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Romney claims Obama
doesn't understand business

Associated Press, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:16:35 PM Post Reply

Roanoke, Va. - Mitt Romney said Thursday that President Barack Obama doesn’t have a clue about how business works. The Obama campaign said Romney doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The Republican presidential nominee also criticized Obama for suggesting the creation of a secretary of business. ‘‘We don’t need a secretary of business to understand business. We need a president who understands business,’’ Romney said during a visit to Integrity Windows, which is owned by a family Obama praised during his convention speech. Obama has floated the idea of the new post as a way to consolidate nine agencies that

Justice Dept. OKs
new arguments in
healthcare lawsuit

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 3:06:01 PM Post Reply

The Justice Department said it does not object to a new round of legal arguments over President Obama's healthcare law. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court late Wednesday, the Justice Department said the court should clear the way for a possible new hearing in the lawsuit filed by Liberty University. Although the Supreme Court has already ruled that the healthcare law's individual mandate is constitutional, Liberty has asked for a new hearing because it challenged the mandate on different grounds. A lower court declined to rule in Liberty's suit because it said the

CBS-NYT polling analysis:
Unfairly favoring Obama?

Human Events, by Andrew Puzder Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:57:24 PM Post Reply

On Monday night, CBS News/New York Times issued a new poll that has President Obama up 1 percent nationally. It shows Gov. Romney ahead of the president among Republican voters by 85 percent (91 percent to 6 percent) and ahead among Independent voters by 12 percent (51 percent to 39 percent). That’s an impressive lead among Independents. The poll also shows that 68 percent of Romney voters are very enthusiastic versus 59 percent of Obama voters, a 9 percent enthusiasm gap favoring Gov. Romney. The conclusion from this data: President Obama is ahead in the polls by 1 percent.How can

D.C. paparazzi fear
a Mitt Romney win

Politico, by Patrick Gavin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/1/2012 2:57:05 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy, health care and foreign policy may draw mixed reviews, but on one issue, the consensus is clear: He’s ushered in an unparalleled wave of celebrity visits to Washington, one that has kept a merry band of Washington paparazzi photographers gainfully employed and active. (Snip) Photographer and autographer collector Mark Wilkins said a Romney administration would “bring back the same old boring celebrities we saw back when Bush was around.” “Trace Adkins, all those country stars that no one really cares about,” said Wilkins

Florida Dems ask Scott
to extend early voting

Palm Beach Post [FL], by Dara Kam Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 2:55:31 PM Post Reply

Florida Democrats are asking Gov. Rick Scott to extend early voting an extra day, blaming the GOP-backed changes to the election law that shrank the number of early voting days for long lines at the polls. Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith said Scott should take the lead from his predecessor Charlie Crist who extended early voting four years ago in response to long lines around the state and election machine problems in certain counties. Lawmakers last year cut back on the number of early voting days from 14 to eight and did away with the final Sunday

Mother murdered son for
'failing to learn the Koran'

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:53:30 PM Post Reply

A mother murdered her seven-year old son and set his body on fire when he struggled to learn the Koran off by heart, a court heard today. Sara Ege, 32, used a stick to beat her son Yaseen "like a dog" if he couldn't recite passages from the religious text, it is alleged. A court has heard the beatings were so brutal that Yaseen died from his injuries, and his mother tried to burn the body to destroy the evidence. Yaseen was originally thought to have died in a tragic accident in the house fire. But a post mortem examination

Sean Penn asked to support
Bolivia in maritime dispute with Chile

Santiago Times [Chile], by Mischa Wilmers Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 11/1/2012 2:52:03 PM Post Reply

In a visit to Bolivia on Tuesday, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was asked by President Evo Morales to help La Paz regain access of Pacific coast from Chile. The visit marked Penn’s second trip to Bolivia this year, both in which the U.S. actor was asked to lend his support to a campaign for Chile to overhaul a 19th century treaty that cost Bolivia its coast. Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca encouraged Penn to be an "interlocutor with people involved in international politics to ... help bring our demand, our proposal for a return to the sea to different venues."

NY Times Ready to Absolve Jon
Corzine of Stealing Customer Money

Chicago Daily Observer, by John Powers Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:49:41 PM Post Reply

From the New York Times: When MF Global toppled a year ago, chaos engulfed a Chicago trading floor. Customers were locked out of their accounts, later discovering that about $1 billion of their money had disappeared. (Snip) Criminal investigators have largely concluded that chaos and porous risk controls at the firm, rather than fraud, led to the disappearance of the money. So I I have this straight, risk controls at MF Global, managed by Jon Corzine, were so porous that MF Globals Chief Executive, also Jon Corzine, was allowed to steal money from his customers to cover bad investments, also

White House data supports Romney
claim that Obama will
raise debt to $20 trillion

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:38:47 PM Post Reply

White House data supports Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney‘s warning that if President Barack Obama wins re-election, the national debt will hit $20 trillion. America’s gross federal debt will reach $20.3 trillion at the end of 2016 under Obama’s budget path, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. The national debt is currently $16.1 trillion. (Snip) If Obama won re-election, the national debt would reach $17.4 trillion by the end of 2013, according to the “Mid-Session Review” published by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Obama’s inauguration reverend
say anti-white slam was a joke

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:36:13 PM Post Reply

Longtime African-American civil rights advocate Rev. Joseph Lowery told The Daily Caller that he was joking when he told a get-out-the-vote event that all whites will go to hell. “It was a joke” that was supposed to show the perspective of a young militant, Lowery told TheDC. “When I said it, I said it was a joke, I identified it as a joke.” However, attendees at the African-American event Oct. 27 were reportedly horrified. (Snip) Lowery’s aide described the Oct. 27 statement as a reaction to bias against Obama: “He was saying [that] based on all of the hatred that’s

Catholic Bishop: Joe Biden 'Ought
Not to Be Receiving Communion'

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:31:52 PM Post Reply

Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs, who holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, says that Vice President Joe Biden should know that he ought not to receive communion. Bishop Sheridan made the point in an interview he did in October with columnist Daniel Cole of The Colorado Springs Gazette. (Snip) "It’s clear to me that the Code of Canon Law, Canon 915, says that a Catholic politician who publicly espouses positions that are contrary, not just to any teachings of the Church, but to serious moral teachings, should

Menendez challenger Kyrillos
demands senator release all
travel records in wake
of prostitutes’ accusations

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 2:26:15 PM Post Reply

New Jersey GOP state Sen. Joe Kyrillos is demanding Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez release his schedule and all travel documents from this spring. Kyrillos’ demand is in response to allegations from two Dominican Republic women who claim Menendez paid them for sex around Easter time this year at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. (Snip) “Like the recent Secret Service sex scandal in Colombia, the allegations reported today are deeply disturbing and raise serious questions,” Kyrillos spokeswoman Meaghan Cronin said in a statement. “Senator Menendez must do the right thing and help settle this matter

Why I'll Vote for Romney

Daily Beast, by David Frum Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 11/1/2012 2:08:19 PM Post Reply

When President Obama took office in January 2009 the US was plunging downward into the worst recession since World War II. By summer 2009, the US had begun a weak but real recovery, which at last seems to be accelerating into an expansion that more and more Americans can feel. President Obama gave the order that killed Osama bin Laden. He ended the war in Iraq on acceptable terms. He is enforcing tightening sanctions against Iran, inspiring hopes of a peaceful end to that country's nuclear program.

Commuter Delays Rage as NYC
Begins Bounce Back From Sandy

Bloomberg News, by Esmé E. Deprez* Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/1/2012 2:02:53 PM Post Reply

Miles-long traffic jams and intersections choked with cyclists greeted commuters trying to get to work in New York as the most populous U.S. city struggled back to its feet amid the devastation of superstorm Sandy. Drivers from New Jersey faced hour-plus delays at bridges to Manhattan today as police checkpoints turned away cars with fewer than three passengers. Lincoln Tunnel approaches backed up past the Turnpike Exit 16 toll booths and beyond the western spur entrance on Route 3. Lines of more than 100 cars and trucks waited at gasoline stations on Route 46 leading to the George Washington Bridge

Trump: Obama's rejection
proves he's foreign-born

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jonathan Easley Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 1:42:07 PM Post Reply

Donald Trump blasted President Obama for not taking up his offer to release his college records, saying the president’s failure to do so was hard evidence he wasn’t born in the U.S. “For President Obama not to accept $5 million (or much more) for his favorite charity can only mean one thing – the records are very bad," Trump wrote on his Facebook page. “Obviously he wasn’t born in this country, or, if he was, he said he wasn’t in order to receive financial aid and in order to have a clear and very easy path into a

Rep. Markey says 'super-storm'
Sandy shows climate change
'at our doorstep'

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Pete Kasperowicz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 1:33:10 PM Post Reply

Rep. Edward Markey (Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, said Tuesday that "super-storm Sandy" is the latest evidence that climate change will continue to lead to "extreme weather" conditions in the United States. "For this super-storm to occur so late in the storm season, reach such fury and have the kinds of flooding impacts that we are seeing is fully consistent with what scientists have told us we should expect due to global warming," Markey said. "It's time to admit the obvious fact that

State troopers deployed
as tensions boil at gas stations
in Sandy's wake

Fox News, by Greg Wilson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 1:26:16 PM Post Reply

State troopers have been deployed at all gas stations along the NJ Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, where dwindling gasoline supplies are causing frayed nerves as the region endures its third full day with massive power outages. Frustration with gas supplies topped the list of issues causing tensions to boil over in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, the states hardest hit by power outages in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Residents jockeyed for fuel at the few stations still pumping, searched store shelves in vain for batteries, struggled with sporadic cell phone service and found themselves unable to

Romney's Secret Voting Bloc

Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Henninger Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 1:23:02 PM Post Reply

You've heard about Mitt Romney's problems with the women's vote, the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the union vote and the young Democrats vote. But there's one major voting group that's fallen off the map since the primaries. The evangelical vote. When Mitt Romney's 2012 candidacy was gaining traction in the primaries, the conventional wisdom instantly conveyed that the evangelical vote, skeptical of Mormonism, would sink him. What if in Ohio next week the opposite is true? There and in other swing states—Wisconsin, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida—the evangelical vote is flying beneath

State sending food to seniors,
those trapped in hi-rises: Cuomo

New York Post, by Erik Kriss Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 1:22:13 PM Post Reply

ALBANY – The state’s temporarily in the catering business in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Gov. Cuomo said today the state is bringing a million meals to seniors and others in hard-hit areas of the the city. He said the National Guard, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will deliver the meals and bottled water door-to-door to parts of Lower Manhattan, the Rockaways and other affected areas in Brooklyn and Queens starting today. “After days without powers, the most immediate need for many New Yorkers is food and water and the state is working aggressively to address this need.”

Superstorm Sandy: 9/11
memorial suffers 'extensive' damage

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/1/2012 1:16:48 PM Post Reply

Superstorm Sandy inflicted "extensive" damage on the National September 11 Memorial, built at the World Trade Center site in New York to honour those killed in the 2001 attacks, an official said on Wednesday. The memorial's chief executive Joe Daniels said the site had suffered "extensive impacts" due to "serious flooding" at the foundation level of the World Trade Center, where a museum is currently under construction. Flooding also hit the visitor centre and other facilities. Daniels vowed to perform the necessary repairs and reopen the memorial "as soon as possible."

Napolitano: US financial institutions
'actively under attack' by hackers

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Jennifer Martinez Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 1:15:58 PM Post Reply

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday warned that some of the largest U.S. financial institutions "are actively under attack" from cyber hackers. While Napolitano sounded the alarm about the attacks at a cybersecurity event hosted by The Washington Post, she declined to provide any details about them. "Right now, financial institutions are actively under attack. We know that. I'm not giving you any classified information," she said. "I will say this has involved some of our nation's largest institutions. We've also had our stock exchanges attacked over the last

Election 2012: Iowa President

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 11/1/2012 1:12:41 PM Post Reply

Iowa remains neck-and-neck in the closing days of Election 2012, with Mitt Romney now showing a one-point lead. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters finds the Republican challenger with 49% support, while President Obama earns 48% of the vote. Two percent (2%) like someone else in the race, and one percent (1%) is undecided.

Staten Island Borough President: Don’t
Give Money to the Red Cross

New York Observer, by Colin Campbell Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 11/1/2012 12:59:56 PM Post Reply

At a press conference this morning on Staten Island, a host of local officials, including Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, gathered to highlight the needs of the hard-hit borough in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. And, although many pols spoke, no one was more impassioned than Borough President James Molinaro, who called the Red Cross an “absolute disgrace” and even urged the public to cease giving them contributions. “Because the devastation in Staten Island, the lack of a response,” Mr. Molinaro said to explain his comment to NBC after the press conference. “You know, I went to

Romney urges Roanoke
County crowd to convince 2008
Obama voters to switch
(with Storify feed)

Roanoke Times [VA], by Mason Adams Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 12:55:14 PM Post Reply

A fired-up Mitt Romney rallied a crowd of just under 3,000 in Roanoke County this morning at the first of three stops in Virginia. Romney played off one of President Barack Obama’s slogans of four years ago – “Hope and change” -- by arguing that he offers “real change.” After a few days of relative political truce for Hurricane Sandy and its fallout, Romney was back on the offensive while speaking at Integrity Windows in the Bonsack area of Roanoke County, contrasting what he sees as two different paths for the American people. If Obama is re-elected,

Gov. McDonnell's beach
homes burglarized amid
Superstorm Sandy

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 12:51:33 PM Post Reply

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Two beach houses owned by Gov. Bob McDonnell's family were broken into as the governor was in Richmond overseeing the state's preparation and response to Superstorm Sandy. The governor's office on Thursday confirmed the thefts at the two Virginia Beach properties but declined further comment. Media outlets report that, according to Virginia Beach police, the homes were broken into sometime between Saturday and Monday and two televisions were taken. Local police are investigating but no arrests have been made.

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