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'Troubling' Surveillance
Before Benghazi Attack

Foreign Policy, by Harald Doornbos & Jenan Moussa Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 5:37:18 PM Post Reply

BENGHAZI, Libya — More than six weeks after the shocking assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi -- and nearly a month after an FBI team arrived to collect evidence about the attack - the battle-scarred, fire-damaged compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens and another Foreign Service officer lost their lives on Sept. 11 still holds sensitive documents and other relics of that traumatic final day, including drafts of two letters worrying that the compound was under "troubling" surveillance and complaining that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security.When we visited on Oct. 26 to

Judge backs Catholic firm
over contraception mandate

Reuters, by Terry Baynes Original Article

Posted By: hoosier observer- 11/1/2012 5:01:23 PM Post Reply

A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that requires private employers to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control, a federal judge in Detroit has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, in a ruling late Wednesday, temporarily blocked the government from forcing the owner of Weingartz Supply Company, which sells outdoor power equipment, to include contraception in its health coverage of employees.

Driftglass Republicans

American Thinker, by Rosslyn Smith Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 4:47:13 PM Post Reply

Heard the term Broken Glass Republican -- meaning someone who would crawl over broken glass to get to the polls to vote? Maybe we should be talking about Driftglass Republicans, too. Someone in hurricane-devastated Point Pleasant who sent a greeting to President Obama's during his aerial tour of the Jersey Shore with Governor Christie...

The woman who helped turn
Jackie into a First Lady:
Etiquette expert who became
Kennedy's social secretary dies
aged 86

Daily Mail (UK), by Sadie Whitelocks Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 4:42:25 PM Post Reply

Jackie Kennedy’s social secretary and etiquette expert, Letitia Baldrige, has died at the age 86. The queen of manners, who educated America on everything from how to eat gracefully to the art of letter writing, passed away on Monday at the Sunrise at Fox Hill nursing facility in Bethesda, Maryland. According to her longtime friend Mary M Mitchell, she had severe osteoarthritis and cardiac complications. Before joining the Kennedy White House to help her friend and fellow Vassar alumna, the former Jacqueline Bouvier, Ms Baldrige served as the public relations director at Tiffany & Co.

Why East Coast Gas
Shortages May Not End
for a Week

CNBC, by Patti Domm * Original Article

Posted By: BaseballFan- 11/1/2012 4:39:09 PM Post Reply

Power outages at hundreds of gas stations and a distribution bottleneck due to flooding damage and power loss has caused a gasoline shortage in the New York metropolitan area that may not be cleared up for at least a week, according to industry experts. What was a problem for drivers when Super Storm Sandy ended two days ago has become a nightmare for frazzled motorists who find themselves in gas lines that can stretch on for hours.

Bono Sees the Light,
Applauds Capitalism

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 4:38:50 PM Post Reply

Capitalism is no longer a four-letter word for U2 frontman Bono. The Irish rocker told a tech conference in Dublin last week he has a new appreciation for open markets thanks to his charitable work co-founding the One campaign, a movement to end disease and hunger in Africa. [Bono] said it had been “a humbling thing for me” to realize the importance of capitalism and entrepreneurialism in philanthropy, particularly as someone who “got into this as a righteous anger activist with all the cliches.” “Job creators and innovators are just the key, and aid is just a bridge,” he told

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

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