Pat Dollard

The Daily Mail: Tony Blair is to use his extensive network of religious leaders to launch a ‘faith offensive’ across America within the next 12 months. The former Prime Minister, who launched the Tony Blair Faith Foundation in May 2008, is poised to develop a U.S.-based arm for the charity, which will pursue a variety [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Yemen’s embassy in Washington says its nation’s air force launched an airstrike on an al-Qaida base ahead of a likely terror attack. The airstrike was carried out Sunday in Yemen’s Abyan province. Yemen’s ministry of defense, in a statement released by the embassy, said the al-Qaida group was planning “an imminent attack [...]

Contempt The Hill: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the healthcare bill will pass by next weekend. “We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.” Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will be talking about healthcare not as [...]

Los Angeles Times: As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. “I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people [...]

Jake Tapper’s Political Punch: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham dismissed White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod’s health care reform comments on “This Week” as campaign “spin” and that the “American people are getting tired of this crap.” In my “This Week” interview with Graham, he told me that if Democrats pass health care reform using reconciliation, [...]

Times Online: Imagine arriving home after a fortnight’s holiday in the sun to find a deluge of mail and your burglar alarm going off. There is no sign of a break-in but an offence has been committed — by you. Under laws introduced by Labour, if you have failed to nominate a keyholder who can [...]

Jerusalem Post: German campaigners demand disclosure of dossier on Nazi’s flight to Argentina. Campaigners in Germany are challenging the 50-year secrecy order that binds files on Adolf Eichmann’s flight from Germany after World War II, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday. According to the dissenters, led by German journalist Gabriele Weber, the dossier may contain [...]

The Telegraph: Ayman Najafi, 24, a marketing consultant who lives in Dubai, and Charlotte Adams, 25, an estate agent from North London, were said to have been touching each other and kissing passionately as they dined with friends in a beachfront restaurant. They were arrested and sentenced to a month in prison after which they [...]

The Daily Record: The cat: Common, popular house pet or exotic, dangerous animal? A number of animal activists have contacted state officials in an effort to head off a potential reclassification of feral cats, which could end the growing number of programs that trap, neuter and return them back into neighborhoods or the wild, and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The House’s chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn’t rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House’s top political adviser said he was “absolutely confident” in its prospects. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs predicted House passage this week, [...]

Fox News: Expressing an increasing confidence that a massive health care overhaul will pass Congress — despite dire warnings from Republicans about its impact on Democrats in November — White House officials on Sunday dared the GOP to bring it on during this fall’s 2010 midterm election. “We’re happy to have the 2010 elections be [...]

SHANGHAI, March 13 (Reuters) – Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. It said in a report on its website Google (GOOG.O) had drawn up detailed plans for [...]

Harold Estes Snopes Certified Dear President Obama, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and [...]