Pat Dollard

Fox News: Nearly nine years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the bi-state agency that operates the World Trade Center is looking for a private partner to help manage the 1,776-foot office tower that is being built at Ground Zero

…Has Got Talent. Haha, get it? Mediaite: And here’s what CNN has said: A spokesperson for Larry King Live tells Mediaite, “We aren’t commenting on the Piers Morgan speculation but we are talking to many people about the 8pm hour.” As for Larry King specifically, a different CNN spokesperson tells Mediaite, “King has been part [...]

Moody’s on Monday downgraded Greece government bond ratings into junk territory, citing the risks in the euro zone/IMF rescue package for the debt-laden country. The agency downgraded the rating by four notches to Ba1, placing it one notch into junk status. The outlook is stable. Moody’s [MCO] also downgraded Greece’s short-term issuer rating to not-prime [...]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The hardline spiritual mentor of Iran’s president has made a rare public call for producing the “special weapons” that are a monopoly of a few nations—a veiled reference to nuclear arms. The Associated Press on Monday obtained a copy of a book written by Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi in which [...]

TEHRAN, June 14 (Reuters) – Iran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said on Monday — a move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accuses Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclave’s Islamist rulers, Hamas. One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday, loaded with food, construction [...]

SHTF Plan: Eye witness reports from Georgia, Minnesota, Alabama, Kansas, and perhaps Texas suggest large scale mobilizations and deployment in progress for National Guard Units. We were under the impression that National Guard in Georgia were being deployed to help evacuate Florida in the event of toxic fumes from the oil spill if the government [...]

Let the strip mining commence! We found a way out of recession! Telegraph: WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. [...]

Fox News: RICHMOND, Va. — Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, “Big Bad John,” and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband died at their Henrico County, Va., home. She told The Associated [...]

The Telegraph: Pakistan’s intelligence services are supporting the Taliban with training, cash and sanctuary on a larger scale than previously thought as they battle Nato forces in Afghanistan, according to a survey of insurgent commanders. The study also claims that President Asif Ali Zardari made a secret visit to Taliban prisoners in a Pakistani prison [...]

The New York Times sets the stage for bailing on Obama: Editorial implicitly bearing the publisher and senior editorial staff’s imprimatur: If ever there was a test of President Obama’s vision of government — one that cannot solve all problems, but does what people cannot do for themselves — it is this nerve-racking early summer [...]