Pat Dollard

I’m very pleased to announce that political humorist @Snarky_Basterd has joined the team at Pat Dollard.com. Here’s his new piece. “Here comes the orator! with his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” — Benjamin Franklin WASHINGTON, D.C – In a major campaign jobs speech before Congress tomorrow night, President Barack Obama will say [...]

The New York Times: The Obama administration said on Tuesday that it would seek to save the deficit-plagued Postal Service from an embarrassing default by proposing to give it an extra three months to make a $5.5 billion payment due on Sept. 30 to finance retirees’ future health coverage. Speaking at a Senate hearing, John [...]

(Reuters) – A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least 11 people and wounded 76 on Wednesday in an attack authorities said was claimed by a South Asian militant group linked to al Qaeda. Los Angeles Times: Reporting from New Delhi— A blast outside India’s Delhi [...]

Politico: Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer said she hopes green groups sue President Barack Obama over his decision to punt a regulation curbing smog-creating emissions until at least 2013. Boxer — whose relatively mild reaction to Obama’s surprise announcement Friday was in contrast to heated rebukes by environmental groups — said she [...]

MEXICO CITY – Police have arrested a U.S. man for smuggling American grenade parts into Mexico for use by the Sinaloa cartel, and a U.S. official said the case has now been included in investigations into flawed law enforcement operations aimed at gun-trafficking networks on the Mexican border. The arrest of a man who Mexican [...]

The Ticket: When President Obama delivers his address on a new job-creation plan to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, he won’t be speaking to a sold-out crowd. Several lawmakers are still determining whether it is worth their time to stay in Washington to hear the president, and some are already planning to skip [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Revolution in Iran appears to be a matter of time, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted on Tuesday, saying the Iranian reform movement was learning from revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria. Panetta, a former CIA director who took over the Pentagon’s top job in July, was asked on the Charlie [...]

Daily Mail: People should stop calling the site of the September 11 attacks ‘Ground Zero,’ New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today, urging Americans to move past a term long linked with the World Trade Center’s twin towers destruction. ‘We will never forget the devastation of the area that came to be known as ground [...]

From Breitbart Tv:

Politico: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says that the Republican leadership’s decision to forgo a direct response to President Barack Obama’s jobs speech Thursday is “not only disrespectful to him, but to the American people.” The California Democrat, in a Tuesday night statement, blasted the tactical decision of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) not to [...]

Final irony? This slimy, dodging broad attacking Cunningham for his “foul mouth”

Los Angeles Times: Ethan Wayne, the youngest son of Hollywood legend John Wayne, hates to have anything in his pockets because as a young boy he couldn’t go out of the house with his dad without a stack of business cards that read, “Good Luck, John Wayne” on one side and the Duke’s name typed [...]

h/t: NewsBusters

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) – Casting himself as America’s CEO, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday outlined a sweeping economic plan that would reduce regulations and taxes on companies, sanction China over its currency practices and weaken the clout of labor unions. “This is a business plan for America,” Romney told supporters as [...]

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