Pat Dollard

SunTimes SPRINGFIELD — Gun owners’ identities would remain shielded from public disclosure under legislation the Senate overwhelmingly approved Friday and that Gov. Quinn signaled he would support. The 42-1 vote for a bill now headed to the governor’s desk represents a victory for gun-rights lobbyists who sought to keep the owners’ names private after Attorney [...]

A new update to the continually unfolding story of the DOJ-ATF Gunwalker scandal sheds new light on what is actually happening at the southern border and in the highest levels of the Justice Department. A raw video has surfaced that not only confirms the charges of ATF whistleblowers but shows that the illegal scheme is [...]

Wall Street Journal: Despite the heavy toll, the storm system that spawned the tornado wasn’t unusual for this time of year, say meteorologists. The high death toll resulted from the twister’s path through a commercial area including a hospital, a nursing home, a row of crowded restaurants and several large stores. The winds, while as [...]

Foxnews There are places in Mexico where residents don’t know who the real police are. Shadowy kidnappers and men committing grisly crimes in broad daylight are often dressed in formal police or military gear, suggesting no difference between the good guys and the bad guys, between the drug cartels and the government trying to stop [...]

ABC The relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan — already fragile following America’s mission to kill Osama bin Laden and further strained by the release of a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables — has been pushed to such an unprecedented low that, as one senior U.S. official put it, “we are communicating by [...]

Toledo Blade A Toledo couple will be sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in federal court Monday to charges that they conspired to smuggle money to a terrorist group in Lebanon. Hor Akl pleaded guilty to five counts pertaining to conspiracy and interstate commerce in support of terrorism. He could be sentenced to more than [...]

Iraqi “terps” played a huge role in our success in Iraq. These men risked much to take a stand with the US Forces and help free their nation… they deserve better treatment than this…. LATimes Reporting from Washington— An administrative law judge has referred a U.S. insurance company for criminal investigation after the firm failed [...]

(05-22) 19:18 PDT ALAMEDA — The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well. “It has been a really tough weekend,” said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the [...]

Los Angeles Times: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that “needless suffering and death” had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions. pp Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis [...]

YourJewishNews What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online, where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws. The soccer player has been granted a so-called [...]

Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan should run for president. The Virginia Republican, asked Monday if Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, should run, Cantor said “sure,” adding that Ryan shows “real leadership.” It’s a striking statement from the No. 2 House Republican, who is the highest-level lawmaker to call for [...]

NY Post: President Obama’s re-election campaign is trying to dig up dirt in the Garden State. Despite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s repeated pronouncements that he will not seek the GOP presidential nomination, Obama operatives are compiling a dossier of what they call “opposition research” — material that could be used to damage Christie if [...]

City Pages: Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign is Dead On Arrival, according to his hometown newspaper. The St. Paul Pioneer Press hilariously ran the announcement of T-Paw’s presidential campaign on the Obituary page this morning. Any other day, it would have made the front page. But that’s what he gets for making his big publicity push [...]