Pat Dollard

Enter, if you dare.

Politico: The Obama administration’s $50 billion program to curb foreclosures isn’t working, and the White House knows it. Administration officials blame the mortgage servicers charged with carrying out the mortgage modifications and refinancing under the federal program. Many of their Democratic allies on Capitol Hill back them up, but others are criticizing the White House [...]

Poor guy… When the two workers, who are both Turkish, refused, one was struck on the sh More..oulder with the axe. He was later taken to hospital suffering from a serious injury but was later released. The other suffered a minor injury to his arm, caused by a shot fired by one of the suspects

Jerusalem Post: The first feature film produced by Hamas made its debut this weekend, complete with an exclusive crowd of local celebrities posing for photographers at the movie premier screening in Gaza. The action-packed thriller, an homage to a top Hamas operative, cost only $200,000 to make and is being shown to segregated audiences of [...]

POLITICO: Sonia Sotomayor’s measured confirmation performance may have served her well, but it left the bases of both parties feeling that they’ve missed an opportunity. Liberals are concerned that Sotomayor’s non-controversial approach – she largely declined to take positions on major issues, and seemed to side with conservatives on some constitutional matters – cost the [...]

FOX News: Vice President Dick Cheney has long been a target of Democrats for his role in developing and implementing the Bush White House’s anti-terror policies, and Democratic legislators soon may get a chance to hold his feet to the fire over a secret proposal for a CIA hit squad. The proposal never got off [...]

WASHINGTON – The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed captured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a web site by the Taliban, two U.S. defense officials confirmed. The soldier is shown in the 28-minute video with his head shaved and the start of [...]

Prove this witch wrong.

The Daily Mail: The world’s oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, has died at the age of 113. Henry Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War, later transferring to the Royal Air Force and serving at Ypres. ‘Everybody at St Dunstan’s is saddened by [...]

This guy played Ozzfest one year, I forget which. He was booed off stage in Phoenix and in California if I remember correctly. Probably other places too. Haven’t heard much from him since. Oh well.

The Washington Post: BAGHDAD, July 17 — The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that has startled American commanders and raised concerns about the safety of their troops. In a curt missive issued by the Baghdad Operations [...]

Times Online: Tens of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran yesterday to hear the country’s most influential powerbroker pronounce the Islamic Republic in crisis and as he called for the release of those arrested in recent pro-democracy demonstrations. In a devastating attack on the regime, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a leading cleric and [...]