Pat Dollard

CBS2 Chicago: Senate Dems May Seat Burris, But No Final Deal Blagojevich’s Senate Pick Meets With Reid, Durbin WASHINGTON ― Senate leaders began to clear the way for Roland Burris to take over President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant seat, saying they wanted the issue resolved quickly. Burris met Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and [...]

For me it’s the idea of Al Franken taking, and I do mean “taking”, the Senate seat. The whole Senate election between him and Coleman should be thrown out and a special election held. I know that costs $$$ … however, these endless, and highly tainted recounts, and then taking the whole thing to court [...]

Bloomberg: In a mirrored office tower overlooking Caracas, a top Venezuelan official says his government is ready to accept Barack Obama’s offer to talk with U.S. adversaries — if the president-elect scraps George W. Bush’s division of the world into friends and foes. Such categories are “simplistic,” says Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela’s former envoy to Washington. [...]

Blackfive’s previous background on Chance’s story here. (H/T Blackfive)

Caption: CCTV,January,05/09,A businessman died and five people were injured in a helicopter crash/explosion occurred on the afternoon of Monday (5) in Itupeva, to 73 km from Sao Paulo. The pilot and the aircraft copiloto were taken to a hospital in the city with serious injuries. The helicopter went out of Paraty, in Rio, the second [...]

From what I have been hearing, the whole time during the “humanitarian ceasefire” from Israel, gunfire from Gaza continued … and was met with answering fire from the IDF. .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; [...]

(H/T MsUnderestimated)

Report: Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza fight CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader lashed out at President-elect Barack Obama in a new audio message Tuesday, accusing him of not doing anything to stop Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to an intelligence monitoring center. The recording purportedly by Ayman al-Zawahiri was [...]

Suspect Shot Dead After High-Speed Chase in Central Illinois NORMAL, Ill. — A man suspected of robbing four banks died several hours after being shot by police following a high-speed chase around Normal in central Illinois. The man, identified by McLean County Coroner Beth Kimmerling as Robert Sylvester of Bloomington, robbed a Bloomington currency exchange [...]

Telegraph UK: More than 70,000 Iranian students have volunteered to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, according to Iran’s state news agency, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not responded to their request for permission. Volunteer suicide groups have made similar requests in the past and the government has never responded, which suggests that the campaigns [...]

Turkey holds suspicious Iran-Venezuela shipment ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday. Suleyman Tosun, a customs official at the Mediterranean port of Mersin, said military experts were asked to examine the material, which was [...]

The Smoking Gun: Skier Suffers Exposure Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap JANUARY 6–In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap [...]

Jewish World Review: By Dennis Prager Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is that rare individual who is both a highly respected academic and well known to the general population. But in another regard he is even rarer. He regards himself as a man of the left, yet on one of the defining moral issues [...]

Time: Israel says its military offensive in Gaza has dealt Hamas a heavy blow, but that’s not how the leaders of the radical Palestinian group see it. And their view is based more on a kind of jujitsu that uses Israel’s military momentum against its own political objectives, rather than on any serious belief in [...]