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Team Obama’s chief strategist stammered out a contradictory and evasive defense of the White House’s role in the Delphi bankruptcy settlement, which has left up to 20,000 older workers in Ohio with reduced or minimal pensions. The 2009 bankruptcy of the auto-parts maker “was not the decision of the president,” David Axelrod first told reporters during an Oct. 23 midday press conference, after he was asked about a Delphi-related rally that Gov. Mitt Romney held in Ohio. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/23/axelrod-entangles-white-house-in-delphi-scandal/#ixzz2A9RQlHfX

Attorney General Mike Cox says he doesn't know what home phone-service company he used in 2003, and therefore can't find home phone records related to his investigation of slain stripper Tamara "Strawberry" Greene's shooting death.

Federal Sources: Fitzgerald Held Off Blagojevich Bust to Protect Obama Election Chances; Did Obama Fail Ethics Requirements of Illinois Bar? A federal source of mine with ties to Chicago says that FBI agents had enough to prosecute corrupt, helmet-haired Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich back in June, when he was already engaged in some of the blackmail and extortion alleged by the FBI affidavit and other documents associated with his arrest and prosecution. The source says that the FBI was suddenly ordered by the U.S. Attorney's Office--and I believe that order came from the top, ie., U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and...

Per Debbie Schlussel Peculiar Detail About L.A. Times Reporter Who "Watched" Tape As you know, the Los Angeles Times refuses to release a tape of Barack Obama at a dinner honoring his good buddy, anti-Israel Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, at which anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poems and statements were made.We know why they refuse to release it: it shows Obama doing something really bad, and they don't want us to see it. Now, Reader Yochanan tips me off to this from Doug Ross, quoting one of his sources: Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can't release it is because...

As you all know, the Los Angeles Times is holding hostage a tape of Barack Obama at a 2003 Arab American Action Network (AAAN) dinner at which his friends, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn were in attendance.. It's the story I started when Los Angeles Times plagiarist/"reporter" Peter Wallsten ripped off my January column on Barack Obama's Nation of Islam staffers and friendship with AAAN founder Ali Abunimah. Debbie Schlussel But here's what you haven't yet heard: that a kids' dance troupe that appeared at the event has a history of simulating beheadings and stomping on American, Israeli,...