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Congress to press FBI, CIA on
discovery of emails that exposed
Petraeus´ career-ending affair

Star Tribune [Minneapolis], by Kimberly Dozier and Pete Yost Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/11/2012 10:08:55 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON - The career of David Petraeus, the CIA director and renowned general, was derailed by allegedly vicious emails his paramour sent to another woman. Now the CIA, FBI and White House face questions from Congress about Petraeus´ love life and how his emails came under investigation. (Snip) But Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Senate committee, said she hasn´t ruled out compelling Petraeus to testify about Benghazi at a later date. "We may well ask" him at some point, she told "Fox News Sunday." "I think that´s up to the committee."

Congressman: Greece-like ‘day of
reckoning’ complete with ‘riots’
to hit America soon if country
keeps going down same path

Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/11/2012 10:08:03 AM Post Reply

Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming told The Daily Caller that, ever since President Barack Obama’s re-election last Tuesday, he has been advising Americans to play it safe financially because he believes the economy — and the state of the country — may soon get much worse. Fleming said he’s telling concerned constituents and business owners to “not extend yourselves in debt, make sure that you pay off things, don’t get into debt with credit cards, stay as liquid as possible. Don’t take risk, and don’t get into debt. You need to stay less vulnerable economically over the next

Dems, GOP fight brewing
over curbing filibusters

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/11/2012 10:01:54 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — A brewing and potentially bitter fight over Democratic efforts to curb filibusters is threatening to inflame partisan tensions in the Senate, even as President Barack Obama and Republicans explore whether they can compromise on top tier issues such as debt reduction and taxes. A potential showdown vote to limit Senate filibusters would not come until January. Democrats are threatening to resort to a seldom-used procedure that could let them change the rules without GOP support, all but inviting Republican retaliation. That fight is looming as the newly re-elected Obama and GOP leaders prepare to use the lame-duck session

Report: Rep. Jesse
Jackson Jr. nearing plea
deal, jail time [Video]

Daily Caller, by David Martosko Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/11/2012 10:00:23 AM Post Reply

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s 17-year career in Congress is coming to an end, and he will likely spend some time in jail as a result of a plea bargain, according to WBBM-TV2, Chicago’s CBS News affiliate. Former federal prosecutor Dan Webb is negotiating the deal on behalf of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s son. Webb is now chairman of the law firm Winston & Strawn. WBBM reported that a tentative deal has been reached that will include a guilty plea on charges that Jackson misused campaign funds for his own personal gain.

New memorial comforts families

Houston Chronicle, by Jayme Fraser Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/11/2012 9:52:59 AM Post Reply

Tom Logan tears up and steps behind a black wall engraved with hundreds of names at the Fallen Warriors Memorial in Cypress Springs. Eight women in black vests hold a white glove over their hearts as a bugler plays taps to honor another Texas soldier killed in action. A friend comforts Logan during the Friday ceremony, the 10th memorial he has attended since his own son, 22, died almost a year ago. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kashif Memon, 31, was killed Oct. 25 in Afghanistan and his name will be engraved

Obama wins by going negative
and turning out base

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/11/2012 9:47:36 AM Post Reply

Lukewarm. That´s the feeling I get from the election numbers. Turnout was apparently down, at least as a percentage of eligible voters. The president was re-elected by a reduced margin. The challenger didn´t inspire the turnout surge he needed. Every re-elected president since Andrew Jackson has won with an increased popular vote percentage. Barack Obama didn´t. He won 53 to 46 percent in 2008. His numbers as I write are 50 to 48 percent over Mitt Romney. That could go up to 51 to 48 percent when California finishes its count, which took five weeks in 2008. Obama owes

Report: FBI employee told
Rep. Cantor about David
Petraeus affair

The Hill [Washington DC], by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/11/2012 9:45:09 AM Post Reply

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) says he was told in late October about allegations that then-CIA Director David Petraeus was having an extramarital affair. The GOP lawmaker said his office was notified about the charges from an FBI employee, who raised questions about a possible security breach, according to a report from the New York Times published Saturday. “I was contacted by an F.B.I. employee concerned that sensitive, classified information may have been compromised and made certain [FBI] Director [Robert] Mueller was aware of these serious allegations and the potential risk to our national security,”

The Voters Who Stayed Home

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: tocsin- 11/11/2012 9:38:41 AM Post Reply

The key to understanding the 2012 election is simple: A huge slice of the electorate stayed home. The punditocracy — which is more of the ruling class than an eye on the ruling class — has naturally decided that this is because Republicans are not enough like Democrats: They need to play more identity politics (in particular, adopt the Left’s embrace of illegal immigration) in order to be viable. But the story is not about who voted; it is about who didn’t vote. In truth, millions of Americans have decided that Republicans are not a viable alternative

The plot thickens: Petreaus
mistress sent threatening emails

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/11/2012 9:33:36 AM Post Reply

I don´t know quite how to read this WaPo story about Paula Broadwell as a sort of femme fatale who sent threatening emails to a woman described as "close" to Petreaus. In one way, it´s self serving - an apparent effort by Petreaus partisans to salvage at least some of his reputation. But it also explains why the FBI got involved in the first place: The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him,

Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst)
in the 2012 Presidential Race

New York Times, by Nate Silver Original Article

Posted By: congaree53- 11/11/2012 9:15:12 AM Post Reply

As Americans’ modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seems to be changing as well. In last Tuesday’s presidential election, a number of polling firms that conduct their surveys online had strong results. Some telephone polls also performed well. But others, especially those that called only landlines or took other methodological shortcuts, performed poorly and showed a more Republican-leaning electorate than the one that actually turned out.

How Conservatives Can Win
in Blue-State America: Lessons
from South Africa´s Opposition

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

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

The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the party’s core policies, from immigration to taxation to social issues. The conventional wisdom is wrong. I once worked in South Africa for a centrist

Foodstamps Surge to All Time High

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/11/2012 9:08:25 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration has finally released its report on the number of Americans receiving food stamps. This report was released days after the 2012 election, nine days past its traditional release date. The numbers show that Americans on food stamps is at an all time high. Worse, the report shows the highest one month jump ever recorded. You may recall that just before the election, the Obama administration announced that Hurricane Sandy was going to delay the release of October´s jobless numbers. Many watchers of politics were suspicious

Papa John´s CEO to cut worker´s
hours because Obama was re-elected

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:54:24 AM Post Reply

With failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney unable to repeal health care reform, Papa John´s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on taking the costs out of his workers. Schnatter said he will probably cut worker´s hours because President Obama was re-elected, according to the Naples News. [Snip]Though Schnatter has waffled on the Affordable Care Act, alternately agreeing that ´the good news is 100 per cent of the population is going to have health insurance´ and throwing fundraisers for Romney as the then-candidate promised to repeal Obamacare, Still, his announcement should not shock his employees as Schnatter has said he

Denmark to abolish
tax on high-fat foods

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Not your typical New Yorker- 11/11/2012 8:51:15 AM Post Reply

The Danish government has said it intends to abolish a tax on foods which are high in saturated fats. The measure, introduced a little over a year ago, was believed to be the world´s first so-called "fat tax". Foods containing more than 2.3% saturated fat - including dairy produce, meat and processed foods - were subject to the surcharge. But authorities said the tax had inflated food prices and put Danish jobs at risk. The Danish tax ministry said it was also cancelling its plans to introduce a tax on sugar, the AFP news agency reports.

Why Petraeus Deserved
Better Than This Humiliation

New York Sun, by SHMULEY BOTEACH Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 11/11/2012 8:49:02 AM Post Reply

Did General Petraeus have to resign? He opened himself as head of the Central Intelligence Agency to blackmail, which is a security breach. So the argument goes. But surely once he admitted the affair, he presumably couldn’t be blackmailed any more. And yes I know there are many facts as yet unknown, like this mystery second woman who complained about email harassment. But for now, Petraeus seems to have resigned over marital infidelity.

Obama has led US to £338bn
bill - and to the edge of
a financial abyss

Daily Mail [UK], by Simon Heffer Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:46:43 AM Post Reply

On the streets of Manhattan last week, the American public were more concerned about the delay in restoring their public services after Hurricane Sandy than about the entrails of politics following the presidential elections.New York votes Democrat. It took for granted that Barack Obama would get a second term, and did not look much beyond that. Now, though, all America is having to peer into an abyss--or, to use the metaphor of the moment, over a ‘fiscal cliff’.[Snip]The plan is that $136 billion (£85.5 billion) in cuts--0.8 percent of GDP--will come in at the same time as $532 billion of

The Blackpool Glower

Daily Express [UK], by Eugene Henderson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:31:47 AM Post Reply

The best-loved seaside resort in Britain could put up its “No Vacancies” signs to stop attracting deadbeats, drunks and drug addicts. Councillor Simon Blackburn warns that the popular holiday destination has welcomed the “dependency culture” in recent years. [Snip] Mr Blackburn, 40, told them: “Essentially, we would be saying Blackpool is full and if people are planning on moving here, they need to think long and hard about securing accommodation, a job and means of entertaining themselves which do not negatively impact on the wider community.” The council’s Labour leader said watching an episode of the Channel 4 series

America has become
an Old World country

Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:14:53 AM Post Reply

So Europe got the American president it wanted--the one who would present no threat to its own delusions. The United States is now officially one of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic Balkanisation, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite. And it is locked into the same death spiral of high public spending and self-defeating wealth redistribution as we are. Welcome to the future, and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the West. It has become clear why it was so easy to misjudge the significance of the apparently

Stick to conservative principles

Morning Journal [Lorain, OH], by Tom Skoch Original Article

Posted By: Harlowe- 11/11/2012 8:12:16 AM Post Reply

The results of the presidential election were certainly a sharp disappointment for those on the right, but conservatives shouldn’t be looking for any non-fiscal cliffs to throw themselves from. Nor should Dems see any grand mandate for President Obama’s policies. Obama won small, and the nation and Congress remain as divided as before the election. A Republican comeback in 2014, taking control of the U.S. Senate, would change the picture greatly. By 2014, Americans will have had a much bigger taste of what a second Obama term means in their daily lives

Lest we forget: Queen lays wreath
at Cenotaph in memory of war
dead as Remembrance Sunday
events are held across Britain

Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Duell Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 7:56:46 AM Post Reply

Remembrance Sunday events were today held across the country in tribute to members of Britain and the Commonwealth’s Armed Forces who have died during conflicts. The Queen attended a service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where she laid a wreath in memory of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. She was joined by senior royals, Prime Minister David Cameron and leaders of opposition parties for the service, a focal point of the nation’s ceremonies. The first stroke of Big Ben at 11am and the firing of a gun from Horse Guards Parade by The King’s Troop

At least two killed in southeast side
explosion, four others injured

WXIN-TV [Indianapolis, IN], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: corndoggies- 11/11/2012 7:45:05 AM Post Reply

At least two people were killed and four others were injured following an explosion on the city´s southeast side. It happened near Stop 11 and Sherman Drive just after 11 p.m. Saturday.At least two homes were destroyed in the initial explosion. Two others were also directly impacted. Flames quickly spread to several other surrounding homes. Extensive damage was reported blocks away from the initial explosion. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged.
Source corrected by Staff

New York readies for Veterans
Day as region struggles

Reuters, by Edward Krudy Original Article

Posted By: JackBurton- 11/11/2012 6:24:21 AM Post Reply

New York City was preparing to stage its first major event since cancelling its annual marathon as thousands of victims of Superstorm Sandy continued to struggle with power outages, gasoline shortages and freezing weather conditions.Sunday's annual Veterans Day Parade is expected to attract crowds of over 600,000 people to central Manhattan and will be a test for a city still struggling to clean up after one of the worst natural disasters in the region's history.Thousands were in temporary shelters, and in New Jersey a tent city on the edge of Monmouth Park racetrack was home to hundreds.

The Disappointment of Living
in an Electoral Republic

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 11/11/2012 6:16:53 AM Post Reply

Tuesday´s returns seem inexplicable. (a) Logic Took a Powder Jeff Dobbs, a regular at Just One Minute, did some work and shows why the election results this week seem inexplicable and unpredictable: (snip) This compendium of voter illogic is not complete without acknowledging, as Breitbart has, that voters expressed great concern over federal government corruption and, yet in the face of all the scandals including the trillions wasted in the Stimulus and failed and failing green energy programs, they believed the Republicans less capable of rooting it out.

Diplomats still in Benghazi
say they had long questioned
U.S. reliance on local militia

McClatchy Newspapers, by Nancy A. Youssef Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/11/2012 5:58:35 AM Post Reply

BENGHAZI, Libya — Even before the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats from other nations and Libyan security officials had questioned the wisdom of a U.S. decision to rely primarily on members of a local militia to protect its compound here. Diplomats here told McClatchy that while it’s customary to depend on local forces to protect diplomatic missions, only the United States of the 10 or so foreign missions here allowed the local militia to be the first line of defense.

Holly Petraeus: The
Woman Behind the General

Daily Beast, by Nina Strochlic Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:52:36 AM Post Reply

Earlier this year, Gen. David Petraeus praised his wife Holly, calling her “the greatest source of support, wise counsel, and love that any soldier could have.” And two days ago, he apologized to his former colleagues at the CIA for “engaging in an extramarital affair.” Such behavior, he wrote, “is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours.” It has since become clear that the other woman was Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’s biographer. But who is the woman whose forgiveness matters most in the coming weeks?

Florida officials order partial
recount in tight House race between
Rep. West and Democratic challenger Murphy

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:41:42 AM Post Reply

Election officials in St. Lucie County will recount early votes cast in the hotly contested race for Florida´s 18th district´s House seat between Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West and his challenger, Democrat Patrick Murphy. The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board announced late Saturday it had set an “emergency meeting” to start at 7 a.m. Sunday at its headquarters, to “recount all ballots cast during early voting.” The number of early ballots is estimated by officials to be roughly 37,000. West, who has refused to concede the race, is currently trailing Murphy by 2,442 votes,

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