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August 25, 2012 | | BIG BUSINESS Democrats say they’re worried about Romney and his super-PAC backers outspending Obama this fall, but the president’s free publicity and massive early investments may give him the advantage at the ballot box, reports The Daily Beast’s James Warren. Taliban Officials in the Pakistani Taliban on Saturday confirmed that one of their leaders is dead after a U.S. drone strike, which also killed 12 of his bodyguards. The drone hit a compound in Afghanistan where Mullah Dadullah, a leader of the Pakistani Taliban who lived in Afghanistan. One senior leader claims that a spy placed a tracking chip in Dadullah's compound "that helped the drone trace his whereabouts." Dadullah was in his 40s and served as the Taliban chief in Pakistan's Bajaur region, near the Afghanistan border. AWKWARD The presumptive GOP Republican nominee went birther on Friday when he joked “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know this is that this is the place where we were born and raised.” President Obama’s campaign already started a fundraising drive on the joke. The Daily Beast’s David Frum on how the joke has cost Romney.e. Empire State Shooting The man who killed one person and wounded nine by the Empire State Building yesterday was identified as 58-year-old Jeffrey Johnson, a former designer of women's accessories at Hazan Imports who was laid off last year. Over a year ago, he confronted his victim, Steven Ercolino, in the elevator at their shared workplace and said, "I am going to kill you." Police said that after killing Ercolino, Johnson engaged in a gunfight with two police officers and was eventually killed. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said most of the bystanders were injured in the crossfire of bullets ricocheting off flowerpots or other objects around the area. Euro It's nice to see countries getting along. German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged on Friday to support the new Greek government, which now has a former economist at its head. This move is seen as a knock to others in her party who see booting Greece from the euro zone as the quickest way out of the economic crisis. Merkel claims she is confident that Greece will keep its promises of reform, stating that she believes the new leadership "will do what it takes to solve the problem in Greece." | | 
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