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EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True'  —  With the first Presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors.  In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman …

Romney team sharpens attack on Obama's foreign policy  —  Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.

Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.

Arab Spring: Tech as tinder  —  The Internet tools of the Arab Spring have become the weapons of a new Arabian nightmare playing out at American diplomatic missions across North Africa and the Middle East.  —  Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube that spread an obscure movie trailer depicting …

Strassel: Mr. Romney, Trust Your Pants  —  Obama tells Americans the terrible things the Republican will do to them.  The Republican remains silent about what he would do.  —  In the classic 1968 film “Once Upon a Time in the West,” a villainous Henry Fonda shoots one of his lackeys …

A Quick Note on the Fed  —  I was airborne until late, so no chance until now to weigh in on the Fed's new move.  And now I really need to get some sleep to fight off this cold!  So just a few points:  —  1. It's good to see the Fed moving, finally.  —  2. It certainly sounds as if Bernanke …

Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up!  —  They picked the perfect actor for a political ad loaded with f-bombs.  —  Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President Obama's re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake the f—k up, Vote for Obama.”

The iPhone Stimulus  —  Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak?  If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.  —  So is the new phone as insanely great as Apple says?

Married Voters Are Romney Voters  —  Marital status is strong predictor of voting behavior  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Married registered voters prefer Republican challenger Mitt Romney over Democratic President Barack Obama by 54% to 39%, according to Gallup data collected from June to August.

Limbaugh: Al-Qaida “gave up Osama”  —  He says the terrorist group wanted to “mak[e] Obama look good” so he would remain in the White House  —  Polite and serious pundits were shocked when Mitt Romney suggested, and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus outright declared, that President Obama …

UC to pay settlement in Davis pepper spray case  —  UC leaders agree to pay settlement to 21 UC Davis students and alumni who sued over campus officers' use of pepper spray during a November 2011 protest.  —  A UC Davis officer pepper-sprays Occupy protesters in November.

On The Road To Prison, Alabama's Ex-Governor Still Has A Few Things He Wants To Say  —  Former Alabama Gov. Don Sieglman is pleasant, almost cheerful, as he speaks by phone on the long drive toward the small town of Oakdale, La. It's not the tone you'd expect to hear from a once-powerful man who's …

Armed men storm Lebanon restaurant; German Embassy in Sudan on fire  —  Editor's note: Several protests stemming at least in part from an anti-Islam film produced in the United States are unfolding outside U.S. embassies around the world.  Friday's protests follow ones Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy …

There's a Simple Solution to the Public Schools Crisis  —  The ongoing (but maybe soon to end?) teachers' strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education—stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations …

Islamic Bloc: We Told You This Would Happen If You ‘Hurt the Religious Sentiments of Muslims’  —  (CNSNews.com) - The organization representing the world's Islamic nations on Wednesday condemned the attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt, saying it had consistently warned that …

Primary Results Close for 2 G.O.P. Legislators Who Voted for Same-Sex Marriage  —  Two Republican state senators who provided pivotal votes to legalize same-sex marriage last year were fighting to preserve their political careers on Thursday as voters went to the polls for New York State's legislative primary.

Teamsters leader compares GOP to Cambodian dictator  —  Washington — Teamsters President James Hoffa on Thursday compared the recent Republican Party convention's downplaying of the Bush administration to Cambodian leader Pol Pot, who infamously wiped from history books anything that happened before he rose to power.