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There’s not a dry mattress, pair of skivvies or delicate lace panty anywhere out there. The president is chasing an imaginary bird, the pollsters are choking back panic (“has our methodology been wrong?”) and the media glitteries are even more hysterical than usual (“how can anyone as wonderful as us be so wrong?”).

Democratic disarray lies all about. Change and decay in all around they see.

Quelling panic in the ranks is currently Job 1 for the Obama campaign. David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Barack Obama, professes not to fret about “the fundamentals,” and says the panic in the ranks is nothing more than an outbreak of “bed-wetters.”

From the cries and squeals in certain precincts, it’s clear to just about everybody that President Obama’s slam dunk in the debate was only the modest clatter of a rim shot. It’s dawning on Democrats and their faithful media sages, so gleeful only yesterday, that it’s possible their man might soon have plenty of time to work on his putts and hoops.

Mitt Romney’s surge, fueled by that slam dunk that didn’t go awry, has pushed ahead of the president in the public-opinion polls for the first time. The latest polls show him closing the gender gap and running far ahead among the independents who the wise men say are the key to victory. It’s a remarkable turnabout. It might not last, but the quick and the nearly dead have traded places, with a little over three weeks to go.

NO URL: MY BRILLIANT AND ERUDITE E-PAL DAVID SINGER IS A PROMINENT LAWYER AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EXPERT DOWN UNDER IN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA.

“Israeli novelist David Grossman is working with Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to launch a writers’ drive for world peace at the World Forum For Democracy in Strasbourg this week.

Their initiative is reportedly supported by some of the most respected names in literature including Claudio Magris, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Liao Yiwu.The Forum brings together reformers and global leaders to identify democratic responses to the economic, social and political challenges which affect societies today.

The writers – in their quest to end conflict and bring peace to the world – have naturally included the resolution of the “Israel – Palestine conflict” within their purview.

However the views they express are indeed surprising – parroting Arab propaganda rather than relying on careful research – the indispensable tool normally used by writers of such distinction and undoubted repute.They begin by stating :

Israel maintains the Palestinians under occupation for more than 45 years, and this inhuman and immoral situation must stop.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3393/catalonia-islamic-republic “We will all vote for the Islamic parties because we do not believe in left and right. This will make us win local councils, and as we begin to accumulate power in the Catalan autonomous region, Islam will begin to be implemented.” — Abdelwahab Houzi, Salafist preacher, Lleida. A successful push for independence in […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443768804578036150872334178.html The prosecutor of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing argues that Islamists use the trappings of democracy to deceive the West. Barton Swaim on Andrew McCarthy’s “Spring Fever.” The central argument of Andrew McCarthy’s “Spring Fever” is an uncomplicated one: Mr. McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor who helped convict the plotters behind the 1993 […]

HAT TIP ANDREW BOSTOMListen to the part of Ms. Logan’s speech (at 14:40 – 15:00; about a minute later she makes her non-sequitur anti-Israel comment about Hamas not being responsible for killing Americans) wherein, after interviewing Gen. Allen, she claimed she would entrust her son’s life–if she in fact had a son of the military age, which she does not—with this man.

That would be the same Gen. Allen who commented thusly on the so-called “insider killings,” deliberately ignoring the May, 2011 Red Team report:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/army_report_buried_islamic_motivations_for_afghan_murders_of_us_troops.html

Specifically, General Allen in a pronouncement for which he should be forced to resign, maintained that Ramadan fasting, combined with operational tempo during the summer heat, were the drivers of these most recent killings of his own troops by Muslim ANA soldiers.

What General Allen willfully ignores was laid out, albeit clumsily camouflaged, using plain language, fifteen months ago in the “Red Team” report.

Based upon extensive interviews, US and NATO troops, as the report notes, were both disgusted with, and highly (and justifiably) suspicious of, the Islamically-sanctioned practices and behaviors of their Afghan military allies, and Afghan civilians.

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KELLY: Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts

KELLY: Libya security cut while Vienna embassy gained Chevy Volts
Rep. Mike Kelly | Europe’s green energy sweep should have been Libya’s security sweep. Instead, the very real threats to the U.S. mission in Libya were swept under the rug. Read more…

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Downplaying Libya attack backfires on Obama
Fox News
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Downplaying Libya attack backfires on Obama
The president was averse to admitting that Islamist radicals pulled of a daring, well-planned and successful raid on a U.S. outpost in a country where Obama was key in deposing the previous, secular regime and installing a new government with theocratic leanings. Read more…
Issa seeks to close hearing for Libya intel
The Hill
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Fresh off his hearing on security deficiencies at the U.S. mission in Libya, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Wednesday called for a classified briefing on what the Obama administration knew about the causes of Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi. Read more…
Jindal: Obama has ‘Occupy Wall Street’ mindset
Loudoun Times
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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President Barack Obama believes in a “big government, entitlement” society and falls in line with the mindset of the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, Govs. Bob McDonnell and Bobby Jindal claimed Wednesday in Romney campaign event in Sterling. Read more…
Biden has cozy history with credit-card firms
Boston Herald
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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Joe Biden likes to portray himself as a fighter for the poor and middle class, but for years in the U.S. Senate he sided with one of the most hated enemies of the middle class — credit card companies. Read more…

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Abu Hamza refuses to stand for judge
Express.co.uk
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Hate preacher Abu Hamza was ­officially charged as a terrorist ­yesterday in a U.S. court, where he refused to stand for the judge. Read more…

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Join The Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. The fill-in host was Jamie’s colleague, broadcaster Josh Brewster of hockeytalk.bi.

This week’s guest was Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and New York Times bestselling author who put the blind sheik behind bars in the first World Trade Center bombing. He is the author of Willful Blindness and The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. His new book is Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.

Special note to listeners: In this special one hour program, Andrew McCarthy comes on as a guest at approximately the 19 minute mark:

To listen to the program, click here.

Or go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/10/10/the-jamie-glazov-show.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/kenneth-levin/from-surf-to-serfdom/print/ Unemployment in my home state of Massachusetts is less than the national average. In August, it stood at 6.3% compared to 8.1% nationally. The state benefits from very robust high-tech sectors. But, of course, low-tech industries also figure in its economy. Particularly hard hit among the latter in the current downturn has been the […]

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DIANA WEST HAS BEEN WRITING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS NOW PUNCTURING THE MYTHS OF DAVID PETRAEUS OF ARABIA AS A GREAT GENERAL AND COMMANDER….THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT PUT FORTH BY THE COIN DOCTRINE HAVE PUT AND CONTINUE TO PUT AMERICAN SOLDIERS AT GRAVE RISK IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ALL IN THE SERVICE OF “NATION BUILDING.”….AND THIS ONE CAN’T BE BLAMED ON OBAMA BUT RATHER ON GEORGE BUSH WHOSE WHINING ABOUT THE “GREAT RELIGION OF PEACE HIJACKED BY THE TEENY, TINY, MICROSCOPIC MINORITY” DHIMMIFIED AMERICA’S RESPONSE TO JIHADISTS….RSK

The letter from Colonel Harry Tunnell is making its rounds around the internet, but here are some choice and relevant excerpts. But first a shot bio of Tunnell.

Tunnell had been gravely wounded in Iraq, where he led a battalion of paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. In October 2003, his convoy was ambushed by insurgents near the city of Kirkuk.

Despite his emphasis on education, Tunnell had a dim view of the intellectual underpinnings of counterinsurgency theory. He didn’t think insurgencies were defeated by protecting villages and winning over residents through reconstruction and development projects. He believed that the top priority was to kill the bad guys.

By the time Tunnell took over the brigade, every other infantry commander preparing to go to Iraq or Afghanistan was using Gen. Petraeus’ COIN manual as his lodestar. But not Tunnell. He told his soldiers that their approach to security operations would be drawn from an Army manual that outlined counterguerrilla operations, which had long been superseded by Petraeus’ playbook. Instead of emphasizing the protection of civilians, it instructed commanders to “give priority to destroying the guerrilla forces.” He called his unit the “Destroyer Brigade” and ordered that its vehicles be painted with the motto SEARCH AND DESTROY.

The Colonel speaks generally on the conflict

“The willingness to combat an enemy cannot be turned on and off like a light switch. Leaders are willing to conduct operations at the tactical and operational levels of war to decisively defeat the enemy or they are not. Soldiers join the military today to protect the United States, yet they are told once in Afghanistan that we are fighting for the Afghan people– this is a rather mercenary outlook and ignores the fact that the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001. If we have an army led by people unwilling to defeat a disorganized illiterate adversary such as we face today, even after a despicable surprise attack on our nation, there is little hope that we can defeat a modern sophisticated enemy that we may face in the future.”

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Last March, when the French Muslim terrorist Mohamed Merah murdered a teacher and three children at a French Jewish school in Toulouse, a media firestorm resulted. Things have not gotten easier for French Jews since then. As the New York Times noted this week, French Jews say anti-Semitic threats have in fact escalated since March, Merah’s act having stirred “empathy” and “emulation.”

Indeed, the main thing that appears to have prevented further catastrophes is good police work. On Saturday French police raided the Strasbourg apartment of a 33-year-old French Muslim named Jeremy Sidney and ended up killing him in a shootout. Sidney’s DNA had been found on a grenade that, in September, was thrown into a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles (near Paris), wounding a customer.

Sidney, it turns out, was born in Melun, France, got a two-year sentence for drug trafficking in 2008, and converted to Islam while in prison. And he was no isolated case. As part of the same far-reaching operation on Saturday, police arrested twelve other suspected Islamic terrorists in Paris, Tours, Strasbourg, and Cannes.

“All,” reports CNN, “are being held on suspicion of…manufacturing deadly explosives, illegal possession of weapons and attempted homicide of police officers. Three of them have criminal records for drug trafficking, theft or violence….” AP says all of them were, like Sidney, “French and recent converts to Islam.”

CNN also tells us: “Police seized a number of items such as ammunition, a list of ‘Israelite’ organizations in and around Paris, a publication produced by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, wills, computer equipment and 27,000 euros ($35,000) in cash….”

As part of the probe, on Wednesday police also found bomb-making materials in an underground parking lot near Paris.

Israeli commentator Boaz Bismuth notes that one of the cell members, Jan Ansako, “was addicted to fundamentalist websites and uploaded [to his own site] photos of dead Palestinian babies and a photograph of an Israeli soldier aiming his weapon…. ‘How can you not hate this cursed nation?’ he wrote.”

The above-quoted New York Times article reports that these suspects “were described in various news reports as admirers of Mr. Merah, and some of them even called his actions ‘the battle of Toulouse.’”

Bismuth adds: “Although Jews are not the only targets on this terror cell’s list, they appear at the top.”