Pat Dollard

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As angry as they might be, the professional left isn’t ready to back a primary challenger to President Obama just yet. Two high-profile liberals on Thursday said they are not interested in running against the president in 2012, and liberal bloggers say any challenge to Obama would be fraught with difficulty. “I haven’t heard of [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — After nine years of fighting in the deserts and mountains of the Middle East, the military has concluded that the traditional, hard-earned combat skills that allowed generations of “muddy boots” commanders to protect American interests around the world simply are not enough to assure victory in today’s wars — or [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington — The bull’s-eye is still on Target’s back. Last week, faced with waves of protests, retailer Target Corp. apologized for its $150,000 donation to an organization backing a Republican candidate with a long record of opposing gay rights. But the controversy has not gone away. Though the public demonstrations [...]

Agencie France Presse: An Afghan operation to flush out Taliban rebels and showcase growing military competence has turned into a debacle, with many troops dead or captured and commanders pleading for help, The New York Times reported Friday. A senior US official with knowledge of the mission — apparently not coordinated in advance with NATO [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – U.S. and Afghan forces stepped up operations against a Taliban faction linked to al-Qaida, arresting several key figures in the network in raids in two eastern provinces, NATO reported Friday. In the south, a member of the international coalition died Friday after an insurgent attack. NATO did not disclose the service [...]

Time Magazine: If same-sex weddings resume in California next Thursday, the happy couples may have more names to add to their thank-you lists than that of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, the San Francisco jurist who last week struck down the 2008 voter-approved constitutional amendment that made gay marriage illegal. They may have to address [...]

Los Angeles Times: When a federal judge last week struck down California’s Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, proponents of same-sex marriage cheered the decision at rallies in West Hollywood and San Francisco. Public displays of displeasure at U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s ruling were few and far between. But Walker’s decision struck an angry [...]

Arizona Republic: The Obama administration is committed to tough enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws and is not “pro-amnesty,” the director of the nation’s immigration-enforcement agency said Thursday. The Obama administration removed a record 380,000 people during the past fiscal year and made a priority of deporting illegal immigrants who pose the greatest threat to [...]

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s nuclear agency said Friday that it will load fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week, defying U.S. calls to hold off the start of the launch. Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said Friday that uranium fuel shipped by Russia will be loaded into the Bushehr reactor on Aug. 21, beginning [...]