Pat Dollard

Fox News: While most of the attention in the Delaware race to win Vice President Biden’s old Senate seat has focused on the Republican candidate, Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell, her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, is now coming under scrutiny — a development that could give O’Donnell’s lagging campaign a boost. Coons, 47, has already [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama, under pressure to demonstrate a connection to Americans still suffering in a weak economy, defended his economic program in starkly personal terms Monday, telling a CNBC town hall meeting of business leaders and ordinary citizens that he knows they’re hurting and he’s trying to help. The first two questioners from the [...]

The Hill: Republicans will unveil their new “Contract with America” in Virginia on Thursday, less than two months before election day.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and he has firsthand knowledge of that because they fix his house.

Politico: The White House is pushing back hard against a New York Times report that the president’s political team is considering a national ad campaign that would cast the GOP as taken over by tea party extremists. The story is “100 percent inaccurate,” a White House official told POLITICO. Times Washington Bureau Chief Dean Baquet [...]

New York Times: Picture a football game where the reporters and commentators, bored by the feckless proceedings on the field, suddenly poured out of the press box and took over the game. In politics, it seems as if the media is intent on not just keeping score but also calling plays. Consider that a popular [...]

NEWPORT, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn’t have knowingly killed his wife, his lawyer has notified a court. Woody Will Smith, 33, is scheduled for trial starting Monday on a [...]

The Hill: Primary victories by Tea Party candidates have given a boost to the so-called fair tax, a reform proposal that abolishes incomes taxes — and the IRS — and levies a tax on spending instead. The levy received little attention during the 2005 tax reform debate under President George W. Bush because experts warned [...]

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JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – The largest newspaper in Juarez asked the border city’s warring drug cartels Sunday for a truce after the killing last week of its second journalist in less than two years.

Politico: For much of the early part of the year, Sen. Lindsey Graham and the White House were locked in heated negotiations over legislation that could close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, move some of the war-on-terror prisoners there to the U.S. mainland and create a system to detain Al Qaeda members captured [...]