http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/194160/wisconsin-state-journal-endorses-romney-latest-paper-to-flip-from-obama-in-08/ Wisconsin State Journal endorses Romney, becomes latest paper to flip from Obama in ’08 by Julie MoosP In the final hours of the presidential campaign, the largest endorsing newspaper in the swing state of Wisconsin has thrown its support to GOP nominee Mitt Romney. In an editorial published Sunday, the Wisconsin State Journal said: […]
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PREDICTIONS, EVEN FROM THIS ILLUSTRIOUS GROUP ARE AS GOOD AS POLLS,….AT THIS MOMENT I AM REDUCED TO PRAYERS AND SUPERSTITION AND MOOD RANGES FROM DESPAIR TO GLEE…..STAY TUNED….RSK
ROGER L. SIMON
I have never been superstitious. But this election is so important, so really… titanic… that I find myself suddenly throwing the I Ching and reaching for Ouija boards to determine what will happen.
Well, not really, because as a natural worrier (an ethnic tradition) I often fear the future and part of me doesn’t want to know. And this time more than ever because an Obama victory would mean the country I love is not what I think it is, that it has turned into a land of thoughtless sheep.
Nevertheless the part of me that is not superstitious trusts the one person who knows more about elections than anyone I know — my friend Michael Barone. Michael says Romney will win. So I’m choosing to believe him, when my blood sugar is okay anyway.
But as another man once said, “Trust, but verify.” We will all verify on Tuesday.
– Roger L. Simon [1] is the co-founder and CEO of PJ Media.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
I think Romney will win by a point and the Republicans will come up one or two seats short in the Senate. Three things are happening in Obama’s favor. First, the time between the debate lengthens, and the electorate now sees him prancing around in a bomber jacket, not as the petulant, interrupting, unpresidential sophist who seemed unappealing before millions on TV. Second, the storm simply cut short Romney’s momentum: one day all the stories were about Romney’s new huge crowds and soaring clips of his message, the next day Obama and Chris Christie, arm in arm on the shore, dominated the news, with gaga media reports of presidential leadership. Third, the news from Benghazi just gets worse each day — and the silence from the Romney campaign becomes deafening. There is this quiet recognition that all hell is going to break loose after the election, but for some reason criticism of the deadly catastrophe has become off-limits. So I can see why a week ago Romney was starting to create wave-like momentum, but now, based on independent voting and Republican turnout, I think he has just enough thrust left to hang on by a point — if he can barnstorm and give ‘em hell these last two days.
– Victor Davis Hanson [2] is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
CLAUDIA ROSETT
It seems safe to predict that if President Obama wins, it will be close. If there’s a landslide coming, it’s for Romney. But apart from that, I’d be lying to suggest that I could with any confidence foretell which way this election will go. Were this the America of, say, 32 years ago, I’d be predicting a Romney landslide, and a GOP majority in the Senate. But for all the torrents of data, demographics, and media accounts now at our fingertips, I think the character of this country is harder to gauge right now than at any time I can remember. I don’t trust the polls, and I don’t know how much weight the voters at the margin will assign to the latest weekly-news-cycle photo-op tableaus flashing across the iPad screen, or the realities of terror in Benghazi, and an economy choking on red tape and burying itself in government debt, for which the real bills have not yet begun to come due.
We have seen a massive expansion of the entitlement state, and a troubling loss of memory about the vital role and full virtues of free markets — not only in creating wealth, but in protecting freedom. We have tried abdicating world leadership, but the ensuing tumult is only beginning to make itself felt. Modern technology has made us richer than I think we have fully been able to measure, and yet I am reminded too often these days of T.S. Eliot’s line: “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” The jury is out right now, on whether the boundless proliferation of 140 character tweets enhances or substitutes for backbone and clarity of thought, and whether such luxuries would have helped or hindered Paul Revere. We will know the results of this election soon enough (barring the nightmare of an endless recount). It is this election itself that will provide some badly needed insight into the basic character of 2012 America. (I’ve placed my bet, with a couple of folks whose company I prize. The stakes are modest: the losers pay for a round of pulled pork sandwiches at a local pub. But this was more by way of a hedge than a prediction — banking on an evening in good company, whatever happens at the polls.)
– Claudia Rosett [3] is journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and heads its Investigative Reporting Project.
ROGER KIMBALL
Romney is going to win, big time. Why? I can tell you in three syllables and a few numbers. The syllables are: Ben-gha-zi. We will not get to the bottom of the cover-up of why Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were left to die in that god-forsaken Libyan city, their desperate calls for help repeatedly ignored, before the election. But it has been clear for some time now that there was a cover-up of major proportions. The story is note being pursued by the New York Times or other representatives of the legacy media. (Just imagine what round-the-clock howls of indignation and rage the legacy media would be emitting over this heinous bit of political calculation were there a Republican administration in office!) But the studied “hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, report-no-evil” if it comes from the Left has not done the trick this time. The “Fast and Furious” scandal, which has left scores of Mexicans and at least two Americans dead, has been effectively keep from public consciousness. This is not the case with the Benghazi scandal. Hardly a day goes by now when more details are revolved and repeated by the alternative media from giants like Fox News to the hundreds of bloggers that do the job the legacy media has avoided. As my colleague Roger L. Simon suggested on PJ Media last week, even if (per impossible) Obama were reelected, he would likely face impeachment proceedings of a virulence that would make Watergate appear like a walk through the park.
But Benghazi is a late-breaking scandal. I had put Romney down as the victor long before the September 11 attacks in Libya. The reason can be summed up in a few numbers:
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/sandy-slams-new-york Hurricane Sandy struck New York with unprecedented force revealing the illogic of mankind ‘s arrogant belief that the forces of nature are under its control. This was identified as a type “one” hurricane, mild in the lexicon of hurricanes, but the rising tide and full moon contributed to a “perfect storm” with devastating effect. […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/another-piece-of-the-benghazi-puzzle Our first clue came as early as 15 September 2012, when CNN reported that murdered State Department information management officer, Sean Smith, who was an avid online gamer, posted on a gaming site that he’d seen Libyan police taking photos of the Benghazi mission. An experienced career Foreign Service Officer, Smith knew that what […]
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30,000 blanket Pennyslvania farm for Romney
Breitbart.com
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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An enormous rally for Mitt Romney in Bucks County, PA had people incredulous and tweeting like fury. Read more…
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Kremlin: U.S. election system ‘worst in world’
The Hill
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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Kremlin: U.S. election system ‘worst in world’
The Russian government is lambasting the U.S. presidential race as an undemocratic spectacle. The U.S. electoral system, Russian elections chief Vladimir Churov declared this week, “is the worst in the world.” Read more…
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HOWARD: Debunking Obama’s terrorist narrative
HOWARD: Debunking Obama’s terrorist narrative
Russell D. Howard | The truth is that there are probably more al Qaeda-like groups targeting U.S. interests today than when Mr. Obama was elected. In fact, the proliferation of such groups is something a non-apologetic Romney should address quickly if he becomes president-elect on Tuesday. Read more…
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U.S. Africa Command lacked options in Benghazi
The Washington Times
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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As Americans fought for their lives in Benghazi, Libya, the Pentagon’s options for direct intervention were narrowed to one: a fleet of F-16 fighters parked across the Mediterranean at NATO’s air base in Aviano, Italy. Read more…
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CIA had lasers in Libya, but air support never came
Fox News
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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Sources who have debriefed the team that was at the CIA annex the night of the attack in Benghazi say that the CIA operators from the Global Response Staff, or GRS, were equipped with Mark 48 machine guns and had two types of laser capability. Read more…
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http://yeoldecrabb.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/ Jack Garner, a Texan whom Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt chose as his first VP for “balance”, put it succinctly: the vice presidency was “not worth a bucket of warm p__” [later cleaned up to “spit”]. But Garner, ironically enough, helped block FDR’s power grab when the most charismatic president ever tried to “pack” the […]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/sir-winston-churchill-zionist-hero-8277918.html?printService=print Jewish supporters of Winston Churchill are to unveil a bust of the British wartime leader in Jerusalem this weekend in what they say is a long-overdue recognition of his staunch and unwavering support of the Jewish cause and their desire for a homeland. “As a passionate Zionist all his life and a philo-semite, Churchill […]
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NOT ONLY DOES THE WORLD IGNORE THIS, BUT THE DELUSIONS THAT ANY TERRITORIAL COMPROMISE WILL BRING PEACE KEEPS GETTING RECYCLED SO THAT A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE HEIGHTS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA (WEST BANK TO THOSE WHO STILL CALL BEIJING “PEKING) WILL RAIN ROCKETS INTO THE CENTER OF TEL AVIV….RSK
As the U.S. Presidential campaign races to the finish, the Middle East continues to boil. Not that the world seems to notice. Last week, Palestinian terrorists operating from the Gaza Strip fired 21 rockets and mortars into Israel. That followed a three-day, 77-shell barrage, in which two civilians were seriously injured and thousands of people were forced into bomb shelters. More than 800 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel from the Strip in 2012.
If this incoming fire were landing in Texas from Mexico—or in southern Spain from North Africa—it would be a major story. Instead, the world has largely ignored the attacks while obsessing over a possible Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran is a principal arms supplier to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which operates out of Gaza and is responsible for many of the recent attacks. Iran’s war against Israel, in other words, has long been underway.
Gaza has been governed for over five years by Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has done little to restrain the fire. In July, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshal met Egypt’s new President in Cairo. “We have entered a new era in Palestine’s relationship with Egypt,” Meshal said after the meeting. “We were happy with what we heard from President Mohamed Morsi and his vision to handle all these issues.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204712904578092670469140316.html When members of the Democratic Party booed the inclusion of God and Jerusalem in their party platform this year, I thought of my parents. They would have been astounded. The immigrant family in which I grew up was, in the matter of politics, typical of the Jews of Boston in the 1930s and ’40s. […]
Some of my fellow tribesmen, particularly those stuck like glue to the Democratic Party have short term memory loss when it comes to Barak Obama and his relationship to Israel. With the selective amnesia they have shown over the recent tragedy and coverup in Benghazi, they forget or wish not to remember the diplomatic hostility […]
