Pat Dollard

USA Today: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s rejection of South Carolina’s voter ID law probably won’t prevent other states from adopting similar measures, analysts say. “Unfortunately, I don’t think this is going to have a significant chilling effect,” said Wendy Weiser, a voter ID opponent and lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at the [...]

Arizona Republic: The calls for Joe Arpaio to resign in the wake of a U.S. Justice Department investigation continued to grow Thursday as a group of the Valley’s Black leaders implored the five-term Maricopa County sheriff to step down. Arpaio once again rejected the calls for his resignation and continued to depict the effort as [...]

The Telegraph: Sensing an opportunity to rebuild momentum, protest organisers had appealed for an unprecedented show of force from their supporters but even they were taken aback by the scale of the response as hundreds of thousands took to the streets. By nightfall, it appeared that the last Friday of 2011 was quite possibly the [...]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) – The man from Germany sent a credit card to Donna Simpson with specific instructions: Buy pizzas, Chinese food and other takeout. He wanted Simpson to use his money to become as large as possible, and he got excited knowing he helped feed the 600-pound woman, she said. “He didn’t even need [...]

Breitbart.tv: Ezra Klein and Chris Hayes reveal on MSNBC that they were invited to a private, “off the record” briefing during the payroll tax cut debate a two weeks ago. According to Hayes, the White House let the liberal journalists know that the President was prepared to let the tax cut expire and blame Republicans. [...]

The Star Press: INDIANAPOLIS — Oh, say can you . . . sing? And, more importantly, can you sing it the “right” way — the way one Indiana lawmaker thinks the national anthem should be sung? Sen. Vaneta Becker, R-Evansville, has introduced a bill that would set specific “performance standards” for singing and playing “The [...]

USA Today: The Pennsylvania attorney general is investigating a teenager’s allegation that Jerry Sandusky raped him in the Penn State football building in 2004, two years after the former assistant coach was a banned from bringing children into the facility, Fox News reports. The young man, now 19, has sued Penn State, Sandusky and his [...]

Fox News: In what may be an anomaly in Iowa caucus history, voters are still flitting from candidate to candidate in the final days of the race. The number of undecided caucus-goers, along with the much larger number of Iowans who are leaning toward a candidate but say they could change their mind, suggests the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said. One goal of renewed talks with the insurgents would be to [...]

(CNN) — In 2008, the youth vote helped sweep Barack Obama into office. Americans 18-29 spread the word on social media, energized fundraising and went to the polls. In 2012, the youth vote is moving on and throwing those omnipresent “Hope” bumper stickers and t-shirts in garbage bins. Not because of apathy. Not because another [...]

CBS News: NEWTON, Iowa — As they waited for a bus dubbed the “Constitution Coach” to pick them up at the Des Moines airport and bring them to their makeshift lodgings late Tuesday, about two-dozen college-aged Ron Paul volunteers, a few from countless many descending on the state, mingled in the cold night air. The [...]

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