Pat Dollard

The Daily Caller: A number of conservative activists and bloggers say they’re furious at media magnate Glenn Beck for what they call content theft. Over the past several years, Beck has relied on video, audio and written content from others to fill his radio and television shows, as well as his websites. Often he has [...]

ABC News: President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported income of $1.728 million for last year, much of it from the sale of the president’s pre-presidency books. They paid federal taxes totaling $453,770 after receiving a $12,334 refund. The Obamas paid their taxes at lowered Bush-era rates, even as he campaigns to end them [...]

CNBC: The Obama administration moved swiftly Monday to downplay ratings agency Standard & Poor’s downgrade of its U.S. credit outlook, calling the decision a political judgment that should not be taken too seriously. The timing of S&P’s announcement was unwelcome for the White House, coming just as President Obama tried to regain the initiative on [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The stock market tumbled in heavy volume on Monday as Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit outlook of the United States, adding to worries about the global economy after China moved to curb liquidity. Investors also focused on Greece, where financial markets are increasingly convinced the country will have to renegotiate [...]

Fox News: United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing issues of international peace and security to devote an entire day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.” A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that [...]

Yahoo Finance: China and four other leading high-growth economies have taken landmark steps toward lowering the importance of the dollar in international financial transactions — part of a seminal shift in the move towards a multicurrency reserve and trading system. Mind you, you wouldn’t get an idea of anything dramatic from reading the official Chinese [...]

Wall Street Journal: A dominant theme of President Obama’s budget speech last Wednesday was that our fiscal problems would vanish if only the wealthiest Americans were asked “to pay a little more.” Since he’s asking, imagine that instead of proposing to raise the top income tax rate well north of 40%, the President decided to [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Standard & Poor’s lowered its outlook for the nation’s long-term debt Monday, even as it reaffirmed the agency’s top-tier rating for the U.S. economy. S&P maintained its ‘AAA/A-1+’ credit rating on U.S. sovereign debt, saying the nation’s “highly diversified” economy and “effective monetary policies” have helped support growth. But the ratings [...]

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamic movement and the founder of Hamas, has set up a network of political parties around the country that eclipse the following of the middle class activists that overthrew the regime. On the extreme fringe of the Brotherhood, Islamic groups linked to al-Qeada are organising from the mosques to fill [...]

For his seventh birthday present, all Jacob Miller wanted is to help troops in need overseas. After telling his parents Jeff and Jennifer Miller he wanted to do something to support the soldiers, Jacob decided to ask guests attending his birthday party today to bring personal care items instead of presents. Attached to his Army-themed [...]