Pat Dollard

Politico: Despite a last-minute weekend deal that put the Senate on the brink of passing health care reform this week, liberal and moderate Democrats remain on a collision course over the bill, as both sides dug in Sunday for the next phase of negotiations. President Barack Obama’s liberal base and powerful union leaders once hoped [...]

Now who was it that has been calling this the New World Order right from the start? I’m shocked that the MSM (or at least this very small facet of it) has caught on as quickly as it had, it makes me feel… Smart or something. Telegraph: There is scope for debate – and innumerable [...]

The end is nigh. WASHINGTON (AP) – Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas. “Let’s make history,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, shortly before the bill’s [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez launched a federal police force on Sunday that he hopes will change the overwhelmingly negative image most Venezuelans have of their public security forces while reducing crime in one of Latin America’s most violent countries. “We are going to defeat crime,” Chavez told uniformed cadets belonging to the [...]

Politico: The outrage among some of America’s most vocal liberals at President Barack Obama’s failure to expand government-run health care caps a year of disappointments for Obama’s allies on the left and raises worrying questions for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. The revolt led by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean comes after a series [...]

Pajamas Media: The current U.S. administration is supporting Egypt in the same way that Iran under the shah was backed by the U.S. in the 1970s — as a regional power supposedly doing its bidding. U.S. administrations, unfortunately, have taken a dim view of internalizing historical lessons, and it may prove particularly perilous with the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats appear within reach of the 60 votes necessary to pass President Barack Obama’s health care legislation after a long year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining with holdout Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Emerging from marathon talks with Majority Leader Harry Reid and White House officials late [...]

Real Clear Politics: Health reform is shuffling toward its endgame, and even though the bill’s popularity resembles George Bush’s circa 2007, Democrats seem determined to push the bill through. Browse through certain liberal blogs, or listen to Democratic leadership speeches, and you’ll read the same justification again and again: However bad passing this bill might [...]

The American Spectator: If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hasn’t secured 60 votes by midnight Saturday, he won’t be able to meet the ambitious deadline of passing a health care bill on Christmas Eve. The reason is that in order to trigger the chain of events leading to a Christmas Eve vote, Reid would have [...]

The Washington Post: CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — Arturo Beltrán Leyva, the alleged leader of one of this country’s top drug cartels, was killed Wednesday night in a two-hour gun and grenade battle with federal forces, ending the reign of a man who liked to describe himself as the “boss of bosses” in Mexico’s criminal underworld. [...]

Daily Mail: Hovering ominously over the city, this video of what appears to be a triangle-shaped UFO has left Russians baffled. Sitting motionless in the sky above the Kremlin in Moscow, clips of the unexplained object have become the most-viewed videos on Russia’s YouTube. The two videos, one taken at night from a car and [...]

Daily Mail: Not many people understand climate change. But they can recognise hypocrisy when they see it, and are also likely to count their spoons whenever wild-eyed politicians invoke the impending end of the world. On Tuesday, Prince Charles flew to Copenhagen to attend the climate change summit, where he delivered a keynote speech. He [...]

COPENHAGEN (AP) – President Barack Obama announced Friday a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” on a global effort to curb climate change. But Obama said, “It is going to be very hard, and it’s going to take some time” to get to a legally binding treaty. A deal reached by the United States, China, India, South [...]

So we’ve got Obama, Castro, Gore, Chavez, Clinton, Vidal, Brown, and hundreds of others like them collected in one place and the building is still standing? Talk about a missed opportunity… (AFP) Veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday dismissed US President Barack Obama’s trip to UN climate change talks in Copenhagen as a “show,” [...]

Rasmussen: Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide say that it would be better to pass no health care reform bill this year instead of passing the plan currently being considered by Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% think that passing that bill would be better. Middle-income voters are more [...]

Michelle Malkin: Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the Death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, was suffering brain death and heart failure. My, [...]