Politico: Moving to the right of Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor distanced himself Tuesday from spending compromises discussed with the White House and took a harder line on whether Republicans should keep the government open absent a budget deal next week. “Time is up here,” said the Virginia Republican, telling reporters that [...]
MUMBAI, India (AP) – A state in western India banned Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld’s new book about Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday after reviews saying it hints that the father of India’s independence had a homosexual relationship. More bans have been proposed in India, where homosexuality was illegal until 2009 and still carries social stigma. [...]
Fox News: American teenagers are being recruited by Mexican drug cartels to carry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas law enforcement officials say. Over the past 10 years, 476 juveniles have been caught with drugs at a port of entry in El Paso County and 302 of them were U.S. citizens, according to the El [...]
UPDATE via Mediaite: Greta apparently has had enough of Maher’s remarks and doesn’t understand why other cable news channels continue promoting Maher? To be clear, Greta doesn’t advocate that Maher be silenced, since “he has the right to be a pig.” Yet she asks: “If he is a comedian, why do MS/NBC and CNN put [...]
New York Magazine: Our spies tell us that it’s official: Bill Murray has agreed to star as FDR in an adaptation of the British radio play Hyde Park On the Hudson to be directed by Morning Glory’s Roger Michell. The project, set up at Focus Features and the UK’s Film4, recounts the quasi-incestuous love affair [...]
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Politico: President Barack Obama’s approval rating and prospects for reelection have plunged to all-time lows in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. Half of the registered voters surveyed for the poll think that the president does not deserve a second term in office, while 41 percent say he does. In another Quinnipiac poll released just [...]
BREGA, Libya (AP) — Rebels retreated Wednesday from the key Libyan oil port of Ras Lanouf along the coastal road leading to the capital Tripoli after they came under heavy shelling from ground forces loyal to leader Muammar Qaddafi. NATO planes flew over the zone where the heaviest fighting was under way and an Associated [...]
Washington Examiner: Admiral James Stavridis, commander of NATO and overall chief of U.S. and coalition forces in the Libyan war, says American intelligence agents are “examining very closely” the rebel forces for whom U.S. forces have gone to war. So far, Stavridis says, the U.S. has discovered “flickers” of the presence of al Qaeda and [...]
Not your typical PatDollard.com story but I’m a sucker for heroes and Marines. ~Knottie~ MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C — The Armed Forces of the United States has fought in numerous conflicts throughout the nation’s history and its troops have committed heroic acts during every battle of every war along the way. Even today, [...]
