Gingrich: Mourdocks Rape Comments Are What
Virtually Every Catholic Believes

post from ThinkProgress on 28 October 2012 11:24:18 AM. © ThinkProgress

Just days after several key Republicans sought to distance themselves from Indiana senate candidate Richard Mourdock in the wake of his misogynistic comments on rape, top-level Romney surrogate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tried a different approach, taking the time to defend Mourdock’s comment that a forced pregnancy resulting from a rape [...]

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Gingrich Defends Mourdocks Rape Comments,
Advising Women To Get Over It

post from ThinkProgress on 28 October 2012 11:24:18 AM. © ThinkProgress

Just days after several key Republicans sought to distance themselves from Indiana senate candidate Richard Mourdock in the wake of his misogynistic comments on rape, top-level Romney surrogate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tried a different approach, taking the time to defend Mourdock’s comment that a forced pregnancy resulting from a rape [...]

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Filling The Silence: What Obama and Romney Should
Have Said (Had They Been Asked A Climate Question At The Debates)

post from ThinkProgress on 28 October 2012 11:23:35 AM. © ThinkProgress

by David Minkow, via Climate Access It?s hard to take, frankly. Another presidential debate and no mention of the most important, and most pressing, issue of all. The glaring omission of climate disruption from the presidential campaign represents an escape from reality (anyone else think it?s telling that the final debate was scheduled to coincide [...]

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LA Times, Colin Powell enthusiastically endorse
President Obama

post from Occasional Planet on 28 October 2012 11:20:09 AM. © Occasional Planet

Many of this year’s endorsements of Barack Obama for president are laced with caveats, but the tone of the Los Angeles Times and General Colin Powell are far more enthusiastic than many others. While endorsements from the Times and Powell occasionally mention an item or two in which they would have preferred a different policy [...]Related posts:

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Obama's Main Complaint About Simpson-Bowles
Defense Cuts

post from Crooks and Liars on 28 October 2012 11:00:15 AM. © Crooks and Liars

President Obama sounds like a man in love -- in love with deficit reduction, that is. He sleeps, eats and dreams about the Grand Bargain, but only wants to draw the line at defense cuts? Doesn't sound like a man of the people!

President Barack Obama said on Friday a bipartisan panel's deficit reduction recommendation went too far on spending cuts, especially for defense, but set the right tone by also proposing revenue increases.
Obama said the plan put forward by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission - and held out by some as a model compromise that distributes the pain evenly - cut defense spending too deeply.
"They wanted ... defense cuts that were steeper than I felt comfortable with as commander in chief," he said.

Not Social Security. Not Medicare. Not Medicaid. Not the things that people who are already spread too thin need just to stay alive. I wonder why?

The president, who is in a tight re-election battle with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, said he would be eager to re-engage congressional Republicans in negotiations to achieve a broad deficit reduction deal right away. A deal could be accomplished in as little as four months, he said.
"I've said to folks, I'll wash (House Speaker) John Boehner's car, I'll walk (Republican Senate leader) Mitch McConnell's dog, I'll do whatever is required to get this done," Obama said in an interview with radio host Michael Smerconish that was released on Friday.
"The key that the American people want from us right now is for us to tackle some big challenges that we face in a common-sense, balanced, sensible way," the president said.

"Balanced" = 75% more pain for us, .05% for them. See? Sensible!

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Does the EU Data Protection Authority Threaten
Googles Business Model

post from Firedoglake on 28 October 2012 10:40:19 AM. © Firedoglake

Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $6.11 billion for the third quarter, or 53% of their total revenues. It's difficult to see how the EU challenging the legality of their practices is not a threat to both Google's business plan and[...]

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Brit Hume Credits Fox's Falsehood-Laden Libya
Coverage For Getting Out The Facts About Benghazi

post from Media Matters for America - Latest Items on 28 October 2012 10:38:00 AM. © Media Matters for America - Latest Items

From the October 28 edition of Fox Broadcasting Company's Fox News Sunday:

Previously:

Lou Dobbs Forgets To Report CIA's Denial That It Ordered Personnel To Abandon Americans In Benghazi

Fox's New Low: Accusing Obama Admin. Of Abandoning Americans To Die In Libya

Fox's Van Susteren Misrepresents State Dept. Emails To Rehash Tired Libya Talking Points

Romney Gets Lost In Fox News Benghazi Bubble

Right-Wing Media Misrepresent Secretary Clinton's Comments About Benghazi Attacks

Contrary To Right-Wing Media Claims, Report Confirms Anti-Islam Video Was Catalyst For Libya Attack

Fox News Reimagines Amb. Susan Rice's Remarks On Libya Attack

Myths And Facts About The Benghazi Attack And Protests In The Middle East

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Romney Auto Bailout Ad Tells Four Myths In 30
Seconds

As Mitt Romney continues to struggle to explain his various positions on the auto rescue that saved General Motors and Chrysler, his presidential campaign has released an ad about the bailout that is littered with falsehoods and misdirections. Watch it: The 30-second ad is running in Ohio, a state where Romney is trailing in the [...]

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Which U.S. Cities Have The Greenest Commuting
Habits

by Kaid Benfield, via NRDC’s Switchboard As most readers know only too well, the US pales by comparison to the rest of the world when it comes to getting around by anything other than single-occupancy cars. Starting in the 1950s, we fell in love with spread-out living and with automobiles in a way that other [...]

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