Pat Dollard

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Patterico Pontifications: Democrats Have No Right To Be Snooty About Rush Not Wanting the President to Succeed “Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated?” – Rush Limbaugh I think we all know the answer to that — but here’s some [...]

FOX: Illinois Church Gunman Charged With First-Degree Murder The man suspected of killing a pastor and injuring two others at a suburban St. Louis church on Sunday has been charged with first-degree murder. Terry Sedlacek, 27, was also charged with aggravated battery in the shooting, according to Stephanee Smith of the Madison County state’s attorney’s [...]

Houston Chronicle: The order was clear: Kill the guy in the Astros jersey. But in a case of mistaken identity, Jose Perez ended up dead. The intended target — the Houston-based head of a Mexican drug cartel cell pumping millions of dollars of cocaine into the city — walked away. Perez, 27, was just a [...]

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Caption: A short film clip of men erecting steel columns for the Empire State Building. Not a hard hat or safety line in sight!

Caption: This was recorded last month by a vacationing Russian family aboard a Moscow-Sharm el Sheikh charter flight.

Politico: Peter R. Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, signaled Sunday that the administration plans to stand up fiercely to critics of its economic policies despite a deepening recession. Taking the administration’s hardest line yet, Orszag in two appearances on the Sunday shows went after Republicans for their budget proposals, [...]

Times Online UK: by Anne Barrowclough A humanitarian convoy led by maverick MP George Galloway,carrying medical supplies for Gaza has come under attack in Egypt The convoy, carrying aid worth £1m, was pelted with stones and vandalised after it stopped in El-Arish, a small town around 28 miles from the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. [...]

H/T MsUnderestimated captions: Sunday night, Frank Schaeffer was on D.L. Hughley’s CNN show to talk about his father Francis Schaeffer, Michael Steele, the Republican party, and blogging for Huffington Post. Schaeffer trashed Rush Limbaugh, inferring that he was not the true leader of the party, saying the party needed to lose some of its conservative [...]

H/T MsUnderestimated captions: Recently DEA’s Group 5-6, based in Newark, NJ, coordinated an intensive months-long investigation into the trafficking if Ice, the purest form of crystal methamphetamine, that comes up from Mexico’s drug syndicate the “Juarez Seven.” At the culmination of this sting, Group 5-6 struck paydirt and seized 165 pounds of pure crystal methamphetamine; [...]

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“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

OC Register: More Mexican immigrants returning home Indications of more migration seen in bus stations, vacant homes. By CINDY CARCAMO From families loaded down with bags and boxes full of their possessions to towns and villages crowded with long-departed residents, one impact of the declining U.S. economy appears to be Mexican immigrants calling it quits [...]

His political rivals used to accuse Eliot Spitzer of going for the jugular. Now a new call girl is claiming the former governor literally went for hers…

Mexico’s Morgues Crowded With Drug-War Dead CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man’s head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street. As [...]

PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) – (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it. “We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes [...]

World Net Daily: A respected pastor, best-selling author and founder of a major ministry to teens predicts an imminent “an earth-shattering calamity” centered in New York City that will spread to major urban areas across the country and around the world – part of what he sees as a judgment from God. David Wilkerson, author [...]

KTTV: East Palo Alto detective Ed Soares says the so-called Taliban gang is responsible for at least 12 homicides and 30 violent felonies over the past six years in the area. Soares says the gang traffics cocaine and uses high-caliber handguns and semi-automatic rifles to terrorize the community. He says they used the name Taliban [...]