Pat Dollard

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NY Times President Obama and his legal advisers are deliberating about how the United States military may lawfully continue participating in NATO’s bombing campaign in Libya after next week, when the air war will reach a legal deadline for terminating combat operations that have not been authorized by Congress. Related in Opinion Under the War [...]

Boy says he wasn’t allowed to display Flag drawing (WWLP) – Earlier in the week, 22News aired the story of Frankie Girard, an 11 year-old from Orange who says he was not allowed to hang up a picture of the American Flag at school. Our story reached a local Air National Guard unit serving in [...]

The Daily Beast: After Meghan McCain wore a revealing dress in a skin cancer PSA, Glenn Beck launched a vicious tirade about her body—suggesting she wear a burqa and saying the idea of her naked made him want to vomit. In an open letter to Beck, McCain asks if this is the legacy he wants [...]

KAJ18 The Department of Defense is looking into ways to “pump up the security” for the team of Navy SEALs who helped kill Osama bin Laden after the commandos expressed concern for their safety and the safety of their families, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. Gates made the comment in response to a question [...]

KTRH Just last month the U.S. sent two Air force cargo planes to help Mexico battle back wildfires in the northern part of it’s country, fires that burned 386 square miles. It’s a move that West Texas Congressman Francisco Canseco (R-Fort Stockton) thinks is a hypocritical one by the Obama administration as Texas has requested [...]

Discovery Channel Mike Rowe’s Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Hutchison and members of this committee, my name is Mike Rowe, and I want to thank you all very much for the opportunity to testify before you today. I’m here today because of my grandfather. His [...]

IsraelNationalNews.com Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Zahar on Wednesday told the Maan news agency Hamas would never recognize Israel. Saying Hamas would accept a PA state based on the “1967 borders,” Zahar made it clear a peace accord would only serve as a prelude to Israel’s destruction. Zahar, who has served as Hamas’ foreign minister in Gaza [...]

ABCNews Blogs Rep. Ron Paul took an interesting position for a likely presidential candidate Tuesday – he explained to a Iowa radio station why he would not have ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. The answer seemed to catch Iowa radio host Simon Conway off guard; he asked Paul to repeat it. Paul was [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Gov. Mitt Romney, whose health care plan in Massachusetts supposedly served as inspiration to President Obama, is trying to shake from his record the state plan he once shepherded by vowing to dismantle the federal law if he captures the White House next year. Romney’s attack on a federal law that [...]

Business Insider: From ultralight aircraft to homemade narco-submarines, Mexico’s drug cartels have long been on the cutting edge of drug trafficking technology. But the discovery of the cartel’s newest weapon – nicknamed El Monstruo 2011 – effectively puts a lid on any debate over whether the cartels are at war over their drug smuggling routes. [...]

LA Times The New York Police Department arrested two men Wednesday night in Midtown Manhattan on terrorism-related charges, according to a law-enforcement official who declined to provide further details Thursday morning. ABC News reported that the men allegedly were trying to buy weapons, including a grenade, as part of a plot to attack Manhattan synagogues. [...]

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