• Mitt Romney sparked a Saturday tit-for-tat by claiming, without pointing to any evidence, that President Obama’s campaign is trying to restrict military voting in Ohio. Obama’s campaign responded, ripping Romney for “completely fabricating” a claim it called “shameful.” At issue: A lawsuit the Obama campaign filed July 17 that seeks to restore three days of early voting for all of the state’s voters. At no point does the lawsuit attempt to curb the rights of active military. Instead, the federal suit tries to restore three days of early voting for all citizens that Ohio GOP-led state legislature eliminated in 2011. Romney’s spokesman, Ryan Williams, in an interview Saturday could point to no place in Obama’s lawsuit that seeks to restrict the rights of military voters. Romney’s legal counsel, Katie Biber, said creating two separate classes of Ohio voters does not violate the 14th Amendment.
• What’s The Secret Behind Mitt Romney’s Magical IRA? How was Mitt Romney able to amass somwhere between $21 million and $102 million in his individual retirement account during the 15 years in which he was at Bain Capital?
• Jared Lee Loughner, the Tucson man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people, is to plead guilty, the Los Angeles Times reported. The planned guilty plea Tuesday comes after mental health officials concluded Loughner is competent to understand the charges against him.
• Edward DeMarco, acting director of the FHFA (Federal Housing and Finance Agency) and a Bush-era holdover, has refused a request from the Obama administration to implement a program of debt relief for underwater mortgages. The overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way — and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
• Big landing ships of the Russian Northern Fleet, which are sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, will call at a Russian naval supply base at the Syrian port of Tartus in a few days, a source in the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces told reporters on Friday. “It is planned that at the end of this week or at the beginning of next week three big landing ships of the Northern Fleet – Alexander Otrakovsky, Georgy Pobedonosets, Kondopoga which are carrying marines – will visit Syria.
• At a press conference in Ramallah Saturday, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to address the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 27 to seek non-member state recognition, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an said.
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• Romney won’t comment on the Chick-Fil-A and Michele Bachmann controversies, but he did meet on Thursday with a group of pro-Bachmann social conservatives – Gary Bauer, James Dobson, Sen. William Armstrong, General William Boykin, and others. Yes, THAT Boykin.
• Mitt Romney sparked a Saturday tit-for-tat by claiming, without pointing to any evidence, that President Obama’s campaign is trying to restrict military voting in Ohio. Obama’s campaign responded, ripping Romney for “completely fabricating” a claim it called “shameful.” At issue: A lawsuit the Obama campaign filed July 17 that seeks to restore three days of early voting for all of the state’s voters. At no point does the lawsuit attempt to curb the rights of active military. Instead, the federal suit tries to restore three days of early voting for all citizens that Ohio GOP-led state legislature eliminated in 2011. Romney’s spokesman, Ryan Williams, in an interview Saturday could point to no place in Obama’s lawsuit that seeks to restrict the rights of military voters. Romney’s legal counsel, Katie Biber, said creating two separate classes of Ohio voters does not violate the 14th Amendment.
• What’s The Secret Behind Mitt Romney’s Magical IRA? How was Mitt Romney able to amass somwhere between $21 million and $102 million in his individual retirement account during the 15 years in which he was at Bain Capital?
• Jared Lee Loughner, the Tucson man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people, is to plead guilty, the Los Angeles Times reported. The planned guilty plea Tuesday comes after mental health officials concluded Loughner is competent to understand the charges against him.
• Edward DeMarco, acting director of the FHFA (Federal Housing and Finance Agency) and a Bush-era holdover, has refused a request from the Obama administration to implement a program of debt relief for underwater mortgages. The overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama’s mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way — and who now, having blocked the president’s policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed.
• Big landing ships of the Russian Northern Fleet, which are sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, will call at a Russian naval supply base at the Syrian port of Tartus in a few days, a source in the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces told reporters on Friday. “It is planned that at the end of this week or at the beginning of next week three big landing ships of the Northern Fleet – Alexander Otrakovsky, Georgy Pobedonosets, Kondopoga which are carrying marines – will visit Syria.
• At a press conference in Ramallah Saturday, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to address the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 27 to seek non-member state recognition, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an said.