Pat Dollard

People look for scrap metal in the remains of a burnt vehicle used as a roadblock by members of the La Familia insurgent group on the highway between Morelia and Apatzingan December 11, 2010 Be SAFE Excerpted From N.M. Politics: By Heath Haussamen When I pause to think about it, it seems surreal that I [...]

Heavy fog caused a massive pile-up of 137 vehicles on a highway in southwestern China, injuring nine people, Chinese state television reported on Tuesday. (Dec. 14)

LONDON (AP) – A British judge has granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The judge at a London court said Tuesday that Assange must abide by strict bail conditions as he fights extradition to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation. The 39-year-old Australian has been held in a London prison for a week after surrendering [...]

Hindustan Times: Just a few years ago the mastermind behind WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, was nothing more than a lonely single male who was looking for love on an on-line dating website, it has emerged. An Internet profile, which apparently belonged to the Wikileaks founder, has shown that he portrayed himself as a roguish secret agent [...]

The Guardian Of London: 12.39pm: The US filmmaker Michael Moore has offered $20,000 in surety as part of Assange’s growing bail fund. In a post for the Daily Kos he explains why: Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me [...]

Mirroring Iraq in the heyday of its Al Qaeda and Al Sadr insurgencies, the remains of burnt vehicles used as roadblocks in Mexico by members of the La Familia insurgent group The El Paso Times: The Mexican government has no control of its 577-mile border with Guatemala, where arms, drugs and immigrant smugglers appear to [...]

CBS News: The controversial founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has won an online vote to be TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. The annual online vote asks readers to choose the most influential person, people or things from the previous year. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear, TIME reported. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The tax package negotiated by President Barack Obama and GOP lawmakers is headed toward passage in the Senate even as House Democrats consider changes to the estate tax. The bill could be passed and sent to the House by Tuesday. The Senate voted 83-15 Monday evening to advance the package, which would [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The scorecard on the legal fight over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is two judges in favor and one against. But these are the early rounds in preliminary bouts. The one that really counts — a showdown at the Supreme Court — is at least a year away. The health care [...]

TV Azteca: Sexy Mexican sports reporter Ines Sainz says folks “really admire” her butt, but she won’t show it off in Playboy – not even for a million bucks. “Playboy offered me a lot of money” to publish photos of her asset, 32-year-old married hottie reveals in the upcoming issue of Steppin’ Out magazine. “It [...]

The Hill: Republican Joe Miller is continuing his legal battle over the outcome of the Alaska Senate race. Miller filed an appeal Monday of the lower court ruling against his lawsuit challenging how the state counted write-in ballots for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska.). The state Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case [...]

Washington Post: About a hundred times a year, regulators strip gun dealers of their licenses for violations of federal law, an extreme step taken only when repeated infractions are deemed a threat to public safety. But a year-long Washington Post investigation documented about 60 cases since 2003 in which the businesses stayed open, often re-licensed [...]

New York Times: WASHINGTON — A court decision striking down a central provision of the new health care law will not disrupt efforts to carry it out, even though the ruling could increase confusion and embolden critics, Obama administration officials and employers said Monday. “Implementation of the act will proceed,” said a White House official [...]

Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) — James Capretta, a health-care fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, discusses today’s ruling on the Obama administration’s individual health-care mandate. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson in Richmond, Virginia, today ruled that the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation that most citizens maintain minumum health coverage is unconstitutional because [...]