Pat Dollard

WASHINGTON – With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States. North Korea is not known to have nuclear warheads and faces years [...]

Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands. The spending on overseas travel is up [...]

Washington Times: COLORADO SPRINGS | U.S. missile defenses are prepared to try to knock down the last stage of a Taepodong-2 missile that North Korea is expected soon to launch if sensors detect the weapon threatens U.S. territory, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command told The Washington Times. “The nation has a very, very [...]

New York Times: The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build the Roman Catholic Church in this country, planting schools and hospitals and keeping parishes humming. [...]

Tina Meier holds photos of her daughter LOS ANGELES — A federal judge tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself. In his ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge George Wu acquitted Lori Drew of misdemeanor counts of [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. Iran on Thursday announced more arrests in the post-election turmoil, detaining seven [...]

h/t The Dame Truth Note From a Cop The fear on the street is palpable. Ever since the election of Barack Obama as President of these United States in November 2008, coupled with the election of a democrat party majority in both the U.S. House and Senate, concern for the United States and personal safety [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge’s nomination. White House Counsel Greg Craig told Sen. Jeff Sessions, [...]

Be prepared for a long, eye-opening read folks. Stay informed. The National Review Online: The stimulus bill was the legislative equivalent of the famous cantina scene from Star Wars, an eye-popping collection of the freakish and exotic, gathered for dubious purposes. The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, known as ACES (the American Clean Energy and Security Act), [...]

National Review Online: Last month, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a rigged presidential election. Our president was extremely cautious in his initial criticism of the Iranian government’s fierce crackdown against the protestors. At first, President Obama said that the United States — given our history in Iran — should [...]

CNN: KABUL, Afghanistan — An American soldier captured in southeastern Afghanistan is being held by a notorious militant clan, a senior U.S. military official said. The American and three Afghan soldiers were captured by low-level militants and then quickly “sold” to the clan led by warlord Siraj Haqqani — believed to be deeply involved in [...]

Sonia Sotomayor was not mentioned in this article, despite the fact that the very court that she is nominated for found one of her most prominent recent rulings to be Unconstitutional and racist. Why wasn’t she mentioned? To keep her out of it. To shy off the responsibility she took and abused, so that she [...]

POLITICO: Gibbs addresses the cancellation of The Washington Post’s cancelled event. Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, [...]