2 million
without power as Sandy
pummels the East Coast

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:34:50 AM Post Reply

Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast Monday, killing at least 10 people, hurling a record-breaking 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City and knocking out power to an estimated 5.2 million people. The massive storm was downgraded from a hurricane after it barged ashore in southern New Jersey, bringing more than 85-mph winds and a roiling wall of seawater as it moved through New York City. It sent water surging into two major commuter tunnels and into subway stations and tracks. It was unclear how much water had come in. The 10 deaths were in New Jersey, New

Mood of the Nation: Business
Owner Spending Less

Associated Press, by Matt Sedensky Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:31:01 AM Post Reply

Miami - On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were asked about jobs, housing, gas prices, retirement and other issues. Among them was Hilda Mitrani, 51, of North Miami Beach, Fla. The Great Recession and slow economic recovery have devastated her public relations and marketing business. But Mitrani says positive signs are emerging. Mitrani's long-time clients are spending cautiously, if at all — and she has had to adjust her own lifestyle as a result. She delays making home repairs.

Obama Campaign Scrambles to
Discredit Romney's 'Jeep' Ad

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:28:00 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama's campaign went apoplectic Monday over a commercial by Mitt Romney's campaign that alleges Chrysler, despite Obama's bailout, was sold to the Italian company Fiat that intends to build Jeeps in China. (Snip) And as early as 2010, Fiat has been intending to build Jeeps in China, as a ChinaAutoWeb report from 2010 indicated: BAIC-Jeep later evolved into the now-defunct Beijing Benz-Daimler Chrysler company. Ever since the Daimler-Chrysler alliance broke down in 2009, Chrysler has no productions in China. Now that Fiat, Chrysler’s new owner, has officially returned to

Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage
of White House scandals

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:23:47 AM Post Reply

Hurricane Sandy is helping drown media coverage of several White House scandals in the crucial run-up to Election Day. The storm has also dampened coverage of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s progress in critical Midwest swing states. (Snip) The cameras weren’t pointed, however, at the Obama administration’s proliferating scandals, including the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling project, the Treasury Department’s decision to strip Delphi Automotive workers of their pensions and the administration’s intelligence leaks. The cameras also

McCain: Benghazi worse than Watergate

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:21:39 AM Post Reply

When I looked at the slate of guests on the Sunday talk shows yesterday morning, there seemed to be an effort to keep the focus on the election, rather than Benghazi and the shocking lack of action from the US during the seven-hour firefight at our consulate. Only Chris Wallace broached the subject on his own, but on CBS’ Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer had to know that by inviting John McCain to discuss the election and Hurricane Sandy on a segment all to himself, McCain would surely find a way to work the subject into the conversation — and McCain did not disappoint: Slate notes that

Obama projects confidence despite
blue-state warning signs

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:17:51 AM Post Reply

Des Moines, Iowa - President Obama hunkered down in Washington on Monday as Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast, but the posturing from his re-election campaign in battleground states like this one was in full force. The message: "We're winning." (Snip) "I don't want to be ambiguous about this at all: We're winning this race," senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters. "I say that not on the basis of some mystical faith in a wave that's going to come or some hidden vote. We base it on cold, hard data based on who has voted so far and on state-by-state polling."

Christie blames Atlantic City
mayor for trapped residents

Politico, by Darren Goode & Burgess Everett Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:13:44 AM Post Reply

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford on Monday evening for supposedly asking residents to stay in city shelters instead of evacuating. “Despite my admonition to evacuate, he gave them comfort for some reason to stay,” Christie said at a 5:30 p.m. news briefing. Christie said the result is “a large number of people” still in Atlantic City, “and at this juncture there’s no other way for us to go in and get them. They’re going to have to ride out the storm there until at least 7 o’clock tomorrow morning.” “I cannot in good conscience send rescuers in as the storm

China's People's Daily launches
attack on The New York Times

Telegraph [UK], by Tom Phillips Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/30/2012 12:08:02 AM Post Reply

The 1,500 word People's Daily editorial appeared to be a direct response to The New York Times's explosive exposé last week about the $2.7 billion (£1.67 billion) "hidden fortune" of the family of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao. (Snip) "For a long time, the New York Times has [had] one line printed on its masthead, 'All the news that's fit to print'," noted the People's Daily opinion piece, under the headline: 'New York Times: scandals stack-up, prestige declines'. "This century-old newspaper claims its news is authentic and reliable, yet there have been quite a few [cases of] plagiarism

Sandy Hits Coast, Floods New York

Wall Street Journal, by Jamila Trindle* Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/30/2012 12:07:52 AM Post Reply

Superstorm Sandy carved a harrowing path of destruction through the East Coast on Monday, inundating Atlantic City and sending cars floating through the streets of lower Manhattan. Accelerating Monday evening as it made landfall on the New Jersey coast, the storm promised a legacy as one of the most damaging ever to menace the Northeast, from North Carolina to New England. Some 3.1 million people were left without electricity across the region Monday evening—the most since the 2003 blackout. In New York, more than 250,000 Con Ed customers from 39th Street south were left without

Michael Moore Produces Incredibly
Vile Campaign Video for MoveOn.org

Newsbusters, by P.J. Gladnick Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/30/2012 12:06:23 AM Post Reply

Michael Moore has produced a campaign video for MoveOn.org so vile that he has to be considered guilty of elderly abuse for having the senior citizens say the words that Moore & Co. wrote in the script. The video supposedly takes place at Rosebud Nursing Home and the script calls for some of the residents there to use the foulest of language to express their anger at what is described is "Republican voter suppression." What this video really represents is an incredible anger on the part of the Left and how they won't be able to accept the election result if Romney wins. The video is below the fold but be

Is there a Benghazi media coverup?

San Francisco Chronicle, by Debra J. Saunders Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/29/2012 11:57:38 PM Post Reply

Is there a mainstream media cover-up of an Obama administration cover-up in the wake of the 9/11 Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead? Chronicle included? Since Sept. 12, The Chronicle has run about 67 stories, items, editorials, columns and letters that mention Benghazi. In September, I criticized Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and White House press secretary Jay Carney for claiming that an anti-Islam video had incited the attack, not al Qaeda-inspired terrorists. Some readers tell me that they see The Chronicle's failure to run a rash of front-page stories as proof of bias.

Obama's Big Con:
His Big Lies About Benghazi

Investor's Business Daily, by Thomas Sowell Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/29/2012 11:56:30 PM Post Reply

Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a period of uncertainty, during which the victim is not yet sure of what is happening. This delaying process has been called "cooling out the mark." The same principle applies in politics. When the accusations that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton first

A Department Of Business Is
None Of Obama's Business

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/29/2012 11:53:48 PM Post Reply

Election '12: Eight days before election day, President Obama proposes creating a new "Secretary Of Business" cabinet post. Just what the country needs: Another layer of bureaucracy to hound the private sector. After assuring the public "the private sector is doing fine," yet facing a strong challenger who's championing the embattled private sector for real, what should our president come up with to bolster his flailing campaign but a hastily cobbled together new plan to create yet another government agency, this time for business. Seems that with this president all it takes to revive the enfeebled

Newspapers Increasingly
Dump Obama For Romney

Investor's Business daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/29/2012 11:50:55 PM Post Reply

President Obama spent roughly half an hour last Tuesday on the phone with the Des Moines Register's publisher and editor, desperately trying to win the influential Iowa newspaper's endorsement for a second term. "You'll feel better when you give it," Obama told them, after touting what he said were four years of accomplishments, along with promises of strong economic growth should he get four more years. Three days later, the Register endorsed Mitt Romney — the first Republican the paper has backed in 40 years. Not only that, but the editors blasted Obama, saying his "best efforts to

Buddy Act: Clinton, Biden
gave fiery Ohio speeches

Associated Press, by Matthew Daly Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:45:29 PM Post Reply

Youngstown, Ohio - They are old friends and sometime political rivals, each a gregarious, backslapping politician and legendary - some would say long-winded - talker. So when Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton came together Monday on the campaign trail, they seemed to energize each other as they competed to lay out the best case for sending President Barack Obama and Biden back to the White House. Clinton got the ball rolling, introducing Biden with a speech that reprised some of his lines from the Democratic National Convention last month while offering a new

Mammoth storm Sandy
plunges NYC into darkness

Associated Press, by Jennifer Peltz & Tom Hays Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:36:05 PM Post Reply

New York — Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. The city had shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way of the superstorm Sandy as it zeroed in on the nation's largest city. Residents spent much of the day trying to salvage normal routines, jogging and snapping pictures of the water while officials

Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus
grant creates just 400 jobs

Washington Times, by Jim McElhatton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/29/2012 11:33:27 PM Post Reply

Battery maker A123 Systems vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy businesses that ended in bankruptcy. The latest quarterly report on file with a federal stimulus tracking database shows just seven positions created through the grant from April to June this year. Previous quarters’ job reports contained anywhere from a handful of positions created to more than 100 new jobs. But even

Obama looks to young voters,
many of whom seem uninspired

Los Angeles Times, by Mark Z. Barabak Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/29/2012 11:32:30 PM Post Reply

Boulder, Colo. — They turned out in huge numbers and overwhelmingly cast their ballots for Barack Obama, voting not just for a politician but the leader of a cause that seemed both epic and transformational. But four years later, many young voters — facing high unemployment and diminished dreams — regard the presidential race as a less-than-inspiring choice between two thoroughly conventional candidates. There is little doubt Obama will again win a majority of the youth vote against Republican Mitt Romney, as Democrats have in all but three presidential elections since 18-year-olds

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.

Next 25 Articles