Pat Dollard

EL PASO, Texas (AP) – A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was among El Paso’s most wanted juvenile immigrant smugglers, according to federal arrest records reviewed by The Associated Press. The records show Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka had been arrested at least four times since 2008 and twice [...]

NEW YORK (AP) – After months of angst over the government’s plans to regulate the financial industry, investors are able to relax. And they’ve showed their relief by sending bank stocks soaring. Financial companies have outdistanced the rest of the stock market Friday after lawmakers agreed on a banking overhaul bill that is less strict [...]

CNS News: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is “not kosher”–meaning she is not fit to serve on the court–according to more than 850 Orthodox members of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. That’s the term the rabbis used about Kagan in a press release issued Thursday, saying “Elena Kagan is not kosher. She is not fit [...]

Lew Rockwell: Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma made a nearly fatal mistake last December 22 when he went to check on his grandma, Lona Vernon. Concerned that Lona hadn’t taken her medications, Lonnie called 911 in the expectation that an emergency medical technician would be dispatched to the apartment to evaluate the bedridden 86-year-old [...]

And will completely alter the way money flows in the America economy, and thereby changing the American economy itself. The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—After more than 20 hours of continuous wrangling, congressional Democrats and White House officials reached agreement on the final shape of legislation that would transform financial regulation, avoiding last-minute defections among New [...]

The Washington Post: Key House and Senate lawmakers approved far-reaching new financial rules early Friday after weeks of division, delay and frantic last-minute dealmaking. The dawn compromise set up a potential vote in both houses of Congress next week that could send the landmark legislation to President Obama by July 4. The final and most [...]

CBS News: Jurors in ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial got a purported look Thursday at a short list of candidates President Obama favored to replace him in the U.S. Senate. Federal prosecutors played a tape that revealed the first official message from the budding Obama administration about who the president supported for the Senate seat. [...]

LONDON (AP) – Oscar the cat may have lost one of his nine lives, but his new prosthetic paws make him one of the world’s few bionic cats. After losing his two rear paws in a nasty encounter with a combine harvester last October, the black cat with green eyes was outfitted with metallic pegs [...]

Washington Examiner: by @ByronYork All around, there are Democrats telling us their prospects for November are looking up. Things aren’t as bad as Republicans say! Health care is becoming more popular! The country wants financial reform! People still like Barack Obama! Isn’t Joe Barton awful! They’re fooling themselves. The basic indicators of voters’ intentions — [...]

Arizona Republic: Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix is being criticized by religious lawyers and medical ethicists for his declaration that a nun had excommunicated herself by advising that a seriously ill woman could have an abortion. In an international debate raging in religious magazines and on the Internet, experts say the bishop failed to [...]