Pat Dollard

ABC News: The U.S. Navy has used a a laser weapon to shoot down four unmanned aerial vehicles in a test that rings up memories of Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense shield in the 1980s. The successful test of the Laser Weapon System off the coast of California was announced during the Farnborough International [...]

Chicago (AP) – – — Attorneys for Rod Blagojevich said Tuesday they disagree about whether the ousted Illinois governor should testify in his own defense — as he has long promised — and whether they should call any defense witnesses at all. If Blagojevich does not testify, it would bring an unexpectedly swift end to [...]

The Washington Post: President Obama and his political aides privately acknowledge that the government’s decision to sue Arizona over its new immigration law is helping to fuel an anti-immigration fervor that could benefit some Republicans in elections this fall. But White House officials have concluded that, over the long term, the Republicans’ get-tough message is [...]

CNS News: The Commerce Department’s Inspector General (IG) has confirmed whistleblower allegations that management at a local Census office in Brooklyn, N.Y., “directed employees to falsify Census questionnaires during” the decennial count’s largest and most expensive operation known as Non-response Follow-Up. Furthermore, the IG noted that during the Census Bureau’s efforts to re-count the fabricated [...]

Rasmussen: With the deepwater oil leak apparently capped after three months of gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, support for both offshore oil drilling and drilling further out in deepwater remains largely unchanged. Most voters also remain concerned about the potential environmental impact of new drilling. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that [...]

Hot Air: Via Tommy Christopher of Mediaite, here’s the denial from an unnamed “official.” Whom to believe — Sherrod, who told not only Fox News but CNN and the AP that she was informed her resignation had been demanded from on high, or the same people who assured us that they never offered Joe Sestak [...]

Bloomberg: A lawyer for Facebook Inc. said she was “unsure” whether company founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that purportedly entitles a New York man to 84 percent of the world’s biggest social-networking service. Paul Ceglia sued Facebook and Zuckerberg in state court June 30, claiming that an April 2003 contract entitles him to ownership [...]

Washington Times: An Obama administration effort to rein in states treading toward using new health care laws to fund abortions – and provide political cover for pro-life Democrats – reignited a politically explosive issue that Republicans and pro-life activists are eager to exploit in the lead-up to the fall midterm elections. Seizing on a Health [...]

Can’t Michelle Obama should force this little witch to go through an extreme weight-loss boot-camp regimen as part of her national childhood obesity campaign? As a dyke, she’d make a great twofer Leftist poster child… JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A teenage lesbian who sued her school district over its ban of same-sex prom dates has [...]

The Hill: On Thursday afternoon the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Information Policy, census and the National Archives will hold its hearing on federal agencies’ use of Web 2.0 technologies during which Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is expected to continue his campaign to find out if White House staffers have used third-party websites and personal [...]

The Hill: Senate Democrats are gathering Thursday to see if they can get closer to determining details and a strategy for moving a climate and energy plan that may hit the floor next week. “We’re going to be making a decision in the near future,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday. That includes [...]

Bloomberg: A son of Osama bin Laden said about 20 members of his family stranded in Iran are seeking sanctuary in a third country and that the U.S. may agree to accept them. Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader’s fourth son, said in an interview with Al Arabiya television that Iran is refusing to allow [...]