Pat Dollard

Pew Research: The public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law’s provisions giving police increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally. Fully 73% say they approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if police [...]

Los Angeles Times: Roman Polanski is getting more support from the movie industry in his battle to avoid extradition to face sentencing in a sex case in Los Angeles. Several noted directors have signed a petition in support of Polanski at the Cannes Film Festival. The effort comes several days after a Los Angeles judge [...]

Wall Street Journal: Republicans have solidified support among voters who had drifted from the party in recent elections, putting the GOP in position for a strong comeback in November’s mid-term campaign, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The findings suggest that public opinion has hardened in advance of the 2010 elections, making [...]

Related: “Obama’s Use Of This Social Security Number Is Fraudulent” Mediate: Just when you thought the Birther conspiracy theories had died out under the weight of actual news like the BP oil spill, and the Times Sq. Bomber, along comes a ‘report’ that the first three digits of President Obama’s social security number apparently suggests [...]

Times Online: There are many ways to pay off campaign debts — cajoling phone calls, begging letters — but Bill Clinton believes that he has come up with a better method to wipe out the financial obligations outstanding from his wife’s failed presidential bid. He is raffling himself. In an e-mail sent to millions of [...]

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) – Federal agents conducted Thursday morning raids in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey in connection with the failed Times Square car bomb and arrested three people, including two Pakistani men who provided money to the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, law enforcement officials said. The searches were the product of evidence gathered in [...]

The Hill: Populist lawmakers are failing to convert public outrage at Wall Street into tighter controls on the Federal Reserve. Despite attracting blame for the financial meltdown and great recession, the central bank is emerging with its powers mostly intact and free of political interference. Instead of submitting to a chokehold by Congress, the Fed [...]

Fox News: The White House press office is behaving more and more like an independent media outlet, bypassing traditional news avenues in favor of releasing its own “exclusive” video, voicing administration opinions on its official blog and blasting out updates via Twitter. The trend has raised questions among the press corps about whether the administration [...]

Washington Times: The recent crash of a Polish military transport that killed most of Warsaw’s senior civilian and military leaders was not only a human catastrophe for a key U.S. ally. NATO sources said that, in addition to the loss of nearly 100 pro-U.S. Polish leaders, the crash provided Moscow with a windfall of secrets. [...]

Bloomberg: May 13 (Bloomberg) — Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. Kagan, whom President Barack Obama nominated to the high court this week, made [...]