Pat Dollard

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran test-fired a new advanced missile Wednesday with a range of about 1,200 miles, far enough to strike Israel, southeastern Europe and U.S. bases in the Middle East. The announcement will not reassure the U.S. government, coming just two days after President Barack Obama declared a readiness [...]

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Beautiful, isn’t it?

By Steven Malanga http://www.realclearmarkets.com/ The further we get from the housing bubble that helped to prompt our current financial meltdown, the less we seem bothered by the decline in trustworthiness and the rise in cheating that fueled the irrational exuberance of the home mortgage market. And then along comes New York Times reporter Edmund Andrews [...]

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/ One of the knocks on “Candidate” Obama was his skill at avoiding the issue as a legislator. He has a long history of avoiding a recorded votes on tough issues. As a Chicago State Senator he voted “present” on issues such as, trying juveniles as adults and a bill to prohibit sex-related shops from [...]

NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – General Motors Corp’s (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company’s healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. The source, who would not be named because he was not cleared [...]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – An attorney for Michael Vick says the suspended NFL star has left a Kansas prison and is on his way back to Virginia to meet the next challenges he’ll face. Larry Woodward, a member of Vick’s legal team, says Vick left the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth overnight. Woodward says Vick is [...]

Colleen Hauser, left, smiles at her son Daniel as they answered questions from the media in New Ulm, Minn. A Minnesota judge on Friday, May 15, 2009 ruled a 13-year-old boy with a highly treatable form of cancer must seek medical treatment over his parents’ objections. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Kyndell Harkness) By AMY FORLITI [...]

WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference – including the fragile health of the chamber’s most senior members. The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he was receiving [...]

Its like something out of a Saw movie…

Welcome back to the ’70′s, everybody. New York Post: Downtown Manhattan, the city’s party mecca, has been hit by an alarming spike in vicious street violence. Assaults in Greenwich Village lead the frightening upturn, with a whopping 43 percent increase so far this year compared with the same period in 2008. “I’ve never seen it [...]

It ain’t over, far from it. What you want is in process, the information as to events has to be laid out and presented in a carefully detailed fashion…

The Old Time and the New Newsweek http://www.commentarymagazine.com/ John Podhoretz Twenty-seven years ago, I began my professional career at Time Magazine as a reporter-researcher in the World section, which was devoted to international news. Generally speaking, the World section ran 12 pages in the magazine. Nation, devoted to news within our borders, ran about the [...]

Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers By ANDREW MARTIN http://www.nytimes.com/ Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards, [...]