Pat Dollard

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National Review Online: From last night’s All-Stars. On the administration’s reaction to protesters at health-care town halls: Well, the White House accuses it of being orchestrated. Orchestrated is a synonym for organized. And I thought that community organizing was a high calling. I mean, our president — he used to deploy it every day when [...]

Not in my back yard. Hopefully not in yours either, or anyone’s for that matter. WASHINGTON – Kansas’ two U.S. senators are blocking 10 of President Barack Obama’s nominees for senior administration posts at the Pentagon and Justice Department in protest over a proposal to house Guantanamo detainees at the Fort Leavenworth prison. The list [...]

The Conservatives: Polling firms may not have many fans, but if Democracy Corps has any, they include me. I like them because regardless of the national mood, James Carville and Stan Greenberg seem consistently to find that things are going swimmingly for Democrats. Take a look at the headlines for their polls this year: Don’t [...]

NewsBusters: This from a man of the cloth, no less. That Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant James Crowley may attend a baseball game together has the Rev. Al Sharpton concerned. Sharpton had this to say on his radio show on Monday while talking with Gates’ lawyer Charles Ogletree, who [...]

The Dana Show: You’ve heard a lot about this crazy, scary, vicious mob on some shadowy GOP payroll. By the way the DNC, Rachel Maddow, and President Obama talk, you’d think it was a motley crue of Hell’s Angels. Let me introduce you to the mob: I am the mob. My kids are the mob. [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and drugmakers Pfizer and Matrix Laboratories Ltd announced a deal on Thursday to lower the cost of treatments for patients with drug-resistant forms of HIV/AIDS. Second-line antiretroviral therapies and a drug used to treat tuberculosis for those with drug-resistant HIV/AIDS will be made available at a [...]

I found this so far, written not long before the vote. Will work to confirm it. If one of these senators belongs to you, you know exactly what to do. Get ACTIVE on their ass. Call their offices, tell them they will hurt at the polls. From The Atlantic: Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of laid-off U.S. workers submitting new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week, fanning hopes the fragile labor market was on the mend and that the broader economy was stabilizing. Initial claims for state unemployment insurance fell 38,000 to a seasonally adjusted 550,000 in the week ended August 1, [...]

RightWingNews: I do believe in foreign aid, free trade, and helping out other nations when it’s in America’s best interest. However, at a time when our country is running nearly a 2 trillion dollar deficit, I think we need to be asking some very hard questions about why we’re borrowing tens of billions of dollars [...]

National Review Online: Even a popular president like Barack Obama cannot win arguments against two forces: God and mathematics. While the president has openly shared his reverence for the former, he has decided to take on the latter. It’s a fight that he will lose. Upon taking office, President Obama decided to postpone his campaign [...]

ABC News: The White House Thursday morning expressed exasperation with news that a poll of indicating that only 53% of Virginians in a recent poll were sure that President Obama was born in the U.S. “You couldn’t sell this script in Hollywood,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters of the conspiracy theorists, called [...]

Speaking of Twitter, now that it’s back up, you can follow me for the latest patdollard.com news breaks, and personal updates. But I doubt you care about the latter. FOX News: NEW YORK — A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site [...]