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Hostess liquidation puts 286
in NC out of work

News Observer [Raleigh,NC], by Kelly Poe Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 11/17/2012 7:14:04 AM Post Reply

ROCKY MOUNT -- The 286 people who work in the Merita bread factory on North Church Street are out of work following Friday’s announcement that parent company Hostess will seek permission to end operations and liquidate its assets. About 75 of the workers participated in a nationwide strike that started at midnight Tuesday. Hostess Brands had warned the workers to return to work by 5 p.m. Thursday or face the company’s liquidation. The deadline came and went as picketers stood around a heater under umbrellas in the rain. “It’s five o’ clock and nobody’s crying,” one woman yelled.

Israel launches scores of airstrikes into
Gaza after Hamas hits Jerusalem

Associated Press, by Amy Teibel and Ibrahim Barzak Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 11/17/2012 7:12:00 AM Post Reply

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations to include the prime minister’s headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of smuggling tunnels.The new attacks followed an unprecedented rocket strike aimed at the contested holy city of Jerusalem that raised the stakes in Israel’s violent confrontation with Palestinian militants and extended the battlefield.

Obama´s Economy:
What We´ve Learned
Since Re-election

Investor´s Business Daily, by IBD Staff Original Article

Posted By: RustMB- 11/17/2012 6:59:57 AM Post Reply

Obama II: In the "now they tell us" file, add a vast array of reports that have come out since the election showing just how weak the economy really is. Looks like the president will need a new scapegoat soon. Here´s just a sampling of what we´ve learned since voters decided to give Obama four more years to "experiment" with the economy. Earnings falling: The Labor Dept. reported on Thursday that real average hourly earnings dropped again in October for the third month in a row...

President told within 72 hours Benghazi
attack linked to al-Qaida extremists

Washington Guardian, by John Solomon Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 6:30:20 AM Post Reply

U.S. intelligence told President Barack Obama and senior administration officials within 72 hours of the Benghazi tragedy that the attack was likely carried out by local militia and other armed extremists sympathetic to al-Qaida in the region, officials directly familiar with the information told the Washington Guardian on Friday. Based on electronic intercepts and human intelligence on the ground, the early briefings after the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya identified possible organizers and participants. Most were believed to be from a local Libyan militia group called Ansar al-Sharia that is sympathetic to al-Qaida,

More GOP governors decline to
create health insurance exchanges

Los Angeles Times, by Noam M. Levey Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/17/2012 6:23:27 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — More Republican governors announced Friday they would not implement a key part of the new healthcare law, despite a new attempt by the Obama administration to give states more time to develop plans to put the Affordable Care Act in place. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Maine Gov. Paul LePage joined more than a dozen GOP governors who have notified the administration they will not set up state insurance exchanges next year, instead leaving the job to the federal government. "Operating a state exchange would not provide the flexibility to meet

Top 10 Election Bright Spots

Human Events, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 6:18:56 AM Post Reply

1. House still in GOP hands Republicans held onto most of the gains made in the 2010 midterm elections, enabling conservatives to keep Obama from imposing a radical agenda on the nation in his second term. House Speaker John Boehner signaled as much, saying on election night that Americans sent a clear message by keeping the House in GOP hands. “With this vote, the American people have also made clear that there is no mandate for raising tax rates,” Boehner said. 2. Popular vote still close With a 50.5 percent to 48 percent popular vote deficit, Romney outperformed McCain’s percentage

Sure, our ambassador was murdered
and the Obama administration is
lying about it, but the real
story is that McCain is a grouch

Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 6:08:28 AM Post Reply

CNN wants you to look over there! Most of the Republican members of a Senate committee investigating the terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, skipped a classified briefing by administration officials on the incident Wednesday, CNN has learned… When CNN approached McCain in a Capitol hallway Thursday morning, the senator refused to comment about why he missed the briefing, which was conducted by top diplomatic, military and counter-terrorism officials. Instead, McCain got testy when pressed to say why he wasn’t there.

Remove the Carriers
from the Persian Gulf

Commentary Magazine, by Michael Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 6:04:49 AM Post Reply

Several months ago, I asked a retired admiral what sign the United States could give that its patience had truly worn thin with Iran. “Remove the carriers from the Persian Gulf,” he responded. At first, that struck me as dumb: The Iranians would depict the American withdrawal as another sign that the United States was weak and in retreat. “Don’t worry,” he assured me. “Any Revolutionary Guardsmen worth his weight would understand.” The Persian Gulf is shallow and the international shipping lanes relatively narrow. The Iranian navy has long drilled swarming American vessels with small boats.

Obama Consults With MSNBC
Host Al Sharpton, and Other
´Civil Rights Leaders,´
on Fiscal Talks

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/17/2012 6:02:58 AM Post Reply

This afternoon, President Barack Obama consulted with MSNBC host Al Sharpton, who´s also assicated with the National Action Network (NAN), about the fiscal talks between the White House and Congress. At the same meeting, Obama also consulted with other "leaders of civil rights and civic organizations." Via the pool report: President Obama and Vice President Biden met with leaders of civil rights and civic organizations to discuss negotiations over how to avoid the fiscal cliff. The meeting lasted over an hour, and participants spoke to reporters outside the West Wing after they wrapped up. Per the White House,

CBS Welcomes Obama to
Staten Island, But Criticized
Bush Post-Katrina

Newsbusters, by Matt Hadro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/17/2012 5:58:51 AM Post Reply

CBS ran a puff piece Friday morning on President Obama´s visit to hurricane-ravaged Staten Island, which stood in stark contrast to its hostile treatment of President Bush´s visit to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. CBS played into the Obama PR strategy, simply noting that he "pledged the government´s support" to Staten Island residents and "met with families who´ve lost everything." In addition, they aired his plea for the insurance companies to support the victims, afterward quoting residents who were upset with the insurance companies. Meanwhile, CBS had no such love for President Bush in 2005 when they reported

Hillary and Libya

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 11/17/2012 5:55:29 AM Post Reply

David Petraeus told Congress Friday in closed hearings that the CIA believed from the start that the September 11 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi were by terrorists. That leaves one VIP who´s still missing from Congressional scrutiny: Hillary Clinton. GOP Congressman Peter King said Mr. Petraeus´s testimony differed from what the former CIA director told Congress immediately after the attacks. Mr. King also said Mr. Petraeus said that the CIA´s original talking points on the attacks were edited. The altered version became the basis for U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice´s misleading

Did Obama Cheat? How to
Answer the Question

American Thinker, by Paul Murphy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/17/2012 5:50:52 AM Post Reply

There are 15 states with photo ID requirements for voting. Mr. Obama lost in all of them. In places with the weakest controls, specifically counties in Florida, Ohio, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, he generally drew turnouts in the 90% or greater range and won by better than 95% of the vote. Losers tend to look for external explanations, and a lot of conservatives looking at numbers like those from Florida´s St. Lucie County (where Mr. Obama got 247,713 votes from only 175,554 registered voters) are starting to question the legitimacy of the electoral results as reported.

Along Comes Hamas

National Review Online, by Andrew C McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:50:20 AM Post Reply

The day of reckoning is here. For over 30 years, the United States government and the institutions that drive public opinion have made like Susan Rice when it comes to the ideological threat that Islamic supremacists pose to freedom, fabricating reasons to remain in denial. Thus inured, the American people have elected, and now reelected, a president notoriously fond of America-bashing Islamists. The attraction would not be hard to understand if we were not so ideology-averse — GOP strategists having made Obama’s radicalism a subject nearly as off-limits as Islamic supremacism, helpfully leaving the Left to fill the canvas

Obama Allies Accuse
Israel of ‘Slaughter’

Washington Free Beacon, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/17/2012 5:45:29 AM Post Reply

Two Muslim advocacy groups closely allied with the Obama administration are aggressively attacking Israel and defending the terror group Hamas as it continues to fire rockets at Israeli civilians. The Obama-aligned American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) issued a statement condemning “the continuing Israeli aggression and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” The statement omits all mention of terrorism and continued rocket assaults on Israeli citizens that have already claimed the lives of three people. It omits any mention of the week of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel that preceded the Israeli retaliation.

The Wonderful World
of Jill and Scott Kelley

Atlantic, by Elspeth Reeve Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:41:25 AM Post Reply

Jill Kelley´s seemingly endless charms got her into the White House three times this fall. Kelley had met a "mid-level White House staffer" while the staffer was visiting the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, and this staffer took her on a tour of the White House and ate breakfast with her twice in the staff dining hall. Her charms are nonpartisan -- despite attending Republican fundraisers and the Republican National Convention, she emailed the Democratic mayor of Tampa to say, "I was at the WH with my friends in the Administration this weekend – the stress was surreal!

Diplomats died, Obama lied

Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:35:46 AM Post Reply

In a closed congressional hearing Friday, former Director of Central IntelligenceDavid H. Petraeus told lawmakers that references to al Qaeda involvement in the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were stripped from the agency’s talking points. In the wake of the assault, Gen. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice then went about making public statements that failed to mention the terrorist connection. They instead attempted to pin the blame for the attack on a spontaneous uprising over a low-budget YouTube video.

Blame It on the American People

American Spectator, by Andrew B. Wilson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:32:45 AM Post Reply

Bill O´Reilly of Fox News and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have added their voices to the swelling chorus of second-guessers saying the Mitt Romney ran the race badly and therefore "deserved to lose" to Barack Obama on Nov. 6. But here´s a simpler and, I think, better explanation. There is no magic that dictates that the American people in their infinite wisdom will always make the right choice, and in this instance they ´doubled down´ (to use one of the president´s favorite expressions) in returning a very bad president

Bam’s Benghazi blues

New York Post, by Peter Brookes Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/17/2012 5:28:03 AM Post Reply

We don’t have all the details of former CIA Director David Petraeus’ testimony to congressional Intelligence Committees yesterday, but it looks like the American people were grossly misled about the Benghazi attack. Is anyone surprised? You shouldn’t be. The last thing the Obama administration wanted to tell the American public during a tight presidential campaign was that al Qaeda had attacked a US consulate on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, killing four brave Americans. That sort of revelation flew directly in the face of the narrative being spooned out by Team Obama during the fall campaign, laden with phrases

Susan Rice’s Talking Points

Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:23:38 AM Post Reply

At his first press conference after being elected to a second term, President Barack Obama did everything he could to avoid directly answering the difficult questions on the growing scandal about his administration’s handling of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi. But in so doing, the president inadvertently told us quite a bit.At one point he said: “And we’re after an election now. I think it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I’m happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants.”

Osama bin Laden is Dead
and So Are Ho Hos

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:08:30 AM Post Reply

A petition at the White House is urging president Obama to “nationalize the Twinkie industry”. (Real, click on the link) The iconic cake manufacturer declared bankruptcy after it failed to reach an agreement with the union. Politico reports that the AFL-CIO is blaming the company for refusing to operate at a loss. “What’s happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor. Crony capitalism and consistently poor management drove Hostess into the ground, but its workers are paying the price,”

The EPA hearts Big Ethanol

Hot Air, by Erika Johnsen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:04:39 AM Post Reply

I’m not even going to get started on the vast — vast, I say — number of federal policies whose justification for existence is that they help protect small family farmers and/or the environment, when in fact, they accomplish precisely the opposite. For now, I’ll just pick the one — the Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires a certain amount of fuel be blended with ethanol (which is generally made from corn) every year. David Horowitz at Red State does the topic justice: The single most regressive market-distorting policy to ever emanate from Washington

Time to rethink the CIA?

Washington Post, by Walter Pincus Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/17/2012 5:01:40 AM Post Reply

President Obama should pause before choosing a successor to CIA Director David H. Petraeus and rethink the role of the nation’s primary intelligence agency. Its main focus for the past decade has been fighting terrorists and insurgents. The first question to ask: Has the CIA become too much of a paramilitary organization? The second: Should this be the time to put the agency’s main emphasis on being the premier producer and analyst of intelligence for policymakers, using both open and clandestine sources? That doesn’t mean losing its counterterrorism role.

Petraeus Knew Benghazi Was Terrorism -
Blackmailed To Lie?

Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 11/17/2012 1:26:39 AM Post Reply

Scandal: David Petraeus´ admission that he knew almost immediately that Benghazi was a terrorist attack raises anew our question: Was he coerced into telling lawmakers Sept. 14 that it was caused by a video? The tangled web that is Benghazi-gate got more tangled Friday when, according to Rep. Peter King, David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that "al-Qaida involvement" was suspected — but that the line was taken out in the final version circulated to and by administration officials.

Maine’s striking Hostess
workers say company’s
collapse a strong
message of union resolve

Bangor Daily News [Maine], by Seth Koenig Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/17/2012 12:54:40 AM Post Reply

BIDDEFORD, Maine — Labor leaders in Maine say the resilience of the Hostess workers on the picket line at the company’s Biddeford plant, which is in the process of being shut down after the company on Friday said it would liquidate the business, gives them inspiration in the face of what they believe have been ongoing efforts — by politicians, including Gov. Paul LePage, and corporate investors — to reduce union influence. Bakers’ union officials and their supporters say also that the demise

St. Lucie County canvassing board
orders recount of early ballots in
West-Murphy race

Associated Press, by staff Original Article

Posted By: Blackeagle- 11/17/2012 12:28:38 AM Post Reply

FORT PIERCE -— A county canvassing board on Friday ordered a recount of early-voting ballots in the race between U.S. Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy, hours after a judge declined to do the same. The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board voted 2-to-1 late Friday in favor of the move in the 18th Congressional District contest, in which Murphy is the unofficial victor. A series of tabulation errors by the county has raised suspicion among West´s campaign and its supporters and appeared to motivate the board´s favorable vote.

Petraeus: Benghazi seen
as terror strike right away

Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman and Sean Lengell Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/17/2012 12:18:43 AM Post Reply

In his first testimony since stepping down last week, former CIA Director David H. Petraeus told a closed Capitol Hill briefing Friday that the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya “was a terrorist attack and there were terrorists involved from the start,” Rep. Peter T. King said Friday. The New York Republican, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, spoke to reporters after emerging from a closed-door, classified briefing by Mr. Petraeus, who visited Libya last month to interview survivors of the attack in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.

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