Pat Dollard

The New York Times: LONDON — Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London’s rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears. He demands that his dwindling number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cellphones and swaps his own [...]

KTLA.com: (USC) — Don’t try wearing a Bush hat or sweatshirt at an Obama rally.

The Hill: Vice President Biden will campaign for controversial Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) next week in Florida. Biden will attend an event on Monday for the first-term Democratic lawmaker, who’s made waves during his term in Congress by taking outspoken liberal stances on issues. Biden will attend a reception on Monday for Grayson following a [...]

Politico: The nation’s largest gay rights group is going to war with the leading opponents of same-sex marriage, as gay activists work to quiet tensions within their movement and with their Democratic allies and redirect their energies on their actual opposition. Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign, a large California grassroots group, have filed [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Matthew Garcia was surfing two feet away from his friend who was bodyboarding when he heard a desperate cry for help. Within seconds, a shark flashed out of the water, bit into his friend’s leg and pulled him under in a cloud of blood off the coast north of Santa Barbara. [...]

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Politico: It may not be over in 10 days after all.

The Hill: Several White House agencies charged with enforcing environmental laws are preventing thousands of Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border from disrupting illicit trafficking operations, according to a study by the investigative arm of Congress. The report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that about 15 percent of the 26 Border Patrol [...]

Politico: The conservatives’ new rallying cry — Defund NPR — is actually an old rallying cry, given new life by National Public Radio’s firing of political commentator Juan Williams. But if history is any guide, the calls to strip NPR’s federal funding that have emerged from the offices of Republican lawmakers and leaders face an [...]