Pat Dollard

The Washington Examiner: Last Monday, President Obama made news by promising to give a speech in September detailing, “a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit.” But has that “very specific plan” already been downgraded to an outline? That is, at least, the impression I got watching [...]

New York Times: Of all the places to hear fulminations against President Obama, one of the least expected is the corner of 71st Avenue and Queens Boulevard, in the heart of a Congressional district that propelled Democrats like Geraldine A. Ferraro, Charles E. Schumer andAnthony D. Weiner to Washington. But it was there that Dale [...]

Fox News: Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan announced Monday that he will not be a participant in the 2012 Republican presidential nominating contest, choosing instead to run for reelection to the House of Representatives, where he currently serves as Budget Committee chairman. “I sincerely appreciate the support from those eager to chart a brighter future for [...]

JPost: One Kassam rocket exploded on Monday night in an open area in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council after two further rockets exploded earlier in the evening. One of the rockets that fell south of Ashkelon earlier sparked a fire near a kibbutz, and was later doused police said. The attacks once again placed reports [...]

The Foundry: The dust has not yet settled over the Libyan capital of Tripoli since rebels took control over the weekend. But already, a draft constitutional charter for the transitional state has appeared online (embedded below). It is just a draft, mind you, and gauging its authenticity at this point is difficult. There is also [...]

NBC News: Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was believed to be a top French presidential contender until he was accused of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. The development comes more than three months after the former head of the International Monetary Fund [...]

Egyptians protest at Israeli embassy, call for… by presstv

Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the rating agency Standard & Poor’s over its actions on mortgages leading up to the financial crisis, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The investigation — which the source said relates to what S&P analysts wanted to do and what they were [...]

CNBC: After several quarters of improvements, the number of U.S. homeowners who are late on their mortgages increased in the second quarter, according to a survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The second-quarter mortgage delinquency rate rose to 8.44 percent of all mortgage loans outstanding, according to the MBA’s Mortgage Deliquency Survey. That is [...]

YNet: Iran has moved some of its centrifuge machines to an underground enrichment site that offers better protection from possible airstrikes, the country’s vice president said Monday. Engineers are “hard at work” preparing the facility in Fordo, which is carved into a mountain to protect it against possible attacks, to house the centrifuges, Fereidoun Abbasi [...]

ABC: Phillip Seaton went to the hospital in October 2007 for a routine circumcision to treat inflammation but left the operating room without a penis. Seaton sued his surgeon, Dr. John Patterson, for removing his penis without his permission, and the trial got under way Monday in Shelby County (Kentucky) Circuit Court. Seaton and his [...]

YNetNews: Head of the rebels’ National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil vowed Monday to give Muammar Gaddafi a fair trail, should he be captured alive. The announcement came shortly before Libya’s Jamahiriyah state television channel went off the air, after a rebel spokesman announced their forces had taken control of state TV headquarters in [...]