Romney, Ryan buoyed by debates
October 16, 2012

Buoyed by his widely-praised debate performance, Mitt Romney cheered Paul Ryan's handling of his only showdown with Vice President Joe Biden at a large rally in Ohio Friday evening.
"Gosh, we got to watch this guy debate and there was one person on the stage with thoughtfulness, who was respectful, who was steady and poised. There is one person on that stage you'd want to be with if there were a crisis - it is this man right here," Romney said at a rally with his running mate that drew an audience of nearly 8,000 to a town square.

The Republican duo, last together one week ago, reunited in Lancaster the day after the vice presidential candidates debated in Danville, Kentucky.
Romney did not call out Biden directly but the GOP presidential nominee criticized the Democrat for not proposing any solutions.
"And when the moderator asked how you'd get the economy going, one person on the stage just attacked. But this guy stood up - well it was sitting down, I guess, but metaphorically he stood up - and he went through all the things he'd do to get this economy going," he said.

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Specter legacy resonates on Supreme Court
October 15, 2012

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday of cancer at age 82, leaves a complex political legacy behind - one that has flummoxed both parties in a career that spanned nearly 50 years.
A fixture in some of the most divisive and closely-watched events of his time, Specter perhaps had the biggest and longest-lasting impact on the Supreme Court. By shaping the court's membership, Specter indirectly influenced issues from abortion to racial preferences to the death penalty.
But Specter's unique place along the political spectrum frustrated both political parties over the decades.
In 1987, Specter helped keep one pioneering conservative, Robert Bork, off the high court. In subsequent years, he helped shepherd three others to confirmation, including the controversial appointment of Justice Clarence Thomas.
In 1991, his tenacious questioning of Anita Hill, who had accused conservative nominee Thomas of sexual harassment, helped blunt the impact of Hill's testimony and played a role in Thomas's eventual confirmation.

And, in his role as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Specter smoothed the path for confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005 and Justice Samuel Alito in 2006.
But in 1987, Specter's vote against the Bork nomination infuriated Republicans and conservatives, setting off an uncomfortable relationship between the senator and his party that lasted until the end of his career.

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Obama team vows president will have aggressive debate
October 15, 2012

The Obama campaign made it clear this weekend that President Obama will be more aggressive in his second debate with Mitt Romney, hinting that he will go after the Republican presidential nominee at several angles -- from women's issue to Romney's tax plan and his tenure at Bain Capital.
"I think he's going to be aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country," senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said on "Fox News Sunday."
Axelrod argued that Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan failed during a Sept. 30 appearance on Fox, then during his debate last week to detail how Romney would pay for his $5 trillion tax plan.
"So, we're going to give Governor Romney another chance on Tuesday to try and square this impossible circle," Axelrod said.
He also said Obama plans to be more aggressive and is making "adjustments" before the debate, then seemed to refer to Romney's investment capital career before entering politics.

"He is a great salesman," Axelrod said. "That is what he did as a professional, he is very good at it."

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October 15, 2012

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NBC Cancels Dane Cook's Midseason Comedy 'Next Caller' Before It Premieres
October 15, 2012

In what can only be categorized as a preemptive strike, NBC has canceled Dane Cook's midseason comedy, "Next Caller," before it even had a chance to premiere, Deadline is reporting.

According to Deadline, after four episodes had been filmed, NBC execs decided that "creatively the series was not going in the direction they had hoped for" and halted production on the show. The episodes that have already been produced will reportedly not make it to air.

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Lemonade stand vs. cancer: Boy raises $80,000 to aid research
October 15, 2012

When Max Igoe was 5 years old, breast cancer claimed the life of his mother's best friend, 37-year-old Beth Rorman. The little boy found himself expressing his pain with the kind of idea only a kindergartner might conceive: a lemonade stand.
"It's just the first thing that popped into my head," said Max, now 14.
Nicki Igoe, Max's mother, said her son was aware her friend was sick.
"He knew that she had something called cancer," she recalled. Rorman battled the illness for some 10 years.
Max told his mom he would set up a lemonade stand near their La Habra home, and raise money for breast cancer research. Maybe even help them discover a cure.
"I explained to him that it wasn't the olden days. That people don't buy lemonade from peoples' driveways like they used to," Nicki said.
But she didn't want to hurt his feelings, either, not while he was mourning "Auntie Beth's" loss. So she helped him mix some juice, prop up a table and hand-print some signs.
This weekend, they will set up Max's stand for the ninth year in a row after years full of hundreds of gallons of pink sweet liquid, numerous raffles, "casino-night" fundraisers and days of labor.
Max has exceeded his wildest dreams: "We've raised over $80,000."
His goal? "A million dollars." And a cure.

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Farmers growing pink pumpkins for cancer
October 15, 2012

A Minnesota farmer has planted pink pumpkins as a way of showing support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Bert Bouwman, who owns a farm in Brooklyn Park, Minn., planted 15,000 seeds this year that grew into light pink pumpkins, The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported Monday.
"There's a lot of pumpkin farmers out there, but not a lot of pink ones," Bouwman said. "This was a combination of a new product, a new opportunity, and most important, a way to support a cause that affects nearly every family."
About 50 vegetable growers nationally were a part of the campaign, started by the Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation. The farmers supplied about 900 retailers nationwide with the pink pumpkins.
"It's going surprisingly well," said Gunars Sprenger-Otto, produce manager at Fresh Seasons Markets in Victoria and Minnetonka, Minn. "American Pumpkin Growers have donated a portion of Porcelain Doll Proceeds to Cancer Research."
The new seed is called "porcelain doll."
Farmers who bought the seeds signed a contract pledging to give 25 cents from every pink pumpkin to breast cancer research.

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Elvis Presley's Beverly Hills Estate Up for Sale
October 15, 2012

The former Beverly Hills home of the late Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla is up for sale for a cool $12.9 million.
Real estate website operator Trulia says the home hit the market Wednesday.
Like Elvis' home in Memphis, known as Graceland, Elvis fans have for years flocked to visit the property. According to the listing, the four bedroom, five bathroom French Regency estate sits on a 1.18 acre promontory overlooking Los Angeles.
According to Elvis Presley Enterprises, Presley first rented the house before the couple bought it in 1967. It was sold in 1973, the same year Elvis and Priscilla divorced.
The estate was formerly available to lease for $25,000 a month.

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Obama readies for next showdown with Romney
October 14, 2012

Less than a week before the second presidential debate, President Barack Obama pulled no punches when talking about his Republican opponent at a campaign rally Thursday, accusing Mitt Romney of going through "an extreme makeover."
"After running for more than a year in which he called himself 'severely conservative,' Mitt Romney's trying to convince you that he was severely kidding," Obama said at the event in Coral Gables, Florida.
In February, Romney described himself as "a severely conservative Republican governor" when he led Massachusetts from 2003-2007. The line, which appeared in his speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, came as Romney attempted to bolster his standing among the GOP base.
Obama on Thursday, however, made the case that the public now knows a "new version" of Romney. The president aggressively began to portray his Republican challenger as a flip-flopper one week ago, the day after Romney won wide praise for his debate performance, while the president was criticized for not going on the attack.
But Obama seemed eager to pounce at the Florida event, launching slam after slam. "What happened? Now what does he have to say, this new version of Mitt Romney, about all the things he's actually promised to do as president?"
Obama especially targeted Romney over his tax plan, repeating the claim that the GOP's proposal would cost $5 trillion-an argument debunked by multiple fact-checkers, CNN.
Romney proposes a 20% tax rate across the board, the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, and the elimination of the Alternate Minimum Tax, the estate tax and taxes on interest, capital gains and dividends for those making less than $200,000 a year.
"When he's asked about the cost of his $5 trillion tax plan, he just pretends it doesn't exist. What $5 trillion tax cut? I don't know anything about a $5 trillion tax cut. Don't pay no attention to the $5 trillion tax cut on my website," the president said, drawing laughs from the crowd.

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The Key Question the State Department Won't Answer on Libya
October 13, 2012

The investigation surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Libya is not so much about what happend in the war-torn country, but why it took the Obama administration so long to tell the truth about what happened. Today, a hearing at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee attempted to wring an answer out of State Department officials on that issue, but failed to elicit a robust answer.
By now, everyone admits that the State Department and the White House disseminated inaccurate information in the aftermath of the deadly attack. They said the attack derived from a demonstration outside the U.S. compound in Benghazi that devolved into a deadly assault on the building. Now officials say it was a pre-planned attack with probable ties to Al Qaeda. What's more, they also say there was never a demonstration outside the U.S. compound. That makes this question very simple: Who created the myth that a demonstration ever existed?
Last night, we came closer to that answer when senior State Department officials told reporters that State was not responsible for creating the bogus intelligence. "That was not our conclusion," the officials said. "That is the question you'd have to ask others."

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