Pat Dollard

Still from a video by Pat Dollard We didn’t know it at the time, but according to the rancher whose land we were on, the whole time we were at the border fence, we were under the watchful binoculared eyes of very deadly insurgents. The rancher, who I am calling American Rancher X (so pseudonymed [...]

CNBC: The Federal Reserve is undertaking a “dangerous gamble” by keeping rates at near zero for so long, and must start raising rates or risk damaging the nascent U.S. recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said on Friday. “To be clear, I am not advocating a tight monetary policy,” Kansas City Reserve Bank President Thomas [...]

Washington Post: The U.S. Coast Guard in recent years has fought international terrorism, defended Iraqi pipelines and patrolled for pirates in the Arabian Sea. Its work in such high-visibility missions accelerated after Sept. 11, 2001, when Congress swept the Coast Guard into the Homeland Security Department. More funding followed. But the changes had the unintended [...]

Fox News: WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is threatening to release a second set of classified Pentagon documents related to the Afghan war, but fallout from his first document dump has left him with virtually no support. The White House is against him. The Pentagon is against him. American public opinion is against him. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials on Friday approved a new type of morning-after contraceptive that works longer than the current leading drug on the market. The pill ella from HRA Pharma reduces the chance of pregnancy up to five days after sex. Plan B, the most widely used emergency contraceptive pill, begins losing its [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill directing $600 million more to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, a modest election-year victory that underscores his failure so far to deliver an overhaul of immigration law. The new law will pay for the hiring of 1,000 more Border Patrol agents to be deployed at [...]

Fox News: A regularly scheduled “business meeting” of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday turned into a fiery shout fest — finger-pointing and all — over whether the Justice Department was “stonewalling” their investigation into a controversial voting rights case, whether that investigation has been fruitful, and whether the commission can even fulfill [...]

Tampay Bay.com: Gov. Charlie Crist’s job approval ratings have dropped to an all-time low for him — 44 percent — and represent the lowest posted by a Florida governor in 16 years, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll. This is the first time Crist’s job performance has dropped below 50 percent. The Mason-Dixon poll found [...]

Washington Times: For all the brouhaha over Republicans wanting to review the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, the citizenship/birthright clause, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, once supported revising the current interpretation of the birthright citizenship clause in 1993. Mr. Reid introduced a bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Immigration Stabilization Act [...]

New York Times: With Gov. David A. Paterson by his side, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Wednesday distanced himself from an effort by Mr. Paterson to persuade the developers of a Muslim cultural center and mosque in Lower Manhattan to build farther away from ground zero. Mr. Paterson on Tuesday made the suggestion of offering [...]

New York Times: Michael R. Bloomberg is a former Wall Street mogul with a passion for the rights of a private property owner. He is a Jew whose parents asked their Christian lawyer to buy a house and then sell it back to them to hide their identity in an unwelcoming Massachusetts suburb. And he [...]

While a majority of American voters think the Muslim group that wants to put a mosque near ground zero has the right to build it there, most think it would be wrong to do so. A Fox News poll released Friday found that 61 percent of voters think the Muslim group has the right to [...]

CNN: U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene, a political unknown who became the surprise winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary, was indicted Friday by a grand jury on obscenity charges. Greene was indicted on one felony count of “disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity,” according to the Richland County clerk of courts. He was also indicted [...]

SEATTLE (AP) – A Washington State Patrol trooper was pinned in his car, dazed and bleeding profusely from a neck injury after a rollover accident, but the first people who stopped by the side of the road didn’t help. Instead, two motorcyclists, who were part of a group the trooper had been chasing before he [...]

Live Science: Friday the 13th is synonymous with bad luck and superstitions – so much so that some people flat-out refuse to fly, make business deals or get married on this fateful day. As many as 21 million people in the United States are fearful of Friday the 13th, according to the Stress Management Center [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Protestors have been rallying outside Target Corp. or its stores almost daily since the retailer angered gay rights supporters and progressives by giving money to help a conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota. Liberal groups are pushing to make an example of the company, hoping its woes will deter other [...]