Pat Dollard

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Should Rick Perry conclude that voter discontent has left him an opening to enter the presidential race, the longtime Texas governor would be among the GOP field’s most conservative candidates. Primary voters would get a skilled politician with TV anchorman looks, a Southern preacher’s oratory and a cowboy’s swagger, matched by [...]

WSJ: President Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic “recovery” appearing more and more elusive, his timing couldn’t be worse. Two problems arise when marginal tax rates are raised. First, as college students learn in Econ [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The next step in the weeks-long saga over how to increase the government’s borrowing cap is to let House tea party forces try it their way. A Republican “cut, cap and balance” plan set for a House vote Tuesday would condition a $2.4 trillion increase in the so-called debt limit on an [...]

Daily Mail: First of all there was slow food. Then slow travel. So I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone wrote a book called Slow Sex — although, as one friend wistfully put it: ‘What other sort is there on the far shores of middle age and beyond?’ Mind you, author [...]

The Independent: David Cameron is today warned not to risk the lives of British soldiers by making an early withdrawal from Afghanistan. The warning comes in a report from the influential House of Commons Defence Committee. Operations in Afghanistan states that pulling out more than a few hundred support troops could undermine the international coalition’s [...]

Fox News: Presidential candidate Herman Cain on Sunday defended his opposition to a new mosque in Tennessee, expressing concern about Shariah law and declaring Americans “have the right” to ban mosques in their communities. Cain, who stirred controversy this year by saying he would be uncomfortable appointing a Muslim to his Cabinet if elected, first [...]

New York (CNN) — Everyone remembers the iconic image of Brandi Chastain on her knees after the U.S. women’s soccer team won the 1999 World Cup Championship. Hope Solo was only 17 then, inspired by the American women on the field. Now, Solo, the goalie of the 2011 team, is poised with her teammates to [...]

Dictionary.com definition of “deviant”: –adjective 1. deviating or departing from the norm SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A group of U.S. service members marched in a San Diego gay pride parade on Saturday, in a demonstration organizers touted as an unprecedented step for gay and lesbian military personnel under the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. [...]