Pat Dollard

Politico: For almost a decade in Democratic politics, there was little disagreement: If you were running for office, you wanted do away with the Bush tax cuts for high-end earners. Now, in the eyes of liberal and moderate Democrats alike, President Barack Obama has blinked — even before the new House Republican majority takes office. [...]

Los Angeles Times: A week after newly emboldened Republicans in the Texas Legislature floated a radical cost-saving proposal — opting out of the federal Medicaid program — health care experts, economists and think tanks are trying to determine just how serious they are, and if it would even be possible. The answer? It is complicated. [...]

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Los Angeles Times: Brian Roach missed a couple of credit card payments while helping battle the Taliban in Afghanistan last year. Since then, he’s been locked in combat with Bank of America. And getting nowhere. “The bank is saying that policy is policy,” Yorba Linda resident Roach, 40, told me. “They don’t seem to care [...]

Politico: A majority of investors believe President Barack Obama is having a negative impact on the American investment climate, even as corporations report earnings growth, according to a new Bloomberg poll. Among 1,030 Bloomberg subscribers surveyed worldwide, 63 percent said they are more pessimistic about the policies of Obama as they affect the investment climate [...]

Fox News: President Obama senior adviser David Axelrod insisted Thursday that comments he made to an an online publication conceding to an extension of tax cuts for all income levels are no different from remarks by the president over the weekend. Axelrod, who confirmed to Fox News comments he made to The Huffington Post, suggested [...]

NEW YORK (CBS 2) — Did you see it? Chopper 2 HD sure did. It was a bizarre, glowing red-hot streak in the sky — right at sunset Wednesday — moving briskly behind the Manhattan skyline. CBS 2 reached out to a top astronomer who looked at the video. He said it looks beautiful, but [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The bus stops on the cemetery path and the silver-haired men file out, sober-faced and silent amid a sea of white marble tombstones. Some carry rifles, some flags, a few hold bugles. They’ve all come to say goodbye — to a stranger. This is their eighth funeral of the day. They have [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mel Gibson appeared in court Wednesday for the first time for a custody hearing involving his infant daughter with an estranged ex-girlfriend. The Academy Award winner arrived for the all-day session about 10 minutes before Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, escorted by deputies. He remained out [...]