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Salon owner ´killed himself because
President was re-elected´ and scrawled
´F*** Obama´ on his will

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 12:22:06 PM Post Reply

A former tanning salon owner was found dead two days after the election after telling his partner that he was ´not going to be around´ if President Obama won a second term. Henry Hamilton was discovered next tow two empty prescription pill bottles with the message ´F*** Obama!´ written over his will. His partner said that the 64-year-old man was ´very upset about the election results.´ Police are not searching for any suspects in the case, as police spokeswoman Alyson Crean said ´there´s absolutely no evidence of foul play´. The Miami Herald reports that Hamilton´s

The Republican Party is a
Political Insane Asylum

Canada Free Press, by Jeff Crouere Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 11/14/2012 12:18:03 PM Post Reply

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” Albert Einstein In the end, it was another Democratic Party rout. On Election Day, President Obama defeated Mitt Romney by over three million popular votes and 126 electoral votes. The President won every battleground state except one and ushered in to Congress two more Democrats in the Senate and at least seven more in the House. While Obama recorded seven million fewer votes than in 2008, Romney was one million votes shy of reaching John McCain’s losing total.

Tough Laws Enacted in Russia
Under Vladimir Putin

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/14/2012 12:17:03 PM Post Reply

The first six months of Vladimir Putin´s return to Russia´s presidency, after a four-year sojourn as prime minister, have brought an array of tough measures that critics say are aimed at intimidating the opposition. The latest, expanding the definition of treason, went into force Wednesday. A look at the recent laws: TREASON -Under the new treason law, anyone possessing information deemed a state secret could be imprisoned for up to 20 years. The old law defined high treason as espionage or other assistance to a foreign state that damaged Russia´s external security; the new law drops the word "external."

Jill Kelley has military access REVOKED
at Tampa base during inquiry into
thousands of ´flirtatious´ emails
between Petraeus´ whistleblower
and top general

Daily Mail [UK], by Paul Thompson & James Nye Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 12:15:16 PM Post Reply

After a lifetime dedicated to working her way up to the fringes of power, Jill Kelley, the woman at the center of the Petraeus sex scandal, is facing the prospect of being blackballed by the military establishment. Mrs Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa socialite who hosted parties for the nation´s top brass, has been told today that she is no longer welcome at military HQ near her Florida home. Kelley´s complaint over threatening emails triggered an FBI investigation that led to CIA director Petraeus´ resignation when it came to light that he was having an affair with

If they want to secede, let ´em

San Francisco Chronicle, by Caille Millner Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/14/2012 12:13:14 PM Post Reply

It´s barely been a week since President Obama´s re-election, and some people can´t believe, truly can´t believe, that things didn´t go their way. (Snip) Then I started thinking a little more strategically. Centuries of heavily enforced inequality in certain states have left them incapacitated for the modern economy. What do they contribute to the current union, anyway? What would happen if we just decided to let them go? Imagine the possibilities. After a short phase-out period (so that the panicked citizens of New Orleans; Austin; and Washington, D.C., can join us), we let these ungrateful states go.

U.S. News Exlusive Interview:
Broadwell Hailed Petraeus as
´Relentless´ Mentor During Affair

U.S. News & World Report, by Elizabeth Flock Original Article

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

Paula Broadwell spoke in glowing terms about Gen. David Petraeus and his legacy to U.S. News back in February, just weeks after the publication of her biography of the four-star general, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus." "Petraeus´s legacy is still being established," she said at the time. "I don´t think he will leave the national security apparatus for decades if he has anything to do with it." The revelation of the affair between Broadwell, 40, and the CIA director, 60, led to his resignation last week.

Democrat King concedes defeat in
state Senate race to Republican Gudex

WTAQ Radio [Green Bay, WI], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/14/2012 12:04:49 PM Post Reply

OSHKOSH, WI - Republicans will have a firm three-vote majority in the Wisconsin Senate, after Democratic incumbent Jessica King of Oshkosh conceded her close election Tuesday. King lost by 0.7 percent to Fond du Lac Republican Rick Gudex – but she wanted to see the official canvasses from last Tuesday’s voting before deciding whether to seek a recount. Gudex said he increased his lead by 9 votes after the canvasses in Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties, with Dodge County’s canvass coming up Wednesday. Republicans held the seat for 35 years before King defeated Randy Hoppe

Boehner tells GOP to ´sit back,´
fiscal talks ´going to take awhile´

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Russell Berman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 12:02:36 PM Post Reply

Meeting with his conference for the first time since the election, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday told his troops to settle in for a long battle over the “fiscal cliff.” “Sit back, this is going to take awhile,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said in characterizing Boehner’s message at the closed-door meeting. The Speaker offered few new details on talks to avoid the fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts, saying he expected the negotiations would intensify after congressional leaders meet with President Obama on Friday.

Chris Matthews Claims GOP Ignorant
of Science While Claiming Plants
Absorb Carbon Monoxide

NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 11:55:07 AM Post Reply

Note to Chris Matthews: when seeking to slam Republicans for their supposed ignorance of science, try not to expose your own. On Tuesday´s Hardball, Matthews—mocking the Republican congressmen vying for the chairmanship of the House Science Committee— committed this whopper: "As we all learned in grammar school—young people watching—trees absorb carbon monoxide." Uh, no, Chris. As even an MSNBC host might know, carbon monoxide is a toxic gas produced when there is insufficient oxygen to permit complete oxidation. Think running car in closed garage. Trees absorb carbon dioxide.

King David’s big fall

New York Post, by Arthur Herman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 11:46:43 AM Post Reply

Even Brad Thor couldn’t come up with a juicier storyline. FBI agents discover secret e-mails proving that the CIA director, a revered war hero and possible future presidential candidate, is having an affair with his biographer-turned- femme fatale. He then resigns just days before he’s supposed to give public testimony on a growing scandal that reaches all the way to the White House. Only this is fact, not fiction. Gen. David Petraeus’ resignationlast Friday stunned Washington and shattered his reputation, probably for good. Unanswered questions swirl around this case. The initial claim that

Associate: Even If Petraeus
Began Affair in Afghanistan,
He´s Unlikely to Be Prosecuted

Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 11:38:00 AM Post Reply

Gen. David Petraeus has told associates that his extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell began two months after he arrived at the CIA, and he said it ended four months ago. But even if it began in Afghanistan -- in which case Petraeus is lying -- he´s unlikely to be prosecuted, said Colonel Peter Mansoor, who served as General Petraeus´s executive officer in Iraq. Mansoor told Fox News´s Greta Van Susteren Tuesday night that he spoke with Petraeus by phone for half an hour on Monday, and

Radio Host Rants Against GOP
Hispanic Outreach: They’re
Mexican ‘Socialists’ Who
Come To ‘Plunder’ U.S.

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 11:28:20 AM Post Reply

During his national radio show on Friday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer, spokesman made the case against Republican Party outreach to Hispanic-Americans, dismissing them as “socialists by nature” who “come from Mexico” to “plunder” the United States. According to Fischer, reaching out to Hispanics is a lost cause because the demographic supports Democrats not because of the party’s actual policies but because Hispanics want “goodies.” “Hispanics don’t vote Democrat because of immigration,” he explained. “That’s not the main reason why they vote for Democrats. It doesn’t have anything to do with lax

Study: Married Couples Live Longer,
Healthier Lives Than Singles

CBS, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 11/14/2012 11:20:33 AM Post Reply

CINCINNATI, Ohio – Married couples tend to live longer and adapt better to health setbacks than their single counterparts. The number of Americans who live together without being married continues to rise — from 400,000 in 1960 to 7.6 million in 2011, according to Census data. However, new research indicates that married people live longer than those that cohabit. Researchers Hui Liu of Michigan State University and Corinne Reczek at the University of Cincinnati looked at the national health survey data of nearly 200,000 people, taken from 1997 to 2004. Link repaired by staff

Republicans split on how
to handle Obamacare after
president’s re-election

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 11:18:15 AM Post Reply

House Republicans are publicly infighting about what to do about Obamacare in the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election last week. House Speaker John Boehner has now backed off his promises to repeal the president’s health care reform law – at least until a Republican is elected president. “Well, I think the election changes that,” Boehner told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer when asked if he would still pursue repealing the law. “It’s pretty clear that the president was reelected, Obamacare is the law of the land. I think there are parts of the healthcare law that are going

No wonder she’s turned to
drink! General Petraeus’s mistress
spotted in brother’s home as
it’s revealed she took ‘significant
amounts’ of classified military
documents – so will she now
be charged?

Daily Mail (UK), by Paul Thompson, Sara Nathan* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/14/2012 11:14:54 AM Post Reply

Paula Broadwell, the biographer-turned-mistress of David Petraeus, has admitted to taking classified military documents from government buildings and stashing them in her home, it has emerged. The revelation, which raises yet more concerns over whether the affair led to security breaches, sparked the FBI search of her home in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday night, where agents were pictured carting away boxes brimming with papers. Broadwell, who has kept a low profile since the scandal broke, was seen taking refuge at her brother´s home in Washington D.C. on Tuesday night.

Poll: Fewer Support
Obamacare Repeal

ABC News, by Z. Byron Wolf Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 11:07:41 AM Post Reply

A record low number of American voters want to see the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – repealed, according to a new post-election poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Obamacare was not the top issue driving American to vote, although nearly seven in 10 Americans cited it as a “major factor” in their decision choosing between the candidates, according to Kaiser. Voters who listed Obamacare as a major factor were evenly split between Republican Mitt Romney, 47 percent, and President Obama, 46 percent. Read the full Kaiser Family Foundation poll. But only 33 percent of Americans now

Why Generals Cheat

Slate, by Fred Kaplan Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 11/14/2012 10:58:28 AM Post Reply

I have never met an unassuming four-star general. If such creatures do exist, it’s a safe bet that they’re lousy at the job. This is worth keeping in mind when puzzling over the scandals of Gen. David Petraeus and, now it seems, his successor in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen. Consider what a general does, especially a commanding general in wartime: He sends his soldiers into battle, knowing that some of them will die as a result of his decisions. That is the nature of the job, and has been for millennia. That doesn’t necessarily make generals bloodthirsty

Pelosi suggests it’s
sexist to question why
she’s staying as leader

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 10:57:55 AM Post Reply

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced that she will run again for the top position in her conference, but she was offended by the suggestion that she’s too old to continue in the post. “I have made the decision, that some of you may have some interest in, in order to continue work in empowering women, to making sure that our Affordable Care Act is enforced in a way to make sure that being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition . . . I have made a decision to submit my name to my

The Grover Plan: More Cowbell!

Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 10:55:19 AM Post Reply

We’ll dilute our way out of it! Republicans did poorly among Hispanics last week. How to address that problem? The answer, they’re told by Washington savants, is to back an immigration reform that … increases the number of Hispanics! It’s a plan so crazy it just might be crazy. Joshua Culling, who works for Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, elaborates on the plan elsewhere on this site. It turns out the idea–let’s call it the Grover Plan, just to be annoying–isn’t as wacky as I you might think. It’s wackier.

Gore warns of ‘climate cliff,’
pushes carbon tax in ‘fiscal
cliff’ talks

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Mario Trujillo Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 10:43:55 AM Post Reply

Former Vice President Al Gore called for a carbon tax to be part of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations in the lame-duck session of Congress. Gore, a longtime supporter of the tax, said the extra revenue could be used to lower tax rates. "It will be difficult for sure but we can back away from the fiscal cliff and the climate cliff at the same time," Gore said in an interview with The Guardian. "One way is with a carbon tax.” Carbon tax proposals have gained increased attention in recent weeks as a way to battle climate change and,

Guards sought for
news crews in Oakland

San Francisco Chronicle, by Demian Bulwa Original Article

Posted By: SkyTexas- 11/14/2012 10:36:07 AM Post Reply

The violent robbery of a television news crew outside an Oakland school last week was the latest in a series of similar incidents in a city where the rate of strong-arm robberies and holdups is surging. But the brazenness of the attack - which occurred during a live broadcast in the middle of the day - has brought fresh urgency to the problem. Union officials who represent reporters at most of the Bay Area´s major television and radio stations said Tuesday they had asked the broadcasters to immediately hire security guards to accompany news crews when they are in Oakland.

3 Windows into Obama’s
Dangerous Second Term

PJ Media, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 10:35:44 AM Post Reply

Several post-election developments have already served advance warning on America, or at least the portion paying attention between so-called reality TV shows, that President Obama’s second term will be every bit as dangerous and ultimately disastrous as those of us deeply concerned about the consequences of his reelection warned it will be. I will look at just three of them. There are many others. Dependency. Blogger Matt Trivisonno first noticed a delay in the release of the USDA’s monthly food stamp enrollment report, which usually occurs near the end of each month, in early October.

Al-Qaida, Chavez Find Cover
Under Human Rights Mantle

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 11/14/2012 10:32:54 AM Post Reply

Globaloney: The U.K. sets a top terrorist free and Venezuela wins a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Is there any greater sign of the void in U.S. global leadership than what´s happening now in human rights? In the Obama era, the cause of human rights is fast becoming the first refuge of the scoundrel, as dictators and terrorists wrap themselves in its mantle, abetted by a complacent U.S. and other supposedly civilized nations. Monday, a British court ruled that Abu Qatada, a top al-Qaida operative, and "Osama bin Laden´s right-hand man in Europe," would be set free on supervised

Don´t cry now

Washington Examiner, by Noemie Emery Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 10:31:00 AM Post Reply

Yes, it´s all sad -- and grim, and depressing -- but is Election 2012 truly the end of the GOP universe? Perhaps. But before giving way to unseemly hysterics, here are some thoughts to peruse: * Timing is everything: This year, the Republicans needed new and appealing young talents to take on Obama, and that, as it happened, was just what they had. The upside was that in 2009 and 2010 they had a crop of new stars, all born to run on a national ticket. The downside was that they would be ready to start

Jury rules Chicago police ´code
of silence´ protected felon cop

Los Angeles Times, by Matt Pearce Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/14/2012 10:26:37 AM Post Reply

A pervasive culture of silence in the Chicago Police Department led officers to try to cover up the brutal 2007 bar beating of a 115-pound bartender by a 225-pound off-duty officer, a federal jury has decided. It was a big win for the plaintiff, Karolina Obrycka, who filed suit five years ago, and a big loss for the city. The jury awarded Obrycka $850,000 in damages Tuesday, deciding the police department had enabled the disgraced officer, Anthony Abbate, and shielded him from the attack’s consequences until the case went public. “Nobody tells me what to do!”

Broadwell In October:
"I Had Access To Everything"

Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/14/2012 10:24:54 AM Post Reply

“I was embedded with Gen. Petraeus in Afghanistan, and it was a little confusing to some of the folks there because I am also a military reservist with a top secret FBI clearance and then some,” Broadwell told an audience at an Aspen Institute event in October. “I had access to everything, it was my experience not to leak it, not to violate my mentor, if you will,” she said. “He was a very close mentor.”

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