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Minorities Fear End
of Secularism in Egypt

Spiegel [Hamburg, Germany], by Daniel Steinvorth & Volkhard Windfuhr Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 10:34:43 PM Post Reply

When he took office as Egypt's new president in June, Mohammed Morsi pledged to follow a pluralist policy that respected the rights of women and non-Muslim minorities. But everything he has done since then indicates that he intends to replace the secularist dictatorship of his predecessor with an Islamist one. Egypt's president sat cross-legged on a green rug with his eyes closed and hands raised in prayer. His lips moved as Futouh Abd al-Nabi Mansour, an influential Egyptian cleric, intoned: "Oh Allah, absolve us of our sins, strengthen us and grant us victory over the infidels. Oh Allah, destroy the

Obama Shows 'Leadership' On
Sandy, Not Benghazi

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/31/2012 10:31:12 PM Post Reply

Leadership: After the president rushed back to the White House to watch the Weather Channel, pundits said he acted "presidential" — as if he'd be judged by the last four days and not the last four years. Acting presidential is one thing and being presidential quite another. Touring disaster areas is what every president finds himself doing sometime during his administration. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, President Obama is doing all the right things, such as telling FEMA to do what it's already tasked to do, even as the sequestration he pushed as part

US warns Israel off
pre-emptive strike on Iran

Guardian [UK], by Julian Borger Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 10:27:31 PM Post Reply

US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against the Iranian nuclear programme by cutting off vital logistical support from Gulf Arab allies. (Snip) Israeli leaders had hinted they might take military action to set back the Iranian programme, but that threat receded in September when the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, told the United Nations general assembly that Iran's advances in uranium enrichment would only breach Israel's "red line" in spring or summer next year.

Obama damned as regulator-in-chief
as anger runs high
in Ohio coal country

Guardian [UK], by Ed Pilkington Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 10:20:42 PM Post Reply

It's the afternoon shift change at the Harrison Resources mine, and about 30 miners are heading home after 10 hours shovelling for coal on an exposed hilltop in eastern Ohio. The men are dressed in an unofficial uniform of jeans, T-shirt and hard hat, and they speak in unison, too, when asked about the presidential election, now less than a week away. "Obama's done more damage in the last three years than anyone in the last 50," said Brad Knight. "He and his advisers are a bunch of tree-huggers, east coast and west coast". (Snip) Anger is running high in

Google told to pay
victim for criminal results

Independent [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 10:14:07 PM Post Reply

Google was yesterday found liable for damages by a jury in Australia after a man complained that the website's search results had harmed his reputation by wrongly linking him to Melbourne gang crime. Milorad Trkulja, 62, was shot by a man wearing a balaclava in 2004, though police did not connect the shooting with gangland crime. (Snip) Searches also displayed an image of Mr Trkulja accompanied by the caption "Melbourne crime", which he says could have led people to believe he had links to the city's underworld. Mr Trkulja also alleged that Google had refused to amend the links when

Pew: Obama's Early Vote Average
Collapses 26-Points Over 2008

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 10:12:19 PM Post Reply

As the CorruptMedia hyperventilates over the juicery released by Quinnipiac today showing Obama winning all of America's 12,458 electoral votes and Queen for a Day, the one poll they've intentionally ignored is a bombshell from Gallup showing Romney winning early votes by seven points and Obama's early vote advantage collapsing 22-points over 2008. The cover up of this poll was so thorough that when the corrupt Politico did report on Gallup's seven-point early vote advantage for Romney, they did so under a headline that laughably read: "Neither has edge

Sweden pays jobless
youth to move to Norway

Telegraph [UK], by Matthew Day Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 10:08:19 PM Post Reply

Warsaw - A Swedish town has taken to paying people to look for work in Norway in an attempt to reduce soaring youth unemployment. Under a scheme organised by the local authorities in the town of Soderhamn and by Sweden's national employment office, anyone aged between 18 and 28 can volunteer to take a "Job Journey" to Oslo and attempt track down gainful employment. (Snip) "We had an unemployment rate of over 25 per cent, so we had to find solutions," Magus Nilsen, the man in charge of the project at Soderhamn council, told the Daily Telegraph. "Going to Norway to

Election experts say a
lot could go wrong

Los Angeles Times, by Mitchell Landsberg Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 10:03:28 PM Post Reply

Peg Rosenfield has been monitoring elections for the League of Women Voters in Ohio for almost 40 years and has seen just about every voting glitch imaginable. She says there's a saying among election workers: "Please, God, make it a landslide." (Snip) No one expects a landslide when Americans go to the polls on Tuesday. As in 2000 and 2004, there is great potential for the race to be too close to call immediately in some states, and the possibility that the presidency will hang for days or weeks on a recount, or on the counting of provisional or late-arriving

AP Seems Appalled (and
Concerned) That Romney Is
Campaigning in Minn. and Pa.

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 9:50:29 PM Post Reply

I heard Rush Limbaugh comment on this report from the Associated Press's Thomas Beaumont and Brian Bakst ("Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf") this afternoon on his program. This evening, having read the whole, I agree with him (which of course often happens) that the AP writer are very upset that GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his campaign are going after Pennsylvania and Minnesota -- so upset that they're throwing any kind of speculative nonsense they can conjure up to explain away its obvious significance, namely that Team Romney believes they can pick up even more electoral

Biden's Day of Epic Failure
on the Campaign Trail

Townhall, by Katie Pavlich Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 9:11:41 PM Post Reply

The circus called and said they're missing their clown. We found him! Vice President Joe Biden had quite a day today out on the campaign trail stumping for his boss President Obama. First in Sarasota, Florida Biden said, "I'm going to give you the whole load." I'm not going to explain what that means here, but lets just say it's a pretty disgusting thing to say in public, (Snip) Biden turned to the group of guys, then, according to the pool report, Biden asked one of them, “Are you Indian?” “American!” the man responded. “No, I mean first generation,” Biden

Poll: Romney Up 16% With
Pennsylvania Independents

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 9:06:50 PM Post Reply

According to a new poll from Franklin and Marshall, Mitt Romney is just four percentage points behind President Barack Obama … in Pennsylvania. In September, that gap was a full nine points. “Momentum is with Romney,” says poll director Terry Madonna. Madonna thinks that Romney may run out of time to make up that deficit. But the internals of the poll are shocking for Obama. Romney is ahead of Obama in terms of who the public believes can best fix the economy. (Snip) this is a D+13 poll. That’s out of line, since Obama only won the state in 2008

Little Girl Cries Over
'Bronco Bamma'

ABC News, by Jilian Fama Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 8:38:11 PM Post Reply

Sick of the elections yet? So is four-year-old Abigael Evans from Colorado. Her mother, Elizabeth Evans, 27, posted a Youtube video of her daughter saying that she is tired of "Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney." The 22-second YouTube clip, published yesterday, shows the little girl with a frown on her face and tears rolling down her cheeks, telling her mother she is tired of this election. Elizabeth Evans told ABC News that her daughter got emotional listening to NPR. "I just picked her up from daycare so she was grumpy after a long day and we were driving

Sewage, Bacteria, Gasoline
Found in NYC Floodwater

ABC News, by Sydney Lupkin, Michael Koenigs* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 8:34:20 PM Post Reply

Water is everywhere in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – in basements, on the streets and in transit systems – but the one place that flood water is most dangerous is in your body. ABC News chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser collected floodwater and drinking water in some of the areas hit hardest by Sandy and had them tested at The Ambient Group lab. The floodwater collected in Lower Manhattan tested positive for gasoline and two types of bacteria found in sewage: E. coli and coliform. “Very dangerous,” Besser said.

Sifting the Numbers for a Winner

Wall Street Journal, by Karl Rove Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 8:16:25 PM Post Reply

It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney. He maintains a small but persistent polling edge. As of yesterday afternoon, there had been 31 national surveys in the previous seven days. Mr. Romney led in 19, President Obama in seven, and five were tied. Mr. Romney averaged 48.4%; Mr. Obama, 47.2%. The GOP challenger was at or above 50% in 10 polls, Mr. Obama in none. (Snip) Adrian Gray, who oversaw the Bush 2004 voter-contact operation and is now a policy analyst for a

Biden: “As they say in
my business, I’m gonna give
you the whole load today”

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Jim Treacher Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 8:13:09 PM Post Reply

Bill Clinton is trying to ruin it for Obama on purpose. Joe Biden just can’t help it. Obama’s stuck with both of them.One. Heartbeat. Away. Courtesy of Ace, who asks: Does anyone in the media worry that the currently-serving Vice President isn’t mentally all there? We had a National Panic about this when Sarah Palin was running for the post. Not a week goes by that Joe Biden doesn’t have a senior moment, but apparently it’s now okay that the Vice President might be ever so slightly mentally checked out.
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Romney camp has no
hard feelings for Chris Christie

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 8:08:16 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney‘s presidential campaign says it’s not harboring any hard feelings for Chris Christie after the New Jersey governor effusively praised President Barack Obama‘s response to Hurricane Sandy. “Gov. Christie is doing his job,” Romney senior adviser Russ Schriefer said during a Wednesday conference call. Schriefer’s comments were made in response to a question from a reporter asking if the campaign is “annoyed” by the Republican Christie’s positive words for a Democratic president.

Drudge Report: 'Sex
Scandal To Hit Campaign'

Business Insider, by Grace Wyler Original Article

Posted By: The Slammer- 10/31/2012 7:51:20 PM Post Reply

The Drudge Report, the heavily-trafficked blog run by conservative Matt Drudge, is up with a new headline hyping a "sex scandal to hit campaign..." According to Drudge, the story is "developing." Drudge, a close personal friend of Mitt Romney's campaign manager Matt Rhoades, has hyped up several exclusive news stories during the 2012 campaign cycle, most of which have fallen flat. So our hopes aren't too high for his latest report.

Pastor who prayed at Obama’s
inauguration says all white
people will go to hell

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/31/2012 7:34:52 PM Post Reply

Pastor Joseph Lowery, a civil rights movement hero who delivered the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration, reportedly said that he is shocked that any black Americans would stay home with Obama on the ballot and suggested that all or most white people would go to hell. The local outlet paraphrases Lowery’s comments. “Lowery said that when he was a young militant, he used to say all white folks were going to hell,” the Monroe County Reporter (Ga.) says in covering a rally in Forsyth, Georgia. “Then he mellowed and just said most of them were. Now, he said, he is back

Exclusive: Classified cable
warned consulate couldn't
withstand 'coordinated attack'

Fox News, by Catherine Herridge Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/31/2012 7:30:05 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a “coordinated attack,” according to a classified cable reviewed by Fox News. Summarizing an Aug. 15 emergency meeting convened by the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Aug. 16 cable marked “SECRET” said that the State Department’s senior security officer, also known as the RSO, did not believe the consulate could be protected.

Chris Matthews Goes Off On
Climate Change Skeptics: ‘Pigs’
Who ‘Don’t Care About The Planet’

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/31/2012 7:24:46 PM Post Reply

On last night’s edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews had particularly strong words for politicians, fundraisers, corporations, and individuals who deny or are skeptical of the theories about man-made climate change. Speaking with Professor Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Matthews argued that the Hurricane Sandy disaster is an eye-opener about what role climate change should play in policymaking and this election. Rep. Markey argued that the hurricane “frames the election next Tuesday” as a battle between “Mother Nature” and

Axelrod vows to shave moustache
if Obama loses specific states

Daily Caller, by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/31/2012 7:22:05 PM Post Reply

Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said Wednesday he’s so confident that the president will defeat Mitt Romney in Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania next week that he’ll shave his moustache of 40 years if Obama doesn’t win. “I have put my moustache on the line,” Axelrod said on a conference call with reporters. Axelrod said Republicans are “simply not going to win” there despite the Romney campaign and other Republican-affiliated super PACs devoting last minute resources to those Obama-leaning states. Axelrod first made the wager Wednesday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Climate change may boost
bananas over potatoes

CBC News [Canada], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 7:21:49 PM Post Reply

Bananas could be set to become the new potatoes, as global warming affects growing patterns around the world, a new report on world agriculture suggests. Rising temperatures in some places may improve the productivity of bananas, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research says. At the same time, climate change could be bad news for potatoes in many areas, because they prosper in cooler climates. "Warmer winters, especially, may provide an opening for bananas in places that currently grow potatoes," the report says. "Warmer weather can also reduce the time

Colin Powell stars in new Obama ad.

CBS News, by Lucy Madison Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/31/2012 7:17:47 PM Post Reply

In an effort to maximize the benefit of Colin Powell's recent endorsement, the Obama campaign is out with a new radio ad today touting the Republican former Secretary of State's support for the president, highlighting remarks he made in a recent interview with CBS News' Charlie Rose. The minute-long ad, which according to the campaign will air in Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, and Colorado, replays a clip of Powell's October 25 endorsement, which he announced on "CBS This Morning." "When he took over, the country was in very, very difficult

White Working-Class Voters
Expanding Presidential
Battleground Map

National Journal, by Josh Kraushaar Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 7:12:43 PM Post Reply

I’ve got to admit, it’s somewhat comical to watch the debate over polls that regularly takes place on Twitter. Partisans on both sides are questioning samples, methodology, and each other. And while they’re obsessing over the minute details of often-questionable polling, they’re missing the fundamental story of this election: President Obama is on track to perform at a historically low level among white voters, and he needs to compensate by attracting overwhelming support from minorities, along with a big turnout by them. (Snip) Meanwhile, the Obama turnout machine isn’t quite as

Benghazi Coverup Much Worse
Than "Third-rate Burglary"

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Jack Kelly Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 10/31/2012 7:05:44 PM Post Reply

The ride on the Obama bus gets bumpier as more bodies are thrown under it. The latest to go thumpity thump are journalists who trumpeted the administration's excuse that faulty intelligence is why the president said for so long the attack on our consulate in Benghazi was a "spontaneous" protest over a Youtube video. The journalists went under the bus because the Foreign Service and career intelligence officers the administration tried to scapegoat refused to go there. They've leaked emails that reveal the White House was informed while it was still going on that the attack

Is Word of the Benghazi
Scandal Leaking Out?

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/31/2012 7:00:26 PM Post Reply

As we have written more than once, the news media’s collaboration in the Obama administration’s coverup of the Benghazi scandal is a scandal in itself. There are, of course, a few exceptions, most notably Fox News. But in general, Benghazi has not received anywhere near the attention it deserves from journalists. (Snip) A group of former special operators have set up a Facebook page called SOS: Special Operations Speaks. SOS posted this graphic on their Facebook page: Facebook took the graphic down twice on the ground that it violated their terms of service, but it is now back up on

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