Pat Dollard

This isn’t my footage, but I’ve done this so many times I can’t even count. Talk about good times.

The New York Times: Guards at a Mexican prison stood by nonchalantly as 53 inmates, many of them suspected members of drug gangs, walked out — and that the guards did not rush into action with their guns drawn until well after the convoy of escape vehicles had disappeared. UPDATE From Brisbane Times: A top [...]

Wall Street Journal: President Obama delivered a major speech yesterday on how he intends to prosecute the war on terror (or whatever it’s now called), and in particular his desire to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay. As rhetoric, his remarks were at pains to declare a bold new moral direction. On substance, however, [...]

Wall Street Journal: CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Malls, those ubiquitous shopping meccas that sprang up in the 1950s, are dwindling in number, with many struggling properties reduced to largely vacant shells. On the low-income east side of Charlotte, N.C., the 1.1-million-square-foot Eastland Mall recently lost a slew of key tenants, including a Dillard’s and, next month, [...]

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers appealed to the Obama administration on Friday to slow down the restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler, wary of shuttered car dealerships, job losses and the big unknown of a GM bankruptcy. “We are asking President Obama to call ‘time-out’ on his automobile task force,” said Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio. Members of [...]

Washington Post: by Charles Krauthammer If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program. The latest flip-flop [...]

L-R: Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor of the Third District, Sue Young, executive director of Veterans Park Conservancy, Henry Waxman, U.S. Congressman of the 30th District, and Flora Gil Krisiloff, Westside Senior District Deputy to Yaroslavsky and the vice president and board member of Veterans Park Conservancy, hold a rendering of the proposed public [...]

Bill the Wifeby hotternews

I’ve been saying for awhile now that current Conservative leadership, from it’s three branches of power: elected officials, talking heads, and financiers, are cowering in fear from diving into the the breach, and fighting the political war we’re in like the political war it is. Bloomberg is catching my drift. However, not noted here, is [...]

The point in saying this, is to marginalize the right, and empower the left: AP: “As long as I am your commander-in-chief, I will only send you into harm’s way when it is absolutely necessary,” Obama said, in an apparent veiled criticism of the Bush administration war in Iraq, which the president has argued was [...]

Posted By: James Delingpole http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ Watching Obama lose his screen on screen duel with Dick Cheney yesterday I was reminded of some lines from Paradise Lost. “Thus Belial with words clothed in reason’s garb Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth, not peace.” But while the silver-tongued minor devil Belial would no doubt have approved the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Global Warming Bill Advances In House Despite GOP Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the panel’s chairman, said the bill represents “decisive and historic action” to increase America’s energy security and deal with global warming. Legislation imposing the first nationwide limits on the pollution blamed for global warming advanced in the House late Thursday, [...]