Pat Dollard

A stunning display of National Security at it’s worst (best?). CBS: SILVER SPRING, Md. (CBS/AP) A teacher at the elite institution where President Obama’s children, Sasha and Malia, go to school has been charged with sex abuse of a minor and is out on $250,000 bond. The private D.C.-area school, Sidwell Friends, attended by the [...]

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin and henchman “Chemical Ali” was executed on Monday, Iraq’s government said, eight days after he was sentenced to death for the 1998 gassing of thousands of Kurds. Ali Hassan al-Majid was better known by his macabre nickname and as the King of Spades in the pack of cards [...]

The Mirror: Two men were stopped boarding US-bound planes at Heathrow days before Britain’s terror threat was raised to “severe”. News of the incidents came hours after Home Secretary Alan Johnson lifted the threat level amid fears that al-Qaeda is planning an attack. The new level, which means an attack is reckoned “highly likely”, is [...]

Free Republic: My fellow Freepers, the biggest liberal in the Republican Party, Mark Kirk of Illinois, is less than two weeks away from winning the GOP Primary for the US Senate seat. Illinois has the earliest of all primaries in the country (Feb 2nd). Polls show him up over the conservative Patrick Hughes by double [...]

Red State: Pat Brady, the Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, says the anti-Mark Kirk element within the GOP is ‘fringe.’ That’s actually not quite true and is precisely why so many conservatives in Illinois don’t like Brady or Kirk — they feel repeated disrespected and treated as fringe. In fact, considering how active the [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) – The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday. Biden’s announcement after a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shows just how diplomatically sensitive the incident remains nearly three years later. A [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) – Ray Vivier had been an adventurer, an ex-Marine who explored the country from South Carolina to Alaska, the father of five children. The 61-year-old also was a man starting to get his life back together after living for years in a shanty beneath a Cleveland bridge. He had struggled with alcoholism, [...]

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey. The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only [...]

FOX News: Two sources tell Fox News that all charges have been withdrawn in the military commissions against the five 9/11 suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. The charges were dropped “without prejudice,” the sources told Fox News — a procedural move that allows federal officials to transfer the men to trial in a civilian [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to ‘severe’ — its second highest level of terror alert — from ‘substantial’ on Friday, Home Secretary (interior minister) Alan Johnson said. “The Joint Terrorism Analysis Center has today raised the threat to the UK from international terrorism from substantial to severe. This means that [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market and illustrating nationwide data released two weeks ago. The rise in joblessness was a sharp change from November, when 36 states said their unemployment rates fell. Four states—South Carolina, Delaware, Florida and [...]

Times Online: A defence contractor will voluntarily stop stamping references to Bible verses on combat rifle sights made for the US military. In a statement released yesterday, Trijicon said that it is also providing free modification kits to remove the references from the telescopic sights already in use. The Marine Corps has purchased more than [...]

The Washington Examiner: It seems like a pretty simple question. Who made the decision to charge Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the accused terrorist arrested for trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day, as an everyday criminal, as opposed to an enemy combatant? After all, Abdulmutallab was trained by al Qaeda, equipped with [...]

Politico: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says she was “stunned at the arrogance” when Sen. Arlen Specter told her recently to “act like a lady.” The two were on a Philadelphia radio show Wednesday when the Pennsylvania Democrat grew frustrated with Bachmann. “I’m going to treat you like a lady,” Specter said to Bachmann. “Now act [...]