Pat Dollard

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Business Insider: Embroiled by legal battles for more than 25 years, two U.S. Navy ships are finally headed to the scrap heap without ever having sailed and despite the fact that they’re almost completely finished. According to Hampton Roads, the USNS Bejamin Isherwood and the USNS Henry Eckford were commissioned in 1985 at the Pennsylvania [...]

DEBKAfile: Bar the shouting, the war in Libya virtually ended Thursday morning, July 14, when US President Barack Obama called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hand Moscow the lead role in negotiations with Muammar Qaddafi for ending the conflict – provided only that the Libyan ruler steps down in favor of a transitional administration. The [...]

A month after mis-stating his own daughter’s age: USA Today: “You know, I’m going to be turning 50 in a week, so I’m starting to think a little bit more about Medicare eligibility,” Obama said while discussing a possible deal to reduce the debt. Actually, the big day is Aug. 4 — three weeks from [...]

Marine Corps Times: Minutes after an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle crashed in Libya late on March 21, the pilot of the downed aircraft made a simple radio plea: “Tell my wife I love her.” Air Force pilot Maj. Kenneth Harney and his weapons system officer, Capt. Tyler Stark, ejected safely but faced uncertain danger [...]

Undhimmi: The ties between Leftists, international organised crime and Islamic terrorism persists. And for Americans – with Hezbollah in Mexico working with drug cartels – it’s now far closer to home than perhaps they ever thought: Islamic terrorist groups are setting up shop in Mexico and forming alarming ties with the country’s brutal drug cartels, [...]

Jerusalem Post: 73% of 1,010 Palestinians surveyed in the West Bank reject a 2-state solution, and agree with the ‘hadith’ quoted in the Hamas Charter demanding that all Jews in the region are to be exterminated. Only one in three Palestinians (34 percent) accepts two states for two peoples as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian [...]

In 2000, this individual claimed to have licked the door handles of a local Republican candidate while he was sick in hopes that the staff would catch the flu.

Cooper actually took his first step at his father’s grave

The Hill: The Treasury has given the OK to legislation that would effectively prioritize Social Security in case the debt ceiling is not raised by the Aug. 2 deadline, Sen Bill Nelson’s office announced Friday. Nelson (D-Fla.) said earlier this week that he had legislation prepared that would temporarily exempt payments from the entitlement program [...]

Just days after Obama was called out and made a fool for resorting to typical Leftist class warfare by falsely claiming that the elderly will not receive their Social Security, and Veterans will not receive their due compensation, the DNC have decided to break out their long-overused sympathy card: the children. On Thursday, July 14, [...]

Yahoo News: The UN Security Council committee overseeing sanctions removed 14 Taliban leaders from an international blacklist in order to encourage peaceful reconciliation in war-torn Afghanistan. Germany’s UN ambassador Peter Wittig, who heads the Security Council for the month of July, on Friday said the decision “sends a strong signal: the Security Council and the [...]

FoxNews: When Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger announced he was retiring from active duty, the Army thought it had lost its last Vietnam-era draftee. Turns out there were more. At least two other soldiers, Chief Warrant Officer 5 Ralph Rigby and Chief Warrant Officer 4 Franklin Ernst, also were drafted during that era and have [...]

My Fox Five: PHOENIX – We hear a lot of complaints about security screeners groping airline passengers. But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.