Pat Dollard

NEW YORK (AP) — During the first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests, the movement that is demanding more out of the wealthiest Americans cost local taxpayers at least $13 million inpolice overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press. The heaviest financial burden has fallen upon law enforcement [...]

(Life News) — Catherine Adair, a former Planned Parenthood staffer in Boston, has written a new column in the Washington Examiner about her experience and says the abortion business is really concerned about one thing: abortion. Adair has begun to speak out recently about her experiences and, previously, credited Abby Johnson leaving her post as [...]

(Politico) — A large cross that had been prominently displayed outside a chapel on an isolated military base in northern Afghanistan was taken down last week, prompting outrage from some American service members stationed there. “We are here away from our families, and the chapel is the one place that feels like home,” a service [...]

Washington (CNN) — Although President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating remains steady, his standing among Democrats, and in particular among blue-collar Democrats, appears to have dropped, according to a new national survey. According to a CNN/ORC International Poll released Wednesday, 44% of Americans say they approve of the job the president’s doing in the White [...]

CNBC: Investors began to fear the worst for the euro after unusually weak demand at an auction for bonds from Germany, the region’s largest economy. One analyst went so far as to put the currency on a “death watch.” Germany sold just 60 percent of the 6 billion euros in 10-year bunds it brought to [...]

Because the big bad American military had its big bad bases in Saudi Aradia, bin Laden did the sensible and defensible thing and attacked us on 9-11, is what he’s saying here. Ron Paul is the military’s worst enemy masquerading as its best friend. Ron Paul has hated the United States Military since he was [...]

The Hill: Democratic strategist Tad Devine, an adviser to the Al Gore and John Kerry presidential campaigns, accused Mitt Romney’s campaign of invoking the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a recent ad. Devine said Wednesday that he was “shocked” to see what he believed was imagery of an African-American church in an ad released Tuesday [...]

NBC News: In the latest twist to the Jerry Sandusky alleged child sex scandal, it appears that one of the two new sexual abuse allegations we told you about yesterday was made by a family member of the former Penn State football coach. Sandusky’s attorney Joe Amendola told Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News that the [...]

The Guardian: A fresh tranche of private emails exchanged between leading climate scientists throughout the last decade was released online on Tuesday. The unauthorised publication is an apparent attempt to repeat the impact of a similar release of emails on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit in late 2009. The initial email dump was [...]

Washington Times: The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday downgraded its estimate of the benefits of President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, saying it may have sustained as few as 700,000 jobs at its peak last year and that over the long run it will actually be a net drag on the economy. CBO said that while [...]

Murcury News: SANTA CRUZ – County officials this week released a list of 93 complaints of disruptive and illegal behavior near the county’s main offices and courthouse, adjacent to the Occupy Santa Cruz camp. Since the camp was joined by dozens of tents that belong to the homeless, county workers and others have documented drug [...]

Associated Press: MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will deploy new missiles aimed at U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if Washington goes ahead with the planned shield despite Russia’s concerns, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday. Russia will station missiles in its westernmost Kaliningrad region and other areas if Russia and NATO fail to reach a deal [...]

AP: Occupy marchers from New York arrive in Washington, D.C. The group walked 240 miles in the past two weeks.

ABC News: Jack Daniel’s officials are toasting the defeat of a proposal to tax whiskey at its celebrated Tennessee distillery. The Moore County Council in Lynchburg, Tenn., voted 10-5 Monday evening to kill a proposal that could have taxed Jack Daniel’s up to $5 million annually, with all the revenue going to local coffers. “We [...]

Wall Street Journal: At GOP Debate, Former Speaker and Leader in Some Polls Takes Tougher Stance Than His Rivals Toward Tehran WASHINGTON—Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called for replacing the leadership of Iran and said that could be accomplished within a year, adopting a more aggressive posture toward the U.S. adversary than advocated by the [...]