Pat Dollard

WPIX 11: BRONX, NY (PIX11)— “I asked them to lower their voices and then they started in on me, ‘Shut the f— up, white boy. We’ll beat the s–t out of you, cracker.’”   Jason Fordell, 29, of the Bronx, said that was the first exchange he had with three black men and a Hispanic [...]

The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) confronted White House budget director Jack Lew during a Thursday afternoon meeting about secret talks on a deficit-reduction deal between the president and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “I’m the Senate majority leader — why don’t I know about this deal?” Reid demanded as soon as the budget [...]

Change “Our name was becoming more and more of a hindrance.” to “Jesus’s name was becoming more and more of a hindrance.” Fox News: One of the nation’s most prominent Christian ministries has decided to take Christ out of its name – a move that has generated cries of political correctness from within the evangelical [...]

On Congress: When news reports suggested that President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner had struck a deal earlier today, Boehner swiftly turned to the conservative base to deny a secret deal. Speaking on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, the Ohio Republican swatted down reports that he and President Barack Obama are scrambling for a grand [...]

LONDON – (AP) NATO is looking into claims that hackers have breached its security and accessed scads of material so confidential the hacker group itself deemed it “irresponsible” to publish them all, despite a series of international raids Tuesday designed to corral the hacking activity. “NATO is aware that hacker group released what it claims [...]

Fox News: Democrats and Republicans are nearing a potential debt deal that would include $3 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade, sources said Thursday, though the White House and House Speaker John Boehner emphatically denied that they were close to an agreement. A Democrat congressional aide told Fox News that the package would [...]

Examiner: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is blocking efforts by U.S. officials to locate billions of dollars given to aid Afghanistan’s economy, stymieing efforts to combat money laundering of drug money, corruption and funding terrorists. Karzai is prohibiting U.S. Treasury agents from accessing the Afghan government’s central bank by allowing and even contributing to “hostile working [...]

Washington Post: Those blurry but revealing airport body scanner images that caused a public uproar last year are being replaced by a gray, cookie-cutter image of the human form. After six months of testing at three airports, including Reagan National, the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that the new software would be installed on 241 [...]

The Independent: The remains of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess have been exhumed from a grave in Bavaria after it became a pilgrimage for thousands of visitors. A church official in the southern town of Wunsiedel said today that the tomb had been razed and its headstone removed after consulting with Hess’s family [...]

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I wonder how he would do with an improved economy and a signed “biggest-ever” deficit reduction deal? Washington Times: A Democratic polling firm said President Obama’s already weak job-approval numbers are “worse than they appear” and he likely would lose the election if it were held today. For the first time in a year, Mr. [...]