Pat Dollard

Los Angeles Times: By the time the 5-year-old boy was rescued from a dark closet in San Bernardino County last year, much of his body had been burned by a glue gun and hot spoons. Johnny had been starved and sodomized, taunted and punched, forced to eat soap and crouch motionless in corners. Child welfare [...]

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — Senator Charles E. Schumer shipped $500,000 to Nevada in recent weeks to help Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader and Mr. Schumer’s political patron and close friend, as he fights for his political life. At the same time Mr. Schumer, a New York Democrat, made out a smaller check, [...]

Arizona Republic: There is no evidence of federal crimes by county officials in material forwarded to federal prosecutors by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke says. Last March, Arpaio and Thomas forwarded nine cases of suspected county corruption to the U.S. Department of Justice’s [...]

Los Angeles Times: Supporters point to cases in Europe and a few in the U.S. that made reference to Sharia religious law. Muslims say it’s a ‘scare tactic’ to further stigmatize them and whip up votes. As the country grapples with its worst economic downturn in decades and persistent unemployment, voters in Oklahoma next week [...]

Fox News: Former President Bill Clinton tried last week to get Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek to quit the U.S. Senate race in Florida and endorse Gov. Charlie Crist’s independent bid, Politico reported Thursday, adding that the effort nearly succeeded. Politico reported that during Clinton’s trip to Florida, Meek agreed twice to drop out of the [...]

Politico: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether tea party groups are intimidating black and Hispanic voters in her district. Jackson Lee has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to send poll monitors to her district on Nov. 2 to make sure the King Street Patriots, a local conservative [...]

The Hill: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) suggested Thursday that she might not support John Boehner (R-Ohio) as the next Speaker.

Fox News: WASHINGTON — The FBI has confirmed all three military related shootings in the Washington D.C. area are connected, saying Thursday ballistic evidence shows the same weapon was used at each site. The latest shooting occurred at a vacant Marine recruiting station in Chantilly, Virginia sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning. In the [...]

Mediaite: Last night, before it aired, we reported that The Daily Show retaped the opening of last night’s episode with President Obama. Funny though it was, these clips would have been further gas for the “How Dare Our President Sully Himself on a Network with ‘Comedy’ In the Title?” flame. With people writing articles furiously [...]

IBD Editorials: Do doctors like ObamaCare? Judging by the number of doctors who are running for Congress in opposition to it, the answer would appear to be a resounding no. By our count, 42 doctors (counting 35 M.D.s, five dentists, an optometrist and a psychologist) are running for one of the 435 House seats or [...]

Washington Times: EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. | Two years ago, it would have been unthinkable that both seats held by Kennedy family members could be won by Republicans.