Anti-Semitic Vandals Cause $100,000 Damage To New York City Deli

CBS reports:

A Jewish deli was ransacked by vandals who spray-painted ugly messages on the walls. It happened right during the High Holy days. 

They papered over the windows Thursday to hide the damage inside Lansky’s Deli on Columbus Avenue. 

“It was devastating. We put our heart into this restaurant,” owner David Ruggerio told CBS 2′s Tony Aiello. 

Ruggerio found the mess Wednesday morning. Computers, televisions and light fixtures were all smashed, and leather seats were slashed and a trophy case was trashed. 

Cell phone video shows broken dishes and the espresso machine thrown to the ground. Chunks of the ceiling were torn down and littered the floor.

Most upsetting were messages sprayed on the walls, including anti-Jewish slurs that Ruggerio quickly ordered painted over. 

“The vandalism was one thing, defamation was different.  It was very, very hideous things written on the wall. There was urination all over the restaurant,” Ruggerio said.... 

The owner said the bill to clean up, fix equipment and repair damage will top $100,000. 

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Latest In Deadly Violent Protests Across Islamic World

From the Asssociated Press: 

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 PAKISTAN 
 At least 19 people were killed and nearly 200 injured as protests by tens of thousands turned violent in the cities of Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi and the capital of Islamabad after the government encouraged peaceful demonstrations and declared a national holiday - "Day of Love for the Prophet."

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AFGHANISTAN 
 About 900 people peacefully protested the film in the capital, Kabul, chanting, "Death to America" and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and a U.S. flag. A few hundred demonstrators also protested inside a mosque in the eastern city of Ghazni. 

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IRAN 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at the West over the film. Speaking at a military parade in Tehran, he said: "In return for (allowing) the ugliest insults to the divine messenger, they - the West - raise the slogan of respect for freedom of speech." He called this explanation "clearly a deception." 

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 INDONESIA 
 The United States closed its diplomatic missions across Indonesia due to continuing demonstrations over the film. Small and mostly orderly protests were held outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, in the cities of Surabaya and Medan, and in other smaller towns. No violence was reported.

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 IRAQ 
 About 3,000 people, mostly followers of Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim groups, protested the film and caricatures of the prophet in the southern city of Basra. Demonstrators carried Iraqi flags and posters of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, chanting, "Death to America" and "No to America." They burned Israeli and American flags. 

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 SRI LANKA 
 About 2,000 Muslims burned effigies of Obama and American flags at a protest after Friday prayers in the capital, Colombo, demanding that the United States ban the film.

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 BANGLADESH 
 More than 2,000 people marched through the streets of the capital, Dhaka, to protest the film. They burned a makeshift coffin draped in an American flag, and an effigy of Obama. 

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 LEBANON 
 Tens of thousands of supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah movement held a raucous protest in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek. Later, a few thousand supporters of a hard-line Sunni cleric gathered in the capital, Beirut. Both demonstrations directed outrage at the U.S. and Israel over what they believed was a grave insult to Muhammad. 

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 KASHMIR 
 Police enforced a daylong curfew in parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, and chased away protesters of the anti-Islam film. Authorities also temporarily blocked cellphone and Internet services to prevent viewing the film clips. 

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 GERMANY 
 Several hundred people gathered in the city of Freiburg in southwestern Germany to protest the film, while a few hundred demonstrated in the western city of Muenster. The Interior Ministry postponed a poster campaign aimed at countering radical Islam among young people due to tensions caused by the online video insulting Islam. Germany is home to an estimated 4 million Muslims.

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 NORWAY 
 About 70 people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the capital Oslo to protest the film, shouting, "Obama, Obama, we're all Osama!" Tweet

Congressman Darrel Issa On Fast & Furious Report: It “Showed What Went Wrong All The Way To The Very Top Of Justice”

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New Romney Ad Starring Marco Rubio On Medicare

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President Barack Obama Says, "I've Learned Some Lessons...You Can't Change Washington From The Inside"; Mitt Romney's Responds

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Texas Senate Candidate Ted Cruz At Values Voter Summit 2012

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Senator Rand Paul At 2012 Values Voter Summit

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Paul Ryan Addresses The 2012 Values Voter Summit

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Dennis Prager At Values Voter Summit 2012

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Scott Brown Goes After Elizbath Warren False Claims Of Being Cherokee In Debate For Massachusetts Senate Seat

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Israel Stages Largest Snap Exercise In Years, During Jewish Holiday Season

The Telegraph reports:

Thousands of soldiers were summoned from their homes during the night after the Jewish new year holiday and flown to the territory, which Israel captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. The unannounced manoeuvres come a week before Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York where he is expected to give warning that time is running out to prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon. Mr Netanyahu has engaged in increasingly bellicose rhetoric towards Iran in the past few weeks, raising fears that Israel could strike against its nuclear facilities unless the United States explicitly threatens military action of its own. With many in the United States and Israel believing that military action cannot be delayed beyond next year, Israeli generals are visibly escalating efforts to ready the armed forces for conflict. But speculation of an Israel attack over the next few weeks has faded in recent days and a military officials were quick to insist that the exercise was "part of a routine inspection" that "does not indicate any changes" in the country's alert levels.

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Indonesian Consulate Remains Shut Down Due To Islamic Protests

The AP reports:

The U.S. consulate in the country's third-largest city of Medan was shut for a second day as demonstrations continue. About 50 students from an Islamic university gathered in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province. They burned tires and forced a McDonald's restaurant to close. The door was later covered with a sign saying, "This must be closed as a symbol of our protest of the `Innocence of Muslims' made in the U.S.," referring to the title of the film.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Condemns United States Over Anti-Islam Youtube Video

The AP reports:

Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned the U.S.-produced film and the French weekly's cartoons as offensive to Muslims and called on Shiites and Sunnis to unite in defense of Islamic values. Speaking in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq, al-Maliki said "all Muslims should shoulder responsibility of defending Islam."

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Hundreds Shout "Death To America" And "Death To France" In Front Of French Embassy In Iran

The AP reports:

Hundreds of students and clerics gathered outside the French embassy in Tehran to protest the publication of the caricatures. Protesters chanted "Death to France" and "Down with the U.S." and burned the flags of the United States and Israel. The demonstration ended after two hours.

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U.S. Embassy In Pakistan Under Siege

Al Jazeera reports:

The US embassy in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, has become the latest target of protesters angry at an anti-Islam video that triggered protests in the Arab and Muslim world. The total number of protesters reached around 5,000 later on Thursday with the arrival of protesters carrying the flags of hardline Islamist groups. At least 50 people were injured as police fired tear gas and live rounds towards the crowds. Hundreds of students from various colleges and educational institutions in Islamabad had begun clashing with police as security forces tried to block them from reaching the embassy compoud, which also includes the British and French diplomatic missions. The students responded by pelting the police with stones, and the police retaliated by firing tear gas shells.

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Obama Faces Toughest Interview Of Campaign With Univision

Politico reports, "Obama pressed on failures at Univision forum":

President Barack Obama on Thursday faced some of the toughest questioning of his reelection campaign to date, pressed repeatedly on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and other unmet promises from his 2008 run. The Univision presidential forum at the University of Miami here kicked off with grilling on another topic which brought mounting criticism from Republicans Thursday: The government’s decision to label as a terrorist attack the violence at the consulate in Benghazi which killed American Christopher Stevens.

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New Ad Attacks Obama On Muslim Brotherhood Egypt

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Iranian Antisemitic Film "Saturday Hunter" Depicts Jews Massacring Arabs, Seeking God-Like Powers

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Benghazi, Libya Friday Sermon 3 Days After The Murder Of US Ambassador: Let's Detonate Our Wrath Upon Them

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MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Won't Play "Redistribution" Clip Despite MSNBC Playing Four Hours Earlier

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Obama On Letterman Pretends He Doesn't Remember How Big The National Debt Is And States That It Is Not A "Short-Term Problem"

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Michelle Malkin Slams Conservatives For "Moaning And Groaning" Over Every Romney Misstep

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Mark Steyn On Obama's Response To Attack On Consulate In Libya And Other U.S. Embassies, As Well Steyn's Argument Of Islamic Demographics

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Jewish Kosher Store In France Attacked Just Hours After French Magazine Publishes Mohammed Cartoon Offending Muslims

The AP reports:

A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb Wednesday, wounding at least one person, according to an agency that tracks anti-Semitic attacks in France. The reason for the attack was unclear, but it rattled nerves amid global tensions surrounding a U.S.-produced film insulting to Islam. The French grocery store attack came a few hours after a satirical French weekly published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, prompting anger from French Muslim groups.

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Attack On Libya Consulate Was Al Qaeda Attack That Involved Terrorist Released From Gitmo

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New GOP Ad On Obama: "Redistribution"

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Arab Muslim Youths Attack Rabbi In Berlin

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High Ranking DOJ Official Refuses To Affirm First Amendment Rights When It Comes To Criticizing Religion

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Barack Obama In 1998: "I Actually Believe In Redistribution"

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Mitt Romney Responds To 47 Percent-Flap: “We Have Two Very Different Views About America”

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Pakistani Protester Dies From Smoke Of Burning American Flags

Old Glory sometimes defends herself!

A Pakistani man, one of approximately 10,000 people participating in an anti-American rally, has died.  The cause of death?  Complications from inhaling the smoke of burning American flags.  The Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper affiliated with The International Herald Tribune (“The Global Edition of The New York Times”) reported Tweet

Salman Rushdie: The Reaction From Muslim World To Anti-Islam Internet Movie Is Part Of A "Manufactured" "Completely Unacceptable" "Outrage Machine"

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Iran Is In The Red Zone"

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Justice Antonin Scalia Was "Furious" At Roberts Vote On Obamacare

The Hill reports:

Jeffrey Toobin's latest book portrays Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as increasingly cranky and partisan — and infuriated with Chief Justice John Roberts over the court's recent decisions on healthcare and immigration. 

Toobin, who writes for The New Yorker and also covers the court for CNN, credits Scalia for a sea change in how both sides of the political spectrum think about the law. But he says the justice's bombast has become off-putting to more even-tempered colleagues.... 

The book confirms previous reports that Roberts changed his vote in the landmark case over President Obama's healthcare law after initially siding with the conservative justices. But Toobin reports — as others have implied — that what pushed Roberts away was the conservative justices' insistence on striking down the entire health law. 

"Scalia's view of the justices as gladiators against the president unnerved Roberts," Toobin writes. 

The book describes Scalia as "furious" and "enraged" at Roberts — contradicting Scalia's public statements brushing aside any tension. 

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Mitt Romney Using Common Sense In Expressing His Correct Understanding Of The Realities Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

‎"One [perspective] is the one which I’ve had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish." - Mitt Romney, May 17, 2012 Tweet

Paul Ryan: QE3 Is A Bailout For Obama, "Sugar High Economics"

The Hill reports:

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said the Federal Reserve’s latest policy shift amounts to a “bailout” of the economy under President Obama. 

Speaking at a campaign event in Oldsmar, Fla., Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate lambasted the Fed’s recent decision to try and do more to boost the economy as “sugar high economics.” 

“We don’t need synthetic money creation. We need economic growth. We want wealth creation,” he said. “We don’t want to print money. We want opportunity and growth.”

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Jewish Democrat New York State Assemblyman Warns Jewish Voters About Obama On Israel

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Maker Of Anti-Islam Internet Video Taken In For Questioning

What ever happened to freedom of speech?

Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies escorted a man believed to be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to an awaiting car. The man declined to answer questions on his way out and wore a hat and a scarf over his face. He kept his hands in the pockets of a winter coat. Sheriff's officials could not be reached by The Times, but department spokesman Steve Whitmore told KNBC News that deputies assisting the federal probation department took Nakoula to the sheriff's substation in Cerritos for interviewing.

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U.S. Warned Three Days In Advance Of Attack On Embassy In Libya

CNN reports:

Three days before the deadly assault on the United States consulate in Libya, a local security official says he met with American diplomats in the city and warned them about deteriorating security.

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Libyan Government Blames Al Qaeda For Embassy Attack

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The head of Libya's new national congress has blamed al Qaeda-linked militants for planning Tuesday's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, raising further questions about the motive behind the mayhem that killed four Americans. U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal on Friday that they are investigating indications that a local group of Libyan militants, Ansar al Sharia, held a series of conversations Tuesday with al Qaeda extremists about the assault that day on the consulate, in the first sign of possible coordination in the attack between local fighters and the global terrorist movement.

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