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A 1000 pardons, Chuck, for the oversight. Dollard Nation would like to extend a very Happy Birthday to one of our heroes. Wiki’s Fukkin Chuck round-up. Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist, action star and television and film actor who is known for action roles such as Cordell [...]

FOX: Clinton Says U.S. Has ‘Options’ on N. Korea Missile Launch, Reports Say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says a range of options are available to respond to North Korea should it proceed with a “provocative” long-range ballistic missile launch, according to reports. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says a range of options are available [...]

Salon: Heads should roll President Obama’s clumsy, smirky staff is sinking him — and resurrecting a deflated GOP! Plus: Lay off Rush! And a Brazilian diva, up close and electric By Camille Paglia Free Barack! Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons — his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, [...]

I’m guessing no one wants to go on the record as being the lone opposing vote on this one … Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Times: Senators move to make bestiality illegal in Florida By Marc Caputo TALLAHASSEE —The act of bestiality is a step closer to becoming illegal in Florida now that a Senate agriculture [...]

Unlike that misogynist Bush who did absolutely nothing for women in the world … particularly Muslim women. Politico: Obama inks Council on Women & Girls By JOSH GERSTEIN President Barack Obama invoked the travails of women in his family as he signed an executive order on Wednesday establishing a new interagency panel devoted to the [...]

Telegraph UK: Contract written in blood not enforceable, US court rules Californian judges have ruled that a contract written in blood is not legally enforceable. The ruling came in the case of a man who had gone to extreme lengths to reassure a friend he would reimburse money from bad investment. But the Fourth District [...]

Politico: By MIKE ALLEN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has come up with a vivid new way to express his contention that the nation is spending way too much money it doesn’t have. McConnell includes the tweaks in his opening remarks on the Senate floor on the 51st day that President Obama has been [...]

Haaretz: A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported. The incident in the Iranian city was an apparent imitation of a similar attack on former U.S. president George Bush in Iraq last year. Urmia News, the Iranian site, reported [...]

Politico: The vast new left-wing conspiracy sets its tone every morning at 8:45 a.m., when officials from more than 20 labor, environmental and other Democratic-leaning groups dial into a private conference call hosted by two left-leaning Washington organizations. The “8:45 A.M. call,” as it’s referred to by members, began three weeks ago, and it marks [...]

Venom: Faces contorted with fury, some of the Muslim demonstrator who marred the homecoming of the Royal Anglian Regiment yesterday Daily Mail UK: Home from the war… and our troops are greeted by abuse from Muslim protesters By Michael Seamark, Andrew Levy and Matt Sandy Twice in two years they have fought in Iraq. Twelve [...]

WASHINGTON — The Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration’s efforts to close the prison. U.S. authorities handed over the detainee to the [...]

SAMSON, Ala. (AP) – A gunman on a terrifying rampage across two southern Alabama counties killed at least nine people Tuesday, including members of his own family and apparent strangers, and burned down his mother’s home before shooting himself at a metals plant, authorities said. Police were investigating shootings in at least four different locations [...]

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S. Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN’-yuk) is accused of participating in the murders while [...]

Telegraph UK: Barack Obama faces ‘revolution’ if he imposes tough carbon targets, warns IPCC Barack Obama faces a “revolution” if he imposes emission cuts on the US similar to those set in Europe, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has conceded. By Richard Alleyne But Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United [...]

Bild: Gunman shot by police after massacre in Germany A school shooting bloodbath near Stuttgart in Germany has left at least 15 people dead – with the gunman killing himself after an exchange of fire with the police. He shot himself in the head in the parking lot of a car dealership in Wendlinger, where [...]

FOX: by Matt Egan Despite a late-day slide, the Dow and S&P 500 inched higher on Wednesday as Wall Street closed in the green for two consecutive days for the first time in more than a month. Today’s Markets The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.91 points, or 0.06%, to 6930.40, the S&P 500 added [...]

CNN: Obama lays out G-20 goals by Sarah Parker WASHINGTON – President Obama outlined goals for the upcoming Group of 20 summit Wednesday morning at the White House, and urged nations to take aggressive actions to jumpstart their own economies. Embedded video from CNN Video “I think it’s very important for the American people to [...]