Pat Dollard

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A reformist Web site in Iran says clashes have erupted between security forces and opposition supporters in central Tehran. The Rah-e-Sabz site says forces including the Revolutionary Guard and paramilitary Basij forces confronted demonstrators on Saturday and broke the windows of cars that were honking horns in protest. Iran is marking [...]

And to call it Gitmo is to be polite… Wall Street Journal: At the height of Iran’s bloody civil unrest this year, a young doctor named Ramin Pourandarjani defied his superiors. He refused to sign death certificates at a Tehran prison that he said were falsified to cover up murder. He testified to a parliamentary [...]

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(CNN) — Actor Charlie Sheen was released from a Colorado jail Friday after he was arrested on domestic-violence-related charges, Aspen police said. Sheen, 44, was charged with second degree assault and menacing, both felonies, and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, police said. Additionally, Colorado law mandates a protective order between someone arrested for domestic violence and [...]

Fort Hood was the first succesful Muslim terrorist attack on the US since 9-11… Fox News: A male passenger on an international flight bound for Detroit Friday tried to blow up the plane with an explosive device in an incident that the White House is labeling an attempted act of terrorism. Several people were hurt [...]

ASHTABULA — Charges could be filed next week against a driver who may have caused a chain-reaction accident that killed a spectator and injured others viewing a live nativity scene outside an Ashtabula church early Wednesday night. Richard Seckman, 57, of Ashtabula, succumbed to injuries he suffered when he was struck by a pickup truck [...]

Fox News: The White House appears fine with letting John Kerry head over to Tehran to chat up Iran’s leaders, but the senator will be doing so of his own accord, a senior administration official said Thursday. The Massachusett Democrat’s office has not yet said whether Kerry will go, but if he does, it would [...]

Fox News: WASHINGTON — Two strange bedfellows have asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate President Obama’s right-hand man, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, for his potential role in the near collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The letter by Jane Hamsher, founder of the liberal Firedoglake Web site, and Grover Norquist, [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistani police are pursuing terrorism charges against five detained American men, police said Friday, a move that could complicate efforts to bring the men back to the United States where they could also land in the courts. The case has bolstered fears that Americans and other Westerners are heading to Pakistan to [...]

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI delivered his traditional Christmas Day blessing Friday, looking tired and unsteady but otherwise fine hours after being knocked down by a woman who jumped the barrier at the start of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican said the 82-year-old Benedict was unhurt in the fall and that [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – A helicopter fired warning shots toward a suspected pirate skiff, where six Somali men sat among assault rifles, grappling hooks and an aluminum ladder. But before it could be boarded by sailors from a nearby warship, the men threw all the gear overboard. With little evidence to convict them, the would-be [...]

GAZA (Reuters) – As an Israeli drone flew overhead, a masked Hamas spokesman said the Islamist group would not shirk from battle with Israel, which carried out a powerful Gaza offensive a year ago. “We do not wish for war. We wish for calm and peace for our people,” Abu Ubaida, spokesman for Hamas’s armed [...]