Source: Memeorandum.com
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show — (CBS News) WASHINGTON - For 31 days now, the Obama administration has been telling us that Americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance website, despite all its problems.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Twitchy, Hot Air, Doug Ross, Conservative Intelligence …,Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, BuzzFeed, Ed Driscoll, Conservatives4Palin and Weasel Zippers
Conclusions: Only 6 people, nation wide, were able to sign up for ObamaCare on October 1. By the end of the third day, less than 260 had sign-up for ObamaCare. "They need more than 38,400 enrollees per day to meet their March 31 goals. ~ blog editor
ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Senate Republicans Block Vote On Key Judicial Candidate, Daring Dems To Go Nuclear — Senate Republicans voted to hold up a key federal appeals court nominee Thursday, daring Senate Democrats to invoke what is known as the nuclear option and change the Senate rules with a simple majority vote.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Liberaland
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:GOP Threatens Mass Blockade Of Obama's Top Judges
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, American Prospect, Daily Kos, The Impolitic and Mock Paper Scissors
Paul Sherman / Forbes:Will The U.S. Supreme Court Defend Free Speech For The Little Guy?
Discussion: Hit & Run and SCOTUSblog
Conclusions: This sort of congressional action is acceptable only when the Dems "do it" to a GOP president. Its called "politics," folks, and the Dems do not want to play the game they helped invent. ~ blog editor
James Arkin / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman Hands Out Copies Of Book Calling For Obama's Impeachment — Texas Rep. Steve Stockman gave copies of the book “Impeachable Offenses: The Case For Removing Barack Obama From Office” to every member of Congress this month. — Via wndbooks.wnd.com
Discussion: Liberaland
ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Three Bush-Appointed Judges Reinstate Texas' Anti-Abortion Law — A panel of three Republican judges, all of whom were appointed by President George W. Bush, granted the state of Texas' request Wednesday night to reinstate a law that will force many of the state's abortion clinics to close their doors.
Discussion: The Raw Story
David Corn / Mother Jones:
WATCH: Ted Cruz's Dad Calls US a “Christian Nation,” Says Obama Should Go “Back to Kenya” — Want to understand where the tea party champion's hardcore views come from? Meet his father, Rafael. — In April, Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), spoke to the tea party of Hood County …
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DSWright / Firedoglake:Ted Cruz's Father Tells Obama to “Go Back to Kenya”
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Conclusions: Of course, only the very liberal media is pushing this story. Obama is the one who made his early visits to Kenya a vital part of his biography. ~ blog editor.
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Court Blocks Stop-and-Frisk Changes for New York Police — A federal appellate court on Thursday granted a stay in the landmark police stop-and-frisk ruling in New York City, and removed the trial judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, from the case. — The United States Court of Appeals …
Discussion: THEROOT.COM, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Althouse
Conclusions: Another activist judge is put in her place. ~ blog editor.
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Pentagon training manual: white males have unfair advantages — A controversial 600-plus page manual used by the military to train its Equal Opportunity officers teaches that “healthy, white, heterosexual, Christian” men hold an unfair advantage over other races, and warns in great detail about a so-called “White Male Club.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and The Right Scoop
Conclusions: The military also "officially" attacks or warns our soldiers against donating to teaparty or Christian evangelical causes. ~ blog editor
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
IRS' Lois Lerner gave confidential Tea Party tax info to FEC, violating law — WASHINGTON SECRETS TAXES TEA PARTY JUDICIAL WATCH IRS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT FEC — The Internal Revenue Service shared highly confidential tax information of several Tea Party groups in the IRS scandal …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler and The Gateway Pundit
Question: Is Issa going to recall this woman any time soon and force her to testify, now that she gave up her right to claim 5th Amendment privileges?
EndPlay / TheDenverChannel.com:
Adams County couple files lawsuit to overturn Colorado's ban on same-sex marriage — BRIGHTON - A Colorado couple is suing to overturn the state ban on same-sex marriage. — Dr. Rebecca Brinkman and Margaret Burd filed the suit in Adams County District Court Wednesday, according to attorney Ralph Ogden.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo
ABC News:
Israeli Warplanes Strike Inside Syria for Fifth Time This Year … Israeli warplanes conducted an airstrike early today on a Syrian military facility near the northern Syrian port city of Latakia along the Mediterranean coast, a U.S. official confirms to ABC News.
Discussion: NNA
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
8,400 Security Clearance Holders Owe IRS $85 Million in Unpaid Taxes — More than 8,000 federal workers and contractors with security clearances owe $85 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). — The GAO warned that individuals …
Conclusions: Understand that this is a news story about IRS agents owing the IRA while they are running around threatening folks for precisely the same thing. ~ blog editor.
Robert Costa / National Review:
Paul: NSA ‘Could Be Spying’ on Obama — In light of a recent report, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) fears the National Security Agency may be spying on President Barack Obama. “They could well be spying on the president, for all I know,” Paul says, in an interview with National Review Online.
Alain Sherter / CBS News:
Millions on food stamps facing benefits cuts — (MoneyWatch) It is late October, so Adrianne Flowers is out of money to buy food for her family. That is no surprise. Feeding five kids is expensive, and the roughly $600 in food stamps she gets from the federal government never lasts the whole month.
Discussion: American Spectator, The Raw Story and Daily Kos
Conclusions: Obama has been busy for the past three years, telling the world we are "in recovery," while expanding the food stamp population from 28 million (in 2009) to 47 million folks, most of which are over wight. So if we are in perpetual "recovery," why has Obama grown this population, cut backs aside? ~ blog editor.
