Pat Dollard

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Rehabilitate from what? JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is continuing the Obama administration’s efforts to rehabilitate America’s image abroad, especially with Muslims, during a visit to Indonesia that began Wednesday. The country, once the home of President Barack Obama, is the second stop in her inaugural overseas trip as the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has approved adding about 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, administration, defense and congressional officials said Tuesday. The Obama administration is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will send one additional Army brigade and an unknown number of Marines to Afghanistan this spring and summer. [...]

Iowahawk in Big Hollywood: An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale With apologies to Geoffrey Chaucer 1 Whan in Februar, withe hise global warmynge 2 Midst unseasonabyl rain and stormynge 3 Gaia in hyr heat encourages 4 Englande folke to goon pilgrimages. 5 Frome everiches farme and shire 6 Frome London Towne and Lancanshire 7 The pilgryms [...]

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group of illegal immigrants who said he detained them at gunpoint in 2004. The eight-member civil jury also found Roger Barnett wasn’t liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment. But the jury did [...]

This is a close personal friend of James Hooker’s, who provided the photo. It may be a relative, I’m not sure. But have at it.

A National Review article from a year ago this week: Until I came across this article by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, which I regard as factual — with all that that implies — the questions about Obama’s background that should have come naturally never quite rose to the surface of my mind. Barack [...]

Politico: Railroads made Chicago, and now a Chicago-rich White House wants to return the favor: remaking rail with a huge new federal investment in high-speed passenger trains. The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill — to be signed by Kenyan Barack Obama on Tuesday — dedicates $8 billion to high-speed rail, most of which was added [...]

Fox News & AP: President Obama on Tuesday signed into law the largest spending bill in U.S. history, a package he pledges will save millions of jobs and bring the country back from the brink of economic catastrophe. In doing so, the president marked a huge legislative victory less than a month into his term. [...]

SAN’A, Yemen – A former Guantanamo detainee who became an al-Qaida field commander after being freed by the U.S. has surrendered, the Yemeni government said Tuesday. The Interior Ministry said Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi was repatriated to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after he surrendered to authorities. Before he was released from Guantanamo, al-Oufi insisted he [...]

Social Globalization: The programme of compulsion which forces the Leftist world view on the broader community has become known as ‘political correctness’ (PC). The name ‘political correctness’ originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and people tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It [...]