Pat Dollard

US News & World Report: Not everybody was pleased with President Obama’s uncharacteristic line on the Today Show, spoken in the pre-school hours Tuesday morning, that he wants some “ass to kick” in the Gulf oil crisis. Becky Quick, who co-hosts Squawk Box with lead anchor Joe Kernen and co-host Carl Quintanilla, slapped Obama for [...]

Rasmussen: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering several ways to help the struggling newspaper industry, but Americans strongly reject several proposed taxes to keep privately-owned newspapers going. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 84% oppose a three percent (3%) tax on monthly cell phone bills to help newspapers and traditional journalism. [...]

New York Times: Apartment 3E at 142 West 109th Street looks like a pretty straightforward New York City apartment. It’s a one-bedroom third-floor walk-up with a windowless office and only a little corner to call a kitchen. It has exposed brick walls and wood floors. It’s a couple of blocks to the subway. But it [...]

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Politico: South Carolina’s freak show politics, the progressive left’s Arkansas muscle flexing, the astounding and obscene amount of statewide election spending in California — at least $120 million-plus and rising — all of it is part of Tuesday’s dramatic primary election narrative. Yet the headline-grabbing excesses of a few states have obscured a larger fact: [...]

Fox News: Don’t point fingers. Don’t make excuses. Don’t pass the buck. That was the advice President Obama gave to a graduating high school class in Michigan Monday night — advice that sent off an irony alert among Republicans who accuse the president of having “spent his tenure” doing exactly that. Obama offered his guidance [...]

Jerusalem Post: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that they don’t plan to export natural gas to Israel via a new pipeline to Turkey. “There is no such thing on our agenda,” Erdogan said at a news conference with Putin in Istanbul when asked about the gas. Russia [...]

The man heading the Obama regime’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico says a containment cap installed on the BP rig is helping to limit the leak.

Related: “Angry, Dismayed”: Progressives Seek To Gain Momentum At “America’s Future Now” Conference Washington Post: Raucous demonstrators greeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a gathering of progressive activists in Washington on Tuesday morning, forcing her to yell her 28-minute policy speech over their loud and uninterrupted protests. It was a bizarre scene at the [...]

From Mediaite: Depending on your frame of reference, Jaime Escalante or Admiral William Adama, (apparently Obama voters), think Obama has “lost it” due to his response to the BP oil spill. Actor Edward James Olmos told Anderson Cooper as much last night. But while actors are talking to Cooper, BP is mostly avoiding the CNN [...]

Fox News: Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room last week, a police spokesman said. Peru’s chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press that Van der Sloot [...]

The Hill: Two senior Republicans are demanding to know if the Justice Department played a role in administration job talks with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and Colorado Democratic senate
 candidate Andrew Romanoff.

 Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) on Tuesday sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to provide “any [...]

The Hill: Organized labor faces an Arkansas showdown with the Democratic establishment on Tuesday. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Unions and their allies have spent more than $6.5 million to take down Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and turn Arkansas into yet another symptom of a national anti-incumbent mood. Voters will also select Republican [...]

Washington Examiner: In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Croft. “When you sit down and you look at [your] resume,” Croft said to Obama, “there’s no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I’m wrong, the only thing that you’ve [...]