Pat Dollard

Excerpted from Big Government: Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore has been touring Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the country–including some of the most violent, such as Occupy Oakland–urging activists to continue their fight against the wealthy “one percent” of Americans. Initially, Moore tried to deny that his massive wealth made him a member of that one [...]

Haaretz: A UN Security Council committee said on Friday it had failed to reach agreement over a Palestinian application for full membership in the United Nations, the Portuguese UN ambassador said. The decision by the council’s admissions committee brought the Palestinian Authority’s push for UN recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and [...]

Obama at anti-war protest, 2002 (Source: Verum Serum) From Joel B. Pollak’s piece in Big Government today: Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests. He would have organized them. From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8: In fact, [...]

CNBC: As many as a dozen members of Congress and their aides took part in insider trading based on foreknowledge of market moving information on Capitol Hill, disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff told CNBC in an interview. Abramoff, who was once one of the wealthiest and most powerful lobbyists in Washington before a corruption scandal [...]

(CBS/AP) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, a key witness in the child sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the school, has been placed on administrative leave. School president Rod Erickson announced the move Friday, a day after the school said McQueary would not be present when the Nittany Lions play [...]

United Liberty: As was anticipated, Occupy Denver showed up at BlogCon, though a little earlier than expected. A handful of them tried to force their way into the conference, but they were turned away; but not before engaging some of us. Unfortunately, they didn’t bring their leader with them (looks like the $10 I spent [...]

The Daily Caller: Not so long ago, in a District of Columbia not so far away, Sen. Ted Kennedy was more than a little perverted to Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher. According to her latest book, “Shockaholic,” Fisher was on a date in 1985 with former Sen. Chris Dodd in Washington, D.C. The two were [...]

(Fox News/Todd Starnes) — A federal court has ruled that a California public school had the authority to prevent students from wearing clothing emblazoned with pro-American messages on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo. U. S. District Court Judge James Ware was ruling in a case involving students at Live Oak High School in Morgan [...]

Daily Caller: The Holder letter may exist, but Politico hasn’t published it. And friends of the Terry family told The Daily Caller on Thursday that they haven’t received it. Either Holder never sent his “private letter,” or the Justice Department leaked it to Politico before the Terry family received it. “He never sent a letter,” [...]

(NBC NY) — With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long before more campers catch what’s being called “Zuccotti lung.” That’s what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: “It’s [...]

Fox News: President Obama will be aboard the carrier vessel that buried Osama bin Laden on Veterans Day Friday, but not for an event related to terrorism or military action — he’ll be there for a basketball game. Obama will be attending the “Carrier Classic” in San Diego, a college hoops match-up between North Carolina [...]