• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf. Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).
400-408 – • Stephen Prothero (CNN, 11/01/2012) My Take: Billy Graham and Ralph Reed are putting politics before God.
• Ken Shepherd (Fox News, 11/03/2012) CNN religion blogger attacks Christian Conservatives for supporting Romney.
413-423 – John Stonestreet, speaker and fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and host of The Point (thepointradio.org), and content advisor at Summit Ministries (summit.org). John is the Thursday-Friday host of Breakpoint, while Eric Metaxas hosts M-W. Check out Summit's great Worldview Chart here, or as a pdf. He and his wife Sarah have three daughters and a dog, and live in Colorado Springs.
• Tony Lee (Breitbart, 11/05/2012) BIG LABOR BOSS TRUMKA: CARD CHECK 'WITHIN NEXT TERM' IF OBAMA WINS.
428-438 – John Stonestreet, If you give your own money to the poor it's called charity, but too many people think their being charitable when they give to the poor money they've borrowed from their kids and grandkids – or vote for a political party who'll do it for them.
• Terence Jeffrey (CNS News, 1104/2012) 4 Yrs at Private College = $130,468; Median-Priced Existing Home = $173,100; U.S. Debt Per American Under 18 = $218,676.
(CNSNews.com) - If Americans under the age of 18 were required as a group to pay off the entirety of the federal government's debt in equal shares, each would now need to pay about $218,676.
That is more than the $130,468 average price tag for four years at a private college or the $173,100 median price for an existing one-family home in the United States.
During the time Barack Obama has been president, the U.S. government debt has increased from approximately $143,255 per American under 18 to approximately $218,676 per American under 18--a climb of $75,421 or about 53 percent.
As of Nov. 1, the total national debt was $16,221,685,381,838.28, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt. On Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, it was $10,626,877,048,913.08. Thus, during Obama's presidency, the U.S. government debt has increased $5,594,808,332,925.20.
The 2010 Census said there were 74,181,467 people in the United States under the age of 18. Thus the total U.S. government debt of $16,221,685,381,838.28 equals about $218,676 per person under 18, and the $5,594,808,332,925.20 in new debt accumulated under Obama equals about $75,421 per person under 18.
The Census Bureau's 2012 Statistical Abstract of the United States said the median price of an existing one-family home was $173,100 in 2010 (the latest year included in the abstract).
The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics says that in the 2010-2011 school year the average price for total tuition and room and board for a full-time undergraduate at a four-year private college or university was $32,617. Were that rate to remain constant for four years, an undergraduate degree from a private college would cost about $130,486.
Neither borrowing all the money needed to pay for a four-year private-college education nor borrowing all the money needed to buy a median-priced home would put as much debt on the shoulders of young Americans as the federal government already has.
443-452 – (3X) Karl Rove (R 285) and Joe Trippi (O 303) made their predictions this afternoon.
(2X) Charles Krauthammer lays out three paths to 270 for Romney.
(3X) Panel today with Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Kirsten Powers, and Stephen Hayes.
458-508 – Scott Rae is the chair of the department of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology (talbot.edu/faculty/profile/scott_rae), his expertise is in applying Christian ethics to both medicine and the marketplace, from the lab to the boardroom – from pre-conception to end of life issues, from egg and sperm donations, IVF, surrogacy, and snowflake babies to organ harvesting and cryogenics – behind it all is the Imago Dei and personhood theory.
• He's authored 10 books – Outside the Womb: Moral Guidance for Assisted Reproduction (2011); The Virtues of Capitalism: A Moral Case for Free Markets (2010); Biotechnology and the Human Good (2007); Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics (2000); Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age (1999); Embryo Research and Experimentation (1997); Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics (1996); Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies (1996); Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics (1995); and The Ethics of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood: Brave New Families? (1994).
512-523 – Scott Rae
528-539 – Joel Rosenberg (joelrosenberg.com) former senior aide to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky (while both men were out of office), campaign manager for U.S. presidential candidate Steve Forbes (with lots of experience on the merits of a flat tax), campaign strategist for other U.S. and Israeli political leaders – even Director of Research for Rush Limbaugh. But, Joel is best known today as the best-selling author of riveting page-turners about Israel, the Middle East, and Biblical prophecy – with plots many times predicting months ahead of time the actual headlines. Author of six novels (The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, The Copper Scroll, Dead Heat, The Twelfth Imam, The Tehran Initiative, The Damascus Countdown), and four non-fiction books (Epicenter, Inside the Revolution, Implosion: Can America Recover From Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges?, and his new e-book Israel at War: Inside the Nuclear Showdown with Iran). Joel is also the founder of The Joshua Fund, an outreach to the needy of Israel (joshuafund.net).
• Joel Rosenberg (11/05/2012) High stakes: What role should Christians play in the 2012 elections?
544-554 – Joel Rosenberg,
558-608 – (3X) Karl Rove (R 285) and Joe Trippi (O 303) made their predictions this afternoon.
612-623 – (2X) Charles Krauthammer lays out three paths to 270 for Romney.
(3X) Panel today with Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Kirsten Powers, and Stephen Hayes on the polls.
(:56) Brett Baier today reports on the "new" CBS audio.
• Joel Pollack (Breitbart, 11/05/2012) PROOF: OBAMA REFUSED TO CALL BENGHAZI 'TERROR,' CBS COVERED UP.
In an astonishing display of media malpractice, CBS News quietly released proof--two days before the election, far too late to reach the media and the public--that President Barack Obama lied to the public about the Benghazi attack, as well as about his later claim to have called the attack "terrorism" from the beginning.
CBS unveiled additional footage from its 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, conducted on Sep. 12 immediately after Obama had made his statement about the attacks in the Rose Garden, in which Obama quite clearly refuses to call the Benghazi an act of terror when asked a direct question by reporter Steve Kroft:
KROFT: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?
OBAMA: Well it's too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.
(2:00) New Audio, Obama with Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes on 9/12. •• Bret Baier (Fox News, 11/05/2012) What President Obama really said in that '60 Minutes' interview about Benghazi.
KROFT: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?
OBAMA: Well it's too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.
KROFT: It's been described as a mob action, but there are reports that they were very heavily armed with grenades, that doesn't sound like your normal demonstration.
OBAMA: As I said, we're still investigating exactly what happened, I don't want to jump the gun on this. But your right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt. And my suspicion is there are folks involved in this. Who were looking to target Americans from the start. So we're gonna make sure that our first priority is to get our folks out safe, make sure our embassies are secured around the world and then we are going to go after those folks who carried this out.
KROFT: There have been reports, obviously this isn't the first time…there have been attacks on the consulate before. There was an attack against the British ambassador. Do you…this occurred on Sept. 11. Can you tell me why the ambassador was in Benghazi yesterday? Was it to evaluate security at the consulate?
OBAMA: Well keep in mind Chris Stevens is somebody that was one of the first Americans on the ground when we were in the process of saving Benghazi and providing the opportunity for Libyans to create their own democracy. So this is somebody who had been courageous, had been on the ground, had helped to advise me and Secretary Clinton when we were taking our actions against Moammar Qaddafi. And is somebody who is very familiar with the train. He was doing the work that he does as a diplomat helping to shape our policies in the region at a time when things are still fairly fragile. But I think it's important to note that we have a Libyan government in place that is fully cooperative, that sees the United States as a friend that recognizes we played an important role in liberating Libya and providing the Libyan people an opportunity to forge their own destiny. And in fact we had Libyans who helped protect our diplomats when they were under attack. But this is a country that is still rebuilding in the aftermath of Qaddafi. They don't necessarily always have the same capabilities that countries with more established governments might have in helping to provide protection to our folks. But beyond that, what I want to do is make sure that we know exactly what happened, how it happened, who perpetrated this action, then we'll act accordingly."
628-639 – Jon Coupal, President of the 200,000-member Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA), the Prop 13 (1978) group, and a name synonymous with tax relief for the California homeowner (hjta.org), joins us to vote No on 30.
• Re the Propositions, I've got my Voter's Guide now up at kkla.com, just click on my picture to download the pdf. Basically, it's YES on 32 (break the unions), 33 (cheaper auto insurance), 35 (strengthen antihuman trafficking), 40 (redistricting is okay), and NO on 30 (no to higher school taxes) and everything else 31 (no to regional government), 34 (no to inmate sex changes and ending the death penalty), 36 (no to weakening Three Strikes), 37 (no to unnecessary food labeling), 38 (no to higher school taxes), 39 (no to higher business taxes).
644-656 – Elizabeth Emken is the Republican candidate running against incumbent Democrat Diane Feinstein (emken2012.com). She graduated from UCLA in 1984 with a dual degree in Economics and Political Science, and later worked for IBM as an efficiency expert, helping to streamline operations, eliminate waste, and save the company millions of dollars. After he son, Alex, was diagnosed with autism, she began her second career as an advocate for developmentally disabled children, serving as Vice President for Government Relations at Autism Speaks.
• Mark Steyn (NRO, 11/02/2012) A Tale of Two Crises: Whether or not to get serious is the choice facing the electorate.
• Peggy Noonan (WSJ, 11/05/2012) Monday Morning.
• WSJ Editors (11/04/2012) Obama's Progressive Gamble. He bet his Presidency on expanding government because that's who he is.
