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A Young Mitt Romney’s Other Mission:
Romance

Time Magazine, by Paul Moakley Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 9/28/2012 12:47:23 AM Post Reply

Before there was Romney the presidential candidate, there was Romney the romantic. In this week’s cover story, Jon Meacham looks at how Romney’s identity was shaped by his Mormon roots. To illustrate this formative time in the presidential candidate’s life, we turned to a surprising photo found in the archives that shows the rarely-seen personal side of the candidate. On a recent cover shoot I asked Romney about the image and found out that around 1968, while serving as a Mormon missionary in France, a young Mitt made several photographs with the help of his LDS friends. He described how

Supreme Court cases even
more heated this term

Washington Times, by Keely Brazil Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:44:16 AM Post Reply

It would be hard to top the historic significance of the term that just ended, but Supreme Court watchers say the justices will confront some momentous questions once again when their next term officially begins Monday. Among the cases confirmed on the docket: a closely watched test of racial preferences in college admissions, whether a single sniff by a police dog constitutes a “home search” and a major business case testing whether corporations can be penalized in U.S. courts for human rights violations committed abroad. (Snip) Arguably the most controversial case on the docket deals

Holder: Federal review of
voting laws still needed

Associated Press, by Jeff Amy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:41:10 AM Post Reply

Oxford, Miss. - Attorney General Eric Holder says U.S. laws requiring the Justice Department or a federal court to pre-approve changes to voting laws in states with a history of racial bias are still needed. Speaking at the University of Mississippi, Holder said Thursday night that he wished such pre-approval was no longer necessary. But he said that discrimination is not dead, pointing to a recent federal court decision that concluded Texas lawmakers had unfairly drawn legislative districts to exclude minorities.

World powers open to
more nuke talks with Iran

Times of Israel [Jerusalem], by Bradley Klapper Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:36:17 AM Post Reply

Washington - World powers decided Thursday to lay the groundwork for another round of negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear program, a senior US official said, but they want a significantly improved offer from the Islamic republic. Neither the US nor any of its international partners was ready to abandon diplomacy in favor of military or other actions, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has advocated. The new hope for a negotiated end to Iran’s decade-long nuclear standoff came after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the foreign ministers of Britain, China, France,

FBI: Actor threatened to kill
passengers on O.C.-bound flight

Los Angeles Times, by Nicole Santa Cruz Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:29:52 AM Post Reply

An unruly passenger who allegedly frightened and intimidated passengers aboard an Orange County-bound flight by pacing the airplane’s aisles, demanding alcohol and threatening to kill passengers, is expected to appear in federal court Friday. (Snip) Passengers on the flight said they eventually had to hold the man down for the final two hours of the flight, using belts from their pants and other items to restrain him. Durrani, identified as a model and actor, was reportedly on his way to California to deal with an outstanding arrest warrant in Los Angeles. Crew members told authorities that during the

Netanyahu’s cartoon wasn’t meant for
world leaders, and not even for Obama

Times of Israel [Jerusalem], by Haviv Retig Gur Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:19:04 AM Post Reply

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a torrent of ridicule Thursday when he unfolded before the General Assembly of the United Nations a cartoon bomb and drew a red line on it with a marker he pulled from his pocket. (Snip) Netanyahu’s speech was not even meant for US President Barack Obama, who may ultimately decide the fate of the Iranian nuclear program. Instead, Netanyahu was speaking over Obama’s head, directly to the American president’s employer and boss: the American voter. In the wake of his open disagreement with the US president in recent weeks over the timeline for

Poll shows 65 percent
of Jews supporting Obama

Jewish Telegraphic Agency [NYC], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:13:10 AM Post Reply

Washington - A new American Jewish Committee poll found 65 percent of Jews nationwide planning to vote for US President Barack Obama versus 24 percent for Mitt Romney, with another 10 percent undecided. The poll, conducted Sept. 6-17 among 1,040 Jewish voters nationwide, found Obama doing better than Romney among Jews of all religious backgrounds with the exception of Orthodox Jews, who favored the Republican nominee.

US: We share Israeli goal
of stopping Iran nukes

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:11:09 AM Post Reply

Washington - S President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu share the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and will maintain close cooperation on the issue, the White House said on Thursday, after the prime minister addressed the United Nations. But the White House stopped short of saying Obama would give any ground on his resistance to setting a "red line" on Iran's nuclear program, even after the prime minister hammered on the need for such an ultimatum before the UN General Assembly.

Campbell Soup Leaving California

Breitbart's Big Government, by William Bigelow Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/28/2012 12:06:24 AM Post Reply

California’s state song will soon be changed from "California, Here I Come!" to "California, There It Goes!" An American icon, the Campbell Soup Company, is closing its plant in Sacramento, leaving 700 people without jobs. The plant was built in 1947, and some of its workers have worked there for forty years or more. Most of the items produced in Sacramento will be transferred to Campbell’s plants in Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio. Another plant in South Plainfield, Ne Jersey is being closed as well. Mark Alexander, the president of Campbell North America, said:

Obama, Romney move battle
to Virginia for military votes

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree and Seth McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:50:39 PM Post Reply

President Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney each trolled for military votes Thursday in the critical swing state of Virginia, and although polls show Mr. Obama with a slight edge overall in the state, he is having trouble convincing veterans that he should remain their commander in chief. For the second straight day, Mr. Obama shared a battleground state with Mr. Romney, who spoke to a veterans group in Springfield while the president reached out to voters at a campaign stop in the military stronghold of Virginia Beach. Both candidates were in Ohio Wednesday, nearly passing each other

Obama focuses on
campaigning, fundraising

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:47:33 PM Post Reply

If not for sports champions and terrorists, President Obama’s public schedule for September would be nearly empty of official events, as he devoted most of his time to campaigning for re-election. On Sept. 6, Mr. Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s renomination in Charlotte, N.C. In the 21 days since then, the president has had a total of 14 events on his White House schedule, not including regular daily briefings and occasional lunches with Vice President Joseph R. Biden. In the same period, Mr. Obama’s other two “jobs” — campaigner and fundraiser — crowded out his

Curiosity rover’s Mars landing
site was once covered with
fast-moving water, NASA says

Washington Post, by Marc Kaufman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:37:42 PM Post Reply

PASADENA, Calif. — The landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity was once covered with fast-moving and possibly waist-high water that could have possibly supported life, NASA scientists announced Thursday. Although planetary scientists have often speculated that the now-desiccated surface of Mars was once wet, Curiosity’s cameras provided the first proof that flowing water was present on a least one part of Mars for “thousands or millions of years.” The early finding led John Grotzinger, the top mission scientist at the Mars Science Laboratory, to conclude that Curiosity had found a

Go large, Mitt

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:32:20 PM Post Reply

In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the presidency. (Given the country’s condition, he would have won anyway. But this sealed it.) Four years later, mid-September 2012, the U.S. mission in Benghazi went up in flames, as did Obama’s entire Middle East policy of apology and accommodation. Obama once again played it cool, effectively ignoring the attack and the region-wide American humiliation. “Bumps in the road,” he said. Nodding tamely were the

U.S. responded to Benghazi attack
as terrorism on ‘Day One’: Source

Yahoo! News, by Olivier Knox Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/27/2012 11:31:29 PM Post Reply

When gunmen struck the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year, the response from American officials was almost simultaneous: They immediately set about collecting information about the attackers, some of whom were quickly identified as foreigners, and tracing links from them to known extremist groups, a knowledgeable source has told Yahoo News. The source's description came as fresh news accounts cast doubt on the White House's insistence that it has been forthright all along about what it knew about the attack. (I tweeted on Sept. 21 that this same source informed

Supreme Court may limit use
of race in college admissions

Washington Post, by Robert Barnes Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 11:27:37 PM Post Reply

AUSTIN — More than a half-century after the Supreme Court ordered the University of Texas to admit a black man to its law school, the sprawling live-oak-and-limestone campus is again the site of a monumental battle over the use of race in university admissions. But this time the challenge comes from a white woman. Abigail Fisher says the color of her skin cost her a spot in the 2008 freshman class at the university she had longed to attend since she was a child. Under the banner of racial diversity, Fisher contends, the UT admissions process — which considers race

Judge orders man behind anti-Islam
film be held on probation violation

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: athina- 9/27/2012 11:17:20 PM Post Reply

Los Angeles – A federal judge on Thursday ordered a California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East to be detained because he is a flight risk. U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal said Nakoula Basseley Nakoula should be held after officials said he violated his probation term for a 2010 check fraud conviction. A federal prosecutor said Nakoula had eight probation violations, including lying to his probation officers and using aliases. After his 2010 conviction, Nakoula was sentenced to 21 months in prison and was barred

Japan hangs cult leader, robber

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 11:17:06 PM Post Reply

Tokyo - Japan has hanged a robber who killed two people and a cult leader blamed for six murders during what she and her followers said were exorcisms. The Justice Ministry said 65-year-old Sachiko Eto and 39-year-old Yukinori Matsuda were executed on Thursday. Eto was convicted of beating her victims and hiding their bodies at her home. Eto's daughter and another cult member were sentenced to life in prison for the 1995 murders. (Snip) Japan is one of the few industrialised countries that have capital punishment, which is carried out by hanging. The Justice Ministry says 131 convicts are on

World poised to eradicate polio:
Bill Gates

Sydney Morning Herald [AU], by Nick O'Malley Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 11:08:40 PM Post Reply

Bill Gates has congratulated Australia for its $50 million contribution to an international fund to eradicate polio, saying the world is poised at an historic moment, just as it was before the victory over smallpox in 1977. (Snip) Today polio is endemic in three countries, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and so far this year 145 new cases have been reported. India has been polio-free for the past 18 months. But those leading the fight against the disease are concerned that global commitment is wavering as the number of cases decreases. Speaking with Fairfax Media last week ahead of today’s

Muslim community in 'denial' about
grooming rings, says Jack Straw

Telegraph [UK], by John Bingham Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 11:02:27 PM Post Reply

Members of the British Asian community are in “denial” about the issue of men of Pakistani origin grooming white girls for sex, the former Home Secretary Jack Straw has claimed. He said that the scandal, exposed by the trial of nine Asian men jailed for grooming and sexual abuse of white girls in Rochdale, raised a problem which had to be “faced and addressed” within some communities in northern cities. (Snip) The alleged abuse follows a similar pattern: involving grooming rings dominated by men from Pakistani backgrounds, who are often taxi drivers, picking up girls and taking them to

Obama's Libya Lies Collapse: Senate
Democrats Demand Answers

Breitbart's Big Peace, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/27/2012 10:58:43 PM Post Reply

The wheels appear to be coming off a two week attempt by the Obama Administration to cover up its fatal security failures at our consulate in Libya and to cover up the very fact that this was a successful pre-planned terrorist attack that cost four American lives, including that of our Libyan Ambassador, Christopher Stevens. Not only has the scandal picked up steam in the mainstream press (Jake Tapper's ABC News report tonight is a must-watch), but high-ranking members of the President's own party are now demanding answers. This includes the man most often cited

Islamists who pose a threat
'have no place in France'

France 24, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:57:30 PM Post Reply

France's Socialist government vowed Thursday to do more to integrate the country's Muslims but warned that it would not tolerate the country becoming a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. In a speech marking the inauguration of the Strasbourg Grand Mosque, the biggest Islamic place of worship ever built on French soil, Interior Minister Manuel Valls pledged to come down hard on extremists, warning that foreign activists trying to stir up trouble would be immediately deported. But he also held out an olive branch to the country's four million Muslims by promising state help for the construction of more

French govt in ‘tug-of-war’
with steel giant

France 24, by Staff w/ agencies Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:55:19 PM Post Reply

The French government urged ArcelorMittal on Thursday to restart idled blast furnaces at a plant in northeastern France or put them up for sale, declaring itself in a “tug-of-war” with the steel giant over their fate. President François Hollande held talks with ArcelorMittal’s chief executive after a media report that the firm will shut the furnaces at a plant which became symbolic of France’s industrial decline. Speaking to angry workers at the plant in the town of Florange, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg said Hollande had called on Lakshmi Mittal to invest 150 million euros in the site or sell the

President Praises Student Who
Put Off Having Broken Wrist
Set In Order To Attend Speech

Cybercast News Service, by Craig Bannister Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:39:27 PM Post Reply

Pres. Obama commended a student who put off having his broken wrist set for two days in a speech at Ohio's Bowling Green University yesterday. After being introduced, Obama asked the audience to applaud the student who broke his wrist playing Ultimate Frisbee the day before, but didn’t go to the doctor to have the broken bone set because he didn’t want to miss Obama’s speech: “Hello, Falcons! Thank you so much. Thank you. Now, let me begin by asking everybody to give Seth a big round of applause for that great introduction. I was backstage and I had trouble

Bearing Sons Leaves Male
DNA Traces in Mom’s Brain

Science Now, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 9/27/2012 10:36:22 PM Post Reply

Giving a whole new meaning to “pregnancy brain,” a new study shows that male DNA — likely left over from pregnancy with a male fetus — can persist in a woman’s brain throughout her life. Although the biological impact of this foreign DNA is unclear, the study also found that women with more male DNA in their brains were less likely to have suffered from Alzheimer’s disease — hinting that the male DNA could help protect the mothers from the disease, the researchers say. During mammalian pregnancy, the mother and fetus exchange DNA and cells. Previous work has shown that

The American birdies...
and their babies: Ryder
Cup stars' spouses tee
up the glamor (but Tiger
goes stag)

Daily Mail (UK), Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 9:45:13 PM Post Reply

Team USA will be battling it out on the golf course over the weekend for one of the most sought after prizes in all of golf - watched by millions around the world, but on Wednesday night it was their partners who got the chance to take centre stage as the wives and girlfriends dazzled at the Ryder Cup gala. The bejeweled and well-groomed bunch gathered at the Rosemont Hotel near Chicago, Illinois before their husbands and boyfriends take to the course at the Medinah Country Club on Friday and try to claim victory for the US. Wives and girlfriends

More than 235,000 six-
year-old pupils fail 'back
to basics' reading test
after struggling with words
like 'farm' and 'goat'

Daily Mail (UK), by Laura Clark Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/27/2012 9:38:30 PM Post Reply

Four in ten six-year-olds failed a back-to-basics reading test after struggling with words such as ‘farm’, ‘goat’ and ‘shine’. Pupils were tested for the first time this summer on how well they use the traditional phonics method of reading, where children learn the letter sounds of English and how to blend them. Forty per cent – nearly 237,000 children – were below the pass mark. They were unable to read 32 words correctly out of 40. While nine per cent scored full marks, 21 per cent failed to scrape half marks, according to results released yesterday

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