Pat Dollard

New York Times; COCOA, Fla. — A year ago, the Brevard County Schools ran a robust summer program here, with dozens of schools bustling with teachers and some 14,000 children practicing multiplication, reading Harry Potter and studying Spanish verbs, all at no cost to parents. But this year Florida’s budget crisis has gutted summer school. [...]

And you should all know that the little old lady crying about her health care, who was presented to us as just another randomly picked audience member who spontaneoulsy told her story, was in fact an Obama plant and employee of his community activist/Obama campaign group, Organizaing for America. Her name is Debby Smith. ANNANDALE, [...]

Times Online: Three of Iran’s most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejad’s Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election, said that the suppression of dissent was [...]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The Honduran interim government defied international pressure on Wednesday and vowed there was “no chance at all” of ousted President Manuel Zelaya returning to office. World leaders from President Barack Obama to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have told the new rulers of the Central American country to restore Zelaya, a leftist who [...]

Ziegler Interviews Mike Allen of Politico Re: Palinby krs601

Insurgents were said to be withdrawing in the face of the biggest US marine helicopter landing since Vietnam. Commanders report Operation Khanjar or “sword strike” has met with sporadic small arms fire but there were no reports of casualties on either side. Coalition forces hope the massive sudden assault will turn the tide of fighting [...]

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You mean to tell us that THIS was staged? FOX News: The murder of 26-year-old protester Neda Soltan was staged, Iran’s chief of police said Wednesday — a statement that rights groups and Iran watchers are calling a propagandistic lie. Soltan became the icon of protesters in Iran following her bloody shooting June 20, which [...]

NewsBusters: The Democrats spent years complaining that Republicans were questioning their patriotism, so now that they are in power, they certainly won’t question the Republicans’ patriotism just because their views differ on political issue? Yes, that was a rhetorical question. After cap-and-trade passed with just eight Republican votes, Henry Waxman, author of the bill, accused [...]

Above: The face of deceit. FOX News: As New York state Democrats convened to hold a legislative session, Republican state Sen. Frank Padavan walked through the chamber on a hunt for the soda machine — a quest that resulted with him being tallied as voting with the Democrats. One state senator’s urge for a Coca [...]

BBC: The EU is no longer qualified to take part in talks on Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s military chief says. Maj Gen Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran’s chief of staff, accused the EU of “interference” in riots which followed June’s disputed presidential elections. EU states, meanwhile, are considering withdrawing their ambassadors from Iran in a growing diplomatic [...]

VS WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Tuesday that a North Korean ship has turned around and is headed back toward the north where it came from, after being tracked for more than a week by American Navy vessels on suspicion of carrying illegal weapons. The move keeps the U.S. and the rest of the [...]

“You can ask me that question tomorrow.”