Pat Dollard

AZ Central.Com: The average person’s sex life ends by age 70, according to a report published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal. At age 30, men have an average of 35 years of sexually active life remaining, compared with 31 years for women, researchers at the University of Chicago’s department of obstetrics and gynecology estimated [...]

Bloomberg: Election-Year Jobs Push Recalls Nixon’s ‘72 Toilet-Paper Gambit In 1972, when he was trying to spur the economy to win re-election, President Richard Nixon’s Defense Department bought a two-year supply of toilet paper. Nixon was participating in what economists call the political business cycle, election-year efforts by politicians to prod the economy before voters [...]

CNN: Washington – House Democrats appear to be softening their pledge to allow the public 72 hours to review the health care reform package online before a House vote. “We will certainly give as much notice as possible, but I’m not going to say that 72 hours is going to be the litmus test,” said [...]

Related: Man At Wheel Of “Runaway” Prius Has Troubled Financial Past SAN DIEGO (AP) – Investigators with Toyota and the federal government were unable to make a Toyota Prius speed out of control as its owner said it did on a California freeway, according to a memorandum obtained Saturday by The Associated Press. A congressional [...]

Washington Post: President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. on Wednesday compared the president to a son who was being treated unfairly and said it had been hard weathering the media storm after Obama became a serious contender for the White House and controversy erupted over Wright’s fiery sermons. In a rare post-election [...]

Jene (juh-nay) Newsome Rapid City (AP) – – Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old’s honorable discharge under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate [...]

Today was National Coffee Party Day. From The Daily Caller: If Tea Partiers are more comfortable waving signs at a health-care protest, these activists seem much more at ease with a cup of java inside the calm confines of a coffee shop. This weekend marks the kick-off of the Coffee Parties across the country— which [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a “bitter, destructive and endless” drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous. “An entire year has gone to waste,” Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. “Millions [...]

DENVER (AP) – An American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, Irish police said Saturday. Seven people—including the American woman, three Algerians, a Libyan, a Palestinian and a Croatian—were arrested Tuesday in Ireland. Irish police said three others who [...]

Irish Central: An American grandmother has spoken of her fears for her 6-year-old grandson who has been placed in foster care in Ireland following the arrest of his mother in the “Jihad Jane” plot. Christine Mott says her daughter Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, took her 6-year-old son with her when she abruptly left for Ireland in [...]

Sacramento Bee: It was every businessperson’s nightmare. Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. “They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff. The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager [...]

ATLANTA (AP) – President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration’s help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries. A plan to overhaul the 2002 education law championed by President George W. Bush was [...]

HONOLULU (AP) – Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they’ve ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.

“If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America?”

New York Times: WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, had a little political advice last week for President Obama and the Democrats: Don’t pass the president’s health care legislation because you would risk losing in the midterm elections. Mr. Obama laughed about it afterward. “I generally wouldn’t take advice about what’s good for [...]