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How To Save New York

Slate, by Matthew Yglesias Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 11/2/2012 5:44:43 AM Post Reply

Growing up in New York City, I never had much consciousness of it as a coastal city. The beaches are in the farthest-off parts of the outer boroughs, and the population centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn are oriented inward rather than toward the waterfronts. But the devastating flooding of Hurricane Sandy is a powerful reminder that the reason New York was built where it is was take advantage of a good harbor and extensive coastline. And while the city continues to be a relatively unlikely place for a hurricane to make landfall, the combination

Pelosi holds secret fundraiser with
Islamists, Hamas-linked groups

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 5:38:20 AM Post Reply

Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi headlined a high-dollar fundraiser in May that was attended by U.S.-based Islamist groups and individuals linked by the U.S. government to the Hamas jihad group and to the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood movement. The donors at the undisclosed May 16 event included Nihad Awad, the co-founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations, according to data provided by the nonpartisan Investigative Project on Terrorism. The CAIR group was named an unindicted conspirator in a 2007 trial of a Hamas money-smuggling group.

When We Deceive . . .

National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 5:33:45 AM Post Reply

So far the administration has attributed its lapses to the “fog of war” and suggestions that only the Tripoli embassy not the Benghazi consulate was deemed vulnerable. Now, from a recent cable, we know that the latter was untrue, and that the only fog of war consisted in a handful of administration spokespeople frantically trying to get their stories straight. (Snip)Then, in the middle of a video-filmed assault, why were they frozen into inaction as Americans fought to the death, Alamo style?

Bloomberg: The National Guard
in Coney is a bad idea

The Brooklyn Paper, by Eli Rosenberg Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 11/2/2012 5:30:21 AM Post Reply

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state. “We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

How Far Obama Has Fallen

Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 11/2/2012 5:26:53 AM Post Reply

So where are we? A softly catastrophic storm left us, in the Northeast, shocked at the depth and breadth of its power to destroy. Everyone who could be was hunkered down Monday waiting it out, and at first we hoped it might not be as bad as we'd been warned, because we'd all seen higher wind and harder rain. (Snip)It is a mystery why the president didn't second-guess himself more, doubt himself. Instead he kept going forward as if it were working.He doesn't do chastened. He didn't do what Bill Clinton learned to do

Illegal or bust? Easy shot missed

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 5:16:45 AM Post Reply

All the final Senate TV ads are in the can, so it’s too late for U.S. Sen. Scott Brown to “hammer” the fake Indian anymore on illegal immigration. Too bad, because if there’s one issue the incumbent is indisputably with the majority on, it’s the scourge of illegal aliens. Like maybe 85 percent of the state, Brown wants to stop handouts to illegal aliens. Granny Warren, not so much. Brown mentions it in a new TV ad, but the problem is that it’s only a mention. In case you haven’t noticed, these days every state is a “border state.”

Why Obama Chose to Let
Them Die in Benghazi

American Thinker, by Karin McQuillan Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 11/2/2012 5:16:15 AM Post Reply

The burning question is why Obama didn't give orders to defend our consulate and American lives in Benghazi. The answer is becoming clearer each time President Obama and Secretary of Defense Panetta issue a denial or explanation of their inaction. To the president's surprise, he chanced on an honest reporter during a local interview on the campaign trail in Denver. On October 26, for the first time, Obama was asked directly about the explosive reports on CBS and Fox News, a week earlier

After the Storm

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 5:12:26 AM Post Reply

Can we pause from our hypomanic poll checkups? Can we stop tweeting about the early vote? Is it possible in the final days of this close election to step back and reflect, if only for a few moments, on the challenges that will face whoever is elected president on Tuesday? I’m as guilty as the next pundit of obsessing over the fight between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. My nerves are fried. I’ve been freebasing poll crosstabs like an addict. But the fiscal, economic, and foreign policy crises that will likely unfold in the coming months cannot be ignored.

The End of Wall Street's
Love Affair with Obama

Atlantic, by Serena Dai Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/2/2012 5:04:04 AM Post Reply

Wall Street does not donate to Barack Obama like it used to, and this striking month-by-month comparison chart from Center for Responsive Politics shows just how much its fallen out of love with the president since the last election. CRP is a non-partisan group that aims to track where money goes in politics. The green line represents donations from 2007-2008, and the blue line represents this year's election. While Obama saw dips in Wall Street donations throughout the 2008 election season, he also saw far greater influxes of cash, particularly closer to Election Day. This time last year, the industry

Marathon is power mad!

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/2/2012 4:59:08 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers huddle in the dark each night after the most devastating storm in city history — while two massive generators chug away in Central Park and a third sits idle waiting to power a media center during Sunday’s NYC Marathon. Like hell. Those generators could power 400 homes on Staten Island or the Rockaways or any storm-wracked neighborhood in the city certain to be suffering the after-effects of Hurricane Sandy on Sunday morning. Shouldn’t they come first? Shouldn’t the race just be canceled? Damned straight.

Obama Goes for a Modified
Limited Hang Out

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 4:55:58 AM Post Reply

Obama administration officials are feeling the pressure to answer some basic questions about their responsibility for what happened September 11 in Benghazi. As has become very clear, the administration doesn't want to answer the questions, such as what the president did and didn't do that evening; what military assets were available and why, if certain ones were available, they weren't deployed; why senior Administration officials claimed subsequently that what happened was a riot caused by a video; and so forth. But stonewalling looks bad. So the administration gave the Washington Post's David Ignatius access to their "timeline,"

Brutal Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial
Labels Obama ‘Unworthy’ of His Office

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 4:46:52 AM Post Reply

Writing at Instapundit, Elizabeth Price Foley says she’s never seen anything quite like this blistering editorial. I have to agree. It’s astounding. Based on documents released by the committee, on the day of the attack the Pentagon dispatched a drone with a video camera so everyone in Washington could see what was happening in real time. The drone documented no crowds protesting any video. But around 4 p.m. Washington received an email from the Benghazi mission saying it was under a military-style attack. The White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA

Why the Long Face, Democrats?

Daily Beast, by Michael Medved Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 4:36:30 AM Post Reply

When leading pundits, pollsters and prognosticators seem to agree that the re-election of President Obama is all but inevitable, why do grassroots Democrats seem so anxious and depressed? If the president’s most ardent supporters feel soul-deep certainty that their candidate has richly earned another term in office, then how is it that they universally acknowledge that he’ll draw far fewer votes than he did as an untried freshman senator four years ago? A revealing report by Joe Garofoli in the San Francisco Chronicle found local liberals “so freaked out about the prospect of President Obama losing his re-election bid

Opening of absentee ballots
under way, but not tallying

Columbus Dispatch [OH], by Pamela Engel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 4:29:51 AM Post Reply

Workers have started the long process of opening the thousands of absentee ballots that have flowed in for this month’s election. Franklin County Board of Elections employees, some of them seasonal, are allowed to start opening the absentee ballots 10 days before Election Day. The envelopes containing the ballots are opened facedown so that workers don’t know the name of the voter. The ballots then must be fed into optical scanners that read the darkened ovals next to candidates’ names and other ballot items. “We’ll keep doing that until Election Day,

Benghazi’s Smoking Gun? Only President
Can Give ‘Cross-Border Authority’

PJ Media, by Matt Bracken Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/2/2012 4:25:19 AM Post Reply

The Benghazi debacle boils down to a single key factor — the granting or withholding of “cross-border authority.” This opinion is informed by my experience as a Navy SEAL officer who took a NavSpecWar Detachment to Beirut. Once the alarm is sent – in this case, from the consulate in Benghazi — dozens of HQs are notified and are in the planning loop in real time, including AFRICOM and EURCOM, both located in Germany. Without waiting for specific orders from Washington, they begin planning and executing rescue operations, including moving personnel, ships, and aircraft

Report: Obama never convened
counterterrorism task force
during Benghazi attack

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/2/2012 4:20:56 AM Post Reply

This piece is as noteworthy for its sourcing as it is for its substance. The dam’s starting to break. “The [Counterterrorism Security Group] is the one group that’s supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies,” a high-ranking government official told CBS News. (Snip)Inexplicably, they also didn’t call on their rapid-reaction counterterrorism coordination squad, the Foreign Emergency Support Team, even though the consulate attack was, um, (a) foreign and (b) an emergency that (c) required support.

Fred Thompson Calls Benghazi
'Biggest Cover-Up in American History'

American Spectator, by Robert Stacy McCain Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 11/2/2012 2:19:33 AM Post Reply

Blue Ash, Ohio – Former Sen. Fred Thompson today said he was “totally disgusted” by the Obama administration’s handling of the Libya terrorist attack, saying that U.S. officials failed to act “while our people were being systematically slaughtered” at the Benghazi consulate. Speaking at an event sponsored by the free-market group Americans for Prosperity, the former Republican senator from Tennessee invoked his experience nearly 40 years ago as a Watergate investigator, saying that Congress must “get to the bottom of” the administration’s failures in the Sept. 11 incident that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead in Libya.

Letter to My European Friends

Pajamas Media, by Michael Ledeen Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 11/2/2012 2:12:37 AM Post Reply

To my European friends: I see from various polls that very nearly all of you support President Obama’s reelection. The numbers are remarkable, indeed incredible. More than ninety percent of you would vote Obama (94% of Italians, for example, and the numbers for Great Britain, France, Spain and Germany are even higher). Other numbers show that nearly half of you think you should somehow be able to vote in our elections, since American policies have such an enormous effect on you. All of which reinforces my belief—speaking as the grandson of Russian immigrants who arrived in Harlem and Western

FEMA agrees to reimburse full cost of
transportation, power restoration in NY/NJ

New York Post, by Gerry Shields Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/2/2012 2:07:56 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON--The federal government gave New York and New Jersey a financial boost in recovering from Hurricane Sandy today by agreeing to have Washington reimburse the full cost of emergency public transportation and power restoration to the region. The money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will cover costs such repairing substations, power plants and power lines while also providing money for extra buses and driver overtime. [Snip] Under federal law, FEMA is required to pay 75 percent of certain damages but in the case of major disasters can provide as much as 90 percent or the full cost.

Lessons from Experience in
Sex and Politics

National Review Online, by Lisa Schiffren Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 11/2/2012 2:01:56 AM Post Reply

Was it only last week, pre-Sandy, that the Obama campaign ran the generally smutty, unpleasantly manipulative political ad featuring Lena Dunham, called “First Time,” which attempted to conflate a young woman’s first vote with losing her virginity? In addition to the smarmy, smutty tone, the ad was an ugly, desperate attempt to manipulate young women into voting for Obama, on the general grounds that he is “a great guy,” and “cool.” Apart from the fact that neither of those qualities are really at the top of the list of key attributes for boyfriends or leaders of the free world, the

C'est la vie! Bette Midler celebrates
Halloween with extravagant French
themed party in New York,
despite Hurricane Sandy destruction

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 11/2/2012 1:18:02 AM Post Reply

It was definitely a scary 48 hours for the inhabitants of New York. But now that Hurricane Sandy has moved away from the East Coast, it's back to business for most New Yorkers, including Bette Midler. The veteran actress and singer continued her life as usual and celebrated her yearly extravagant celebrity 'Hulaween' bash on Wednesday night in the storm-struck city. Despite the fact that Lower Manhattan is still without power, Bette managed to find a venue uptown which did have electricity: The Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Shocking images show desperate New Yorkers
digging through dumpsters for food as
downtown Manhattan embarks on
fourth night without power

Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/2/2012 1:13:22 AM Post Reply

New Yorkers have resorted to digging through filthy dumpsters for food as they embark on their fourth night without power and for many, without water. Shocking images captured groups of residents sifting through garbage outside a Key Food supermarket at Avenue A and East 4th Street in the East Village today. Families, elderly people and young residents were seen climbing into the dumpster hunting for whatever they could find to eat. According to NBC New York, whose crews came across the confronting scene, the local supermarket had discarded piles of food that had gone bad after Hurricane Sandy shut down

Obama back on campaign trail after
Sandy says now is not time for 'petty
differences' - then attacks Romney

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/2/2012 1:05:42 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama headed back onto the campaign trail today for the first time after Superstorm Sandy struck and said now is not the time for 'petty differences' between parties, but then went on to attack his rival Mitt Romney.[Snip] Obama said today: ‘Our hearts go out to those who have lost their loved ones. We pledge to help those whose lives have been turned upside down. ‘In the end we're all in this together--that we rise and fall as one nation, one people.’ But Obama then contradicted his high-minded appeal for bipartisanship to attack Romney. ‘He’s saying he’s

Nonunion Ala. crews turned
away from Sandy recovery

WAFF-TV [Huntsville, AL], by Mark Thornhill Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 11/2/2012 12:07:54 AM Post Reply

Seaside Heights, New Jersey - The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews from Huntsville Utilities learned they'll be doing work in Long Island, New York instead of in New Jersey. Crews from Huntsville, as well as Decatur Utilities and Joe Wheeler out of Trinity headed up there this week, but Derrick Moore, one of the Decatur workers, said they were told by crews in New Jersey that they can't do any work there since they're not union employees.(Snip) The crews were told to stand down. In fact, Moore said the crew from Trinity is already

Criminal Negligence: Benghazi
Gave 1-Month Warning

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 11/1/2012 11:06:23 PM Post Reply

Scandal: A month before the terrorist attack, the State Department was warned Benghazi couldn't protect itself and was surrounded by Islamist militia and al-Qaida camps. It was 3 a.m. and the administration pressed "snooze." When the U.S. mission in Benghazi called an Aug. 15 emergency meeting, it wasn't to discuss an obscure Internet video. It was to discuss the lack of security for a consulate surrounded by at least 10 terrorist camps. An Aug. 16 cable to the office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and obtained by Fox News reported that the State Department's senior security officer "expressed

The choice

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/1/2012 10:43:52 PM Post Reply

“Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That was Barack Obama in 2008. And he was right. Reagan was an ideological inflection point, ending a 50-year liberal ascendancy and beginning a 30-year conservative ascendancy. It is common for one party to take control and enact its ideological agenda. Ascendancy, however, occurs only when the opposition inevitably regains power and then proceeds to accept the basic premises of the preceding revolution. Thus, Republicans railed for 20 years

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