Pat Dollard

Fox News: A former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid repeatedly lied to federal immigration and FBI agents and submitted false federal documents to the Department of Homeland Security to cover up her illegal seven-year marriage to a Lebanese national who was the subject of an Oklahoma City Joint Terror Task Force investigation, FoxNews.com [...]

Washington Times: A Florida Senate committee has recommended making it tougher for political candidates to switch or leave parties in mid-campaign, a move spurred by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s bolt from the Republican Party to run as an independent for U.S. Senate. The Florida Senate Ethics and Elections Committee also calls for a “sore-loser statute” [...]

Wall Street Journal: Sacrosanct tax breaks, including deductions on mortgage interest, remain on the table just weeks before the deficit commission issues recommendations on policies to pare back with the aim of balancing the budget by 2015. The tax benefits are hugely popular with the public but they have drawn the panel’s focus, in part [...]

Politico: Republicans are on the verge of broad wins next week for one big reason: independent voters are ready to boot Democrats from office, according to a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll. Expressing deep dissatisfaction with President Obama’s policies and performance, independents have increasingly sided with conservatives in the belief that government grew too [...]

The Hill: Democrats haven’t necessarily gotten the credit they’re due for the work they’ve done the last two years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. Pelosi, in the middle of a tough campaign to defend Democrats’ majority in the House — as well as her own Speakership — seemed to echo a complaint voiced by [...]

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – A client at a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana said Monday that a gang of armed men burst into the building and gunned down 13 recovering addicts there. Prosecutors have not yet confirmed the number of dead. Police at the scene say at least 10 were [...]

The Hill: Conservative Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) said he voted for GOP Sen. John McCain for president in 2008, not Barack Obama. The revelation by Taylor, an 11-term incumbent facing a tough reelection battle, is one of the most extreme examples yet of a Democrat distancing himself from his party’s unpopular leaders. Taylor, who has [...]

Fox News: A New York congressman is urging YouTube to take down radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki’s videos from its website, warning that his message “has caused violence and is a threat to American security.” Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., estimated that more than 700 of al-Awlaki’s videos can be found on the popular video-sharing site better [...]

Projo.com: PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, in a radio interview Monday morning, reacted angrily to President Obama’s decision not to endorse him during a visit to the Ocean State Monday. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I’m concerned,” Caprio told talk-show host John DePetro during [...]

Fox News: Tiffany Hartley, the wife of David Hartley who was allegedly shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake with Texas, is telling President Obama that it’s time to take on drug cartels. “He should wake up and look what’s going on in our backyards,” she told the Denver Post. Hartley says [...]

Fox News: With eight days to go until the midterm election and the polls tightening in several key races, top Democratic Party leaders claimed Sunday that momentum is on their side and that the so-called “enthusiasm gap” is closing. Democrats said voters are beginning to wake up to the alleged damage Republicans would do to [...]

The Independent: A civil war at the heart of Wikileaks has virtually paralysed the whistle-blowing website