Pat Dollard

New York Daily News: An Occupy Wall Street sympathizer created a free app called “I’m Getting Arrested” that lets protesters send out text messages to friends and family when cops swoop in. Jason Van Anden, a Brooklyn software developer, said he came up with the idea when a colleague told him his girlfriend was about [...]

The Boston Herald: Two Occupy Boston members have been arrested on drug charges, Boston police said yesterday. Bostonians Isaac Bell, 34, and Charlene Dumont, 31, were both charged with distribution of a class A drug (heroin) and possession with intent to distribute a class A drug within 1,000 feet of a school zone, police say. [...]

(ANSAmed) — ROME, OCTOBER 24 — The Grand Mufti of Libya, Assadiq al-Ghiriani, has stated that Colonel Gaddafi was an “infidel” and for this reason “prayers should not be spoken over his body” in mosques, as is foreseen by Islamic funeral rites, the website of Egyptian daily Al Ahram reports. According to the Mufti, it [...]

Alexandra Williams and Arvin Shandiz met on a Delta flight from New York to Chicago in 2010. On Friday, in the middle of a flight from Chicago to New York, Shandiz very publicly popped the question. She said “no.” I think. I don’t remember, check it out.

In the video below, Rove declares that Cain “has peaked.”: Byron York in The Washington Examiner: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says GOP strategist and former top Bush aide Karl Rove is deliberately trying to talk down Cain’s campaign in order to benefit rival candidate Mitt Romney. Appearing on Fox News Monday morning, Rove produced [...]

Los Angeles Times: After dining last month with Donald Trump, Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn’t sure that President Obama’s birth certificate is real. The GOP presidential candidate was asked by Parade magazine whether he believed that Obama was born in the United States. “I have no reason to think otherwise,” he said. Pressed for a [...]

Washington (AP) – The publisher of a book Michelle Obama is writing about her White House produce garden says it will be called “American Grown.” Crown Publishers announced Monday that the complete title of the first lady’s first book is “American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools and Communities.” It is [...]

Occupy: to enter and stay in (a building) without authority and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest: the workers occupied the factory – The Oxford English Dictionary “The sunshine protesters will leave,” a man only identifying himself as “Zonkers” (because of a felony marijuana conviction) told New York Magazine. “The people who remain [...]

Huffington Post: Though networks typically dispatch embeds during campaign season, MTV took a different approach to the tactic when it dispatched youth into the Occupy Wall Street protests for its show “True Life.” “True Life: I’m Occupying Wall Street” will premiere on Saturday, November 5, at 6 p.m. et. Four MTV embeds protested in Zuccotti [...]

Politico: Some highlights from White House press secretary Jay Carney’s Q&A with reporters on Monday: – Carney said that “you’ll be seeing more of” the use of executive orders. “Why use it? Because we have to do everything we can,” he said of the economy. – Carney swiped at Mitt Romney’s economic plan, saying: “What [...]

Politico: The Obama administration on Monday refrained from expressing disapproval of strict Islamic law as the foundation of the country’s new legal system. “We’ve seen various Islamic-based democracies wrestle with the issue of establishing rule of law within an appropriate cultural context,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Monday when quizzed about Libya’s [...]

Boston Herald: Halloween isn’t so much of a treat for some youngsters. From Brookline to Roslindale, a small throng of parents are forcing their children to hand out “fair trade” candy when they go door-to-door. This “Reverse Trick-or-Treating” campaign is part of a national effort to raise awareness that most brand-name chocolates are derived from [...]

New York State Police, Major William Sprague ,left, talks with Dan Laroe of Troy, N.Y., about his choice of sign and his right to free speech that offended some demonstrators in a crowd supporting the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Albany, N.Y., Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)