Pat Dollard

WASHINGTON (AP) – At least two of the three men involved in a possible al-Qaida plot to pull off an attack coinciding with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 are believed to be U.S. citizens or have U.S. traveling documents, government officials said Friday. Word that al-Qaeda had dispatched would-be attackers reached U.S. officials in midweek. [...]

The Hill: There will be no schedule changes for President Obama on Sunday despite the report of terrorist threats that coincide with the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “There are no schedule changes,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are scheduled to visit Ground Zero [...]

The Smoking Gun: Doesn’t Google supposedly use some high-tech program that supposedly pixelates the faces of unsuspecting individuals caught by its invasive Street View cameras? Well, as seen in the above photo, one Miami woman did not receive that courtesy. She was caught sans clothes by the Google camera as she stood on the doorstep [...]

Daily Caller: Emerson Knives, Inc. has been building custom knives for the Navy SEALs since its founding in 1979. This month, Emerson is memorializing the SEALs whose helicopter was shot down by insurgents in Afghanistan on August 5th with a commemorative Emerson CQC-6 combat knife with a blade constructed with steel from the World Trade [...]

National Review Online: On Thursday, Western negotiators at the U.N. caved in to the demands of envoys from Islamic states to renew a modern-day form of the decades-long U.N. smear campaign alleging that the Jewish state is racist. Diplomats agreed on a new “anti-racism” declaration that went public Friday at noon. The document is intended [...]

CAIRO (AP) — A group of about 30 protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows after a day of demonstrations outside the building in which crowds swinging sledge hammers and using their bare hands tore apart the embassy’s security wall. Israel’s ambassador, Yitzhak Levanon, [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s first woman governor called a woman reporter in Charleston a “little girl” over an article detailing at least $127,000 in taxpayer dollars spent by the governor and other state officials on a European economic development trip. In a syndicated radio talk show interview Thursday, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley was [...]

Washington Post: President Obama gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency when he addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. Too bad so many in the audience thought it was a big, fat joke. “You should pass this jobs plan right away!” Obama exhorted. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Lindsey [...]

Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal: We’ll Never Get Over It, Nor Should We People are discussing the geopolitical implications of 9/11 and how the tragedy changed our country, and most of what’s been said has been worthy and serious. But my thoughts, as we hit the 10th anniversary, are more local and particular. [...]

New York Times: Stocks on Wall Street declined sharply on Friday. The three main market indexes fell nearly 3 percent by the close of trading. The Standard & Poor’s index of 500 stocks closed down 31.67, or 2.7 percent, to 1,154.23. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 303.68 points, or 2.7 percent, to 10,992.13, and [...]

Las Vegas Review Journal: Until recently, soldiers were presented with a Purple Heart medal as an acknowledgement of physical wounds received in action. It’s often referred to as the medal no soldier wants, but once received, he is proud to wear it. During the past several months two important items of interest pertaining to the [...]

Fox News: After a union wildcat strike turned violent on Thursday, triggering a walkout at five ports in Washington state, longshoremen went back to work on Friday. But in an unusual twist, the National Labor Relations Board succeeded in getting a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction Thursday against further union activity at the [...]

Washington Examiner: President Obama’s jobs speech represented the lowest ratings he’s received for any address to a joint session of Congress of his presidency. The speech garnered 31.5 million viewers, according to the website TVbythenumbers, which was slightly lower than his Sept. 2009 health care speech to Congress, which drew 32.1 million viewers and is [...]

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Union activists aren’t backing off demands to work at a new Washington state grain terminal after hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards and dumped grain. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no defense for the aggressive tactics used [...]