Pat Dollard

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan acknowledged for the first time Thursday that the Mumbai terrorist attacks were launched from its shores and at least partly plotted on its soil. Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik also said Pakistan had arrested most of the main suspects and had started criminal proceedings against them. The revelations appear to suggest that [...]

Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid played a little high-stakes chicken with each other at the tail end of Wednesday’s shotgun stimulus talks. It’s not clear who won – or who blinked. According to a half dozen Congressional aides and members, Reid went before the cameras Wednesday to announce a [...]

“Suffice it to say that the security surrounding the theater, on this eve of its reopening after a $25-million renovation and the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Lincoln, was somewhat more intense than it was on a fateful night long ago.” – The Swamp Bloomberg: Feb. 12 — President Barack Obama paid tribute to [...]

Wall Street Journal: BIG SUR, Calif. — As Sacramento squabbles over the state’s $42 billion deficit, Californians are getting a bitter taste of what’s to come after the steep budget cuts that are inevitable when legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger finally hammer out a deal. Some world-famous parks like Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park may [...]

Have any of you said to yourself, it’s just too odd, too terribly perfect, that the U.S. economy just tanked overnight? From an earlier story here: “No one knows who did it, but mysterious individuals or groups began emptying out America’s banks right before Obama was elected. Now here’s where it really gets creepy. Three [...]

No one knows who did it, but mysterious individuals or groups began emptying out America’s banks right before Obama was elected. Now here’s where it really gets creepy. Three days after the bank run, Fed Chariman Bernanke, and Treasury Secretary Paulson, run over to Capital Hill to give Congressional leaders a top-secret, emergency briefing on [...]

Jerusalem Post: US officials are publicly taking a wait-and-see approach to the formation of a new Israeli government, but privately many have expressed concern that Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu might preside over a right-wing coalition. “There would be great unease” at the prospect of such a government, said one Capitol Hill source. He predicted that [...]

During an interview on “The Ron and Fez Show” on Sirius XM’s “The Virus” channel, Al Roker had an unexpected confrontation over his past calls for the firing of broadcaster Don Imus. Comedian Jim Norton, part of the “Opie and Anthony Show” (also on “The Virus”), called in to press Roker on the matter. Roker’s [...]

NY Times: Wall Street banks have taken billions of taxpayer dollars. Now some of them are starting to wonder if they should give the money back. Even before the government announced its latest efforts to fix the troubled banking industry on Tuesday, executives at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley said they wanted to repay the [...]

Times Online: Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India’s Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine. The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s biggest and oldest [...]

Newsweek: Just three months ago, Afghanistan was the “good” war. It was, according to all the conventional wisdom, the “real” central front in the war on terror, the war we had to win, the place to fight Al Qaeda, and the war we should have been focusing on all along. Nothing much has changed in [...]

BAGHDAD – Bombs struck Shiite pilgrims heading Wednesday to religious ceremonies, killing at least 12 people and wounding over 40, officials said. Fearing new sectarian tension, a U.N. official urged Iraqis not to respond to the “provocations of extremists.” The deadliest blast occurred near a bus station and outdoor market in the southwestern Baghdad neighborhood [...]

“Once we pass this expansion it will be like pulling teeth to ever go back.” Andrea Tantaros for Fox News: First of all, as a Pennsylvania girl I’d like to apologize to every fiscal conservative in America for the actions of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, one of three Republicans who voted with the Democrats on [...]