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Chaos in Manhattan as millions
of New Yorkers battle to
return to work on gridlocked
roads, packed buses and limited
subway network

Daily Mail (UK), by Beth Stebner & Emily Anne Epstein Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 4:14:47 PM Post Reply

Millions of New Yorkers endured a nightmare commute into Manhattan today as the city struggled to return to normal after the devastation of superstorm Sandy. Limited parts of the New York City subway were reopened early Thursday morning, but were inundated as commuters tried to get into work, many for the first time since the storm paralyzed the city on Monday. Those who chose to travel by road faced widespread gridlock, despite an order by Mayor Bloomberg that vehicles crossing bridges into Manhattan must carry at least three people. Only extremely crowded buses

PPP: Golly, this VA race is close
despite the electorate
being 43% Democrat

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 4:12:26 PM Post Reply

I saw this poll late last night, long after getting back from walking with my granddaughters on Halloween, trick or treating in their neighborhood. At first, I thought this new poll from PPP in Virginia was a trick, but by this morning, I considered it more of a treat: (Snip) Key findings from the survey include: -Obama is winning big with women (56/39), African Americans (86/11), and voters under 45 (53/41). Romney’s strong groups are men (56/40), seniors (52/45), and white voters (56/39). …. -Obama continues to have a strong advantage over Romney on the key issues of who voters

Pew: Romney Has Turnout Edge

Breitbart's Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 4:08:38 PM Post Reply

One of my criticisms of the media polling this year is that, whether intentional or not, they paint an unrealistic portrait of the electorate this year. In the vast majority of cases, media polling shows Democrats matching or even exceeding the turnout advantage they had in 2008. This not only flies in the face of common sense; it goes against ample evidence showing the GOP with an edge in voter enthusiasm. Indeed, this week, Pew Research released a new survey showing the GOP with a substantial lead on the question of whether a voter is likely to vote. (Snip) 76%

Eight Reasons Polls Showing
Obama Winning Are Dead Wrong

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 4:01:37 PM Post Reply

The National Journal's Reid Wilson has written a superb piece that goes a long way towards explaining the one issue bringing right and left together this campaign season: What is going on with these polls? There's no question that there's one consensus of pollsters that show Mitt Romney leading (Rasmussen, Gallup) and another, larger group showing Obama with an edge -- especially in the all-important swing states. (Snip) ''Republicans and Democrats alike believe the African American vote is unlikely to change between 2008 and 2012. But they differ dramatically on the number of Hispanic voters who will show up at

New Jersey Gas Lines Stretch
For Miles And Miles [Photos]

Business Insider, by Dina Spector & Rob Wile Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:53:57 PM Post Reply

More than 1,000 New Jersey gas stations are unable to sell fuel due to power outages and delivery problems, according to the head of one of the state's gas station associations. Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline-Convenience-Automotive Association, which represents 1,500 stations, told us by phone that 75 percent of his members have shut down fueling. "There's difficulty getting supply from the pipeline, to distribution centers, to the trucks, to the gas stations, and then the final hurdle, getting it into car. So there [are] difficulties along every point." Many stations don't have power to pump gas.

Eco-Taxes? Study Financed by
U.S. Treasury Will Link Tax
Code to Carbon Emissions

Fox News, by George Russell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 3:53:16 PM Post Reply

Coming soon: a green tax code for American businesses and individual taxpayers alike? A major tax study currently being sponsored by the U.S. Treasury will give environmental activists a powerful new weapon in their campaign to alter the entire American economic and social landscape in the name of halting “climate change”—including the possible levying of new carbon taxes. That campaign is bound to intensify in the aftermath of Nov. 6’s presidential election, regardless of who wins the race, as the nation faces the challenge of deficit reduction and tax reform that will be required

In Iowa and New Hampshire,
an 18-Month Presidential Campaign

National Journal, by Alex Roarty Original Article

Posted By: nhchemist- 11/1/2012 3:44:36 PM Post Reply

New Hampshire and Iowa voters are used to White House hopefuls and money deluging their states in high summer, six months before their leadoff primary-season contests and 18 months before the actual election. This time, the courtship never stopped. Both states are now critical battlegrounds, with VIPs swarming across them in the final week of the presidential campaign. Bill Clinton made three stops in Iowa on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden scheduled a two-city Iowa tour for Thursday, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan heads to Iowa on Friday,

Romney blasts Obama's 'secretary
of business' plan as just
another layer of government

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:44:17 PM Post Reply

The Romney campaign is ripping President Obama for calling for the creation of a secretary of business to handle the nation's economic ills -- running a TV ad saying that solution would only add more bureaucracy to a cluttered system. "His solution to everything is to add another bureaucrat," the narrator says in the 30-second spot. "Why not have a president who actually understands business?" (Snip) The Obama campaign responded by saying the president called on Congress in January to give him authority the streamline the Executive Branch so businesses could more easily access government resources.

Obama, Biden Now Sing Different
Tune on Medicare ‘Cuts’

ABC News, by Jonathan Karl Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:41:05 PM Post Reply

Democrats have defended the $716 billion in Medicare savings in the health care law by arguing that seniors would not be affected because the only spending cuts would be in future payments made to Medicare providers — there would be no cuts whatsoever to actual Medicare benefits. But in 2005, then Sens. Joe Biden and Barack Obama had an entirely different view of spending reductions to Medicare providers. (Snip) The only real difference: The Bush Medicare cost savings end up being only about $16 billion over five years — a trifling sum when compared with the $415 billion in reduced

George Lucas's Jedi estate planning

Wall Street Journal, by Quentin Fottrell Original Article

Posted By: rarebear- 11/1/2012 3:37:19 PM Post Reply

Disney will buy LucasFilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stock, the two companies announced Tuesday. By cashing out now, experts say the filmmaker spared his family the need to pick up the pieces of his empire after he’s gone. It also allows him to focus his remaining years on his charitable endeavors – particularly Edutopia and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, which he founded in 1991.

Iraq court hands Sunni VP
2nd death sentence

Associated Press, by Adam Schreck Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:30:38 PM Post Reply

Baghdad - An Iraqi court on Thursday unexpectedly convicted the country's fugitive Sunni vice president on charges of instigating bodyguards to assassinate a senior government official and sentenced him to death. The verdict was the second death sentence for Tariq al-Hashemi in less than two months, and is likely to stoke further resentment among Iraq's minority Sunni Muslims against the Shiite-led government. The sentence is unlikely to be carried out any time soon because al-Hashemi has exiled himself in neighboring Turkey. He fled Iraq in December 2011 after the government accused him of playing a role in numerous attacks.

A Vote for a President to
Lead on Climate Change

Bloomberg News, by Michael R. Bloomberg Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 3:25:47 PM Post Reply

The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast -- in lost lives, lost homes and lost business -- brought the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential election into sharp relief. The floods and fires that swept through our city left a path of destruction that will require years of recovery and rebuilding work. And in the short term, our subway system remains partially shut down, and many city residents and businesses still have no power. In just 14 months, two hurricanes have forced us to evacuate neighborhoods -- something our city government

Obamacare shutters
D.C. family practice

Human Events, by Neil W. McCabe Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:25:30 PM Post Reply

A Washington physician, whose father founded his practice in the late 1960s, is shuttering operations because of the burdens created by federal health care reform, in addition to Medicare and insurance company hassles. Health care regulations and laws created by President Barack Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are the biggest problem, said Dr. Andrew Lee, a general practitioner who has treated more than 10,000 patients since he opened his business. (Snip) Regardless of who controls the White House and Congress, Lee said the business will close some time next year. “We are going to close our practice

America’s solar soldiers

Global Post [Boston], by Katie Drummond Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 3:20:54 PM Post Reply

New York - They're some of the country's most important environmental activists, poised to change the way we create, consume and conceive of energy. But you won't find this cadre of green preachers on a college campus, or emceeing the Sierra Club's annual meeting. You'll find them, clad in blazers and pantsuits, pushing their agenda behind the guarded walls of the Pentagon. (Snip) This group of “greenhawks,” as they've been dubbed, didn't set out to kick-start a national conversation about alternative energy. But in their push to transform the country's largest federal agency into one reliant on solar panels and

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

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