Pat Dollard

Mediaite: Alvin Greene, South Carolina’s Democratic nominee for Senate ventured out into public for the first time today to address a local NAACP chapter meeting in South Carolina. His rambling, talking point-filled speech — which had been written, double-spaced, in a spiral notebook — if nothing else quickly made one thing clear: all the mystery [...]

Washington (AP) – – Abortion foes have scored a victory and traditional allies of the Obama administration are grumbling about a decision to ban most abortion coverage in insurance pools for those unable to purchase health care on their own. The Catholic bishops “welcome this new policy,” said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, although he added the [...]

Related: Introducing G-Pal And The Arizona Border Operation, Summer 2010 Why We Fight by Mark Harvey of The Snooper Report We are now on The Border but we have to make something known to all of you. There are murdering scum oozing across our southern borders, armed, with ill intent. So what is their ill [...]

The Telegraph: In his first major speech on the theme of the “Big Society” since winning the election, the Prime Minister will announce the “biggest redistribution of power from elites in Whitehall to the man and woman on the street”. Mr Cameron – who is keen to present his administration as offering optimistics new policies [...]

Financial Times: BP said on Sunday its containment cap was holding back oil from the Macondo well and would, therefore, remain in place until a relief well shut off the leak completely. The cap, which BP and US authorities had presented as a “test’’ in temporarily holding back the oil gushing into the Gulf of [...]

Politico: America is struggling with a sputtering economy and high unemployment — but times are booming for Washington’s governing class. The massive expansion of government under President Barack Obama has basically guaranteed a robust job market for policy professionals, regulators and contractors for years to come. The housing market, boosted by the large number of [...]

Irish Times: Credit agency Moodys has downgraded Ireland’s government bond ratings to Aa2, blaming banking liabilities, weak growth prospects and a substantial increase in the debt to GDP ratio. The general government debt-to-GDP ratio was at 64 per cent at the end of last year, up from 25 per cent before the financial crisis took [...]

CNBC: Engineers monitoring BP’s damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico detected seepage on the ocean floor that could mean problems with the cap that has stopped oil from gushing into the water, the U.S. government’s top oil spill official said on Sunday. Earlier on Sunday, BP officials had expressed hope that the test of [...]

Forbes: Hugo Chavez seems to like Twitter as a mouthpiece for power. Since joining the service last April, he’s sent 522 messages, sometimes dozens a day, all apparently from his BlackBerry. But he’s not such a fan of uncensored microblogging from the masses. Last week two Venezuelans, a 35-year old woman and a 41-year old [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department failed to consider the economic fallout when it told General Motors and Chrysler to quickly shutter many dealerships as part of government-led bankruptcies, a federal watchdog found. A report released Sunday by the special inspector general for the government’s bailout program raised questions about whether the Obama administration’s auto [...]

Iran’s Press TV: Saudi security forces are reportedly involved in training terrorists operating in Iraq, where political leaders are pushing to form a ruling coalition. Reports from Saudi Arabia say militants are assembled in a base set up outside Abha in the Red Sea province of Asir where they receive training on how to carry [...]