Pat Dollard

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahda, banned for decades, emerged the official victor in the nation’s first free elections, taking 41.47 percent of the vote and 90 of 217 seats in an assembly that will write a new constitution, the electoral commission announced Thursday. The announcement of final results in Sunday’s landmark voting [...]

Newser: A new “virtual third party” is hoping to shake up the 2012 presidential race with an unconventional process: It’s holding a non-partisan online primary, in which voters can “draft” any candidate they want. The group, dubbed Americans Elect, says it’s got the funds to put the winner on the ballot in all 50 states—along [...]

Real Clear Politics: “What gives the president the right to [enact measures] by executive order,” NBC’s Mike Vaccaro asked White House press secretary Jay Carney today. “The things [Obama] is doing administratively, through executive powers are things he can do, the things that do not require legislative action so he is exercising that power,” Carney [...]

From @TexasFreedom12

“I’m a mayor of a city that has divided opinions on some things,” Mayor Jean Quan said. “I think most support the Occupy Wall Street movement. I know you guys don’t like that I look at things day by day, situation by situation. We’re going to do what keeps most people safe.”

The Hill: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that he has “great concerns” that President Obama might be exceeding his constitutional authority in ordering his administration to adjust regulations surrounding “underwater” mortgages and student loans, saying, “this idea that you are just going to go around the Congress is … almost laughable.” “I thought we [...]

From Gateway Pundit: From the Video: Morpheus heads to down town Phoenix at the Cesar Chavez plaza to join with other individuals to DEMONSTRATE for the right to exist! The demonstrators get some protection from JT Ready. Oh, and they’re not your ordinary far left extremists. They’re Neo-Nazis. The man being interviewed, Jason Todd (J.T.) [...]

The Daily Caller: Self-reported gun ownership is at an all-time high among women, according to Gallup’s annual poll on gun ownership in the United States. According to Gallup, 43 percent of women report household gun ownership, up from 33 percent in 2009. The poll found that 23 percent of women personally own firearms. The trend [...]

WSBTV Atlanta: ATLANTA — U.S. figures show American companies have slashed labor costs by moving millions of manufacturing jobs to China. A new trend involves many companies moving higher-paying, white-collar positions overseas too. Many American corporate call centers now are in places like the Philippines and technical jobs are in India. One example is Channel [...]

Fox News: Texas governor Rick Perry will not be participating in all the GOP debates. His campaign has committed to the next debate in Michigan on November 9th, but that’s the only one the campaign says it has decided on. Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan tells Fox News,”We will take part in future debates, but have [...]

AFP: Chicago pot smokers may soon be able to light up without fear of jail time. Several Windy City councilmen said Thursday they plan to introduce a local law that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in order to cut costs and free up police to handle more serious crimes. Chicago police make [...]