Pat Dollard

WASHINGTON (AP) – Searching for unity, President Barack Obama and senior Democratic lawmakers emerged from marathon health care talks late Wednesday with a declaration that they had made tough gains—but no deal just yet. “We made significant progress in bridging the gaps,” Obama said in a joint, written statement with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and [...]

Click right here to go to the Big Hollywood post page Excerpted from my written post from Big Hollywood: I was interviewing Michael Yon on my Blog Talk Radio show, “The Jihadi Killer Hour,” and we were discussing the fact that in many ways, Ramadi was the truest analogy of Afghanistan. The Iraq war hinged [...]

CRANBERRY, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania state police say the suspect in the fatal shooting of a state trooper is dead. State police Sgt. Mark Zaleski says police have the body of the suspect and his wife. Authorities didn’t immediately identify the couple. The man had been wanted for killing 40-year-old Trooper Paul G. Richey. The [...]

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BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts’s top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul even if the Republican who has vowed to kill it wins Democrat Edward M. Kennedy’s [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of a U.S. congressional panel said on Wednesday he has wants all of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s communications about the Federal Reserve’s payouts to counterparties of insurer AIG Inc at 100 cents on the dollar after a government bailout. Geithner was the president of the New York Fed in September [...]

Times Online: The Prime Minister of Haiti said today that he feared an earthquake which devastated Port-au-Prince could have killed “well over 100,000″ people. The quake struck the Haitian capital yesterday afternoon, bringing down dozens of key buildings, including the presidential palace and the UN peacekeeping headquarters, where around 150 UN personnel were buried in [...]

The Washington Times: The Justice Department refused Tuesday to turn over most of the information and documents sought by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights explaining why a civil complaint was dismissed against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the November 2008 elections. In a 38-page response, [...]

Jerusalem Post: A row between the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a clan affiliated with Fatah has turned violent as both sides claim control over a mosque in a Beirut suburb. The Furqan Mosque, located in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, has become a new battleground for the intra-Palestinian struggle. Two people were lightly [...]

Politico: Steve Schmidt spent 10 weeks building up Sarah Palin, and the two of them have spent a good part of the past 14 months tearing each other down. A losing campaign always brings out the knives, but they are usually wielded in the shadows. The pure spectacle of a former campaign strategist going on [...]

Our weekly feature from Feed Your ADHD’s Snarky Bastard: WASHINGTON – Officials in the nation’s capitol are poised to pass legislation that would legalize medicinal marijuana in the District of Criminals specifically to help members of an ailing Congress and White House, where unhealthy delusions of grandeur are rampant and widespread unemployment looms. The rules [...]