Pat Dollard

Politico: A group of Republican lawyers and law students called Tuesday for the Obama administration to do more to ensure that members of the military are able to cast ballots in the Nov. 2 elections. David Norcross, chairman of the Republican National Lawyers Association, said in a statement: “The MOVE Act was passed last year [...]

Fox News: The accusations are on, the gloves are off, and the brawl has swung on for days. But the war of words over the Obama administration’s allegations that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and GOP strategists have used foreign funding to influence the midterms is not over yet. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com [...]

My San Antonio: HOUSTON — State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves. With the announcement Monday that it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake [...]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) – A new study says Mexico’s drug traffickers aren’t likely to lose much profit if California legalizes marijuana, because residents of America’s largest pot-consuming state prefer to grow their own. The study by the nonpartisan RAND Drug Policy Research Center says that means the legalization proposal on the California’s November ballot [...]

Had to run a night mission on the border last night, a process which began mid-day. I was unable to get my replacement trained up in time, so that is why this is the first time you’re hearing from me since then. But I’m back. And Chad continues to develop the SAFE website. But I’m [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials are grappling with “considerable uncertainty” about the outlook for the economy as they confront a pivotal decision over whether to try to jump-start the lagging recovery by buying large amounts of government debt. Minutes released Tuesday of the most recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, [...]

The Hill: Interest groups on both sides of the estate tax debate are unsure how the issue will play out when lawmakers return to Washington for the post-election lame-duck session. “I hear all sorts of things, which means I hear nothing,” Craig Jennings, a federal fiscal policy analyst at OMB Watch, told The Hill. “Who [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The jobs crisis has brought an unwelcome discovery for many unemployed Americans: Job openings in their old fields exist. Yet they no longer qualify for them. They’re running into a trend that took root during the recession. Companies became more productive by doing more with fewer workers. Some asked staffers to take [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed his government has been in informal talks with the Taliban on securing peace in war-weary Afghanistan “for quite some time”—the latest in a series of high-level acknowledgments of contacts with the insurgent group. The comments came as Taliban fighters ambushed a military supply convoy in the [...]

Politico: Illinois Democratic Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias said Sunday he did not know the extent of the criminal activity of some the Chicago figures his family bank lent money to when he served as senior loan officer. During a half-hour Senate debate with Republican Mark Kirk on NBC’s “Meet the Press” — the first of [...]

Daily Mail: This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.

The Hill: Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) characterized the midterm elections as a life-and-death struggle in a speech Sunday afternoon. “The choice is clear, you’ve got to go to the polls,” Rendell said during a warm-up address at a large rally in Philadelphia ahead of appearances by President Obama and Vice President Biden. “What’s the [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – The U.S. government announced Sunday it would prosecute the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to face a civilian trial without its star witness because appealing a judge’s ruling excluding him could cause significant delay and inconvenience other witnesses and victims. Besides, the government said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis [...]

Politico: PHILADELPHIA – The White House has hesitated to cast the midterm elections as a referendum on President Barack Obama, except when it comes to one key constituency: African-American voters. As Obama has steadily increased his outreach to African American voters over the past month. With interviews and campaign stops targeted at the black community [...]

Several news outlets have reported that New York GOP Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said that there’s “nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual” in a speech to Orthodox Jewish leaders. The Paladino campaign has cried foul and issued a statement claiming that he never said those words and the media reported the [...]