Pat Dollard

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Gov. Mark Sanford is accused of breaking 37 ethics laws regarding campaign finances and travel, including using taxpayer money for high-priced airplane tickets that took him around the world and to Argentina for a rendezvous with the woman he once called his “soul mate.” The governor’s attorney said he looks forward [...]

News Busters: At the end of CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, host Bob Schieffer fretted over massive government spending but avoided blaming current Democratic proposals: “I’m not even talking about the cost of health care….It is now costing $1 million a year to keep one U.S. soldier on the ground in Afghanistan, not to [...]

Fox News: City council members in Marietta, Ga., will consider changing the oath of office that the city’s police officers take so that recruits can swear to uphold the law without saying the phrase “so help me God.” But a police spokeswoman says that to her knowledge, nobody has ever objected to saying those words, [...]

Real Clear Politics: Saturday night’s health-care vote in the Senate was a theatrical fizzle. Sure, Majority Leader Harry Reid made senators sit at their desks for their vote to create a sense of “history” — but everyone knew that he’d get the 60 votes he needed to start debate on ObamaCare. If a $100 million [...]

Now I know that none of you care… But never pass up an opportunity to laugh at a celebrity’s misfortune.

FOX News: MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors announced charges against eight more people as part of a long-running investigation of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia. As many as 20 young Somali men have left Minnesota over the last two years for Somalia and are believed to have joined the Somali [...]

The Weekly Standard: Former Vice President Dick Cheney unloaded on President Barack Obama and his administration in a radio interview Monday morning, saying that Obama’s recent bow before the Japanese Emperor was “fundamentally harmful” to the United States and indicates that Obama “doesn’t fully understand or have the same perception of the US role in [...]

Deadline: EXCLUSIVE: If tradition stands, the details of the guest list will be revealed only a few hours before the Obama administration’s first state dinner tomorrow. The welcome for India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the biggest social event of the Obama White House. Already the Washington DC press corp is buzzing about the [...]

CNBC: According to the government’s broadest measure of unemployment, some 17.5 percent are either without a job entirely or underemployed. The so-called U-6 number is at the highest rate since becoming an official labor statistic in 1994. The number dwarfs the statistic most people pay attention to—the U-3 rate—which most recently showed unemployment at 10.2 [...]

GENEVA – The world’s largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time and causing the first particle collisions in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. The true test of the Large Hadron Collider will come in [...]

Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eked out 60 votes on a procedural motion to start the health care debate Saturday night – but there’s no guarantee he can pass a bill on the merits. And as he struggles, the reasons are clear: deep divides among Democrats on a public insurance plan, abortion, tax hikes [...]