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Jimmy Carter blesses Venezuelan
election as fear of violence grows

Foreign Policy, by José R. Cárdenas Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 9/30/2012 12:19:47 PM Post Reply

Jimmy Carter's capacity to astound continues to know no bounds. Last Friday, presiding over an event at his eponymous organization, the former president allowed how Hugo Chávez's election process in Venezuela is "the best in the world." Well, apparently he isn't reading much on the run up to Venezuela's October 7 presidential election, because such an affirmation flies in the face of nearly every report in recent weeks, which have overwhelmingly concluded it has been a fundamentally unfair process. (A few examples are here, here, and here.) To be charitable, Carter may have been referring to the technical procedures on election day

Gaddafi was killed by French secret
serviceman on orders of Nicolas
Sarkozy, sources claim

Daily Mail [UK], by Peter Allen Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/30/2012 12:15:21 PM Post Reply

A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year and shot him in the head. The motive, according to well-placed sources in the North African country, was to stop Gaddafi being interrogated about his highly suspicious links with Sarkozy, who was President of France at the time. Other former western leaders, including ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair, were also extremely close to Gaddafi, visiting him regularly and helping

Barack Obama’s former
personal aide reveals
how he won
over the president

National Post ( Ontario, CAN), by Kathryn Blaze Carlson Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/30/2012 11:46:37 AM Post Reply

When Reggie Love was asked to swap his job in then-senator Barack Obama’s Chicago mailroom for a gig on the candidate’s presidential campaign five years ago, there was no contract or job description — not even a loosely defined one. “Take care of stuff,” Mr. Obama’s chief of staff put it to him at the time. Pete Rouse, who is today a counselor to the president, had been impressed by Mr. Love’s gumption in devising a way to open and respond to constituents’ mail using digital technology.

'Disease of kings' on the rise
as more people get gout
because of increase
in obesity

Daily Mail [UK], by Leon Watson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/30/2012 11:19:15 AM Post Reply

Levels of gout--once dubbed the 'disease of kings' as it was thought only the most extravagant lifestyles could cause it--are soaring because of obesity, research shows. It is thought of as a 'rich man's illness' because of links with overindulging on food and drink, and famous gout sufferers have included Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci and Henry VIII. But experts say cases of the painful condition--caused by a build-up of uric acid in the blood after the kidneys fail to deal with it--are increasing. A study revealed there were 32,741 hospital admissions

Don’t go changing

Boston Herald, by Jill Radsken Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/30/2012 11:05:45 AM Post Reply

Political consultants go to great lengths to get their candidates elected — and by lengths, we’re talking skirts, hair and nails. “I think image is a big deal for all candidates, but I do think that because there have been far fewer female political leaders in executive roles that image becomes a little more challenging for women,” said former state Treasurer Shannon O’Brien. O’Brien, a Democrat who ran an unsuccessful bid for governor against Mitt Romney in 2002, was one of several former female politicians we asked to weigh in on Elizabeth Warren’s image.

Global nappy shortage fears
after factory explosion

Telegraph [UK], by Julian Ryall Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 9/30/2012 11:03:35 AM Post Reply

The world could face a shortage of disposable nappies* after an explosion and fire at a chemical plant in Japan responsible for as much as one fifth of the global market. The blast, which killed a firefighter and injured 35 other emergency service workers, occurred after a fire caused by a chemical reaction broke out on Saturday afternoon at a plant operated by Nippon Shokubai Co. in the city of Himeji, close to Osaka in central Japan. Nippon Shokubai controls the largest share of the world market for super-absorbent polymers, which is used in the production of nappies, and

Attack kills 2 Americans,
at least 2 Afghans

Associated Press, by Heidi Vogt Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/30/2012 10:36:25 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and at least two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing trend of insider attacks and the 2,000th U.S. troop death in the long-running war, officials said Sunday. The string of insider attacks is one of the greatest threats to NATO's mission in the country, endangering a partnership key to training up Afghan security forces and withdrawing international troops. Saturday's shooting took place at an Afghan

Obama Campaign: Birth Control
Costs $18,000; Press Doesn't
Expose to Deserved Ridicule

Newsbusters, by Tom Blumer Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/30/2012 10:00:36 AM Post Reply

If anything as embarrassing as what follows occurred at a Republican presidential contender's website, including the follow-up ridicule by the opposition, the press would never be able to resist covering it. A mythical (I hope) ecard created at the Obama-Biden campaign site call purports to be from a daughter to her mother, and asks about the most ridiculous question you can imagine. Here it is: (photo) I have no idea how the Obama campaign came up with $18,000. As I noted over six months ago in March, $9, 28-day supplies of birth control pills can be

Why Arabs are so Easily Offended

Arutz Sheva (Israel), by Ron Jager Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/30/2012 9:59:15 AM Post Reply

“Call me Ishmael”, is the opening sentence that opens the novel “Moby Dick” authored by Herman Melville. Ishmael, who is telling the story of Moby Dick, recounts that he is sailing to sea out of a sense of alienation and cultural inadequacy. (snip)Muslims, on the other hand, are taught again and again that they are superior, and that all others are so bad that Allah will throw them in hell when they die. Muslim culture's self-glorification achieves the opposite with their culture and identity.

Romney's Challenge: He Is
Already the Incumbent

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 9/30/2012 9:53:48 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is about as close to defeating President Barack Obama as any Republican could have hoped to be. The polls--if you believe them--show him slightly or significantly behind, but within striking distance. The challenge he faces is unique: he is acting, and is being treated as, the incumbent rather than the insurgent. In effect, "President" Romney has been in office since mid-August, with none of the power but all of the responsibility. It was President Romney, not Obama, who set aside time to visit victims of Hurricane Isaac. It was President Romney, not Obama, who reacted swiftly

Bangladesh Muslim protesters torch
Buddhist temples over Facebook photo

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 9/30/2012 9:41:25 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said. Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox’s Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists. Muslims took to the streets in the area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam. The protesters said the picture had been posted by a Buddhist

The Untold Story Behind The
"Fast and Furious" Scandal

Univision News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Robinsolana- 9/30/2012 9:31:03 AM Post Reply

Who are the human faces of the U.S. government's botched "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation? Often lost amid the rancor in Washington are the stories of dozens of people killed by guns that flowed south as part of the undercover operation, and later slipped out of view from U.S. officials. Univision's Investigative Unit (Univision Investiga) has identified massacres committed using guns from the ATF operation, including the killing of 16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010.
Headline split, source corrected.

Your Universal Service
Fee at Work

American Thinker, by Rosslyn Smith Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 9/30/2012 9:29:20 AM Post Reply

That Universal Service Fee we pay as part of our phone bill each month has helped double the number of "free Obamaphones" in the hands of people in Ohio since last year to more than 1 million. While the mainstream media has ignored this story, the Ohio press is covering it. Maybe interest in the You Tube rant of the now infampus Obamaphone Lady, now at 2.2 million views in three days, will help get out the story of how this program skyrocketed in a key swing state.

NASA telescope detects immense cloud
of election-year gas in nearby space

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 9/30/2012 9:29:18 AM Post Reply

It's probably just a coincidence. But as the U.S. presidential election campaign moves into its final 36 days of nonstop TV ads, TV talk, pundit palaver and stump blabber, astronomers have just reported discovering an immense halo of hot gas enveloping the entire Milky Way. Seriously. Using an array of instruments, including NASA's amazing Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomer teams have detected the mass of gas, as portrayed by an illustrator above. That's the gas cloud in blue and the entire Milky Way in the middle, looking like the tiny Enterprise emerging from a space fog.

Unintimidable: Boston
University's 'Silver Unicorn'

Townhall, by Jeff Jacoby Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 9/30/2012 7:38:56 AM Post Reply

"I've never been intimidated by anyone," John Silber once told me. "I don't know the meaning of the word." I never doubted it. Twice I worked for the former Boston University president, who died Thursday at 86. (Snip) Several years later, with both law school and my exceedingly brief legal career behind me, I returned for a full-time job with the exalted title of Assistant to the President. However lofty the title, reality was something else. Having John Silber as a boss, I quickly learned, was an ongoing adventure in being put in one's place.

Romney, MSNBC, and
the McGurk Effect

Commentary Magazine, by John Steele Gordon Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 9/30/2012 6:16:19 AM Post Reply

It would seem that MSNBC has been caught in an act that can only be called tantamount to journalistic prostitution. Ace of Spades reports (h/t Instapundit) that the cable news network ran a clip showing an airport rally where Mitt Romney introduces Paul Ryan and the audience starts shouting, according to the chyron at the bottom of the screen, “Ryan! Ryan!” and Romney interrupts saying, “No, it’s Romney-Ryan! Romney-Ryan!” This, of course, makes Romney look both churlish and pathetic at the same time. The only trouble is that the crowd wasn’t yelling “Ryan! Ryan!” it was yelling “Romney! Romney!”

After 35 years, 'Fatal Vision'
author, killer meet again

CNN, by Gabriel Falcon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 6:11:17 AM Post Reply

Joe McGinniss could not believe his eyes. The man he saw in a North Carolina courtroom last week was stooped and shackled, hardly the same smooth and swaggering Jeffrey MacDonald who had told his story so many years ago. To say the author and the convicted killer have a history would be an understatement. If anything, their first face-to-face meeting in 35 years was anticlimactic. "He looked like a shadow," McGinniss said of MacDonald, now 68, who some believe the author betrayed for his 1983 best-selling book "Fatal Vision." "He has a pallor, there was no substance to him," McGinniss continued.

What I Learned From
Playing the Gipper

New York Times, by Michael I. Sovern Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 6:08:01 AM Post Reply

WHEN Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic nominee for president in 1984, asked me to help him prepare for his debates with President Ronald Reagan by playing the Reagan role, I accepted with enthusiasm. Fritz Mondale and I had met almost 30 years before, when he was a promising student at the University of Minnesota Law School and I was a promising assistant professor. We had stayed in touch as he went on to serve as senator and vice president, and I was glad to help him, believing he was well qualified — by experience, character, temperament and intelligence —

On the Road to Benghazi

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 9/30/2012 5:57:15 AM Post Reply

In retrospect, the Democratic Convention highlighted a liar, Elizabeth Warren. She was hired by Harvard law school because she lied about her ethnicity to gain affirmative action benefits, exaggerated her scholarship which was shoddy, practiced law for years in Massachusetts out of her law school office without being a member of that state's bar -- and possibly at the time a member of no bar at all. She gummed on before the crowd about working for the middle class hiding from the audience that she had made hundreds of thousands of dollars representing big corporations

New York’s MTA, the First
Amendment, and the Heckler’s Veto

National Review Online, by Andrew Stuttaford Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 5:55:16 AM Post Reply

The New York Times reports: [New York’s] Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.” The 8-to-0 vote by the authority’s board came three days after pro-Israel ads characterizing Islamist opponents of the Jewish state as being “savage” began appearing in subway stations, setting off vandalism, denunciations of the authority and calls for the ads’ removal. The authority had initially rejected the ads, citing their “demeaning” language.

Stick to your guns, Scott

Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 5:51:24 AM Post Reply

Don’t let up on the fake Indian, Scott. Is she going to stop mentioning that you’re a Republican? Of course not. So why would you choose to unilaterally disarm? They want you to be “gentler”? Ask your friend John McCain how gentle worked out for him. Since she began checking the box, Granny Warren’s life is a testament to the truth of Sir Walter Scott’s immortal line: “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” She’s always backpedaling, covering up her tracks, trying to explain away some hole in last week’s explanation

An optimist's tour across America

USA Today, by Michelle Nunn Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 9/30/2012 5:47:08 AM Post Reply

Depending on the poll, a majority of Americans say they believe our country is heading in the wrong direction, doubt their children will have a better future, and believe American values are eroding. This summer, I set out in a minvan with my husband and two kids to check the nation's pulse, to meet with dozens of people who are on the front lines, dealing with community problems from hunger to homelessness, from unemployment to the lack of affordable health care. I expected to find people defeated from a long effort to deal with the most brutal recession in our lifetimes.

Obama Strong But Wilting
with Arab-Americans

Atlantic, by Steve Clemons Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 5:41:19 AM Post Reply

A new poll issued by the Arab American Institute (pdf here) yesterday and conducted by JZ Analytics reports that President Obama maintains a commanding lead over Governor Mitt Romney in the election but that Obama's edge has dropped by 15% since the 2008 election. Arab-Americans are defecting from both both the GOP and the Democratic Party and are increasingly identifying as Independents (24%), according to James Zogby. (Snip)It's interesting to consider whether Obama's powerful advantage with ethnic Americans has wilted 'enough' to give Romney an opportunity.

When it comes to polls,
readers beware

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 5:32:54 AM Post Reply

As a recovering pollster (I worked for Democratic pollster Peter Hart from 1974 to 1981), let me weigh in on the controversy over whether the polls are accurate. Many conservatives are claiming that multiple polls have overly Democratic samples, and some charge that media pollsters are trying to discourage Republican voters. First, some points about the limits of polls. Random-sample polling is an imprecise instrument. There's an error margin of 3 or 4 percent and polling theory tells us that one out of 20 polls is wrong, with results outside the margin of error. Sometimes it's easy to spot

Hello, you've reached the
president. I'm never here.

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 9/30/2012 5:29:14 AM Post Reply

In Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 3 a.m. television ad in the 2008 primary campaign, we heard the sound of a ringing phone and saw sleeping children. In ominous tones, a narrator warned that “something is happening in the world” and asked, “Who do you want answering the phone?” Well, it’s 2012, and — the phone is still ringing. Please, somebody answer the damn thing! The story of the terror attack in Benghazi is that neither Clinton nor the president who made her secretary of state responded to the real emergency when it came. The biggest foreign-policy crisis of the last four years

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