Pat Dollard

KABUL (Reuters) – Total foreign military deaths in Afghanistan in 2010 neared 600 with the death of another service member on Sunday, an unwelcome figure that will likely weigh heavily on Western leaders amid declining support for the war. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Sunday one of its service members was [...]

Washington Times: It’s official: A week before the midterm elections, odds are that Republicans will win control of the House but Democrats will keep control of the Senate, according to the overseas bookmakers taking bets on this sort of thing. Ireland-based Paddy Power says Republicans are “hot favorites” at 1-33 odds to capture the lower [...]

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Politico: On college campuses where Barack Obama made politics cool again, most students have moved on.

Jerusalem Post: While Israeli officials consistently talk about how “no option is off the table when it comes to Iran,” and how Israel cannot allow Iran to become a nuclear power, the Foreign Ministry is drawing up options for the possibility Teheran may indeed acquire the bomb. Revelations on Sunday of a Foreign Ministry team [...]

Politico: Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio accused Gov. Charlie Crist of heckling him during the closing moments of a nationally televised debate Sunday, as the two rivals traded a series of last-minute rapid-fire attacks against each other. The exchange grew out of a question regarding what’s been a central tenet in the three-way race that [...]

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Several beaches on California’s Central Coast are shut down and there is no word on when they’ll be open again after a deadly attack on a bodyboarder from what some scientists are saying was probably a great white shark. Vandenberg Air Force Base spokesman Jeremy Eggers said Saturday [...]