Pat Dollard

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again. Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise with him on jobs — but also assailed his plans in advance of his prime-time speech. According to [...]

National Journal: A little-noticed provision of the National Defense Authorization Act would put all terror suspects into immediate military custody, a controversial change that would have significant legal repercussions for the ongoing war on terror. The measure was tucked into the Senate’s version of the omnibus Pentagon spending measure shortly before Congress adjourned for its [...]

The Hill: There will be no formal Republican response to President Obama’s jobs speech on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office announced Tuesday. “Republicans are, and have been, entirely focused on job creation,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said. “Every Member of Congress, and – more importantly – the American people, will provide a reaction [...]

Military.com With a Mexican navy helicopter whirring low over a rural community on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, an American military veteran armed with marksmanship skills and a hefty rifle hankered from the ground to shoot it down. “Don’t do it,” Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. recalled warning the man on that [...]

The Hill: White House officials said Tuesday that President Obama’s approval ratings are dropping because Americans are furious with Washington in general. But even as White House press secretary Jay Carney blasted political obstruction and game-playing, he declined to disavow comments Teamsters President James Hoffa made at a rally Monday, calling Tea Party members “sons [...]

“That one, right there, take him out!” This is his third refusal to apologize or even ratchet back the rhetoric… The Hill: Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa maintained Tuesday that union workers are at “war” with Tea Party-affiliated politicians, but insisted he wasn’t inciting violence. Hoffa stood by remarks he made over the weekend at a [...]

John Podhoretz Commentary Magazine: News reports suggest that on Thursday night, the president will tell Republicans in the House and Senate that they should put “country before party” and endorse his proposals for job creation. The “country before party” line has become Obama’s new theme in the wake of the debt crisis, and the passion [...]

This morning Andrew Breitbart, Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch, and Big Government editor Mike Flynn dropped by Media Matters asking for a copy of their IRS 990 form. If you don’t already know roughly why, begin with Media Matters Puts Tax-Exempt Status in Jeopardy Stay tuned.

CNS: The real unemployment rate actually rose in August, according to the Department of Labor, belying the fact that the official unemployment rate, 9.1 percent, remained flat while the economy did not create any new jobs on net last month. According to the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, real unemployment rose to 16.2 [...]

Associated Press: CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A gunman with a rifle opened fire at an IHOP restaurant in Nevada’s capital on Tuesday, wounding six people and himself and killing two uniformed National Guardsmen in a hail of gunfire during the morning breakfast hour, authorities and witnesses said. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]

AP: A man with a rifle opened fire Tuesday at an IHOP restaurant in Nevada’s capital, killing two National Guard members, another person and himself in a hail of gunfire during the morning breakfast hour, authorities and witnesses said. Six people were wounded in the attack. The suspect, who hasn’t been identified, apparently acted alone, [...]

Army Times: Rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire slammed into the soldiers’ command post, immediately taking out some of their weapon systems. The enemy had launched an L-shaped ambush, targeting soldiers from A Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment. Spc. Jesse Snow, without regard for his safety and despite his disabled weapon, low-crawled to the command [...]

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Is Carney so used to lying that by sheer force of habit he misidentified Hoffa as the head of the AFL-CIO instead of the Teamsters? ABC’s Jake Tapper, quoting Obama: “Already we’ve seen a national conversation commence, not only about the motivations behind these killings, but about everything from [...]

Beltway Confidential: In 1994, abortion-lobby champion Ted Kennedy passed the Free Access to Clinics Act (FACE), which imposes stricter limitations on peaceful protests of abortion clinics than any other peaceful protest. This law, which strikes me as pretty darn unconstitutional, has never really been enforced. Tom McClusky at the Family Research Council says the decision [...]