Pat Dollard

Wake up call: Russia has been conducting a proxy war on the United States through iran, North Korea, Venezuela and others for years, and yet no one speaks of it, even as they prepare to choke us with a new nuclear collar they are building around our throat. The Joker, as usual, responds to this [...]

Washington Post: KABUL — The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement’s money supply. Obama administration officials say the single largest source of cash [...]

Unstimulated… New York Times: Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse. Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. [...]

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Whose greatest President? Politico: President Barack Obama used a dinner-time address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to make an impassioned plea for health care reform, placing it in the tradition of the civil rights struggle. Obama, who last year addressed the group as one of its members, was hailed as “our great president” by [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. and its five allies trying to stop Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program plan to tell Tehran in a key meeting on Thursday that it must provide “unfettered access” to its previously secret Qom enrichment facility within weeks, a senior administration official says. The allies—the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, China and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is offering Iran “a serious, meaningful dialogue” over its disputed nuclear program, while warning Tehran of grave consequences from a united global front. “Iran’s leaders must now choose—they can live up to their responsibilities and achieve integration with the community of nations. Or they will face increased pressure and [...]

August? What August? Politico: Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in [...]

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That’s Glenn on the right, 1973 Examiner.Com: Last week we reported on the city of Mount Vernon bestowing a “key to the city” to ubiquitous media talk host Glenn Beck at an upcoming event on September 26th. It turns out Beck is going to be in Seattle for a major event at Safeco Field (home [...]