Penske Deals For Saturn Brand: Will Continue Aura, Vue, Outlook Cars

June 6, 2009

Confirming a report we posted on earlier today, General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement to handover the Saturn marque to the Penske Automotive Group. In GM’s official statement after the jump, the automaker says that the memorandum of understanding would entitle Penske to the brand’s 350+ dealerships, the rights to the name and its […]

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Ronald Reagan: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc

June 6, 2009

These are the boys of Pointe de Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your […]

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Foreign Brands Gain US Entry with GM's Dismantling

June 6, 2009

DETROIT – More foreign car brands could find their way into American garages under a plan by auto racing magnate Roger Penske’s dealership group to snap up Saturn from the ruins of General Motors Corp.

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Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama is "Sort of a God"

June 6, 2009

No wonder Obama’s got such an outsized ego. Women want to be with Obama, and men… well, the men in the media want to be with Obama too. I am not overstating things when I say that Obama could ask for blow-jay from pretty much any man in the media and get, at the very […]

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Clinton Rejects Israeli Claims of Accord on Settlements

June 6, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton forcefully rejected yesterday Israeli claims that the Bush administration had secretly agreed to expanding Jewish settlements on the West Bank, deepening the impasse between the two countries.

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Intel Firestorm: Republicans Reveal Briefing Info

June 6, 2009

Republicans ignited a firestorm of controversy on Thursday by revealing some of what they had been told at a closed-door Intelligence Committee hearing on the interrogation of terrorism suspects.

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May Unemployment Numbers Are Here and Worse Than Predicted

June 6, 2009

You get the feeling that there’s a little pre-spin effort afoot? I mean, why put up an article on April’s unemployment on the day that May’s numbers come out? And while jobless claims did fall, interpreting that information without the unemployment rate is very difficult.

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Sotomayor Repeatedly Referenced 'Wise Woman' Remark in Speeches

June 6, 2009

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor delivered multiple speeches between 1994 and 2003 in which she suggested “a wise Latina woman” or “wise woman” judge might “reach a better conclusion” than a male judge.

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Sotomayor’s Revealing Joke About Supreme Court Justices Making Policy

June 6, 2009

In a May 2006 speech, Judge Sotomayor tells “a joke that [she thinks] aptly describes the difference between supreme court, circuit court, and district court judging”:

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Another Obama Nominee Pulls Out as Role at CIA Is Studied

June 6, 2009

A longtime CIA official chosen by President Obama to be the intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security withdrew from consideration yesterday after it became apparent that senators examining his nomination planned to scrutinize his role in the agency’s interrogation of terrorism suspects

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