Pat Dollard

Phoenix (AP) – Maricopa County will count outstanding provisional ballots through the weekend if necessary despite a state law that generally says all vote tallying must be completed by Friday, officials said. The votes could sway the outcome of a statewide medical marijuana initiative that is failing by a tiny margin of the 1.63 million [...]

NEW YORK (AP)– Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms.

Wall Street Journal: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has the “overwhelming support” of fellow Democrats in her bid to become minority leader in the next Congress, and says she’s not to blame for the Democrats’ mid-term debacle. “We didn’t lose the election because of me,” Ms. Pelosi told National Public Radio in an interview [...]

Fox News: A California school has done a U-turn after it forced a student to remove an American flag attached to his bike, saying the Stars and Stripes could spur racial tensions on campus. Cody Alicea,13, had been flying the flag on the back of his bicycle for almost two months to show support for [...]

Fox News: The Department of Justice has spent tens of millions of dollars this year to compensate more than two dozen states, counties and cities for their costs of jailing illegal immigrants — even though those communities have adopted policies that obstruct immigration enforcement, according to a recently released report. “Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal [...]

Ben Cannon of G-Pal, an apparent low-rent psychopath (who was recently arrested for impersonating a police officer), is personally supervising a conspiracy to defraud conservatives, gun owners, and gun rights activists by pandering to them through an internet theft ring operating under the front of “G-Pal”. Basically, the way the scam works is that Ben [...]

The Upshot: Cindy McCain stars in a dramatic advocacy video that says the government’s actions–including those supported by her husband, Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain–encourage anti-gay bullying in schools. “Our political and religious leaders tell LGBT youth that they have no future,” she says in the video, which features an ensemble of famous people speaking [...]

Fox News: The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial law prohibiting homosexuals from openly serving in the armed forces can remain in place while the government appeals a federal judge’s decision striking down the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Act. A gay rights group asked the high court to overturn a stay order from the [...]

Fox News: It’s been almost five years since former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated in Beirut in Feb 2005. He was murdered when a 1,000 pound explosive- laden car bomb exploded. Twenty-two others were also killed in the explosions. The buzz around Lebanon is that the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah is likely to [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Postal Service said Friday it lost $8.5 billion last year despite deep cuts of more than 100,000 jobs and other reductions in recent years. Without congressional action to change its obligations, officials said, the Postal Service likely will go broke at the end of fiscal 2011.