Pat Dollard

Excerpted from Verum Serum: We all know there is a large contingent of radical socialists, even communist die-hards, among the Occupy crowd, but it’s still pretty jarring to see this sort of discussion being conducted in the light of day, probably no more then a mile or two from our nation’s capitol. And note well [...]

PublicPolicyPolling: Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in PPP’s national polling. He’s at 28% to 25% for Herman Cain and 18% for Mitt Romney. The rest of the Republican field is increasingly looking like a bunch of also rans: Rick Perry is at 6%, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at 5%, Jon Huntsman at 3%, [...]

Atlanta Journal Constitution: David Sturdivant has lost his liberty, a kidney, his home, his business and all his belongings. He has nothing left other than the $21 a friend put on his account at the Fulton County Jail, where he has been since April 8. The 64-year-old Marine Purple Heart recipient could have left jail [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – After a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups. Muslim community leaders [...]

Fox News: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann isn’t backing down from her controversial stance on waterboarding despite being called out by President Obama over the weekend as “wrong.” The Republican presidential candidate said in a GOP candidates’ debate on Saturday night that she, along with fellow candidate Herman Cain, would support the reinstatement of waterboarding as [...]

The Smoking Gun: When Shanaya Edgell arrived early yesterday morning at a McDonald’s in Janesville, Wisconsin, she was expecting to order from the fast food joint’s regular menu–Big Macs, french fries, Chicken McNuggets, and the like. Except it was around 3 AM and the restaurant had already switched over to its breakfast menu–hash browns, Egg [...]

News Record: Smoke poured out of Jerusalem Restaurant Sunday after an apparent explosion just before 9 p.m. “We were all standing outside smoking, and the next thing we hear, there was this boom,” said TJ Crank, 24, who was in front of the neighboring Baba Budan’s at the time of the incident. “The whole front [...]

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Gizmodo: This is crazy. New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert. The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. Is this a military experiment? They seem to be wide lines drawn with some white material. Or maybe [...]

Mercury News: SAN FRANCISCO — One San Francisco police officer was slashed by a razor and another had his uniform torn and cheek cut in a clash with Occupy San Francisco protesters Saturday afternoon, authorities said. About 3:30 p.m., near the Embarcadero and Broadway, police attempted to prevent marching demonstrators from blocking the intersection where [...]

ABC News: The Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it will hear a challenge to the Obama administration’s signature legislative achievement: the health care reform law. In a paper statement the Court said it would focus on a case brought by 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business and two individuals. The case challenges [...]

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) — President Barack Obama says the interrogation technique known as waterboarding constitutes torturing, disputing Republican presidential candidates who say they would reinstate the practice. Obama called waterboarding “torture” and said it was “contrary to America’s traditions” during a news conference at the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Republicans Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann [...]

(AFP) — A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner ofPacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the “Occupy” movement. Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace [...]

NYTimes: Afghan and coalition forces may have captured a prominent spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, three Afghan officials said Monday.