Pat Dollard

Mary Fallin OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – One broke the gender barrier in Oklahoma politics, holding a statewide seat for a dozen years before winning two terms in Congress. The other succeeded her at the lieutenant governor’s office and narrowly defeated the state’s 16-year attorney general in the state’s top political matchup — so far — [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) – A government official says all 152 people on board a plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan’s capital were killed. Imtiaz Elahi, the chairman of the Capital Development Authority, told The Associated Press that earlier reports of five survivors from the crash were wrong and that all aboard died. The Capital [...]

Washington Times: by Kara Rowland The summer of the discontented voter steams onward and, unfortunately for President Obama, polls show voters are no longer blaming the bad times on the George W. Bush administration. Add Hispanics to the growing list of Obama supporters disgruntled by aspects of the presidents performance, in what has become for [...]

Related: Pentagon Investigates Gay Rights Activist Soldier As Source Of Wikileaks Leak – With Video Fox News: Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces. In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times [...]

ABC News: Al Qaeda’s second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri has surfaced again, this time threatening more attacks against the U.S. and the West. “Oh American people…We offered you a peace plan, and mutual benefit; but your governments were proud and haughty, and so the attacks against you followed one after another, everywhere – from Indonesia [...]

Fox News: An anti-immigration group is calling on the Obama administration to ensure a smooth exit for illegal immigrants who are trying to leave the U.S. due to the weak economy and Arizona’s strict new immigration law. Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is urging U.S. citizens to pressure the White House and the Homeland [...]

The Hill: Time is running out for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to decide whether to make a deal or go ahead with a public ethics trial that could hurt his party. Rangel came under growing pressure on Tuesday to agree to a settlement with the House ethics panel before Thursday’s scheduled organizational meeting, where the [...]

The Arizona Republic: We are now less than 48 hours until Senate Bill 1070 becomes the law of the state – unless, of course, Judge Susan Bolton nixes the whole thing. Already, the barricades are up at the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse where Bolton works, awaiting thousands of expected protestors. Busloads of folks will [...]

Boston.com: The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote. “What we are submitting is the idea that the president should be selected by the majority of people in the United States of [...]

A tow boat slammed into an abandoned well north of a bay already hit by crude from the Gulf oil spill, sending a plume of oil and gas spewing into the air Tuesday. (July 27)

Bloomberg: About 18.9 million homes in the U.S. stood empty during the second quarter as surging foreclosures helped push ownership to the lowest level in a decade.

He’s probably deathly afraid of getting caught with a hard-on as the little ones stroll by in their shorts… Fox News: President Obama will make history as the first sitting president on a daytime talk show when he visits with the ladies of “The View.” But he’ll be missing out on another historic occasion — [...]