Pat Dollard

New York Times: WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday will make clear that he opposes any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist to an election-season economic package that is otherwise designed to entice support from big businesses and their Republican allies. [...]

New York Times: By FEISAL ABDUL RAUF Published: September 7, 2010 AS my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community center in Lower Manhattan. I have been away from home for two months, speaking abroad about cooperation among [...]

Politico: Just as President Barack Obama faces the strongest headwinds of his presidency, one of his foremost strategists – chief of staff Rahm Emanuel – may jump ship to test his own political fortunes in Chicago’s mayoral race. With Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s announcement Tuesday that he won’t run for a sixth full term, Emanuel [...]

The Hill: President Obama will use a high-profile address on the economy Wednesday in Cleveland to further elevate House GOP Leader John Boehner as the foil Democrats want to run against in an uphill election year. In blogs and speeches, Obama and administration aides have repeatedly targeted the longtime Ohio lawmaker possibly poised to become [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – If you thought passing the health care overhaul was messy, wait until Republicans try to repeal it if they regain power this fall.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago should zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.

HAVANA (AP) – Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war. Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, blogged [...]

Washington, D.C. (AP) – – The Justice Department is investigating a handful of apparently anti-Muslim incidents in four states,

Arizona Republic: The Arizona Green Party is asking a federal judge to block 11 candidates from being listed on the Nov. 2 ballot, alleging that they are “shams” and not standard bearers for the Greens. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, also asks the court to declare as unconstitutional the state law that allowed these candidates to [...]

PARIS (AFP) – – Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica, one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists.