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Archive for 2012
October 21, 2012
GEORGE McGOVERN, RIP: ’72 Democratic presidential nominee, dies at age 90.
UPDATE: Much more from Steve Hayward at Power Line.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: New York Post: Obama campaign accepted foreign Web donations — and may be hiding more. “The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges. Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens. . . . The Obama campaign’s apparent lack of safeguards makes it possible to violate the law, says a report released by the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based watchdog group. The report found that one Obama site — Obama.com — gets almost half of its traffic from foreign computer addresses. The site directs users to an Obama donation page.”
This is an old story in the blogosphere, but it’s nice to see it getting some mainstream media attention. Of course, if he were a Republican, this would be a national scandal of the first order. But then, so would Benghazi, Solyndra, etc., etc., etc. . . .
RECRUITING VIDEOGAMERS to be the next generation of spies.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Rise of the a-hole. Two books examine why there are so many of them these days.
JONATHAN FREEDLAND AT THE GUARDIAN: “When Israelis kill Arabs there is outrage. But Assad’s brutal campaign has cost 30,000 lives and there’ve been no protests.”
BENGHAZI: US ‘too slow’ to act as drone’s cam captured Libya horror.
Say, you know who we haven’t heard from in all of this? CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus. Why not?
OBAMA/ROMNEY NOW TIED in NBC/WSJ poll.
DO NOT FORGET: Obama campaign accepted foreign Web donation — and may be hiding more. Covering scandals with other scandals is what Obama does, but we must not forget this one. Do you want a president made by China?
IN THE MAIL: The Liberal War on Transparency.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Why the Benghazi terrorist attack still dogs Obama.
Because he lied. “When it comes up in the presidential candidates’ foreign policy debate Monday night, President Obama will have some serious explaining to do about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last month that killed the US Ambassador and three other Americans.”
Related: Anti-Muslim filmmaker detained for almost a month…next court date three days after election. How convenient.
BUBBLES ARE BURSTING everywhere.
WELL, IT’S HARD WORK AND THERE’S A LOT OF REJECTION: Study: Writers Twice As Likely To Commit Suicide.
HOW’S THAT ARAB SPRING “SMART DIPLOMACY” STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): New poll: Egyptians turning toward Iran, want nuclear weapons. Well, they see Obama as the “weak horse.”
BIRTH CONTROL, HO CHI MINH, RICHARD NIXON BACK AGAIN: Video: The Obama Presidency In Song.
WHAT KILLED BEST BUY? At the start of the year, Forbes believed it was Amazon. This weekend, the Chicago Boyz econo-blog says it’s Apple. In any case, the remaining outlets really do feel like Dead Store Walking, don’t they?
ON CONFIDENCE: “We do not double down on failure, and President Obama has failed,” Hugh Hewitt writes.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY POST-RACIAL STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Obama DOJ: Growth in Violent Crimes Against Whites. “The rate of violent crime increased by a whopping 17% last year, according to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), marking the biggest jump since 1993. Property crimes also went up 11% last year. That means that in 2011 there were nearly 6 million violent victimizations and more than 17 million property victimizations, according to the DOJ figures. . . . Here are more unsettling statistics buried deep in the DOJ’s new crime report; there has been a large increase in the rate of violent victimizations for whites, Hispanics and younger people. That means white non-Hispanics and Hispanics experienced an increase in violent victimization rates, while the rate for black non-Hispanics was stable, according to the DOJ stats. Additionally, crime rate in the suburbs is growing much faster than in the cities or rural areas, the government figures show.”
Well, you know, Obama’s never liked the suburbs.
LOW-INFORMATION VOTERS: Oh dear: Twitter users slam GOP presidential nominee ‘Nick Romney.’
MEGAN MCARDLE WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.