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Be wary of playing
Turkey’s great game

Telegraph [UK], by Con Coughlin Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/5/2012 7:48:20 AM Post Reply

The state is taking a lead role in unseating Syria’s Assad, but it has a hidden agenda. Syria might be getting all the blame for firing the first shot in the sudden eruption of hostilities on the Turko-Syrian border, but Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, can hardly claim to be an innocent party when it comes to stoking the fires of a conflict that retains the potential to ignite a regional conflagration. For more than a year now Turkey has been taking a lead role in the campaign to overthrow the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

U.S. citizen opens fire at Eilat
hotel, kills worker, is then
shot dead by police

Haaretz [Israel], by Yanir Yagna Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/5/2012 7:45:42 AM Post Reply

A 50-year-old Eilat hotel worker was killed on Friday morning by a suspect who stole a firearm from a security guard at the Leonardo Club Hotel in the southern city, and opened fire. The shooter, a 23-year-old American citizen, also an employee of the hotel, was later killed by police during an exchange of gunfire. Guests were instructed to remain in the rooms, following the original shooting. Shortly afterwards, a large police contingent, and counter terrorism unit arrived on the scene. They started investigating the incident and searched for the suspect.

U.S. coal stocks jump
on Romney comments: analysts

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Not your typical New Yorker- 10/5/2012 7:42:40 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney's support of the coal industry during his debate with President Obama sent coal company stocks higher on Thursday, analysts said. "It's amazing what 15 words about coal in a presidential debate can do for the stocks," said Michael Dudas of Sterne Agee. "These stocks have been volatile, but you can't discount what a man running for president said about coal. Call it the Romney rally."(snip)"People in the coal industry feel like it's getting crushed by your policies," he told Obama.

Venezuela:Bonds rally as
Chavez losing invincibility

Bloomberg News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/5/2012 7:40:33 AM Post Reply

Venezuelan bonds are posting the biggest rally among major developing nations as investors bet that President Hugo Chavez’s tenure will end soon even if he wins the closest election he’s faced in 14 years. The country’s dollar bonds returned 30 percent this year as Chavez’s battle with cancer slowed his campaign for another six- year term that would allow him to extend his push for more state control of the economy. Only the Ivory Coast’s debt has gained more, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s EMBI Global Index. While Chavez is still the likely winner, investors are

Death Panel Rattle

American Spectator, by Kevin Mooney Original Article

Posted By: garnet- 10/5/2012 6:40:27 AM Post Reply

Until two nights ago, most voters were largely unaware of the unelected 15 member Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) created as part of Obamacare. Mitt Romney can further capitalize on his adroit performance in Wednesday's debate by focusing public attention on the power and influence of IPAB in the coming weeks. When he was asked why he wanted to repeal the federal health care law, formally titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Romney quite correctly touched on rising insurance costs, and Medicare cuts, but it was his third response to moderator Jim Lehrer that really stood out.

Obama's Mask Slips

American Thinker, by Pamela Geller Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/5/2012 6:24:20 AM Post Reply

Much is being made of the devastating blow that Mitt Romney administered to President Obama in the first presidential debate Wednesday night. Romney was masterful; Obama was incomprehensible. Romney was presidential; Obama was incoherent. Romney schooled Obama; Obama responded by doing the hand motions to "The Wheels On the Bus Go Round and Round." Republicans and conservatives alike were cheering. Even Romney skeptics like me happily conceded that Romney was the right guy all along. There will be an October surprise from the Obama camp, but they got one themselves Wednesday night.

Michael Jackson's death set off
wild cash scramble between mom
Katherine and sister La Toya --
and even a fight over Janet
Jackson's cemetery deposit

New York Daily News, by Nancy Dillon Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/5/2012 6:14:50 AM Post Reply

Michael Jackson's grieving relatives rolled up to the singer’s rented mansion hours after his death in a chaotic search for garbage bags full of cash, a new report states. Within hours of Jackson’s June 25 death from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, sister La Toya Jackson and her boyfriend, Jeffre Phillips, arrived at the house demanding to be admitted, Vanity Fair reports. “We’re family, and we should have access to the house,” one of two said, according to the story, an adaptation from Randall Sullivan’s forthcoming Jackson epic, “Untouchable.” Sullivan’s book says matriarch Katherine Jackson arrived that night

Restoring the American Dream

American Spectator, by Peter Ferrara Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 6:09:39 AM Post Reply

President Obama told a sleepwalking America in his Democrat Convention Acceptance speech: I won't pretend the path I'm offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve the challenges that have built up over the decades. But here is the actual truth, rather than a self-serving rationalization -- with the right policies, America would be enjoying an historic boom before next Christmas,

Does Obama just hate his job?

Salon, by Alex Pareene Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 6:05:56 AM Post Reply

Hey, maybe Obama just doesn’t like being president? And that’s why he was so “off” last night? It’s as good a theory as any. Here’s Kevin Baker, at Harper’s: Instead, Obama signaled that he wants out. His diehard supporters are already trying to wave away this weirdly awful, unengaged performance as just his latest turn of Zen mastery, but that dog won’t hunt. They should steel themselves for more shocking displays of indifference over the next month on the part of this strangely diffident individual. It’s quite possible that he means what he says,

Get Ready for Chicago Rules

Wall Street Journal, by Kimberley A. Strassel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 6:00:56 AM Post Reply

The most interesting place to have been in America on Thursday morning? Obama campaign headquarters. No need to guess what the post-debate conversation was in Boston: jubilation over Mitt Romney's wildly impressive Denver performance, and a strategy session on how to keep the momentum. But in Chicago? Amid the gloom, amid the shock, one pained question surely drove the discussion: "What now?" Because Chicago understands that the immediate critique of Barack Obama's debate performance understates the damage the president did to his campaign. Yes, he was detached. Yes, he was unprepared.

Facebook to charge users to
‘promote’ posts to friends

Fox News, by Jeremy A. Kaplan Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/5/2012 5:54:29 AM Post Reply

Facebook wants you to advertise … to your friends. The world’s largest social network, which announced Thursday that it has crossed the billion-user mark, has struggled to make money from its enormous pool of users. The solution: Turning individual users into advertisers. “I thought it was a joke at first, to be honest,” explained Cameron Yuill, founder of digital media technology company AdGent. “Now they’re going to charge me $7 to tell my friends something?” Facebook announced Wednesday that Joe Sixpack will soon be able to ensure that you're reading his messages, thanks to an expansion of the Promoted Posts program,

Moving Beyond Affirmative Action

New York Times, by Thomas J. Espenshade Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:50:50 AM Post Reply

ON Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, the latest in a long line of conservative assaults on affirmative action that dates to the late 1970s. Nearly a decade has passed since the court, in Grutter v. Bollinger, approved the continued use of race as one factor in an individualized, “holistic” review of an applicant’s qualifications for higher education. Now even such limited consideration of race is being challenged. Abigail Fisher, who is white, graduated from a Texas public high school in 2008

Revolt of the Spooks

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:46:05 AM Post Reply

Weeks before the presidential election, President Barack Obama’s administration faces mounting opposition from within the ranks of U.S. intelligence agencies over what career officers say is a “cover up” of intelligence information about terrorism in North Africa. Intelligence held back from senior officials and the public includes numerous classified reports revealing clear Iranian support for jihadists throughout the tumultuous North Africa and Middle East region, as well as notably widespread al Qaeda penetration into Egypt and Libya in the months before the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

The Undoing of Storybook Man

National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:40:40 AM Post Reply

It was the Puss in Boots eyes. If you’ve seen the Shrek movies or the spin-off cartoon starring the storybook cat voiced by Antonio Banderas, you know what I’m talking about. Whenever Puss in Boots really needs something from someone, he flashes these enormous kitten eyes that melt anyone in their path. Whenever my daughter really wants something, she tries to lay them on me, and I have to say, “Stop trying to give me the Puss in Boots eyes . . . you can’t have chocolate cake for dinner.” I knew Barack Obama was miserable

The Skeptics Are Thrashing The
Alarmists In The Global Warming Debate

Forbes, by James Taylor Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:37:18 AM Post Reply

So you thought Mitt Romney gave Barack Obama a good beating in last night’s debate? That is nothing compared to the beating climate realists have been inflicting on alarmists in the global warming debate. Rarely will global warming alarmists step into the ring for a live debate that people can watch. There are good reasons for this. When you remove alarmists from the protection of a fawning liberal press and subject them to a debate on equal terms without media filters, embarrassing things tend to happen. Kind of like last night’s presidential debate. But I digress.

Obama, the god who bleeds

Washington Times [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:28:53 AM Post Reply

The poet Robert Graves wrote, “One hard look can close the book that lovers love to see.” On Wednesday night, Americans saw Barack Obama in a new, hard light. He was not the smooth, confident leader they imagined him to be. He was rambling, unfocused and ultimately bested by another, more able man. His defeat defied what was expected, or what many believed was even possible. The scene was reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” where Danny Dravot, a British soldier with delusions of godhood, is bitten by the native girl he seeks to wed.

Pinocchio for President

New York Post, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/5/2012 5:25:19 AM Post Reply

Team Obama, scrambling to regain solid footing after Wednesday’s debate debacle, has switched attack targets. Mitt Romney the extremist is out. Mitt Romney the liar is in. Chief campaign strategist David Axelrod complimented Romney’s “vigorous performance” — but added that it was “one that was devoid of honesty.” Really. Axelrod talking “honesty.” Indeed, he said, “the question is . . . whether or not a candidate that is so fundamentally rooted in hiding the facts and truth” can be trusted with the presidency. But while that description applies to one of the candidates, it’s not Mitt Romney.

Syria Conflict Can’t Be Wished Away

Commentary Magazine, by Max Boot Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:21:57 AM Post Reply

Foreign policy wasn’t on the debate agenda last night, but Mitt Romney did say, “What’s happening in the Middle East? There are developments around the world that are of real concern.” Indeed. The latest being that for a second day in a row Turkey has shelled Syria in retaliation for Syrian mortar shells landing in Turkey and killing several people. This is only the latest sign of how the Syrian conflict continues to rage and to spill over Syria’s artificial borders. Yet President Obama seems to be acting as if he could wish the conflict away, presumably

Jim Lehrer, Model Debate Moderator

Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 5:07:05 AM Post Reply

Apologists for President Obama’s weak performance in Wednesday night’s debate have found a scapegoat. It’s Jim Lehner, the PBS anchor who served as moderator. The charge? He let Mitt Romney run amok—that is, talk more—by not enforcing the time limits on speaking. This is untrue. As it turns out, Obama spoke four minutes more than Romney did in the 90-minute debate. But since he had so many pauses, stumbles, and instances of “Ah…ah,” Romney actually got in more words, 7,891 to Obama’s 7,350. Romney simply had more to say—and that surely wasn’t Lehrer’s fault.

Akin failed to report 10 years of
Missouri state pension payments

St. Louis Post-Dispatch [MO], by Kevin McDermott Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 4:49:26 AM Post Reply

Congressman Todd Akin failed to report almost $130,000 in Missouri legislative pension income over the past 10 years on his congressional financial disclosure report, his office acknowledged this morning. “This was an unintentional oversight and I regret any inconvenience this may cause,” Akin wrote in a letter to the House Ethics committee this week. The acknowledgment came after a Post-Dispatch inquiry into why Akin showed no Missouri pension payments on the congressional form. Asked if the discovery came in response the newspaper’s questions, Akin spokesman Steve Taylor said only that it was the result of “an inquiry.”

Obama’s Big Whimper: Four Big
Surprises From the Denver Debate

Daily Beast, by Michael Medved Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/5/2012 4:43:42 AM Post Reply

The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, otherwise known as “The Denver Donnybrook,” offered the rarest of pleasures for attentive viewers: a series of utterly unexpected developments that could shock and shove the perpetually close campaign in dramatically new directions. Among the evening’s most conspicuous surprises: 1. Romney came across as notably more youthful, energetic, and optimistic than his weary and piqued opponent—despite a 14-year age difference in Obama’s favor. The 51-year-old hope-and-change wonder boy looked worn out, uncomfortable, and embarrassed to be there,

58 million viewers: Debate ratings
top first debate from 2008; Update:
Revised upwards to 67.2 million;
Update: 70 million?

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/5/2012 4:40:14 AM Post Reply

The last time a beating this brutal drew a wider audience was Ali-Foreman, I believe. More than 58 million people watched the first Presidential debate last night between President Obama and Mitt Romney, up substantially from the first debate in the 2008 election cycle, which had 52.4 million viewers. Fox News was the most-watched cable news network during the debate, and will likely be the most-watched network on TV, though final broadcast numbers will not be released until after 4 PM. The second Obama/McCain debate in 2008 drew 63.2

Mumbles Crumbles

MetroWest Daily News, by Mike Stopa Original Article

Posted By: Olivia O'Toole- 10/5/2012 3:45:04 AM Post Reply

After months of indecision, or at least months of silence, Boston Mayor-for-Life Thomas Menino has at last announced his endorsement of Elizabeth Warren for U.S. Senate. Speaking at a Warren rally in Roslindale on Friday, September 21, the mayor invoked the ordinary working people from Hyde Park who would benefit from having someone like Warren “speak up in Washington” on their behalf, saying: “if I was any guy from Hyde Park, Elizabeth would have my back, and so I have hers.” The question that everyone is asking now is: what took so long?

Deadly meningitis outbreak puts spotlight
on custom-mixed drugs from
‘compounding pharmacies’

Associated, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/5/2012 2:49:43 AM Post Reply

Two people blinded in Washington, D.C., in 2005. Three dead in Virginia in 2006 and three more in Oregon the following year. Twenty-one dead polo horses in Florida in 2009. Earlier this year, 33 people in seven states with fungal eye infections. And now, at least five people dead and 35 sickened with fungal meningitis that has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. All these disasters involved medicines that had been custom-mixed at what are called “compounding pharmacies” - laboratories that supply hospitals, clinics and doctors to a much wider degree in the U.S. than many people realize.

Iran on the Verge of Hyperinflation

Daily Beast, by Megan McArdle Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 10/5/2012 2:20:31 AM Post Reply

In fact, on the verge might not be the right way to put it; in the middle of might be more accurate. Steve Hanke estimates that inflation is running at 70% a month. This is, as Alex Tabarrok points out, nowhere near a record. Still, it's a Big Deal. Hyperinflation has brought down governments--Iran is experiencing protests over the collapsing rial. And it's not hard to see why. At the current rate of inflation the value of a savings account (or a mattress stash) is now barely 40% of what it was one month

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