Pat Dollard

Hillary Clinton have come to the defense of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, despite a damaging rift over his controversial remarks. President Barack Obama’s cabinet officers weighed in Sunday on behalf of Karzai after days of tensions between Washington and Kabul triggered by the Afghan president’s claims that foreign powers had orchestrated fraud in last year’s [...]

Fox News: Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday defended the soldiers shown firing on a group of people near Baghdad in a classified military video released last week, saying the troops were caught in a “split-second” situation and the video doesn’t show the “broader picture.” Gates acknowledged that the grainy, black-and-white video showing men on [...]

Pay close attention to tomorrow’s press conference. It appears there may be quite the fascinating tale to be told here. As Red State sums up about the AP story below it: So that is the story. Except there are some problems with it. The first one is a biggie in that there were no scheduled [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Even sweeter than Phil Mickelson slipping into another green jacket was seeing his wife waiting for him behind the 18th green at Augusta National with tears streaming down her face. Amy Mickelson, with her long blonde hair and easy smile, had not been at a tournament since she was diagnosed with breast [...]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Police in New Jersey believe they have solved one of the coldest cases in the state’s history: the disappearance of five Newark teenagers in 1978. After tracking leads for 32 years, two men were arrested March 22 and charged with herding the teens at gunpoint into an abandoned rowhouse, tying them [...]

Times Online: The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast doubt over Nato’s planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, as more than 10,000 American troops pour in for the fight. Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation — one of the biggest of the nine-year war — [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will file a formal complaint with the U.N. against the United States after President Barack Obama excluded Iran from a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Obama’s implicit threat to use nuclear [...]

The Hill: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the administration may have problems getting the START treaty signed last week ratified in the Senate. Lieberman said he’d arrived at his belief on the vote tally falling short after conversations with colleagues over the congressional recess. “I don’t believe that there will be 67 votes to ratify [...]

Times Online: IT may get rid of your wrinkles — but cost you your friends. Women who use Botox are sending the wrong social signals because their frozen facial muscles make it difficult for them to express the normal range of emotions. A new study suggests that Botox users struggle to frown, look angry or [...]

Times Online: RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”. Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse [...]

Times Of London: The bodies of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were being returned to Poland from Russia today as investigators began to analyse the black-box flight recordings of the moments before the plane in which they were travelling crashed. Relatives of many of the other 94 victims were arriving in Moscow to [...]

IRVING, Texas (AP) – Texas Stadium is nothing but a memory—and a huge mess. The longtime home of the Dallas Cowboys—known for the giant hole in its roof, “so God can watch his team,” according to local lore—came tumbling down early Sunday in a planned demolition. Fireworks shot off above the building for several minutes, [...]