Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Excerpted from GATEWAY PUNDIT) Ambassador Chris Stevens reportedly passed away from severe asphyxiation after the Benghazi consulate was attacked with RPG’s and automatic weapons on 9-11. He was pronounced dead after efforts to revive him failed. Stevens was the first American ambassador to have been killed since Adolph Dubs died in Afghanistan in 1979 during the ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON TIMES) Government officials blame unfair competition from China for the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, but such concerns didn’t stop the federal government from breaking stimulus program rules to use Chinese solar panels atop a federal building housing the offices of a senator, congressman and several agencies. Even the contractor questioned whether Chinese-made ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON TIMES) CAIRO (AP) — Al Qaeda’s branch in North Africa on Tuesday called for attacks on U.S. diplomats and an escalation of protests against an anti-Islam video that was produced in the United States and triggered a wave of demonstrations in the Middle East and beyond. While demonstrations have tapered off in nations including Egypt ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE HILL) The latest mandate handed down from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is so ridiculous, even I was shocked. The EPA has now mandated how much gasoline you must buy at certain gas stations. Say hello to the Obama Administration’s four gallon minimum. This unprecedented EPA overreach applies when filling up at a gas ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) A week after small businesses warned that Obamacare taxes will eat up to half of their profits, a new government report reveals that simply complying with the new tax rules in the health care act will cost American families and businesses nearly 80 million hours--essentially a whole new tax. Based on Internal Revenue Service ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(REUTERS) - More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a Mexican prison on the border with the United States in one of the worst jailbreaks the country's beleaguered penal system has suffered in recent years. Homero Ramos, attorney general of the northern state of Coahuila, said 132 inmates of the prison in the ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) The whistle-blower whose allegations form the basis for a Department of Justice lawsuit against the Gallup polling company made bizarre requests at work, made coworkers nervous and said he was a “devout Marxist,” a senior Gallup official told The Daily Caller. In mid-August, the DOJ announced it was joining a lawsuit former Gallup ...
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Sep 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency. Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Independent: American diplomats were warned of possible violent unrest in Benghazi three days before the killings of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of his team, Libyan security officials say. The claim came as the country's interim President, Mohammed el-Megarif, said his government had information that the attack on the US consulate ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: An investigation by the Government Accountability Institute found that more than half of the most politically active 50 campaign bundlers for President Obama were either appointed to a presidential council, committee, board, or other White House post. Many bundlers’ businesses or relatives' businesses also received millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE DAILY CALLER) Last week, 1,571 new pages of regulations were published in the 2012 Federal Register, bringing the total for this year to more than 55,300 pages, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). In those pages, 76 new final rules were approved, up from 51 final rules during the shortened Labor Day holiday ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE BLAZE) A wife-killer in Massachusetts who won the right to a taxpayer-funded sex change earlier this month is now eligible to have his legal fees – expected to top $500,000 – paid as well. In a landmark decision, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ordered the state Department of Correction to provide sex-reassignment surgery to “Michelle” ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FOX NEWS) The Social Security Administration improperly awarded disability benefits in more than 25 percent of cases examined between 2006 and 2010, according to a new Senate report -- potentially costing taxpayers millions of dollars. The findings conclude an 18-month investigation by the chamber’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and show that roughly a quarter of the ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE BLAZE/AP) — Thousands of students, professors and workers have been evacuated from Louisiana State University’s main campus Monday following a bomb threat, school officials said. The LSU Police Department is investigating the threat, the university said in a short statement. Students and staff were sent text messages and a message was posted on ...
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Sep 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(MYFOXDC) Two southeast companies that make U.S. military uniforms are shedding hundreds of jobs, as the government looks to federal inmates for the fatigues. American Power Source makes military clothing in Fayette, Ala., but its government contract expires in October. Federal Prison Industries – which also operates under the name UNICOR will snag the work, and ...
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Sep 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(YNetNews) WASHINGTON – The Jewish public in the United States seems to have taken Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's visit to Israel, as well as his dramatic statements about Jerusalem, in stride, as a recent poll revealed that the majority of Jewish voters in the US still support US President Barack Obama. A recent ...
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Sep 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE BLAZE) About 25 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested during a march in New York City on Saturday as activists prepared to mark the one-year anniversary since the movement began, the New York Daily News reported. Between 200 and 300 demonstrators marched from Washington Square Park to Zuccotti Park in a warmup for Monday ...
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Sep 15, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNN) - Downtown Cairo, scene of the first protest over an anti-Islam film, appeared calm Saturday evening, hours after security forces pushed protesters away from the U.S. Embassy toward Tahrir Square, where they were further dispersed. As the United States strengthened security at diplomatic stations amid the anger, demonstrators clashed with police outside the American Consulate ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(FOX NEWS) Two Marines were killed when Afghan militants armed with rocket propelled grenades and small arms breached the perimeter of the main U.S. Marine base in southern Afghanistan not long ago, following a rocket and mortar attack on the base that is shared with British forces. Army Maj. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman at International ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE) Students at North Dakota State University in Fargo and the University of Texas in Austin have been ordered to evacuate their respective campuses this morning because of bomb threats. There was no indication that the two events were connected. This alert was posted on NDSU's website: "NDSU is requiring all employees and students to leave ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE BLAZE) Police have identified an Occupy Wall Street member as the man who raped a 56-year-old woman in New York City before throwing her off a second story park railing, the New York Daily News reports. The man, 44-year-old Jackie Barcliff, is said to have lured his victim, a fellow protester, to an area in ...
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Sep 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(LWJ) The leader of the Asaib al Haq, an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia terror network that was responsible for kidnapping and murdering US soldiers, threatened to attack US interests in Iraq over a video that has angered Islamists and sparked protests in several Muslim nations. The leader, Qais al Qazali, was turned over to the ...
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