Pat Dollard

CBS News: We tend to avoid outright politics here on SmartPlanet, but Bill Nye — known as “The Science Guy” after his popular television show on PBS — recently visited the Fox Business channel’s Freedom Watch to explain to host Charles Payne and his viewers the intricacies of drawing a line between Irene’s destruction and [...]

LA Times: At a bittersweet naturalization ceremony for Ryan Hizon’s mother and father, a magistrate judge finds a lesson in the opportunities and the responsibilities of citizenship. On a recent Friday, as the sun’s rays first slipped inside their little home in Glassell Park, the parents of an Army infantryman woke to a mix of [...]

The Hill: The United States hasn’t learned much in the 10 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) argued Tuesday. Paul, a libertarian-minded Republican presidential candidate, voiced criticism of U.S. foreign policy just days before the 10th anniversary of the coordinated terrorist attacks that resulted in [...]

Compass Direct News: Muslims with the help of Nigerian army personnel killed 24 Christians this month in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, area sources said. The attacks started Aug. 11 in Ratsa Foron village, where assaults that day and on Aug. 15 left six Christians dead; also on Aug. 15 in Heipang village, Muslim extremists killed [...]

Real Clear Politics: Markos Moulitsas: 9/11 was a “political opportunity” not a disaster for Republicans. . . “because they were able to take that and use it to stifle their domestic critics, push through a radical agenda, try to silence anybody who opposed him. It essentially won him another term in 2004 based on 9/11 [...]

News Busters: In a Thursday NPR interview, CNN’s openly-gay anchor Don Lemon lumped discrimination against gays and lesbians in with atrocities committed in Libya. When asked why audiences should be interested in gay and lesbian issues, Lemon answered that “people are glued to what’s happening in Libya, because it affects us. Any atrocity that’s committed [...]

The Hill: Obama said Tuesday that he expects continued “resistance” from Republicans that will turn the months leading up to the next election in 2012 into a struggle. “This next election very well may end up being a referendum on whose vision of America is better,” Obama said in a radio interview with “The Tom [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of Muslim-Americans in a new poll say government anti-terrorism policies single them out for increased surveillance and monitoring, and many report increased cases of name-calling, threats and harassment by airport security, law enforcement officers and others. In all, 52 percent of Muslim-Americans surveyed said their group is singled out [...]

A U.S. Army soldier from Alpha Company 2nd battalion 27th infantry regiment, Task Forces Bronco smokes a cigarette as he takes a break in the bunker at OP Mace in eastern Afghanistan Kunar province, near the border of Pakistan NATO commanders talk with Tailban leaders as more than 100 members of the Taliban surrender themselves [...]

Mitt Romney has now seen the light and made a strategic decision that the Tea Party is a force to be dealt with in the 2012 elections. Tea Party Express, one of the many Tea Party organizations, has been very supportive of Romney. Remember individual Tea Party organizations do not necessarily represent the views of [...]

Army Times: A Millersville man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for using lies about life as an Army Green Beret and his education to get jobs teaching counterterrorism and drug and human trafficking interdiction. Sixty-six-year-old William Hillar, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud earlier this year, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District [...]

For those who may be unaware, Hilda Solis is the sister of La Raza’s CEO. Since taking office, Solis has channeled so much money to La Raza, that Federal Subsidies from the Labor Department comprise 60 cents of every dollar in La Raza’s coffers. CNS News: U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis today signed “partnership” agreements [...]