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The ‘Romney Lied’ Defense
National Review Online, by Rich Lowry

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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/9/2012 5:48:05 AM

Credit President Barack Obama’s aides with discernment. Even before the first presidential debate was over, they knew they needed to come up with an excuse, and fast. They settled on one that they haven’t stopped repeating: Mitt Romney lied his way to victory. The president would have rebutted Romney’s gross deceptions, except he was too focused on answering questions about the country’s future and too taken aback by Romney’s brazenness to answer the former governor in real time. Although once he had a day or two and his witty rejoinders

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Spidey, 10/9/2012 5:59:50 AM     (No. 8919562)

Romney is too credible to make the lie accusation stick.Romney hasn't been caught in any slam dunk proof that he's lied about anything.His tax plan is a work in progress,so people can fill in the blanks anyway they want but it's crazy to say he wants a $5 trillion tax cut for rich people while raising taxes on the middle class to pay for it. The clown that came up with this lie is a former Obama insider who's pretending to be non partisan now.


Reply 2 - Posted by: pineledger, 10/9/2012 6:15:16 AM     (No. 8919565)

The chorus of "Romney lied" on Sunday's "news" shows was astonishing. They all had their marching orders, didn't they!

This blatant attack needs to be confronted head-on.

Romney needs to call out The Wun at the next debate on his veracity (or great lack thereof). Ask him to tell the American people the truth about....well, no need to list all the deceptions here, but we could start with that "autobiography." (And don't let the little creep get away with calling it "poetic license." This is a man who doesn't know what poetry is, any more than he knows what history is.)

Nominate as a must-read.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Judge, 10/9/2012 6:44:06 AM     (No. 8919587)

These people have no shame


Reply 4 - Posted by: country boy, 10/9/2012 6:58:13 AM     (No. 8919592)

Obama's four years have been a chorus of lies, wrapped in deceit.

This ad should run nationally, prime time. Obama will be history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1ZT1hwpng&feature=player_embedded


Reply 5 - Posted by: Maybeth, 10/9/2012 7:01:58 AM     (No. 8919598)

The left's problem, that Romney has 'failed to live down to their rank caricature of him,' has created a nightmare for Obama. Republicans, and most certainly Mitt Romney, are supposed to turn the other cheek .... be nice to the president. After all, he is a black man, and that is supposed to place him ABOVE criticism.
.... John McCain bought into this, but Mitt is not going to play the race game. Obama is just a man, and that his skin is black should have matter not in the discussion of leadership, pattriotism, character, integrity and ability.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Janjan, 10/9/2012 7:05:01 AM     (No. 8919604)

The core strategy of Obama's campaign has gone up in smoke and they have no fallback. Obama not only can't run on his record, he has no declared post-election agenda. Cap and trade, climate change, amnesty for illegals, etc are all losers with the majority of Americans so the Obama camp has settled on silence. Now the 'destroy Romney' rug has been suddenly pulled out from under them and they still flailing around with 'Romney lies' meme sounding more and more like schoolyard bullies. This is the beginning of the end.


Reply 7 - Posted by: WhamDBambam, 10/9/2012 7:12:59 AM     (No. 8919615)

That's the 'Rats' greatest strength, #3, a complete lack of a sense of shame.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Hank Reardon, 10/9/2012 7:15:33 AM     (No. 8919622)

He's not black, #5. He's a Mulatto.


Reply 9 - Posted by: planetgeo, 10/9/2012 7:23:01 AM     (No. 8919631)

The problem for the Obama apparatchiks and their MSM enablers is that the magnificent debate win by Romney in effect inoculated him from these desperate assertions. 67 million people saw Romney unfiltered. And what they saw was a decent, honest, intelligent, and competent man.

Now, no amount of Axelgrease can slime him. And the harder they try, the worse THEY look. Watch for the polls to continue to swing to Romney the more they try to slime him.


Reply 10 - Posted by: steph_gray, 10/9/2012 7:28:43 AM     (No. 8919645)

My predictions:

Next, Ryan will wipe the floor with Biden, game, set, match. Biden will have at least 3 terrifically funny gaffes.

Then there will be traps all over set for Romney in the town hall debate but he will dodge them while continuing to look presidential - not a huge win but a comfortable one.

Then in the final debate Romney will score knockout punch after punch until the Obammunist either cries or walks off stage.

(Okay, so I can dream, but I have a good feeling it won't happen far differently from this!)


Reply 11 - Posted by: adguy47, 10/9/2012 7:43:29 AM     (No. 8919667)

Lowry's a liar! (I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.)


Reply 12 - Posted by: JackBurton, 10/9/2012 8:11:22 AM     (No. 8919712)

Next outing... the pResident will be in full attack mode, will do it too far, and Romney will win by looking like the nice guy that was just there to answer questions...

...whilst the pResident will come across as the petulant effeminate raver looking for a fight.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: binthere_dunthat, 10/9/2012 8:13:15 AM     (No. 8919714)

#3 Not only do they have no shame, but the crude intellect of Chicago thuggery by Axelhole has exposed itself to be on a par with the old school yard taunt - "Yah? well your mother wears army boots".

It's mind boggling to imagine that these lowlifes have been running the country for the last four years. When one sees the mess they've made, reality sets in. The nightmare we're in is proof unfortunately.


Reply 14 - Posted by: LZK, 10/9/2012 8:24:06 AM     (No. 8919748)

Stay your course President Romney. Don't get dragged into a fight with the demorats.....

WE all know you didn't lie -- and -- WE know who lies all the time -- the liar/in/chief.....

LZK


Reply 15 - Posted by: Arby, 10/9/2012 8:28:43 AM     (No. 8919767)

The Gorebot still has the pole position among the asses. It was the altitude.


Reply 16 - Posted by: gartrell bibberts, 10/9/2012 8:31:05 AM     (No. 8919776)

Journalista Lives! And the media pretends to wonder why their "trustyness" has fallen.

In volume 1 of his History of WWII, Churchill explains that socialists (and other tyrants) believe that the ends justify the means.


Reply 17 - Posted by: gaeditor, 10/9/2012 8:41:03 AM     (No. 8919800)

Eddie Haskell exposed. Finally we see it; Eddie trying to explain himself to Ward, Beaver and Wally's dad. Remember?

Eddie would start to mounth off his obvious BeeEss and the Ward would just sort of cross his arms and say "Uh, huh." and everyone would laugh. Kind of what happened at that debate. Except this time Eddie has an actual fan club of booger-eating nerds like him. Attack of the Urkels.

Now President Haskell-Urkel is trying -with his equally pathetic nerd mininions to explain to everyone why he doesn't have his homework.

It really is to that level.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog, 10/9/2012 9:06:02 AM     (No. 8919865)

As a sociological/psychological phenomenon it was fascinating to watch commenters on the NYT site pick up the meme almost instantly.

But what has Romney 'lied' about? Both Obama and his supporters are dreaming the impossible dream by implying that ROMNEY has been president since Jan 2009 i.e. that Romney is contradicting his record - a record that doesn't exist because it can't exist. Obviously the exact opposite is true.

It is also fascinating to watch Axelrod/Jarrett/Cutter voluntarily abandon any claim to any sort of accomplishment on the part of Obama (now that GM is faltering) and instead focus 100% on destroying the opponent. Obama has an ego but he has no pride - otherwise he might instruct his lieutenants to say something nice about him once in a while. Instead, he scorches the earth along with them. Forget about vetting - Obama is simply unworthy of any public trust.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Hank Reardon, 10/9/2012 9:08:10 AM     (No. 8919872)

I'm guessing Martin Luther King, #18. An actual black guy.


Reply 20 - Posted by: bpl40, 10/9/2012 9:11:43 AM     (No. 8919881)

By calling Romney a liar repeatedly, Zippy and his surrogates are directly attacking the intelligence of Indpendent voters who clearly saw differently. In the second debate these viewers are going to be doing a even harsher evaluation of Democrat ads against what unfolds in front of their eyes and ears. Don't they understand that? Looking at the steady string of exploded cigars in their wake, the simple answer seems to be - no.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Marzipan, 10/9/2012 9:30:28 AM     (No. 8919936)

Pro_26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also be like him.


Reply 22 - Posted by: RIsailor, 10/9/2012 9:43:57 AM     (No. 8919969)

Axe and company actually believe that Romney is lying. This continues to amaze me. Leftism is a strange belief system. As long as they just talk with each other and aren't called out by the press, they soldier on.

But - when called out publicly, as Cutter was recently by Burnett on CNN about Mitt's "$5 billion tax cut", she caved down to one billion, in a few seconds.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 10/9/2012 9:45:32 AM     (No. 8919976)

So what then do all these polls mean to the Democrats? People love a good liar?

This time round the ground is a little shakier for Mr. Silver Tongue. I don't think confident is a word to describe his inner teleprompter. Will the Dems even want a third debate?


Reply 24 - Posted by: starboard, 10/9/2012 9:48:24 AM     (No. 8919987)

#10 My predictions are almost identical to yours. Furthermore,you are not dreaming.


Reply 25 - Posted by: enuf8, 10/9/2012 9:55:56 AM     (No. 8920017)

He will have advance information about the questions and his handles hope he can memorize the answers.

We need to be more alerted to the possibility of Voter Fraud than anything else.


Reply 26 - Posted by: jorgecito, 10/9/2012 10:04:36 AM     (No. 8920048)

#10, an on-stage meltdown by Zero (sudden "illness," perhaps?) may not be likely; but it is within the realm of possibility.

Obama is a hot-house flower who wilts easily.


Reply 27 - Posted by: outnumberedinillinois, 10/9/2012 10:06:51 AM     (No. 8920056)

#20 is correct, it was MLK.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character


Reply 28 - Posted by: joeyinempirestate, 10/9/2012 10:27:30 AM     (No. 8920117)

0's potential Hail Mary: Universal mortgage forgiveness; universal student loan forgiveness; payback on Libya; strike on Iran.


Reply 29 - Posted by: fireboy, 10/9/2012 11:05:48 AM     (No. 8920233)

Like Dylan said, when you ain't got nothin, you got nothin' to lose, and these guys definitely ain't got nothin.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Deedo, 10/9/2012 11:13:30 AM     (No. 8920271)

Here's the Saturday Night Live spoof of the first debate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYy9b6ND46c


Reply 31 - Posted by: Quiet Observer, 10/9/2012 11:53:57 AM     (No. 8920406)

In all fairness, it really isn’t Obama’s fault. In any debate, battle or competition between a real, genuine, self-made American male and a lazy, metrosexual, celebrity-wanna-be, liberal, compulsive liar (yeah, I know… those last 2 are redundant); the result will always be the kind of one-sided drubbing that we witnessed last Wednesday. And the loss is often followed by a litany of baseless “excuses” by the self-absorbed loser and his “entourage” of sycophantic defenders and hanger-oners.


Reply 32 - Posted by: stealthy, 10/9/2012 11:56:42 AM     (No. 8920417)

Mitt just needs to explain that this is why he has no bi-partisan accomplishments, they cast aspersions instead of trying to get things done.


Reply 33 - Posted by: broken01, 10/9/2012 12:05:16 PM     (No. 8920449)

I'll sum this up this way. For months the O team who can't shoot straight and their suckups in the MSM called Romney a crook, wimp, and a murderer and basically thought they had him on the ropes. They get to the first debate and the gov. comes out swinging and Oblamo had no defense and thus went down in flames. Having no defense the O team's plugmunchers(Gibbs, Axelgrease, Soledud Obrien etc) have resulted in calling Romney a liar. The only problem with this foolish tact is that the governor is just too credible with his hitting DA WUN that this won't stick. I agree with #5 about how McLame bought into being nice to Odumbo and how Romney ain't playing that game. Number 10 I agree with your assessments wholeheartedly. It's funny how the Obamamedia is playing up the fact that Joe Biden won't put his foot in his mouth during the debate on Thrusday. About how good he did in 2008 and so on. Ryan will eat old goofball Joe's lunch without breaking a sweat.


Reply 34 - Posted by: artsy, 10/9/2012 12:21:07 PM     (No. 8920510)

The two big lies repeated by the left are:

#1. He lied.
#2. There are no specifics on loop holes and deductions.

The first is a school yard name calling tactic. (They think we are too stupid to recognize it. The poles say otherwise.)

The second could be explained like this. If the cuts are decided in a bipartisan manner, it is more difficult for the left to squeal like stuck pigs that any cut will cause the end of the world as we know it. That is exactly why the left is continually baiting Romney and Ryan to be specific, and why it is so wise of them not to take the bait. I just think if they tactfully offer this explanation, it will kill the argument of the left for specifics.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Dthorny, 10/9/2012 12:37:51 PM     (No. 8920574)

When is letting taxpayers KEEP more of their own money mean the government has to pay for that?
When the government cuts taxes, people SPEND more resulting in MORE tax revenues to the government, more workers get hired resulting in more spending and more tax income to the government. This is what the liberals claim never works and IT HAS WORKED 100% when tried.
GW Bush, JFK, BJ Clinton, Reagan all cut taxes and revenues increased every time.


Reply 36 - Posted by: DebiAnn, 10/9/2012 1:55:29 PM     (No. 8920896)

The best line I heard about the debates was from Herman Caine:

"a Grown up Shown up"

and the only thing a petulant child can say is "liar". That's our Child in Chief.


Reply 37 - Posted by: dman, 10/9/2012 2:04:03 PM     (No. 8920912)

Lowry and Ldotters above are on point. However, there's another:

If NerØbama can be confused and taken aback when confronted with Romney's "lies", what will happen when he sits down with Vladimir Putin or Hu Jintao? Will he prevail when faced with their lies? Will the "flexibility" he promised Dmitry Medvedev carry him through? Will he "win" those "debates" for us? Can we get a teleprompter in the room?


Reply 38 - Posted by: Photoonist, 10/9/2012 2:07:37 PM     (No. 8920926)

This attempted defense of 0bama via his spokesfiends and commercials was so puerile that their next strategic response will probably begin, ''I'm rubber and you're glue.......''


Reply 39 - Posted by: ivehadit, 10/9/2012 2:11:21 PM     (No. 8920937)

I LOVE how the dems are setting themselves up for such a HUGE fall in the next debate...the president didn't show up, he was off his game, etc, etc...And they are giving away all their points before it even starts! Not to mention that the uglier obama gets the MORE it will help Mitt, LOL!

IF THEY THINK MITT WON'T BE PREPARED FOR OBAMA'S NASTIEST PERFORMANCE, THEN THEY WILL AGAIN(!) BE SHOCKED. GO MITT!!!!


Reply 40 - Posted by: mickturn, 10/9/2012 2:27:40 PM     (No. 8920973)

Hey Obie and supporters, if you say everyone is a liar, isn't that proof positive YOU are the real liars?


Reply 41 - Posted by: 4Justice, 10/9/2012 3:56:37 PM     (No. 8921178)

The lefties are doing that "repeat a lie over and over again until the people believe it to be true" junk. I go to lots of postings after articles and get into it with the lefties all the time. I noticed that a few days AFTER the debate is when the posters started all saying things like "I have never heard any candidate lie as much as Romney did". So, being the "terrier with a sock" that I am, I would go after each one about who the real liars are (Obama and leftists in general), exposing their tactics and telling folks that Romney has too much integrity to lie and, besides, he doesn't have to because truth is on our side! I also go on to tell them that leftists don't know economics, finance or history because if they did, they wouldn't vote Democrat unless they are part of the evil elite in power who simply want all the control and wealth for themselves. I love jumping on them and countering their posts. It is the only place where people of other viewpoints will see the truth.


Reply 42 - Posted by: Tianne, 10/9/2012 4:01:38 PM     (No. 8921192)

MSNBC is already saying that Paul Ryan is going to do nothing but 'lie' in the upcoming Ryan/Biden debate. Take note, MSM: that 'lie' thing is getting old and thinking people are more and more viewing you with distrust and disgust.


Reply 43 - Posted by: wexfordcounty, 10/9/2012 4:14:25 PM     (No. 8921226)

Let's face it, Obama could spend this next debate doing shadow puppets, and the adoring media would still proclaim it a stunning comeback, showing a gutsy new perspective in debating.


Reply 44 - Posted by: Another_Fred, 10/9/2012 6:00:18 PM     (No. 8921398)

Even if this were true, why in the world would they want to keep repeating it? "Our guy is so clueless that if you tell him one fib, he turnings into a bowl of jello." And they think this makes him qualified to lead the West in today's world?


Reply 45 - Posted by: lencu255, 10/9/2012 7:06:14 PM     (No. 8921514)

And why all this is happening? Because leftists have the media but conservatives don't!
I am drumming this thought: we need conservative mainstream media, like it is supposed to be in the civilized country with opposing parties. We need to forget about bias-shmias. Just have our own newspapers, especially local ones, and tv stations, owned by likes of Trump, Koch brothers or Adelson. And don't let commies penetrate them - they have enough: nyt, wapo (local newspapers reprinting their garbage) and all tv alphabets!


Reply 46 - Posted by: DoktorFranken, 10/9/2012 7:40:00 PM     (No. 8921570)

projection (prəˈdʒɛkʃən)
— n
psychol
a. the belief, esp in children, that others share one's subjective mental life
b. (See also defense mechanism) The process of projecting one's own hidden desires and impulses


Reply 47 - Posted by: snowcloud, 10/9/2012 10:27:20 PM     (No. 8921811)

They really do sound like school children with the "He LIED!" line. They never back it up saying what he supposedly lied about. They're just spinning their wheels.


Reply 48 - Posted by: BeatleJeff, 10/9/2012 11:13:33 PM     (No. 8921890)

Even dumber was the "Romney cheated" meme they tried to push in the aftermath of the slaughter. Romney doesn't need to dignify these silly charges by addressing them directly. He just needs to point out that once again Barry and the Rats are desperately trying to talk about anything but their indefensible record.


Reply 49 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 10/9/2012 11:56:00 PM     (No. 8921962)

Romney has a sterling reputation as a business man. You don't get that by being a liar. He was practically idolized fro his work at the Olympics. People may not have liked his politics in MA but he basically did what he said he would do. In summation, Romney has been an honest man all his life.

Yet now, we are to believe that he has flagrantly lied to the public's face. And what proof is there? None. Just BO's assertion.

Meanwhile we have BO who has make spectacular public promises and kept none of them. The most devastating ads against BO are the ones using his own words and showing how he has failed to keep his promises. BO is a lair.

So we have a liar calling an honest man a liar. Logic neatly solves this problem for us.

The electorate KNOWS who is lying. That's why they overwhelmingly thought Romney won the debate. Romney was convincing and BO was not. Romney was truthful and BO was not. And all the whining by liberals will not change that outcome in the public's perception and they know it. That's why they are going nuts.


Reply 50 - Posted by: Pinchem, 10/10/2012 12:53:30 AM     (No. 8922018)

Democrats Were Raised By Women Described By Bill Maher.


Reply 51 - Posted by: annie xango, 10/10/2012 1:15:18 AM     (No. 8922042)

#35 Ryan will have to settle for eating Biden's dinner.. Sarah already ate his lunch!!



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´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo

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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers    Original Article
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM     Post Reply
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.

Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
General´ Comment Was a Gaffe

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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM     Post Reply
President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that

We are living in a dying country (Thread 2)
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
Posted By: LComStaff- 4/7/2013 6:49:54 AM     Post Reply
This is the second thread of an article posted yesterday which can be found here:http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=730032

McCain: ´I don´t understand´
GOP filibuster on guns

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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM     Post Reply
Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016

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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM     Post Reply
No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM     Post Reply
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM     Post Reply
On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM     Post Reply
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM     Post Reply
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM     Post Reply
Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM     Post Reply
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM     Post Reply
The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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