Lucianne.com News Forum - HomePage - RSS (http://www.lucianne.com/) http://www.lucianne.com/rssfeed/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:44:45 GMT Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:44:45 GMT Lucianne.com Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:43:59 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563837 50470FDBD16E2EC478B2C56C4BD4D156DC44384479D6C4EF3CA9170FC5286DFD Indianapolis Star, by Matthew Tully Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:43:59 GMT Gov. Mitch Daniels isn't ready to announce his candidacy for president. I understand. No politician wants to be seen as overly eager. One of the many things voters don't like about politicians is a sense that they are blatantly ambitious. And according to the presidential campaign playbook, it's still too early for Daniels to actually announce his candidacy. So today, I'm going to do it for him: Gov. Mitch Daniels is running for president. Let's get real and start saying it. Let's stop dancing around with will'he or won't'he speculation surrounding a governor whose concerns by Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:42:07 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563836 328A1759B4E7C32BFBF52C5FB38C2265C604A4FE43180FE1344836AE85B18E12 Providence Journal, by Editorial Posted By: PageTurner- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:42:07 GMT Congress’s failure to approve a free'trade agreement with Colombia is scandalous. Opening trade with the staunchest ally of the U.S. in South America should have happened during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe. With a new president, Harvard'educated pragmatist Juan Manuel Santos, taking charge, getting on with expanded trade has taken on a new urgency. Americans should understand that free trade in our hemisphere is not a one'way favor. It benefits us all. Our Latin American neighbors are likely buyers of our farm, technology and, yes, manufacturing products. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:37:21 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563835 C3E8DA6342B45389262679A0848DDEB08BA9F64970C4D8A04CF7DC35C19B3BC6 Mediaite, by Steve Krakauer Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:37:21 GMT The Taiwanese NMA News animation videos are coming out with increasing regularity, and are getting more timely and news'worthy. In the past, they’ve been fairly fun in their bipartisan ribbing toward both political parties – but their latest Pres. Barack Obama video takes some sharp jabs at the Commander'in'Chief. Based on Pres. Obama’s speech Wednesday in Cleveland, NMA News reveals what he really wanted to say in a just released new video. It begins with, “As you can probably tell my presence today in a dump like Cleveland, that message is about the Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:33:07 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563834 DD025AA76E697D2C410013D978CB1A043B6B333EE45A34657C8DB392643AA084 NewsBusters, by Kyle Drennen Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:33:07 GMT In a Thursday interview with CBS Early Show special contributor Amanda Holden, Larry King replacement Piers Morgan talked about his new CNN show and who would be at the top of his guest list: "Well, I'd love to do President Obama. I like what he's done for the reputation of America abroad, which I'm not sure many Americans fully understand." The second on Morgan's list: "Bill Clinton, another one....One of the most charismatic people I've ever seen." At the mention of Clinton, Holden gushed: "Oh, yes. I'd love you to interview him." Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:51 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563833 5F1943477315C5E8975C2724643B5B5FC7D704009C56AA05DE2721963F354D0F NewsBusters, by Brent Baker Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:28:51 GMT Iman Feisal Abdul Rauf chose ABC's Christiane Amanpour to spend “several hours” with on Thursday in New York City, and just as she did back on the August 22 This Week when she featured Rauf's wife and an ally, she again served as his public relations agent, forwarding his claims without challenge. After passing along his denial of any deal to move his project, Amanpour gushingly relayed meaningless blather about his great concern: “The imam went on to tell me that this whole issue is so sensitive because he has to really take care of Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:26:48 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563832 FDB07387707035717C2CDE42AFA7475D926B1970CE6F8257422BCDCE43138018 Investor's Business Daily, by Ed Carson Posted By: slyscribe- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:26:48 GMT Democrats’ election prospects seem to turn bleaker every day. Election analyst Charlie Cook spells it out in his latest report: There is no shortage of bad news for Democrats these days. They are now widely regarded as underdogs in their quest to maintain their majority in the House, and the prospect of Republicans winning a Senate majority, though still unlikely, is quite plausible. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:26:02 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563831 65B452B6933429339431AFF9F6D13505968A9AA778AAB54CE01F4FC6D0C116FE NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:26:02 GMT Talk about your strange bedfellows . . . Both Pat Buchanan and Donny Deutsch have advocated the arrest of Pastor Terry Jones to prevent his possible burning of Korans and the danger to US troops such act would threaten. The paleo'conservative and the New York liberal made common cause on today's Morning Joe. They were outnumbered by Mika Brzezinski, Dan Senor and John Heilemann, all of whom opposed the arrest'the'pastor proposal on First Amendment grounds. Buchanan and Deutsch expressed disregard for the First Amendment implications. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:57 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563830 10D9821F9EE4B02C887709C85B4EB02A9AF0308A68EF29082CE96C0182F4AB75 Bloomberg, by Hans Nichols Posted By: mc squared- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:57 GMT President Barack Obama will appoint Austan Goolsbee to lead the Council of Economic Advisers, replacing Christina Romer, according to an administration official. Obama will announce his choice of Goolsbee, a former University of Chicago business school professor and campaign adviser, at a press conference today at 11 a.m. in Washington, said the official, who requested anonymity. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:19 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563829 CC64AB853A0404A8A8CE14E777050C20B2B1CA75D155810F42EE6FD33FDF511C Politico, by John Bresnahan Posted By: dooalba- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:19 GMT Rep. Sanford Bishop (D'Ga.) awarded three scholarships from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to his stepdaughter and wife’s niece between 2003 and 2005, according to records from the non'profit group. Bishop is the second Democrat found to have funneled Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarship funds to relatives, threatening to turn the program into a larger political problem for the party. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:15:30 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563828 88C1DE439CD3AEA7770A45D1106C21A1BBB6F0BE93E164AAF7A3D359DAFBBE4D Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:15:30 GMT Months ago, Barack Obama lost Middle America. Now he has lost Time magazine's Mark Halperin: The President and his top advisers have betrayed visible annoyance at the Republicans' failure to rally behind the White House's latest plans to goose the economy: proposed tax incentives for companies to make capital expenditures and do more R&D. The Oval Office agitation is understandable. Obama is calling for some of the same provisions that the GOP and its business'lobby allies have touted for years and that are backed by a strong majority of policy experts. . . . Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:13:23 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563827 C77C4DFD859FCE17611857842589120171782A7F791D5C32D2AC3EB14E71EF59 The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Youngman & Ian Swanson Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:13:23 GMT With his presidency at a crossroads, President Obama will face the media Friday at his first press conference since the spring. As an increasing number of political analysts predict that Republicans will win the House this fall, Obama on Friday will defend his economic policies and hope to fend off questions about his weakened political standing. The key for Obama will be to stay on message '' vote Democrat or return to the policies of the George W. Bush administration '' as reporters try to get the president to make news. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:11:53 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563826 88C04F804B99CFA82C9BFB7F1C73F62B739C9438B393C5ED69CA8C522845E3DE Washington Post, by Anne E. Kornblut and Scott Wilson Posted By: PageTurner- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:11:53 GMT Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sees similarities between the drug violence now afflicting Mexico and Colombia's narco'war of the 1980s. President Obama, not so much. "You can't compare what is happening in Mexico with what happened in Colombia," Obama told a Spanish'language newspaper in remarks published on its Web site on Thursday. Obama's remarks in La Opinion appeared at odds with Clinton's comments a day earlier that the situation in Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago," Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:11:01 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563825 73AFF57A0E63A6171D6BEE01B893F4830C7CD9AC47FAC552BE3B4D3B3D136510 Fox News, by Mike Emanuel Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:11:01 GMT Fox News confirms via a senior administration official that Austan Goolsbee will be named Friday as the new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. No word at this hour on precise timing, but it will happen on Friday. The previous chair, Christina Romer, announced her resignation in early August and left her post last week to return to the University of California, Berkley. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says President Obama told Austan Goolsbee Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:07:03 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563824 271317BA868752EB279288445323417140BEC0B29012979020DFC430AF3A0E0F Fox News, by Catherine Herridge Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:07:03 GMT On the eve of Sept. 11, Fox News has learned the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has attempted to block a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre'9/11 data mining project called "Able Danger." In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says national security could be breached if "Operation Dark Heart" is published in its current form. The agency also attempted to block key portions of the book that claim "Able Danger" successfully identified hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat to the United States before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:04:57 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563823 9510EBDBD3B9681D3F2061114D3E0B094D03854189403ABA018C1C22A9EFE025 Washington Examiner, by Mark Tapscott Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:04:57 GMT A new Center for Responsive Politics analysis of PAC expenditures finds that six of the top 10 such groups are associated with Big Labor. "Among political action committee contribution this election cycle to federal political candidates, four of the top 10 entities are labor union PACs: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the Operating Engineers Union; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; and the International Association of Fire Fighters," said CRP's Dave Levinthal. "When overall PAC expenditures are considered this election cycle, six of the top 10 are labor union PACs. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:00:23 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563822 B48A567F16B33EB788CE07F002BD4F0EFCF0D0409A67135EDCC8B7BD607864FB Associated Press, by Philip Elliott Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:00:23 GMT Washington ' Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says he's considering a White House run. President George W. Bush's top arms control official and later the nation's top diplomat at the U.N., Bolton told Fox Business Network on Thursday that he is weighing a White House bid against President Barack Obama in 2012 because he feels national security has faded from the public debate. "I am thinking about it because I think legitimate issues of national security should be more at the center of the national debate than they have been for the last two years," Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:57:54 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563821 4A558862256DCC006AB9EC8A2ADFD249EC46A552292BEFFE10FA214C166B3301 Cybercast News Service, by Patrick Goodenough Posted By: KarenJ1- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:57:54 GMT Following the uproar over the threatened burning of the Quran by a small Florida church, a leading international Islamic body said Thursday that the United Nations should outlaw “all forms of offense against religions.” “The Florida Dove World Outreach Center Church’s plan to burn copies of the Holy Quran on September 11 … requires immediate action to outlaw all acts of defamation of religions and religious sanctities,” the Morocco'based Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) said in a communique. “It is a blot on humanity that such discriminatory attack against Islam and Islamic holy Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:50:31 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563820 C5EE7170E4A53001A45DEF38F333D3F39461F236F8C1F66C9F2C7C4D10C3E5AB Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm Posted By: JoniTx- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:50:31 GMT Over the years a lot of suspicion has built up across the country about Washington and its population of opportunistic transients coming to see themselves as a special kind of person, somehow above average working Americans who don't work down in that former swamp.Well, finally, an end to all those undocumented doubts. Thanks to some diligent digging by the Washington Post, those suspicions can at last be put to rest.They're correct. Accurate. Dead'on. Laser'guided. On target. Bingo'bango. As clear as it's always seemed to those Americans who don't feel special entitlements and do meet their government obligations. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:48:31 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563819 3667F34F17B3E8BBD399C42D2E1B172A053CB400B206EFC7A067D5F76440638E Powerline, by Scott Johnson Posted By: Bulldog65- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:48:31 GMT Roger Kimball takes note of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's latest video hit: I almost felt sorry (almost) for Marie Corfield, an elementary school teacher who stood up at a question'and'answer session with the governor and demanded to know how his reforms would help teachers since his budget cuts had resulted in so many lay'offs among the selfless pedagogues that populate New Jersey's public schools. "We have some of the best schools in the country," quoth la Corfield, "and you have done nothing but lambaste us." Pardon us while we dab away the tears. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:39:08 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563818 925D6006A5139BFA64AD0A499A85C2ED13DFA0CE2C96C195CD12A4E641E57F9C New York Post, by CHUCK BENNETT, CARL CAMPANILE Posted By: rabidamerican- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:39:08 GMT The NYPD has called up "an army of cops" to handle rival protests expected to draw thousands to the site of the planned Ground Zero mosque on the anniversary of 9/11, sources said yesterday. "We want to keep everyone in their corners. You don't want the opposing sides to clash," an NYPD official told The Post. "All eyes are going to be on New York City that day. No one wants to see a fight on Sept. 11." Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:37:34 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563817 A5266417638D6D6F4601C7756E2C616650BC8231D840F856B378379C50DAD53B The Daily Beast, by Philip Shenon Posted By: Periwinkel- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:37:34 GMT Why didn't the commission investigating the devastating 2001 al Qaeda attacks thoroughly scrub the NSA's files? Philip Shenon on the crucial records the government has never explored. Are many of the secrets of 9/11 still hidden in top'secret government files? With the nation scheduled to mark the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks this weekend, former staffers tell The Daily Beast it is clear that the 9/11 Commission, which went out of business in 2004, failed to conduct a thorough inspection of the government's most important library of raw intelligence on al Qaeda and the 9/11 plot. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:35:49 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563816 96EB395920B7A7DE8E90F7E69D2825F4977DEB325AF2334020DD8EF2F4D02A00 Big Hollywood, by Greg Gutfeld Posted By: earlybird- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:35:49 GMT So, we’re just 103 days away from a special date in our nation’s history. Yes, on December 23, 2010, we will mark the first anniversary of the break up between Susan Sarandon and her beau of 23 years, Tim Robbins. This is how Ms. Sarandon assessed the split, in New York magazine’s latest issue…. ”The nation mourned. “I had a lot of people who came up to me and were not upset as I was, but were definitely upset. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:34:12 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563815 1AF770D2C246956D6FBAC00DD8923BA505EE9C2ACA953732D4EB4659D53CB12F Mail Online, by Daily Mail Reporter Posted By: jonblain- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:34:12 GMT A dozen US soldiers are facing trail accused of being part of a 'kill team' that allegedly killed Afghan civilians in an arbitrary fashion ' and they even collected their victims' fingers as trophies of war. Five soldiers have been charged with the killing three Afghan men 'for sport'. And seven more are accused of covering up the murders. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:25:03 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563814 9986746565232E1DAE367FEB87C63956D63D3473DFC4EA126B5E9F86F4024599 USA Today, by Marcus Stern Posted By: Judy W.- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:25:03 GMT The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations. The changes focus enforcement on immigrants who have committed serious crimes, an effort to unclog immigration courts and detention centers. A record backlog of deportation cases has forced immigrants to wait an average 459 days for their hearings, according to an Aug. 12 report by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which analyzes government data. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:52:24 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563813 B007583714E639FABACEAE4E0197459E7A95C6AA4874BF45DC91084F6AC7E9C6 New York Post, by Staff Posted By: James Leyva- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:52:24 GMT To burn, or not to burn? That is the question crackpot Terry Jones '' the pastor of a fringe Florida church all but unknown until a week ago '' was mulling late yesterday after receiving an unprecedented personal phone call from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, imploring him not to incinerate a stockpile of Korans tomorrow, the anniversary of 9/11. Fact is, the White House has been treating this lunatic as a greater threat to national security than Osama bin Laden. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:30:46 GMT http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=563812 A73F3701946CAE145BCBCBF5731DBDD78BAC4657609A94FB521B8F346C8C2D2B Los Angeles Times, by Molly Hennessy'Fiske Posted By: BuckeyeRon- Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:30:46 GMT The explosion and massive fire that ripped through San Bruno left six dead, the fire chief said Friday morning, and he expected the toll to rise as more homes are searched. (Snip) “I thought a 747 had landed on us,” he said. “It shook our station right to its foundation.” Within a minute, he had sounded a four'alarm fire, he said. Soon after, he said firefighters discovered a gas line had exploded, destroying not only homes but the grid of water mains that supplied the local fire hydrants. His crew had no water to fight the fires.