Pat Dollard

Calling the perps bad guys may well be next…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday called into question the Navy’s heavy and expensive arsenal of ships and subs. In a speech before naval officers and contractors, Gates did not say he was planning to cut any programs or its budget. But he did say the military must rethink whether it can [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States Monday of committing “acts of terror” and blamed the host nation at a U.N. nonproliferation conference for a worldwide spread of nuclear weapons, prompting representatives from the U.S., Britain and France to walk out. Using the United Nations’ stage as a platform to lecture nuclear-armed nations, Ahmadinejad [...]

Fox News: YFOXNY.COM – New York City’s police commissioner says there’s no evidence of a Taliban link to a failed bomb found in an SUV parked in Times Square but said he couldn’t rule them out. On Sunday, Fox 5 reported on a Reuters story that the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bomb [...]

AZ Central: Crowds gather at Arizona Capitol Small crowds gather to protest immigration law. Protesters gathered in Phoenix and Tucson Saturday for May Day rallies as anger over Arizona’s strict immigration law continues to fester. Latino activists, students, laborers and mothers with children in strollers met on the state Capitol lawn under the eye of [...]

Arizona Republic: Some community and city leaders are worrying that doors may go unanswered today in many hard-to-count communities across Arizona when Census Bureau workers begin visiting homes of people who have yet to return their census forms. The concern is that people will fear being arrested and deported if they talk to Census workers [...]

Arizona Republic: Seventeen people were detained overnight in the search for suspects in Friday¹s shooting of Pinal County Sheriff¹s Deputy Louis Puroll by suspected drug smugglers in an isolated area of south-central Arizona. Pinal County Lt. Tami Villar says 14 of those detained are suspected of being illegal immigrants, while three match the description of [...]

Washington, D.C., (AP) – – Immigrant advocates are being arrested in front of the White House fence, after sitting down and defying orders from police. About three dozen protesters and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois joined in the civil disobedience Saturday. They held a sign saying, “Obama, Stop deporting our Families.” Some wore T-shirts [...]

Ann Arbor (AP) – -President Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who denigrate government as “inherently bad” and said their off-base line of attack ignores the fact that in a democracy, “government is us.” Obama used his commencement speech at the University of Michigan to respond to foes who portray government [...]

HUTAL, Afghanistan (AP) — In the U.S. Army, Casey Thoreen is just a 30-year-old captain. Around here, he’s known as the “King of Maiwand” district — testimony to the fact that without the young captain and a fat international wallet, local government here as in much of the insurgency-ravaged south could not function at all. [...]

VENICE, La. (AP) — The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago. The newly named federal point man for the oil spill said it was impossible to pinpoint [...]

Vera Baker, accused whore ,The last time the Enquirer broke a high-profile political sex scandal, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Meidiate: “The claim is simply too damaging for the publicity rewards to outweigh the risk of publishing such a falsehood– this isn’t exactly an Anderson Cooper adoption story. Somewhat adding to its credibility [...]

The Hill: President Barack Obama warned Saturday that a wave of campaign spending by special interests could overwhelm this year’s elections unless campaign finance reform legislation is passed. In his weekly radio address, Obama said the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in January this year that removed restrictions on corporate and union political spending could [...]