Pat Dollard

Tech Crunch: “At the Republican National Convention I sat in my hotel room by myself for three days, no one would meet with us.” The Republicans aren’t amused. Matt Burns, the Director of Communications for the 2008 Republican National Convention left a long comment, calling Zuckerber “full of sh*t.” “The GOP convention had more Facebook [...]

McClatchy: Venezuela’s recent purchase of the most lethal shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in the Russian arsenal is sharpening U.S. concerns that parts of President Hugo Chávez’s massive weapons buildup could wind up in the hands of terrorists or guerrillas in neighboring Colombia. Washington’s unease is well-founded, U.S. government officials say, because of credible evidence that three [...]

General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday as part of the Obama administration’s plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a majority ownership stake to the federal government. GM’s bankruptcy filing is the fourth-largest [...]

http://www.jpost.com/ President Barack Obama says he doesn’t have time to watch cable television news. We sure hope he hasn’t given up reading The Washington Post, and that he made time for Jackson Diehl’s remarkably illuminating column, “Abbas’s Waiting Game” (May 29). Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama. Diehl interviewed the Palestinian leader prior to his White [...]

Fox News: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has transported its most advanced missile, believed to be capable of reaching Alaska, to a site where it could be ready for launch in a week or two, news reports said Monday. The reclusive communist country was also reportedly strengthening its defenses and conducting amphibious assault exercises [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Around Christmas of 1973, a fellow sophomore approached Frank Reed, a leader of Princeton University’s Chicano Caucus, to hand him a formal complaint she had typed up and to ask him to support it. Sonia Sotomayor was head of the other Latino organization on campus, Acción Puertorriqueña. And after a history of fruitless student [...]

Citigroup Stuck With Bernanke Offer Rival Banks Plan to Refuse Bloomberg: By Bradley Keoun June 1 (Bloomberg) — When financial stocks slumped in February to the lowest level in at least 17 years, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told Congress the government might end up owning “substantial” stakes in the country’s biggest banks. [...]

TNR: by Gabriel Sherman In early May, White House Counsel Greg Craig circulated a memo inside the West Wing. Part of a series of memos on protocol, it explained how to deal with writers researching books and articles on the White House. (Craig’s unsurprising instructions: Clear interview requests with the press office.) While the memo [...]

. http://www.breitbart.com/ The New York Times: “We have received no news from flight AF 447,” said an Air France spokeswoman in Paris, Brigitte Barrand. The plane was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members, she said. Other reports said three technical personnel were also aboard.

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