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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Emails Back Up Union Leaders Testimony That ICE Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals; and 'Absurd' to Give 30-Second Response to Health Care Question, Gingrich Says

Today's Headlines: Thursday, November 10, 2011

Union President Gives Congress Emails Backing Up His Testimony: ICE Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals

Obama Administration Not Keen on Congressional Calls to Crack Down on Iran’s Central Bank

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‘Oops’: Perry Can’t Remember All the Federal Agencies He’d Abolish As President

'Absurd' to Give 30-Second Response to Health Care Question, Gingrich Says

Debate Moderator to Cain: Let's Talk About Your 'Character Issues'

Obama Defends Planned Parenthood Funding; Says GOP Wants to ‘Turn Back the Clock’ for Women

Gallup: 26% Percent Approve of Obama’s Handling of Deficit

Clinton’s Speech on Fighting AIDS Doesn’t Mention Gay Sex

Obama Seeks to Dent the $15T Debt by Cutting Federal ‘Swag,’ Cell Phones, Vehicles

Obama Still Pushing Jobs Bill That Was Defeated in Democrat-Controlled Senate

Va. Voter Turnout Slightly Lower Than in Previous Years; One Race Still Too Close to Call

Rape Victim's Child Speaks Up for Right to Life

COMMENTARY:What Is Obama Thinking?By Ben Shapiro
The difference between President Obama and the rest of us is that he believes that America's best interests are served by accentuating her weaknesses, while the rest of us think that America's best interests are served by renewing her strengths.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

Dover AFB mortuary: Remains of war dead dumped in landfill
Delay: State Dept. mulls new route for Canada oil pipeline
Obama: We'll use GOP debate clips against Republicans
Study questions benefits of reducing sodium in diet
City gives public Schools 2-1/2 years to add daily phys-ed to school day
Occupy protesters have 'activated the urban core,' Wash Post gushes
USS Cole suspect will put CIA interrogation on trial at Gitmo
Wal-Mart looks into expanding services at health clinics
Scathing reaction to Perry’s debate performance across political spectrum
Mass. clean-energy agenda tacks $4 billion in extra costs onto electric bills
Occupy protests plagued by reports of sex attacks, violent crime
Former Giffords intern elected to Arizona school board
Rep. Elijah Cummings, Democrat, slams Boeing in NLRB case
Slain border agent's family rips Holder
Author Stephen King to donate up to $70,000 to heat Maine homes
Christmas tree tax tabled by Obama

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The Daily Grind: Will the U.S. and China Crush Germany into Submission? and other stories

November 10^th, 2011
The Daily Grind: Will the U.S. and China Crush Germany into Submission? and other stories

Will the U.S. and China Crush Germany into Submission?

Anti-democratic dominoes threaten the free peoples of Europe.

History's Records

Not many presidents with Obama's record have been reelected.

Kasich's defining moment

The question is whether this was a battle lost due to the mistaken tactic of including highly popular police and firefighter unions into the reforms or whether it is a lost war.

Rising income inequality?

The cries from people such as the Occupy Wall Street protestors over a wide gap existing between the rich and poor are greatly exaggerated.

Will the U.S. and China Crush Germany into Submission?

By Bill Wilson

There has been no clearer articulation of the coming tyranny to be imposed on the once-sovereign nations of Europe — and what may be in store for the debt-addled U.S. should it fail to restore order to its fiscal house — than a recent piece from the UK Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "America and China must crush Germany into submission".

In it the columnist advocates that the U.S. and China essentially force Germany to bail out financial institutions that bet poorly on Greek, Italian, and other troubled sovereign debts, writing, "it would not surprise me if U.S. President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao start to intervene very soon, in unison and with massive diplomatic force."

"One can imagine joint telephone calls to Chancellor Angela Merkel more or less ordering her country to face up to the implications of the monetary union that Germany itself created and ran (badly)," he writes. He accused the Germans of "lacking in deep understanding of what it has got itself into."

At issue is just who will be bailing out the banks that lent the money to Greece and others in the first place. The consolidated debts of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, the so-called PIIGS, total more than €3 trillion. Evans-Pritchard wants that somebody to be the European Central Bank.

In the way, Germany has vetoed the use of the ECB to leverage the €440 billion European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) upwards to perhaps €1.4 trillion — since such a decision would violate a recent German constitutional court ruling declaring that "the Bundestag, as the legislature, is also prohibited from establishing permanent mechanisms under the law of international agreements which result in an assumption of liability for other states' voluntary decisions, especially if they have consequences whose impact is difficult to calculate."

Moreover, such a move would violate Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty that brought the Eurozone into being, which expressly prohibits the ECB from printing money to buy sovereign debts.

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Kasich's defining moment

By Rick Manning

Ohio Governor John Kasich faces a moment in history where his major initiative to reform the relationship between public employee unions and the taxpayers who pay for them has been soundly defeated in a state referendum.

The question Kasich must answer is whether this was a battle lost due to the mistaken tactic of including highly popular police and firefighter unions into the reforms or whether it is a lost war, dooming the state of Ohio to spiraling public employee costs that are political suicide to attempt to contain.

Public employee unions spent close to $30 million to defeat Kasich's reform. Ironically, those unions got that money from mandatory dues collected from public employees who are paid by taxpayers. In a nutshell, $30 million of tax dollars that were paid to public employees were then used to convince the voters of Ohio that public employee union reforms should be rejected.

Public employee unions legally used their member's dues to paint a picture of an Ohio where public safety is at risk due to changes in the relationship between police and firefighter unions and their taxpayer employers.

And Ohio voters, by a 61 percent majority bought it.

Now, reality strikes.

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Rising income inequality?

By Adam Bitely

Numerous reports have come out over the past many days (here, here, and here) disputing the new claim from progressives everywhere that a recent CBO report finally proves that the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.

Well, it seems that those who have closely studied the data believe that claims of an ever widening wealth gap seem to be, well, not exactly true.

As Sheldon Richman put it, "Today low-income people have things the middle class didn't dream of 40 years ago — and even some things the rich couldn't have had at any price because they hadn't been invented yet. And this is not primarily due to consumer debt."

Even further, as GMU economics professor Don Boudreaux explained several years back, people that bang the drum loudly that the wealth gap is beginning to widen out of control forget to consider that even though the wealthy get wealthier, the poor get wealthier too:

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CNBC: Cash-Rich Firms Sit Tight, Fearing Government Meddling

Cash-Rich Firms Sit Tight, Fearing Government Meddling

Published: Monday, 7 Nov 2011

By: Reuters http://www.cnbc.com/id/45200565

Fears of government intervention and regulatory changes are causing companies in Asia and Europe to refrain from increasing spending despite improved balance sheets since the global financial crisis, a survey by money manager Fidelity Worldwide Investment showed.

The debt crisis in Europe and sluggish growth in the United States have top companies worried about the sustainability of existing sales volumes, according to the survey of more than 110 analysts at Fidelity in Europe and Asia.

These issues trump other factors such as inflation, wage costs, pricing and companies' financing positions, with healthcare and utilities companies, in particular, fearing intervention even more than banks… http://www.cnbc.com/id/45200565

DOUG MATACONIS: Obama’s Populism At Odds With His Path To Re-Election

DOUG MATACONIS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011

While many on the left are cheering President Obama’s new found populism and his attacks on “the rich,” National Journal’s John Kraushaar argues that this rhetoric is placing the President’s re-election strategy in jeopardy:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/obamas-populism-at-odds-with-his-path-to-re-election/

FILED UNDER: BARACK OBAMA, CAMPAIGN 2012, DOUG MATACONIS, POLITICIANS, US POLITICS

Poll Shows Obama In Trouble In Battleground State Of Virginia

Obama Approval at Record Low 42%

65% Of Americans Disapprove Of Obama’s Handling Of The Economy

Obama’s Approval Numbers Continue To Fall

Obama’s Job Approval Hits New Low In Quinnipiac Poll

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DOD: Hire a Vet to Honor Veterans Day, Officials Say - By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service

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NEWS ARTICLE

Hire a Vet to Honor Veterans Day, Officials Say

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=66012

By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2011 – One of the best ways Americans can honor the nation’s veterans this Veterans Day is by giving them a job, three senior government officials told reporters today.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis and U.S. Small Business Administrator Karen G. Mills praised initiatives under way to support returning combat veterans, including those President Barack Obama announced yesterday.

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Shinseki noted that 850,000 veterans are unemployed. For veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, the unemployment rate is 12.1 percent -- 3 percent above the national average, he said.

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=66012

DOD: Hire a Vet to Honor Veterans Day, Officials Say - By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service

Labels: Annual Veterans Day, Bus Econ Unemployment, Jobs and job seekers, Military Department of Defense, Military veterans, Military Veterans Day
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

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Glenn Thrush and Scott Wong - Politico: Has Obama found his inner populist?

Politico: Has Obama found his inner populist?

By: Glenn Thrush and Scott Wong http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65177.html

October 5, 2011 04:32 AM EST

With an offhand attack on Bank of America’s plans to impose a $5 debit card fee, President Barack Obama may have stumbled into a ready-made populist issue for the 2012 campaign.

Obama’s aides insist that his sharp criticism of the bank during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos this week wasn’t intended to kick off a campaign against banking industry bad guys. But it has already had a galvanizing effect on Democrats who see it as the perfect way to hop on the right side of the Wall Street vs. Main Street divide.

They see Obama’s rebuke — he angrily suggested BofA’s customers are being “mistreated” — as a golden political moment, the rarest of chances to scale down incomprehensible trillion-dollar debates into a kitchen-table argument favorable to their party.

And even if his staff said not to expect any more BofA-inspired broadsides, there was an immediate payoff: the fact that Republicans and GOP-allied business groups spent much of Tuesday defending a bailed-out financial behemoth instead of customers forced to cough up five bucks.

For a president whose relationship with the financial services industry has always been deeply ambivalent — lurching from cold to cozy and back again — it’s an opportunity to show a more combative side at a time when the faltering economy is even more of an issue.

It’s not bad base politics either. Obama’s team has been looking for ways to signal, if not overtly express, its support for a growing wave of anti-Wall Street protests that progressives hope will be the left’s answer to the tea party movement. And it’s just the latest illustration of the suddenly more aggressive style that many Democrats have long been urging him to adopt.

[20111005 sdosm Politico Has Obama found his inner populist]

Glenn Thrush and Scott Wong - Politico: Has Obama found his inner populist?

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CNBC: Europe Stocks Seen Higher on Berlusconi Departure Hopes

Europe Stocks Seen Higher on Berlusconi Departure Hopes

European stocks were called to open higher on Wednesday on news that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would resign after he lost his parliamentary majority in a crucial vote on Tuesday afternoon.

IMF Chief Warns World Economy Risks 'Lost Decade'
Greek Precedent Exposes Banks: Deutche Bank CEO
China Inflation Eases Further to 5.5% in October
Italy Will Continue to Test Markets Wednesday
Dexia Sets Capital Hike for Muni Loan Unit
Greek Coalition Deal to Be Announced Wednesday
Herman Cain: 'I Have Never Acted Inappropriately'
Why Wall Street Isn't Impressed With GOP Candidates
Berlusconi Says He Will Resign After Budget Is Approved
London Jeweler Graff Plans $1 Billion Hong Kong IPO
Rajaratnam Ordered to Pay $92.8 Million in SEC Case
Fake Weapons Parts 'Ticking Time Bomb', Officials Say

CNBC: Europe Stocks Seen Higher on Berlusconi Departure Hopes

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John Hawkins: 10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Gotten

10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Gotten

John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Right Wing News

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/11/08/10_quotes_that_tell_you_how_bad_the_occupy_wall_street_movement_has_gotten/page/full/

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The mainstream media spent Obama's entire first term falsely condemning the Tea Party as a potentially violent hate-filled mob. Then, a violent hate-filled mob actually showed up and the MSM embraced it.

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9) To date there have been at least four reported rapes and at least one attempted rape at these “occupy” encampments. Two of the victims were at the main Wall Street encampment and say they were urged not to report the attacks to the authorities.

Rapes also reportedly occurred at encampments in Dallas and Cleveland.

Now a fourth rape victim reports being raped at the Occupy Baltimore encampment. The victim say that other members of the encampment are protecting the perpetrator to avoid bad publicity for the movement. A reporter also finds masked thugs and evidence of heroin use at the Occupy Baltimore squatter camp. A leader for Occupy Baltimore laughs while admitting that the group urges it’s followers to conceal information about crimes committed at the encampment.

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[20111107 Hawkins 10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad OWS Movement]

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/11/08/10_quotes_that_tell_you_how_bad_the_occupy_wall_street_movement_has_gotten/page/full/

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