Pat Dollard

Confused BofA banker suddenly surrounded by sketchy mob of anti-bank, hang ‘em high, #OccupySanFrancisco protesters Los Angeles Times: Reporting from San Francisco — Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement seized a Bank of America branch in the city’s financial district Wednesday, a demonstration that forced jittery customers and employees to flee and ended in [...]

Article is meant to be read with this accompanying music: Washington Post: By David A. Fahrenthold In early June, Ashlee Sinder Sorenson, 18, had gone to community college in Tucson in hopes of getting on the job market. One of her classes was a basic algebra class–and one of her classmates was Jared Loughner, now [...]

(Haaretz) — Hundreds of students on Tuesday formed a human chain around the uranium conversion plant in central Iran, in a demonstration staged by students to show that Iranians were ready to sacrifice their lives if the nuclear sites were attacked by Israel. It followed a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that [...]

(Post And Courier) — It’s not even December, but Santa has already been fired from Charleston’s Hollings Cancer Center. For each of the past two years, hospital volunteer Frank Cloyes spent one day as St. Nick, spreading good cheer and snacks to patients sitting through chemotherapy treatments. The 67-year-old James Island resident, a retired insurance [...]

(LA Times) — Five people at the Occupy L.A. encampment have been charged with separate crimes, including a man who allegedly exposed himself and commited a sex act in front of a child, officials said Tuesday. Angele Chaidez, 21, faces one count of lewd conduct and one count of indecent exposure for allegedly exposing himself [...]

(Fox News) — President Obama bad-mouthed the United States during a visit to an Australian high school, telling teenagers that the United States has “fallen behind” in education, according to a White House pool report. He told young people at Campbell High School the United States has “fallen behind” when it comes to math and [...]

New York Daily News: A protester was arrested in Zuccotti Park Wednesday after he threatened to fire bomb the city — and his rant went viral on YouTube, police said. Nkrumah Tinsley, 29, was busted after cops saw a video of him claiming he would torch the city during Thursday’s mass protest posted online, police [...]

Daily Mail: Casey Anthony is lucky to be alive after allegedly surviving an assassination attempt at her Florida safe house. Casey’s ‘panic-stricken’ bodyguards had to pull her out of the firing line and whisk her to an emergency hideout in the middle of the night before an assassin ‘put a bullet through her brain’, The [...]

Wall Street Journal: Even if ObamaCare survives Supreme Court scrutiny next spring, its trials will be far from over. That’s because the law has a major glitch that threatens its basic functioning. It’s so problematic, in fact, that the Obama administration is now brazenly trying to rewrite the law without involving Congress. The Patient Protection [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to rebound on Thursday with a march on the New York Stock Exchange to show their battle against economic inequality still has life after they were evicted from a nearby park. Most rallies by the two-month-old movement have numbered in the hundreds of people in New [...]

The Hill: Newt Gingrich said a Gingrich-Hermain Cain ticket would be “a real possibility” if he won the Republican presidential nomination. Speaking in an interview with Newsmax magazine, in response to the prospect of a Gingrich-Cain ticket or Cain-Gingrich ticket, Gingrich said that was “a real possibility.” He also listed a number of other names [...]

Styleite: Benetton is no stranger to controversial advertising, and its latest campaign is sure to get lips flapping. Pope Benedict kissing Imam Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb In promotion of the company’s UNHATE Foundation, they’ve just released a striking set of photos featuring world leaders kissing each other. The Photoshopped images are pretty awkward — these are [...]