Pat Dollard

The trigger is that if Congress does not agree to what spending items to cut next year, the new cuts would go into effect automatically. These include draconian cuts to the budget of the Pentagon, cuts which the Pentagon has flatly described as “dangerous”. The Right Scoop: This is exactly what I said would happen, [...]

SacBee: The California Assembly says the public has no right to see lawmakers’ current office budgets and spending projections, documents that could show whether punishment is doled out for key votes. Assemblyman Anthony Portantino raised the issue last month, saying that his budget was slashed shortly after casting the lone Democratic vote in the Assembly [...]

Katie Pavlich – Townhall: Congratulations! Your health insurance premium will now be more expensive thanks to a measure in ObamaCare that forces private insurance companies to provide women with prescription birth control and the morning after pill without having to pay out of pocket costs/a co-pay. U.S. health insurance companies must offer women free birth [...]

File this one under #fail… Townhall: Teachers unions and their supporters hoped to draw 1 million people to Washington D.C. last weekend for their “Save Our Schools” rally. They apparently fell about 992,000 people short. The embarrassing attendance underlined one major truth – there is no mass movement to maintain the status quo in our [...]

Y Tech: Ängelholm, a small town along the coast of Sweden, isn’t the first place you’d think to look in the search for a nuclear reactor. But that’s just what police in the seaside city were tasked with hunting down when one of its citizens took it upon himself to construct his own radioactive power [...]

Fox News: ‘Don’t touch my junk,’ is taking on new meaning. “Truck nuts,” fake bull testicles made of plastic or metal that drivers hang on the back of their pickups to make a truck look more manly, have been around for years. Some find them funny, while others find them offensive, prompting at least three [...]

Fox News: The Senate voted Tuesday to approve a bipartisan deal raising the debt ceiling, effectively putting an end for now to the partisan crisis that risked the first-ever national default. The package passed on a 74-26 vote. President Obama vowed to swiftly sign it, just hours before the Treasury is otherwise expected to exhaust [...]

The Telegraph: Italy’s economic and finance minister Giulio Tremonti is due to meet officials from the Bank of Italy and market regulators less than two weeks after ministers agreed a €159bn (£140bn) second bail-out for Greece. Concerns that Spain and Italy will be the next victims of the eurozone crisis drove benchmark bond yields to [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years after seeing their incomes grow by the smallest amount in nine months. The latest data offered a troubling sign for an economy that is adding few jobs and barely growing. Consumer spending dropped 0.2 percent in June, the [...]

Politico: Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit, according to several sources in the room. Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door [...]

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By Toro520 H/T: Debbie Schlussel Following the mass-shooting of a ‘youth camp’ near Oslo, Norway, commentator Glenn Beck made a ‘controversial’ comparison, suggesting that the event was eerily similar to the Hitler Youth camps of Nazi Germany. As could be expected, the Leftists of the world seethed and steamed in vitriolic hatred. The day prior [...]

National Review: by Major Garrett It started clean and ended messy. When the debt-ceiling crisis began to capture the public’s and Wall Street’s bemused imagination in June, President Obama’s Gallup approval rating was 50 percent, the highest. It’s now at 40 percent, the lowest of his presidency, and a disturbing sign that dismay with America’s [...]

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