Pat Dollard

The Hill: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) praised President Obama’s new jobs plan and said that Obama clearly had the African-American community in mind while he was making it. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “He heard us. As a matter of fact we can see our hand print all [...]

This occurred at International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU Local 21) 617 — 14th Avenue Longview, WA 98632 Dan Coffman, President Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim [...]

Stripes.com: America won’t shy away from using military force if necessary against terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. But the U.S. will also respect the rule of law, she said, including principles guiding the use of force in self-defense, respect for the sovereignty of other states, and the [...]

Reuters: New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a Republican who has taken a hard line against illegal immigration in her state, said her own grandparents came to the country illegally. “I know they arrived without documents, especially my grandfather, my father’s father,” she said in an interview with the Spanish-language television station KLUZ in Albuquerque on [...]

Army Times: A New York resident was charged in an indictment unsealed Friday with providing material support to a terrorist organization by plotting to travel to Pakistan to join a radical fighting group that claims to have killed Americans. Agron Hasbajrami, 27, was charged in the indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. The [...]

U.S. Army Chaplain Carl Subler flies over the rugged terrain of Kandahar province to visit soldiers at Forward Operating Base Frontenac in southern Afghanistan. Photo by John Moore U.S. Army Chaplain Gary Lewis uncovers a Bible in a memorial chapel for fallen soldiers at Forward Operating Base Frontenac in the Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan. [...]

Reuters: Bangalore (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp officials have discussed slashing roughly 40,000 jobs during the first wave of a restructuring, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the plans. The number of job cuts are not final and could change. The restructuring aims to reduce the bank’s workforce over a period [...]

Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering staging American troops in Kuwait next year as a backup or rotational training force for Iraq, after the Pentagon completes the scheduled withdrawal of its current 45,000-strong force from Iraq in December, U.S. officials said. The proposal, not yet announced, is among a number of [...]

Macs Football Blog: In advance of the 2011 regular season-opener, which falls on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Reebok has sent cleats and gloves adorned with stars and stripes to several NFL players. The apparel company has informed the players that the league has not approved the gear for game use, but several players appear [...]

Human Events: If you thought that something as innocuous as putting up 3,000 American flags on school grounds to pay tribute to those murdered on September 11 couldn’t be controversial, you haven’t been to Marietta College. Administrators at this liberal arts college in southeast Ohio are threatening to cancel a 9/11 memorial planned by their [...]

Fox News: A third gun linked to “Operation Fast and Furious” was found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, new documents obtained exclusively by Fox News suggest, contradicting earlier assertions by federal agencies that police found only two weapons tied to the federal government’s now infamous gun interdiction scandal. Sources say [...]

Despite the fact that unions, including the (in)famous Cesar Chavez, have historically and vehemently opposed illegal alien labor in the US being that they have decimated labor wages, they are now seeing this demographic as a means to replenish the ranks and add votes to the Democrat Machine: Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — The country’s largest [...]