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Obama’s ‘Doubled Fuel Efficiency’ Con

National Review Online, by Henry Payne Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 5:24:34 AM Post Reply

In the second presidential debate, President Obama touted his MPG mandates as evidence of his commitment to energy independence. “That’s why we doubled fuel efficiency standards on cars,” said Obama at the Hofstra town hall. “That means that in the middle of the next decade, any car you buy, you’re going to end up going twice as far on a gallon of gas.” No, you won’t. The MPG edict is, in fact, evidence of the false promise of government regulation. Never mind the “doubling” of fuel economy to 54.5 mpg by 2025,

Star Commentator Is Out
as Christian College President
After Scandal

New York Times, by Ariel Kamner Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/19/2012 5:21:36 AM Post Reply

While attending a conference last month, the president of the King’s College was spotted in the company of a woman other than his wife. At a typical institution of higher learning, a sighting like that might not have turned into a major controversy. (Snip)But his recent foray into film has been his most visible undertaking yet. The film, an attack on President Obama, accuses him of imperiling the country by channeling the anti-colonialist beliefs of his father.

U.S. description of Benghazi
attacks, at first cautious,
changed after 3 days

McClatchy Newspapers, by Hannah Allam & Jonathon S. Landay Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 5:20:51 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — In the first 48 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Libya, senior Obama administration officials strongly alluded to a terrorist assault and repeatedly declined to link it to an anti-Muslim video that drew protests elsewhere in the region, transcripts of briefings show. The administration’s initial accounts, however, changed dramatically in the following days, according to a review of briefing transcripts and administration statements, with a new narrative emerging Sept. 16 when U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice asserted in a series of TV appearances that the best information available

Obama Drowns in Red Ink

Scripps-Howard News Service, by Deroy Murdock Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 5:13:07 AM Post Reply

‘Today I am pledging to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office,” President Obama boldly declared on February 23, 2009. He added that this “means taking responsibility right now, this administration, for getting our spending under control.” Among Obama’s parade of disappointments, this vehicle may be the most dangerous. Obama was inaugurated about a third of the way through fiscal year 2009, and that year’s deficit totaled $1.41 trillion. Had he halved this shortfall, FY 2012’s deficit should have remained below $705 billion.

Winning ‘national’

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/19/2012 5:08:23 AM Post Reply

The 2012 presidential contest revolves around one central question: Will this be a national or a state-by-state election? If it’s a national election — one dominated by an overarching theme — Mitt Romney will win. His theme is that President Obama has failed and it’s time for a new direction. We can see, over the past two weeks, how this theme is starting to move voters nationwide — with polls tightening even in states like Washington and California and Massachusetts. OK: Romney won’t come even remotely close to winning any of those states — but if things continue as they’re going,

Open Homicides Possibly
Linked to Manson Family

ABC News, by Richard Esposito Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 5:02:17 AM Post Reply

The LAPD continues to battle for audio tapes that could hold clues to a dozen open homicides potentially linked to the murderous "Manson family," officials told ABC News. The open cases came to light during a legal battle first reported by the Los Angeles Times and confirmed by ABC News. "We do have open cases from that time; there is a possible link," Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andrew Smith, who heads the department's public information section, told ABC News. The tapes, recorded by Manson disciple Tex Watson, could hold information that helps to solve the decades-old homicides

When Did Obama First Learn
Benghazi Attack Wasn't Related
to YouTube Video Protest?

Weekly Standard, by John McCormack Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 4:58:08 AM Post Reply

"Let's be very clear about this. The president talked about what he knew and when he knew it," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said on Tuesday night when asked about the Benghazi attack. But when did the president first learn from intelligence reports that the assault on Benghazi was a pre-planned terrorist attack, not spontaneous mob violence in response to a YouTube video? That's a question Messina said he couldn't answer. "Listen, you're asking a campaign guy about an issue that, you know, go ask [White House Press Secretary Jay] Carney," Messina told me.

Dinesh D’Souza Resigns,
Is George Costanza

New York Magazine, by Dan Amira Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 4:47:17 AM Post Reply

Anti-Obama crusader Dinesh D'Souza has resigned his position as president of the evangelical King's College in Manhattan two days after World magazine reported that he was engaged to his (much younger) girlfriend while still married to (but separated with) his wife of twenty years. However, despite the resignation, the only transgression that D'Souza cops to is an unfamiliarity with what Christianity expected of him in this situation. In a classic Costanzian plea of ignorance ("Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"), D'Souza tells Christianity Today:

DOMA Ruling Seems Good For Gays,
But Supreme Court May Not Buy It

Daily Beast, by Jay Michaelson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 4:39:47 AM Post Reply

If you support equality for gays and lesbians, Thursday’s ruling by a federal court in New York striking down the Defense of Marriage Act seems very good. The problem is it’s too good. Why? Because now that two federal courts have struck down DOMA’s key provisions in the past six months, the matter is almost certainly going to the Supreme Court, and the Second Circuit’s interpretation of equal protection in Windsor v. United States is more expansive than anything the high court has yet endorsed. The facts of the case were strong: Edith Windsor is an 83-year-old widow.

Why would anyone believe
Obama will focus on
jobs in a second term?

Hot Air, by Howard Portnoy Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/19/2012 4:25:18 AM Post Reply

The first questioner in the second presidential debate on Tuesday was a 20-year-old college student who noted the grim employment picture in the nation, then asked Mitt Romney, “What can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents, that I will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?” Romney’s answer, which mentioned keeping student loan indebtedness down, was short on specifics. But President Obama answer’s, when his turn came around, was short on facts. “What I want to do,” he said, “is build on the five million jobs

Surprise! ‘Undecided’ debate
questioner at Tuesday’s debate
declares for Obama

The Daily Caller, by Eric Owens Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 10/19/2012 4:00:44 AM Post Reply

In a shocking development, the 20-year-old exercise science major who led off Tuesday’s presidential debate seeking reassurance from the candidates about his job prospects has apparently endorsed President Barack Obama. The Associated Press reports that Adelphi University student Jeremy Epstein said Wednesday he still clings to the “undecided” label, but would cast his vote for Obama if the election were held today. Epstein told the AP that he was dazzled when Obama gazed into his eyes.

Why Does Obama's White House
Pay Women Less?

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/19/2012 3:43:14 AM Post Reply

Equity: The president touts equal pay for equal work but hasn't practiced what he preaches with the women he has employed — including a well-known staffer who complained of a hostile work environment. It remains a mystery as to why equal pay for women was one of the questions elected by unofficial Team Obama debate coach Candy Crowley of CNN during the second presidential debate. But it let President Obama launch into breathtaking hypocrisy regarding the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly Ledbetter, which in Crowley's view ranked right up there

Man registering voters for GOP
accused of tossing forms in trash

Los Angeles Times, by Joseph Tanfani Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 2:28:04 AM Post Reply

A man who was being paid to register voters by the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested Thursday after he was seen dumping eight registration forms into a dumpster. Colin Small, 31, was working as a supervisor as part of a registration operation in eight swing states financed by the Republican National Committee. Small, of Phoenixville, Pa., was first hired by Strategic Allied Consulting, a firm that was fired by the party after suspect voter forms surfaced in Florida and other states. The owner of a store in Harrisonburg, Va., told a local television station that he became suspicious

War hero's cremation leaves
huge pile of shrapnel

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 2:23:08 AM Post Reply

Ronald Brown stepped on a land mine while on a mission in France in August 1944. The blast peppered his left leg with red-hot fragments and he was forced to crawl two miles to safety. But because of medical conditions of the day it was thought safer to leave shrapnel in his body. He survived the war but only ever told his family the basic story and said the accident had left him with a 'bad knee'. Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit

'I was well rested after
the long nap I had in the
first debate': Wise-cracking
Obama talks up his performance
in second bout with Romney
as pair trade jokes at charity dinner

Daily Mail (UK), by Louise Boyle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/19/2012 2:18:59 AM Post Reply

After their fiery exchanges at the presidential debate earlier this week, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were in a more jovial mood on Thursday evening as they traded stinging jokes at the annual Al Smith dinner. They poked fun at one another on Thursday night during the esteemed New York Catholic charity event that has long been a required stop for presidential candidates. Romney mocked his own wealth while taking aim at the president for running up the federal debt while Obama noted the 'nice long nap' he had taken during the first presidential debate.

Behind Closed Doors, Romney
at Peace as Vote Nears

Real Clear Politics, by Scott Conroy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:42:08 AM Post Reply

After a lifetime of meticulous planning, relentless self-discipline, and a potent brew of hard work and good fortune, Mitt Romney has the presidency nearly within reach. The pursuit of that ultimate political prize, which he first caught whiff of when his father chased it more than four decades ago, has been Romney's sole vocation over the last half-dozen years.After a lifetime of meticulous planning, relentless self-discipline, and a potent brew of hard work and good fortune, Mitt Romney has the presidency nearly within reach. The pursuit of that ultimate political prize, which he first caught whiff of when his father

Republicans point to early
vote gains in Ohio

CNN, by Peter Hamby Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:38:31 AM Post Reply

Middleburg Heights, Ohio - They got smoked in the early voting game in 2008, but this time around Republicans are closing the gap with Democrats. Most observers here expect the early vote to tilt toward President Barack Obama, as it did in 2008. The Obama campaign has worked overtime to get their supporters to vote early and successfully sued the Ohio secretary of state to keep early voting locations open through the weekend preceding Election Day. (Snip) Through Wednesday, however, the margin has narrowed: Democrats account for 36% of the early and absentee vote while Republicans make up for 29%.

Calif. official whose agency
under-reported unemployment
stats was Obama campaign donor

Daily Caller, by Gregg Re Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:24:47 AM Post Reply

Marty Morgenstern, the secretary of the California agency that substantially under-reported unemployment claims last week, contributed to President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign, The Daily Caller has learned. On Oct. 11, the federal government reported that weekly jobless claims were down significantly, suggesting a dramatic national increase in economic growth. But within hours, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that one major state had failed to fully document jobless claims. (Snip) Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Morgenstern to lead the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency in 2011. The state agency oversees the Employment Development Department.

Accused Ft. Hood shooter
should shave beard,
appeals court rules

Los Angeles Times, by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:18:53 AM Post Reply

Beaumont, Texas - An Army appeals court in Virginia ruled Thursday that a judge is entitled to order Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, accused in a 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood in Texas, to appear clean shaven at his upcoming court-martial. The decision came the same day victims of the attack released a video calling for it to be deemed an act of terrorism, and for victims to be accorded greater recognition and benefits. (Snip) Hasan's court-martial was initially scheduled for August, but legal wrangling over the beard has delayed proceedings indefinitely. Trial judge Col. Gregory Gross has repeatedly found

Court rules gays and lesbians
deserve special protection

Los Angeles Times, by David G. Savage Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:17:07 AM Post Reply

Washington - Gay rights advocates won another victory Thursday in their fight for equal treatment under law, when the U.S appeals court in New York struck down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act and held for the first time that gays and lesbians are a minority group deserving of special protection from discrimination under the Constitution. The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan joined a growing number of federal judges in New England and California who have ruled that the U.S. government may not deny equal federal benefits to legally married gay couples.

Fort Hood victims see
similarities to Benghazi

Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:15:00 AM Post Reply

Benghazi isn’t the first time the Obama administration has struggled with whether to call an attack on a U.S. post a terrorist attack. Nearly three years after the fact, the Defense Department still calls the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, an act of workplace violence, despite the suspect’s ties to al Qaeda. A coalition of 160 victims and family members of the deadly rampage at Fort Hood in 2009 sees similarities in the Obama administration’s reluctance to label the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya as a terrorist act and wants government officials to belatedly deem the assault in

Winter weather predictions a bit up
in the air; El Nino a no-show

Los Angeles Times, by Michael Muskal Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/19/2012 12:11:56 AM Post Reply

The El Niño climate system has gone missing and that means much of the western portion of the United States can expect a milder and, in some places, a drier winter, meteorologists said Thursday. In its winter outlook report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also predicted a cooler than usual season for Hawaii and much of Florida. But officials were shy about making long-term predictions for much the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions because of questions about another climate system known as the North Atlantic Oscillation.

Fidel Castro suffered a stroke,
Venezuelan doctor says

The Miami Herald, by Juan Carlos Chavez Original Article

Posted By: Killian Bundy- 10/19/2012 12:03:20 AM Post Reply

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and his state of health is so precarious that he has trouble feeding, speaking and recognizing people, said a Venezuelan physician who assured El Nuevo Herald that he has access to firsthand sources and information. “He suffered an embolic stroke and recognizes absolutely no one,” said José Marquina, a respected doctor who in the past has claimed to have direct information about the illness affecting President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

IDF tank battalion
practices racing to war

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Yaakov Lappin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2012 11:17:37 PM Post Reply

An IDF tank battalion stationed in the Jordan Valley held a major drill this week to practice racing to a war front during a simulated outbreak of hostilities. The drill involved reserve army companies for the first time. The reserves joined conscripted solders on the field in an exercise not held by the battalion in a long time on such a large scale. “We understand we will be among the first forces that respond at a war front. That’s why we’re preparing,” Col. Yohai Benhur, commander of Battalion 9, part of the IDF’s Armored Corps 401 Brigade, told The Jerusalem

New Egyptian ambassador brings
Israel ‘message of peace’

Times of Israel [Jerusalem], by Raphael Ahren Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2012 11:12:23 PM Post Reply

Incoming ambassadors from Egypt and Jordan presented their credentials to President Shimon Peres on Wednesday, both of them affirming their governments’ desires to maintain their respective peace treaties with Israel and to further peace in the Middle East. “I came with the message of peace and I came to confirm that we are really working for mutual trust and transparency,” Ambassador Atef Salem of Egypt told Peres at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. “We are committed to all the agreements we signed with Israel and we’re also committed to the peace treaty with Israel.”

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