Pat Dollard

National Review: President Obama’s immigration speech in El Paso today is a poor substitute for the real border security the country still desperately needs. And it was a transparent attempt to keep using illegal immigration as a campaign issue, as President Obama made no attempt to solve this problem during the two years his party [...]

MSNBC WAUSAU, Wis. — Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands. But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That’s because the keg contained root beer. The party [...]

(IPS) – Amid high-level U.S. congressional delegations to evaluate developments in Iraq, a growing number of voices here, from both the Barack Obama administration and members of Congress, are concerned about a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country by December 2011 – a deadline set forth in the supposedly inviolable Status of Forces [...]

MilitaryTimes SAN FRANCISCO — Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system. In the strongly worded ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it takes the department an average of [...]

rightsidenews A leader of a major American Muslim organization, the Muslim American Society (MAS), is arguing that there “was nothing wrong with” Osama bin Laden’s dream of creating a renewed Caliphate. Khalilah Sabra’s comments are the most recent and worrisome from the group, which has a long history of defending alleged terrorists. Khalilah_SabraSabra, the director [...]

Los Angeles Times: Richmond, VA–The Obama administration received a generally friendly hearing Tuesday from a panel of three Democratic appointees for its first appeals-court defense of the national healthcare law. Two of the three judges — Andre Davis and James Wynn Jr. — were Obama appointees, and the third, Judge Diana Motz, was a Clinton [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The adult sons of Osama bin Laden have lashed out at President Obama over their father’s death, accusing the United States of violating its basic legal principles by killing an unarmed man, shooting his family members and disposing of his body in the sea. The statement said the family was asking why [...]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. It’s called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips [...]

ABC News: Pakistani officials said today they’re interested in studying the remains of the U.S.’s secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound, and suggested the Chinese are as well. The U.S. has already asked the Pakistanis for the helicopter wreckage back, but one Pakistani official told ABC News [...]

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – An appeals court on Tuesday sharply questioned whether the state of Virginia could challenge President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, which requires Americans to buy insurance in a bid to slow healthcare costs. The Obama administration is trying to save the individual mandate after a Virginia federal judge agreed with the [...]

Fox News: All three judges that will hear Tuesday’s arguments on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law were appointed by Democratic presidents, including two by Obama himself. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit made the announcement shortly before the trial started, even though the case has been scheduled for months. [...]

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics. A group of lawyers from the Democratic stronghold of Tucson and [...]

Foxnews: SAN FRANCISCO – The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco. He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door. “I kept saying to myself: ‘What’s he doing? Does he have a bomb? Is [...]

New York Post: Bristol Palin’s assault on the reality show world continues. After prancing through “Dancing With the Stars” and featuring in her mom’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” series last fall, 20-year-old Bristol is getting a reality series to call her own. BIO has announced that it has ordered 10 episodes of a half-hour, as-yet-untitled series [...]

What part of our federal immigration laws need to be “reformed”, and why? There is no rational answer. Our immigration system isn’t “broken”, our security and anti-illegal immigration law enforcement policies are. “Comprehensive immigration reform” is, and always be, code for “amnesty”. We need no “immigration reform”, we need secure borders and merciless enforcement of [...]

NYTimes WASHINGTON — Callista Bisek’s friends from rural Wisconsin were stunned when, well over a decade ago, she confided that she was secretly dating an older, married man: Newt Gingrich.Still in her 20s when they met, Ms. Bisek had been raised in a town of 1,500, the only child of a meat packer and a [...]

Douglas Stewart, Yahoo! Contributor Network The North Carolina GOP denied claims that it had hired a left-wing radical to be involved with redistricting. The website My NC Senate, which is registered to the North Carolina GOP, called the original commentary a “retread” of the press release cited. They also added that the claim of them [...]