Tech Executives Meet at White House, Biden Says Obama Deserves Sainthood for Being Patient About Obamacare’s Failures, Fitch Withdraws Negative Outlook on U.S. Credit: P.M. Links

President Obama was scheduled to meet with tech
company executives at the
White House this afternoon, reportedly to talk about “issues of
privacy, technology, and intelligence” pinned to surveillance
reform. The meeting was closed to the press, but Mark Zuckerberg,
CEO of Facebook, and Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google,
were reported to be attending.
Speaking at a conference of community health centers in

New York, Vice President Joe Biden admitted problems with the
Obamacare website after its launch made it difficult to enroll, but
said he wanted to recommend President Obama for “sainthood” for how
patient he was about the issues that made it difficult to use the
website.
The credit ratings agency Fitch has withdrawn its “negative”
outlook on the United
States’ triple-A credit rating. All the major ratings agencies
now consider the U.S.’s outlook “stable.”
First Lady Michelle Obama is making her first visit to
China, focusing her trip on education, something China seems to
have a handle on, unlike, say, free speech or other civil and human
rights.
A feminist studies professor at the University of California at

Santa Barbara who allegedly assaulted a pro-life activist
on campus insisted she did nothing wrong because the activists’
material “triggered” her. She said her behavior “set a good example
for her students.”
83 percent of March Madness brackets submitted for Warren
Buffett’s billion dollar challenge were already eliminated before
#3 Duke lost to #14
Mercer.