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7:40 PM ET, June 7, 2009

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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
Exposing an Irresponsible Anonymous Blogger  —  One bane of the Internet is the anonymous blogger who abuses his anonymity to engage in irresponsible attacks.  One such blogger who has been biting at my ankles in recent months is the fellow who calls himself “publius” at the Obsidian Wings blog.
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Publius / Obsidian Wings:
Stay Classy Ed Whelan  —  So there you have it - I've been officially outed by Ed Whelan.  I would never have done that to my harshest critic in a million years, but oh well.  —  And to be clear - the proximate cause was that Whelan got mad that I criticized him in a blog post.
Ed Whelan / The Corner:
Re: Exposing an Irresponsible Anonymous Blogger  —  Before returning to more important matters, let me offer a few thoughts on the mini-firestorm that my exposing of the blogger “publius” seems to have generated: 1.  Law professor John Blevins (aka publius) and others seem to assume that I owed …
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Outer Objects To Outing  —  Conservative blogger Ed Whelan “outed” an anonymous liberal blogger who penned under the name Publius.  Turns out Publius is a junior law professor who was afraid that revealing his identity would jeopardize his career prospects and family relationships.
Discussion: Sadly, No!, TBogg and Cold Fury
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CLASS ACT, ALL THE WAY.... On Friday, publius — Hilzoy's Obsidian …
Discussion: First Draft
A.L. / The Anonymous Liberal:
Ed Whelan Completes His Descent into Hackery
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Clinton: Obama Has Passed ‘3a.m.’ Test  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said President Barack Obama has “absolutely” answered questions she posed during the Democratic campaign about his lack of experience and ability to handle an international crisis.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Taylor Marsh
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Washington Post:
The Settlement Rift  —  President Obama has delivered …
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
U.S. Considering Restoring N. Korea to Terror List
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
After Cairo, It's Clinton Time
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Hillary Clinton: ‘Digging out... deep holes’
Discussion: The Politico
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Rachel Abrams / Weekly Standard:
“We Were All Appalled By the Bush Years”  —  Thus a neighbor of retired State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, on the “frustration with U.S. policies” shared by all right-thinking people in the upper-Northwest D.C. bastion of liberalism in which they reside.
Discussion: Don Surber and Pajamas Media
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Obamanomics: How Stupid Do They Think We Are?  —  Pretty stupid.  Watching Fox News Sunday, I caught a panel on which Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee conceded that the administration had previously predicted unemployment would top out at around 8%, that it was now up to 9.4% …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
France gets its Obama moment  —  PARIS (AP) — People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade.  It was more personal for the few kept not so distant — the restaurant owner who “saw God,” the chauffeur reveling in a “magnificent mission.”
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Ceci Connolly / Washington Post:
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Details Vision for Health-Care Reform  —  Government Subsidies Would Help Families; Insurance Firms' Profits Could Decline  —  Three months after he was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) vowed in an emotional Democratic National Convention address …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
White House food tasters?  —  In medieval times, royal courts employed food tasters to ensure that the kitchen staff hadn't conspired to commit a coup d'etat through poison.  The practice continued for heads of state until modern times, and also for novels and Hollywood movies.
Gateway Pundit:
Texas Rep. Accuses Dems of Closing GOP-Donating Chrysler Dealerships (Video)  —  Texas Representative Ted Poe Accuses Democrats of Shady Dealings—  Using the list of all 789 dealerships to be closed, WND found that owners contributed $450,000 to GOP presidential candidates …
Discussion: RedState and Pat Dollard
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Victor Davis Hanson / Pajamas Media:
The Reckoning  —  Obama Versus the Way of the Universe  —  I wish the President well, but he is butting up against human nature.  And that is a fight one cannot win.  If one runs up nearly a $2 trillion annual deficit, and then persists in such red-ink to the point of adding another $9 trillion …
DealBook:
Indiana Funds Ask Supreme Court to Delay Chrysler Sale  —  Three Indiana state funds late Saturday asked the United States Supreme Court to delay a deal to sell most of Chrysler's assets to Fiat, hoping to again challenge the transaction after two lower courts approved it.
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
TERRORISTS FREE TO KILL ONCE AGAIN AS THEY SLIP THE GRASP OF GITMO'S KID GLOVES  —  THE Pentagon now confirms that at least 74 former Guantanamo detainees have resumed terror ist activities after claiming they weren't terrorists.  —  Such recidivism points up an alarming intelligence failure.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and JammieWearingFool
 
 
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