Jun 23, 2011 1 Comment ›› Angelia
FoxNews: Bipartisan budget talks led by Vice President Biden collapsed Thursday after the top two Republican negotiators pulled out, complaining Democrats won't drop their push for tax increases and calling on the president to get involved. The decision by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., effectively sidelines the talks, which had accelerated ...
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Supporting the troops for most people means slapping a bumper sticker on your car or posting supportive comment on the internet or “liking” a troop support page on faceboo. All those things are nice and send a message to our troops but it does nothing to make their lives easier or truly give them ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 25 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Daily Mail: O.J Simpson has confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, it has been reported. The talk show host made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the shamed former sportsman to confess to the killing. And it appears her wish may well have come true with reports ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Don't forget, Obama only gave the military half the troops it said it needed for the surge... The Guardian: Six and a half years ago, when Abdul Baseer first started treating wounded Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan, he worked out of a small wooden hut which served as his office, pharmacy, surgery and sleeping quarters. He shared ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: As cop killings spike in the U.S., police departments in the Pacific Northwest are training officers to be kinder, hoping it will make cops safer. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Eighty-eight law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty so far this year, 38 of them by gunfire. It’s a 41 ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Blaze: Palin said Wednesday that her “One Nation” bus tour would resume “when the time comes.” She added that she’s looking forward “to hitting the open road again:” Imagine our surprise when reading media reports today that the “One Nation Tour” has been cancelled. Why didn’t anyone tell me? Oh, ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 3 Comments ›› Angelia
The President's responsibility is the give Military Commanders what hey need to achieve their goals not to run the war from the White House. Did we learn nothing from Vietnam and playing politics instead of fighting the battles? Politico: House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, told President Obama after his Afghanistan speech Wednesday ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Yahoo: In a widely anticipated White House speech tonight, President Obama announced his decision to withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 2012--10,000 of them to leave Afghanistan by the end of this year. The number of troops scheduled for withdrawal over the next 15 months represents the contingent of troops ordered "surged" to Afghanistan in ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Good evening. Nearly ten years ago, America suffered the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor. This mass murder was planned by Usama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan, and signaled a new threat to our security – one in which the targets were no longer soldiers on a battlefield, ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (AP) - The Federal Reserve acknowledged Wednesday that the economy is growing more slowly than it expected. But it said it will complete its $600 billion Treasury bond buying program by June 30 as planned and announced no further efforts to boost the economy. Ending a two-day meeting, the Fed repeated a pledge to keep ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - Democratic leaders called on Wednesday for additional spending to boost the sluggish U.S. economy, setting up a fresh hurdle for bipartisan efforts in Washington to head off a government debt default this summer. Democrats' demand for new stimulus spending is at odds with the work of negotiators, led by Vice President ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 21 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Real Clear Politics: Less than a month after she appeared poised to shake up the Republican presidential campaign, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has once again receded from the 2012 limelight. When Palin launched her "One Nation" bus tour on Memorial Day amid a swirl of media attention and excitement from her fervent fan base, ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2011 4 Comments ›› Angelia
There has been a hijacking of the Tea Party. Once the "Taxed Enough Already" Movement with a good message that we the people are fed up with the waste and abuse in DC. But an element of the Tea Party now wants to change the Constitution. Wants to interrupt what they call an "imperfect ...
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