Pat Dollard

A high school cross country runner named Holland Reynolds crawled across the finish line after collapsing during a race. Her coach is currently battling Lou Gehrig’s disease, and is using Reynolds’ effort as a source of inspiration.

Me, holding up a burlap sack used by drug mules, laying in a cache of discarded sacks, a mere 15 meters from busy US Interstate 8. Riddick, behind me.

The president said the assembled troops, largely from the 101st Airborne Division, “are part of an unbroken line of Americans who have given up your comfort, your ease, your convenience for America’s security.” “The freedom, the liberty that we treasure, that’s not simply a birthright,” he said. “It has to be earned by the sacrifices [...]

“Look ugly in a photograph” – Lyric in song on videostream played to world over live feed

Los Angeles Times: She spent her days with the film industry’s glamorous and powerful and owned an art-filled condominium in a posh Westwood high-rise. He was a small-time criminal and drug user who slept in halfway houses and rundown apartments in the part of Hollywood tourists rarely visit. In the two days since ex-convict Harold [...]

Fox News: by Kelly Chernenkoff and Wendell Goler Citing President Obama’s “courage” for walking away from a trade deal with South Korea three weeks ago that didn’t meet his standards, the White House announced Friday that Washington and Seoul have finally come to an agreement. Late in the day, Mr. Obama touted the deal, negotiations [...]

The Naga “Viper” New York (AP) – Fiery food mavens seeking to one-up each other now have to gear up for a whole new test of culinary bravado: the world’s hottest chili pepper. Yes, the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the world’s-hottest-pepper crown, outdistances its predecessor, the Bhut Jolokia, or “ghost chili,” by more [...]