Pat Dollard

Times Online: Karl Marx, who famously described religion as “the opium of the people”, has joined Galileo, Charles Darwin and Oscar Wilde on a growing list of historical figures to have undergone an unlikely reappraisal by the Roman Catholic Church. L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said yesterday that Marx’s early critiques of capitalism had highlighted [...]

AJC: WASHINGTON — Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. And the share of people who believe pollution caused by humans is causing temperatures to rise has also taken a [...]

Politico (Of Course): A day after former Vice President Cheney charged the Obama administration … … with “dithering” over its strategy for the war in Afghanistan, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs returned fire with guns blazing. “What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in [...]

Guess which website is still free? NewsDay: Beginning Wednesday, most of Newsday.com content will only be available to subscribers of Optimum Online, Newsday, or those willing to pay for it. Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper – both owned by Bethpage-based Cablevision Systems Corp. – will have to pay a [...]

WSJ By SIOBHAN GORMAN The Chinese government is ratcheting up its cyberspying operations against the U.S., a congressional advisory panel found, citing an example of a carefully orchestrated campaign against one U.S. company that appears to have been sponsored by Beijing. The unnamed company was just one of several successfully penetrated by a campaign of [...]

WorldNetDaily By David Kupelian Declaring the “flying imams” case – settled out-of-court yesterday in favor of the imams – to be as important to Muslims as the iconic Rosa Parks case was to blacks during the 1950s, the head of a controversial Islamic nonprofit organization in the nation’s capital revealed the strategy his organization embraced [...]

Heritage Foundation by David C. John Since Social Security recipients will get no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) next year, President Obama wants to give each of them $250, a move supported in principle by the Republican House and Senate leadership. However, this move is not only unjustified; it makes a fundamental change to Social Security’s structure [...]

AP By Mohamed Olad Hassan MOGADISHU, Somalia—Mortars slammed into Somalia’s capital Thursday, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 25, Mogadishu’s ambulance service said. Ali Muse, a spokesman for the ambulance service, said the shelling started Thursday morning. Somalia’s capital sees near-daily bloodshed as insurgents try to overthrow the government and push out [...]

Politico: By JIM VANDEHEI & MIKE ALLEN This is the first of a two-part look at the marginalization of the GOP. Tomorrow: GOP officials fear that the party’s image is being defined increasingly by boisterous conservative commentators. President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top [...]

Washington Times: Maintaining his stature as one of the most forecful defenders of the Bush Administration’s defense policies former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Obama of committing “libel” against CIA interrorgators in a wide-ranging address on foreign policy issues at the Center for Security Policy Wednesday evening. Mr. Cheney’s criticized the Obama White House [...]

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Chicago Boyz: Listening to the contemporary American left’s views of the rest of us is increasingly like listening to a paranoid schizophrenic slip farther into delusions that they are surrounded by malevolent people. Just as we have to worry that the schizophrenic might act on their delusional beliefs and strike out violently against the evils [...]

CNN: Afghan opium kills 100,000 people every year worldwide — more than any other drug — and the opiate heroin kills five times as many people in NATO countries each year than the eight-year total of NATO troops killed in Afghan combat, the United Nations said Wednesday. An Afghan police officer digs up a field [...]

Michelle Malkin: It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare. Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. [...]

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