Pat Dollard

Excerpted From Hot Air: The big win for Republican Mark Amodei in Nevada’s 2nd CD, along with a surprise defeat for Democrats on the other side of the country, has the Nevada Democratic Party looking for a way to succeed in what looks to be a very, very tough 2012 election. Their new strategy? According [...]

Poll closes noon Monday. You will only be able to vote once. “Come back and check the results. I’ll be right here, waiting.” Do You Think Sarah Palin Is Going To Run For President? Results: Most of you think Sarah Palin is going to run for President.

CBS News: WASHINGTON – CBS News has obtained secretly recorded conversations that raise questions as to whether some evidence is being withheld in the murder of a Border Patrol agent. The tapes were recorded approximately mid-March 2011 by the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in its “Fast and Furious” operation: Andre Howard, owner of [...]

As the Obama agenda proves increasingly impotent, Americans have witnessed Obama’s czars crash and burn or run for cover over the past thirty months. From Van Jones toKevin Jennings to Nancy-Ann DeParle to Todd Stern to Ron Bloom, Obama’s style of management–bypassing the senate-confirmed agency heads–has failed to yield the results promised to the American [...]

Dem Rep. Mike Quigely (D-IL) to the American Islamic College Conference in Chicago: “I think it’s appropriate for me to apologize on behalf of this country for the discrimination you face.”

National Journal: President Obama warned he will veto any deficit plan brought to him by Congress that wasn’t ‘balanced’ between taxes and spending cuts. ‘We are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts the folks who are most vulnerable,’ Obama said Monday morning, speaking from the Rose Garden. The president argued, as he [...]

Jerusalem Post: The Palestinian Authority on Saturday warned the US against using its Security Council veto to thwart its plan to seek UN membership for a Palestinian state this week. A US veto would “destroy” the two-state solution, the PA said. The warning came after PA President Mahmoud Abbas announced in a speech in Ramallah [...]

Associated Press: DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses and the possibility of sweeter profit-sharing checks as part of a new four-year contract with General Motors Co., two people briefed on the talks said Saturday. The deal, which was reached late Friday, also includes a $2- to $3-per-hour pay raise [...]

The Hill: President Obama defended his proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy Monday and promised to veto any deficit reduction plan from Congress that cuts entitlement programs but doesn’t raise taxes on the wealthy. “We are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts the folks that are most vulnerable,” Obama said in [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. He vowed to veto any deficit reduction package that cuts benefits to Medicare recipients but does not raise taxes on the [...]

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New York Times: As Washington looks to squeeze savings from once-sacrosanct entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, another big social welfare system is growing as rapidly, but with far less scrutiny: the health and pension benefits of military retirees. Military pensions and health care for active and retired troops now cost the government about $100 [...]

Ed Morrissey – Hot Air: Earlier this week, Eli Lake reported that the four-star Air Force general in charge of US Space Command told a Congressional panel that the White House pressured him to change his testimony to favor a company that shelled out donations for Democrats. LightSquared wants to press forward on a project [...]