Pat Dollard

Yahoo News: PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has landed in Tucson for a weekend visit, her first since she left the state for treatment after she was shot in the head, a tweet to her profile followers said on Saturday. “Wheels down Tucson. Gabrielle & Mark looking forward to a beautiful weekend,” said [...]

MSNBC: SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean marine Corps troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist North’s jet fighters, but no damage occurred, military sources said on Saturday. A Marine Corps spokesman said two soldiers guarding an island on the [...]

AmericanThinker.com: So what if the top legal advisors at the Pentagon and Department of Justice told the president he had to get congressional authorization for the war in Libya? Obama was sure he could find someone to split the necessary legal hairs to find him justification to make war without pesky democratic checks and balances [...]

Google News: WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas, giving the terror suspects time to flee, after U.S. intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government. Those officials believe Pakistan’s insistence on seeking local tribal elders’ permission before raiding the areas [...]

SusanKatzKeating.com The good folks at ISAF have sent a cautionary tale about helmet safety, proper ducking techniques, and guardian angels. It involves Army infantryman Spc. Tom Albers, who called his mom from Afghanistan to say those dreaded words: “There is something I need to tell you.” He was in a hospital after being shot in [...]

LA Times: Reporting from Washington and San Francisco— Facing a barrage of criticism from some Democratic governors, members of Congress and local officials, the Obama administration is altering a controversial federal program in which law enforcement agencies share fingerprints of suspects held in local jails with U.S. immigration authorities. The Secure Communities program, which was [...]

Seattle PI: MINNEAPOLIS-A gay rights activist threw glitter at Michele Bachmann here Saturday, but it didn’t stick. The Republican presidential candidate was leaving the stage at the end of her 40-minute speech to the RightOnline conference when a Minneapolis lawyer unloaded a container full of glitter. It all fell to the stage, and none appeared [...]

We’ve had extra overhead costs involving a variety of investigative and other operations in the field, and can sorely use an extra $500 kicker, and need it asap. I have an investigator on the road on the “Gunrunner” project. If you can help out, great, please do, it’s very much needed, and very much appreciated.

FoxNews: NEW CASTLE, Del. — Police on Friday afternoon came to the home of a 17-year-old high school junior to ask her about direct online communications she has had with Rep. Anthony Weiner. Two officers from the New Castle County Police Department arrived at the girl’s home around 4:30 p.m. and asked to speak with [...]

Politico: Reporters lined up in Juneau and in front of computers across the country spent the afternoon poring over 24,000 newly released emails from Sarah Palin’s first year and a half as governor, hoping for a bombshell. But none immediately emerged. Many of the emails deal with the mundane business of government. Others show her [...]

Alaska official Jim Hoff, center, holds a dolly with boxes containing thousands of pages of Sarah Palin’s emails as CNN cameraman Jim Castel, left, and CNN correspondent Drew Griffin watch just before the documents were released on Friday, June 10, 2011 in Juneau, Alaska. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska officials on Friday released thousands of [...]