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Breitbart: A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching Big Peace. (Continue) Editor’s note: Yes, I, Pat Dollard, am a contributor at the [...]

Politico: Sen. Jim DeMint said Sunday that Sen. Lindsey Graham, a fellow South Carolina Republican, is “wrong” to say the tea party movement will “die out.” Graham told the New York Times as part of a profile in Sunday’s magazine that the tea aprty movement is “unsustainable” because “they can never come up with a [...]

Fox News: Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday urged Gen. David Petraeus to change the rules of engagement “as soon as possible” for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying the strict policy has “hurt morale” among American military. The Connecticut independent senator, speaking from Kabul on “Fox News Sunday,” said the incoming commander told him he was [...]

USA Today: Forbes magazine says it’s absolute bunk that Tiger Woods is about to pay wife Elin Nordegren $750 million in a divorce settlement. That figure has been tossed around for a couple of months in reports, with no named sourcing, and the rumor picked up speed this week when an English tabloid, The Sun, [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — The White House sent a powerful signal this week by permitting Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal to retire with all of his four stars, but the general’s most important mentor, Adm. Mike Mullen, still described him as “crushed” during the shock of a transition from commanding nearly 100,000 American troops in [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Children often ask the question “Who am I?” as they come of age, but that’s nothing like the identity crisis now confronting the sons and daughters of four couples accused of spying for Russia. Over a turbulent week, at least some, and maybe all, have discovered that mom and dad are [...]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The latest hopes are riding on a massive new skimmer to clean oil from near the spewing well in the Gulf of Mexico, while a local Louisiana parish’s plan to block the slick has been rejected by federal officials. A 48-hour test of the Taiwanese vessel dubbed “A Whale” began Saturday [...]

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Benjamin Netanyahu, more American than Obama, at a 4th of July celebration in Israel New York Times: WASHINGTON — It was only one paragraph buried deep in the most plain-vanilla kind of diplomatic document, 40 pages of dry language committing 189 nations to a world free of nuclear weapons. But it has become the latest [...]

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A dozen Mexican states hold elections Sunday after a campaign marred by assassinations and other scandals that displayed drug cartels’ power. The party that ruled Mexico for 71 years hoped to capitalize on frustrations over the bloodshed and gain momentum in its bid to regain the presidency in two years. [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring “we are in this to win” despite rising casualties and growing skepticism about the nearly 9-year-old war. During a ceremony at NATO headquarters, Petraeus received two flags — one for the U.S. and the other [...]