Pat Dollard

Fox News: President Obama “was socked by the intensity of Republican opposition” in the past 20 months, but is “getting his groove back,” former President Bill Clinton said Sunday.

Market Watch: In what he calls an “educational video” that’s widely circulated on YouTube, comedian Chris Rock offers advice on what to do when you get pulled over for a traffic violation. “Obey the law” he says. “Stop immediately” and “stay in your car with your hands on the wheel.” Finally, “if your woman is [...]

Washington Times: President Obama’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Fay Hartog Levin, and senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, a shortlist candidate for White House chief of staff if Rahm Emanuel leaves to run for mayor of Chicago, have ownership interests in a multimillion-dollar, 46-story luxury apartment building in Chicago – a business relationship that predates the [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Kern County, Calif. — As investors tire of Wall Street’s roller coaster, more of them are plowing their money into land — farmland. Few people understand this shift better than farm manager Carl Evers. On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his [...]

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said. White House [...]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Organizers say Lady Gaga is visiting Maine’s largest city to join a rally against the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. The singer is expected to join a Servicemembers Legal Defense Network event near the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus Monday. Network spokesman Trevor Thomas says she’ll stand [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Britain’s military handed the U.S. responsibility Monday for a dangerous district in southern Afghanistan that has been the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting by British troops. NATO said the 40 Commando Royal Marines were being reassigned throughout central Helmand province, which remains a volatile battleground even though tens of [...]

DETROIT (AP) – Investment bankers handling the upcoming General Motors Co. stock sale are expected to court foreign investors as well as those in North America, according to a U.S. Treasury Department statement. GM and the Treasury Department would not comment Sunday on reports that the automaker is in talks with its current partner in [...]

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona (AFP) – It may not have all the creature comforts, but Aaron Hulse considers his space exploration rover a pleasant home away from home. That is crucial as he and other NASA experts spend days together in the Arizona desert, simulating the arid surface of some distant planet or asteroid — complete with [...]

Washington Post: MCGREGOR, TEXAS – Little more than two years after she touted him for the vice presidential nomination, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cannot count on the support of Rep. Chet Edwards.