Pat Dollard

FOX News: WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday he will decide on new troops for Afghanistan in “the coming weeks.” He told reporters that decisions on the military front were important but just one aspect of the improvements needed to the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. He said an important element is building up civilian capacity [...]

FOX News: The mother of a second-grader says she hopes to get some answers Wednesday night as to why her daughter was videotaped with the rest of her class singing the praises of President Obama at a New Jersey elementary school last spring. Andrea Ciemnolonski, of Burlington, N.J., said she’ll attend a 6 p.m. “work [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – The Wall Street Journal has surpassed USA Today as the top-selling daily newspaper in the United States. The Audit Bureau of Circulations won’t be releasing its latest figures until Oct. 26, but the Journal said Wednesday that it gained about 12,000 subscribers in the April-September period, compared with a year earlier. [...]

USA Today: Democratic members of the House of Representatives now represent most of the nation’s wealthiest people, a sharp turnaround from the long-standing dominance that Republicans have held over affluent districts. A USA TODAY analysis of new Census data found that Democrats represent a far different constituency today than they did in 2005, when they [...]

(AP) The vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur says tests of its swine flu vaccine suggest that children under 10 may need two doses to be fully protected. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Wednesday’s news is not surprising. This age group needs two doses of regular seasonal vaccine for full immunity to develop. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Health care talks slip back behind closed doors Wednesday as Senate leaders start trying to merge two very different bills into a new version that can get the 60 votes needed to guarantee its passage. All eyes are on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has said he wants to [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with Al Qaeda that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Usama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group’s leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press. Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, [...]

World Net Daily: An explosive new book based on a daring six-month undercover operation exposing the subversive agenda of the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals the Muslim group spent $160,000 in an unsuccessful effort to run top-rated nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage off the air. Internal CAIR documents uncovered in “Muslim Mafia: Inside the [...]

The Hill: Four House Republicans are accusing a Muslim advocacy group of trying to plant spies on Capitol Hill. Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have tried to plant “spies” within key national security committees in order to shape legislative policy. Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), John [...]

So what Obama’s outstretched hand, new era babbling about how the world is going to be so nice to us and everyone if we just start being nice to them, start kissing their asses, what his “restart button, what his cowardly abandonment of the missile defense system in Poland gets us…nothing…precisely what it has gotten [...]

Politico: A major Senate climate change bill is written and ready to be debated before the Environment and Public Works committee, the chairwoman of the panel said Tuesday. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s legislation would distribution of tens of billions of dollars of pollution allowances to power plants, manufacturing, and other industries. It will mirror cap and [...]

New York Post: Ben Bernanke’s dollar crisis went into a wider mode yesterday as the greenback was shockingly upstaged by the euro and yen, both of which can lay claim to the world title as the currency favored by central banks as their reserve currency. Over the last three months, banks put 63 percent of [...]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Among the six people arrested for planting hemp seeds on the lawn of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration offices was a 51-year-old North Dakota farmer. Wayne Hauge and Republican state legislator David Monson received North Dakota’s first state licenses to grow industrial hemp in 2007. But they’ve never received approval from [...]