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Secret Service agent kills
self amid affair probe

Associated Press, by Alicia A. Caldwell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/1/2012 6:29:17 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON— A senior Secret Service agent being formally investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week. People familiar with the matter say Rafael Prieto, a married father assigned to President Barack Obama's security detail, acknowledged the affair after U.S. authorities began investigating. These people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss Prieto's death or the investigation. The sources say Prieto's relationship was revealed to Secret Service investigators by an agent who had been entangled in the Colombian prostitution scandal earlier this year.

Sandy power outages could
last another 10 days;
new winter storm builds

NBC News, by Miguel Llanos Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:25:26 PM Post Reply

Hundreds of thousands of people in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey may not have power restored for up to 10 more days, officials warned Thursday. Meanwhile, weather forecasters said a winter storm could hit the Northeast next week. In New York City, the utility ConEd said the 228,000 customers in Manhattan still without power should have it back by Saturday, but that would leave more than 400,000 elsewhere potentially in the dark beyond Saturday. (Snip) ConEd also noted that many buildings in areas with restored service will continue to be without power until they repair any flood

Staten Island Councilman James Oddo:
'Idiotic' to divert cops to New York
Marathon right after Hurricane Sandy

New York Daily News, by Barry Paddock* Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/1/2012 6:18:45 PM Post Reply

Desperately needed food, water and generators were being rushed Thursday to Sandy-ravaged Staten Island while local leaders blasted the city’s “idiotic” plan to stage the New York City Marathon in the midst of the crisis. Staten Island Councilman James Oddo urged Mayor Bloomberg to reconsider, especially while rescue efforts are still underway on the hard-hit South Shore. "The notion of diverting even one police officer, one first responder, one asset away from this carnage is beyond irrational,” the Republican lawmaker told The Daily News. "The mayor said to me, 'We're not going to diminish

Automobile Magazine names Tesla
Model S 'Car of the Year'

CNN Money, by Peter Valdes-Dapena Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:18:00 PM Post Reply

New York - Automobile Magazine has named the Tesla Model S its "Car of the Year," citing the car's design and impressive speed. "It's the performance that won us over," Automobile Editor-in-Chief Jean Jennings said in the magazine's January 2013 issue. "The crazy speed builds silently and then pulls back the edges of your face. It had all of us endangering our licenses." The Model S is an all-electric luxury sedan that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in just 4.3 seconds. That's fast for any car, but especially one with the size and roominess of the

*Video* Obama’s splashy
‘Commander-in-Chief’ entrance
for rally in Green Bay

Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spering Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/1/2012 6:16:37 PM Post Reply

As Zeke Miller noted, the framing of President Obama’s campaign event couldn’t be more clear: He is the president. After taking three days off of the campaign trail to oversee the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy, Obama bounded out of Air Force One after his introduction, wearing a leather bomber jacket. The president delivered his speech from a podium that was adorned with the presidential seal.

Citing climate change,
Bloomberg endorses Obama

CNN, by Kevin Liptak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 6:06:45 PM Post Reply

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in a surprise endorsement Thursday he was voting for President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election, using Superstorm Sandy as a peg to highlight the president's stance on climate change. Citing the storm, which left much of his city underwater and powerless, Bloomberg wrote in an op-ed on his website that "while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in New York City and around the world may or may not be the result of [climate change], the risk that it might be – given this week's devastation – should compel

Voter fraud is no myth — it’s
more common than you think

Human Events, by John Fund Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 11/1/2012 5:56:57 PM Post Reply

Patrick Moran claims he was just joking about encouraging voter fraud. But he nonetheless resigned last week as field director for the campaign of his father, Virginia Congressman Jim Moran. Guerrilla videographer James O’Keefe caught Patrick Moran on tape offering advice on how to commit in-person voter fraud. (Snip) Last April, a 22-year-old O’Keefe associate showed how easy it is to vote in someone else’s name if no ID is required by being offered the ballot of Attorney General Eric Holder simply by mentioning his name to a Washington, D.C. poll worker. Now O’Keefe has shown just how easy it

The Benghazi Drip-Drip-Drip

ABC News, by Jake Tapper Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 11/1/2012 5:55:34 PM Post Reply

As he left his Marine One helicopter Wednesday evening and walked to the residence of the White House, President Obama did not respond to a question shouted out by ABC News’s Mary Bruce about when he would begin to provide answers to the numerous questions building up about what exactly what went wrong in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.(snip) myriad inquiries about the decisions that led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens: they are deferring detailed answers to the investigation and – critics say –running out the clock until Election Day.

State Department to review
its own Benghazi review

Foreign Policy, by Josh Rogin Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/1/2012 5:42:20 PM Post Reply

The State Department Inspector General's office has drawn up plans to conduct several reviews of the State Department's handling of embassy security and the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, including a review of the State Department's own internal review. The State Department's acting Inspector General Harold Geisel wrote an Oct. 26 letter, obtained by The Cable, to Senate Homeland Security Committee heads Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), outlining several reviews his office has already started and some they are about to start to determine if embassy security around the

'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.

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