Pat Dollard

HONOLULU (AP) – U.S. security chiefs briefed President Barack Obama on Thursday about missteps in the lead-up to the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing as lawmakers joined the White House in racing to find out what went wrong. The Senate Intelligence Committee announced Jan. 21 hearings as part of an investigation to begin sooner. “We will [...]

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a store employee found the head of a lamb inside a microwave oven on display at an Ikea home furnishings showroom. Police in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester say they believe the discovery on Dec. 16 was the result of a prank. By the time [...]

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and wounded six more at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials have told The Associated Press. A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an [...]

M-Live: “Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain. Ever since I got off of Flight 253 I have been repeating what I saw in US Customs. Specifically, [...]

Queer caught in the headlights Fox News: The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Transportation Security Administration, sent federal agents to the homes of two journalists and served them with subpoenas on Tuesday night to try to identify the source of a leak about aviation security changes imposed after the failed attempt on Christmas [...]

HONOLULU (AP) – Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh remained hospitalized in Hawaii Thursday after experiencing chest pains similar to a heart attack, according to the guest host on his nationally syndicated radio show. Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital Wednesday during a vacation. Guest host Walter E. Williams described Limbaugh’s pains as similar [...]

NewsMax: The Media Research Center had no problem finding outrageous quotes from the liberal media for its Best Notable Quotables of 2009 — and the center’s founder and president, Brent Bozell, discussed the “awards” in an exclusive Newsmax interview. The “winners” of the 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting, chosen by a panel [...]

BATH, Maine (AP) – Cruising through the darkness in rough seas, the USS Ross encountered a rogue wave that smashed into the destroyer’s bow, sending a shudder along the entire ship that knocked sleeping crew out of their bunks and damaged the sonar housing. As alarms sounded, sleepy sailors scrambled to shore up the leak. [...]

The Hill: Democrats have lost yet another touted recruit, this time in Kansas. State Sen. Laura Kelly (D) just announced her withdrawal from the race to face Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.). She becomes the fifth formidable recruit to bow out in recent weeks. “I have been forced to make a decision between honoring the pledge [...]

Bill Roggio in The Weekly Standard: The British are all smiles over the release of Peter Moore, a British citizen who was held hostage by an Iranian-backed Shia terror group in Iraq. But there is little talk about the price paid to secure Moore’s release. The US military has freed Qais Qazali, the leader of [...]

Parent Dish: In a recent op-ed in the Canadian National Post, editor-at-large Diane Francis calls on world leaders, especially those attending the UN’s Copenhagen Conference, to consider the environmental virtues of China’s one-child policy. According to Francis, only government mandated policies restricting women’s rights to reproduce will save the planet from what she believes will [...]

KABUL (AP) – The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for infiltrating a CIA post with a suicide bomber who set off an explosion that killed seven American intelligence staffers and wounded six others in an attack believed one of the worst in the agency’s history. In Washington, CIA director Leon Panetta said the seven killed in [...]

The New York Post: Abraham Lincoln was not gay, no matter what playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer says — according to Harold Holzer, who’s written 35 books about our 16th president and the Civil War. The subject came up in this week’s New York magazine story about Kramer — co-founder of Gay Men’s Health [...]

FOX News: Every year we think celebrities can’t possibly get any worse, and then every year they do. From criminal behavior and cheating on spouses to public outbursts and emotional breakdowns, the twin delusions of power and invincibility continue to wreak havoc on the rich and famous. So who made the cut for Pop Tarts’ [...]