Pat Dollard

Fox News: Top law enforcement officials cannot be sued for alleged abuse of Muslims in the U.S. following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-4 decision means that the officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and current FBI Director Robert Mueller, are immune from such a lawsuit. Javaid Iqbal, [...]

The Ledger: WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan’s nuclear program. Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the [...]

Times Online: A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially today amid heated talk that it could challenge the might of Google. WolframAlpha, named after Stephen Wolfram, the British-born computer scientist and inventor behind the project, takes a query and uses computational power to crunch through [...]

Go ahead, make my day Jake Tapper At ABC’s Political Punch: The thorny religious and political debates President Obama steps into today with his commencement address at Notre Dame University — where anti-abortion advocates are decrying his receiving an honorary degree as contrary to the Church’s views on life — might seem as pleasant as [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama’s first date with House Republicans didn’t end so well: He made a high-profile trip to the Capitol to ask for their help with his economic stimulus plan, and they said no — unanimously, twice. Now Obama is trying again — more quietly and with a smaller group of moderate Republicans who [...]

Politico: When President Barack Obama spoke to the Notre Dame commencement Sunday afternoon, television cameras searched the sea of graduates, looking for turned backs and defaced mortar boards that abortion opponents used to register their disagreement with the president. But the attention to protests from conservatives who don’t support Obama – and almost certainly never [...]

Web Wire: May 13, 2009, Shawville, Québec, Canada — An NGO called Vote World Government has released the names of 45 authors who have published books or articles on the issue of globalizing democracy and who have agreed to set aside their philosophical differences in order to encourage the holding of a global referendum on [...]

A celebration of the great “moderate” events in (fake) history. by Oleg Atbashian http://pajamasmedia.com/ As all principled Democrats are pounding their uncompromising collective fist on the GOP’s big tent, demanding that conservatives compromise their principles, and even Colin Powell has joined their unanimous opinion about the glaring lack of diverse opinions among Republicans, conservatives are [...]

Zachary Boyd had been asleep when the firefight erupted in the mountains of Afghanistan. So he only had time to put on his helmet, body armour and grab his weapon Daily Mail: Taking on the Taliban in pink boxer shorts, t-shirt and flip-flops is not regarded as conventional military uniform. Especially when the shorts declare [...]

WASHINGTON – Like a general whose direct attacks aren’t working, scientists are now trying to outflank the HIV/AIDS virus. Unsuccessful at developing vaccines that the cause the body’s natural immune system to battle the virus, researchers are testing inserting a gene into the muscle that can cause it to produce protective antibodies against HIV. The [...]

AFP: A YouTube video clip showing pigs being culled in Egypt as part of swine flu measures has caused outrage at the apparent barbarity of the method of slaughtering the animals. The clip posted by independent newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yom includes gory images of pigs being beaten with iron bars, piglets being stabbed and animals being [...]

FOX News: The United States has a detailed plan for infiltrating Pakistan and securing its mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads if it appears the country is about to fall under the control of the Taliban, Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremists. American intelligence sources say the operation would be conducted by Joint Special Operations Command, [...]

DETROIT – At 789 Chrysler lots across America sit 44,000 potential bargains, cars and trucks that are stuck between shellshocked dealers and a troubled company that no longer wants their services. The dealers have just a few weeks to sell the Chryslers, Dodges and Jeeps or risk losing thousands of dollars on them, giving people [...]

The New York Post: Swine flu has become deadly in New York City. The Queens assistant principal stricken with the now-deadly H1N1 virus succumbed to the illness late today, the first known fatality in the city from the disease, hospital officials said. Mitchell Wiener, 55, died at 6:17 p.m., just hours after his family optimistically [...]