Mark Steyn and Michael Graham delight & elucidate the New England listening audience. And now everyone on SDA too!

Oh yeah, Romney lied.

The embassy request stated: “Quite simply, we cannot maintain our existing levels of Embassy operations, much less implement necessary staffing increases, without a continued SST presence.”
Related:

It’s been 27 days since Benghazi. Remind me again, what was the “gaffe” Romney made about it the next day?

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 8, 2012

Lee Doren carefully dissects and explains how the Obama Campaign misconstrues and lies about their opponents:

h/t, Instapundit

“These numbers are so suspect, even MSNBC can’t swallow them.” – YouTube user, HoundOfDoom
Via Breitbart, we learn that CNBC and ABC are a little confused about the US Jobs report today. Add, FNC. Ed Morrissey helps explain things.
Now, I hope that the current gov’t had nothing to do with these weird numbers. If the idea gains hold that gov’t economic statistical data can be manipulated for purely partisan reason, well, heads will roll. Lots of lawyers will be called.

In Ohio, people who request absentee ballots, are marked by party affiliation based on previous declarations. Ace of Spades has a post on the details of the states requests.
This isn’t a poll. This is people, previously declared, asking for ballots.
For the 3000′ view, see the Washinton Examiner Secrets blog.

University of Dayton Professor Larry Schweikart told American Majority Action President Ned Ryun that the GOP gains favor Romney. “Although it is early, we will soon be at a point where–assuming Republicans vote for Romney–the Democrats will have to overwhelmingly win all the remaining early voting just to be even on November 6. But, given Ohio’s voting history, if the numbers are even close after early voting, Obama will lose, and possibly lose big.”

The above the 49th view? Landslide. It’s still the 3rd quarter, though, and as a Rider die-hard, I know only too well that no lead is safe, so as the Prof says, “Don’t get cocky, kid.”

Vice President of the United States, lamenting to fellow Americans that, you know, “This job is tough”, while he gets fast food.
23M people out of work,
1 out of 6 people in poverty,
47M Americans on food stamps,
50% of college graduates can’t find work.
Yeah, Mr. Vice President, that job must just totally suck.
H/t, Weasel Zippers

Heh.

Mr Axelrod, speaking on a campaign conference call, made an appeal to reporters to make the points that Obama himself had failed to make in the debate.

Related! – “Tonight, the Taranto Principle kicked in. Big time.”

We’ve got this.
“Anyone who is willing to stand next me, to fight the progressive left. I will be in that bunker. And if you’re not in that bunker ’cause you’re not satisfied with this candidate…More than shame on you…you’re on the other side.”

Possibly the strongest video to date.

Hmm, which are those swing states, again?

“By the way, I like coal. I’m going to make sure we can continue to burn clean coal,” said the former head of the private equity firm, Bain Capital.
“People in the coal industry feel like it’s getting crushed by your policies,” he told Obama.

Coal Production, by State (PDF, 1p)
h/t Drudge

After wave of tweets on the topic, Obama campaign aide says they’ve changed policy: Reporters can now go to restroom w/out campaign escort.

— JenniferJacobsDMReg (@JenniferJJacobs) October 4, 2012

Read the whole thread.

Not expecting much, personally. The talking heads are talking and they’ll continue talking.
Update: Okay, I’m just another one of those talking heads, but Romney wiped the floor with Obama. Not even close.

Obama’s poker tells.

Oh, oh.

Leaders of a House committee say U.S. diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi but the pleas were denied in Washington.

Drudge

First comment at Protein Wisdom’s take on gov’t bribery.

So, the government is going to provide the funds to pay the fines they impose on the contractors for non-compliance with regulations written by the government.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Spain and France’s 2013 Budgets, but at least they know how to write one. Eh, Harry?
h/t Drudge

The problem is that the discussion (as happens only too often) is now being led by people who don’t understand the whole topic very well. So let’s just talk about this a bit. I promise to almost completely eliminate the math; believe it or not, people can learn to reason about statistics without learning the central limit theorem.
Read the whole thing.

All parole violations were treated like this.
I wonder what the motivation is?