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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.
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.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CLASS ACT, ALL THE WAY.... On Friday, publius — Hilzoy's Obsidian Wings co-blogger and someone I've known for several years — had a blog post criticizing something National Review's Ed Whelan wrote. As blog criticisms go, the piece was acerbic but hardly outrageous — Whelan made an observation …
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First Draft
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Outing — National Review's Ed Whelan has outed The Blogger Formerly Known as Publius, revealing his name and employer despite being informed by TBFKAP that he had a “variety of private, family, and professional reasons” for wishing to keep his identity private.
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Riehl World View
A.L. / The Anonymous Liberal:
Ed Whelan Completes His Descent into Hackery
Ed Whelan Completes His Descent into Hackery
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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.
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Washington Post:
D.C. Couple's Disdain for U.S. Policies May Have Led to Alleged Spying for Cuba — Disdain for U.S. Policies May Have Led to Alleged Spying for Cuba — He was a courtly State Department intelligence analyst from a prominent family who loved to sail and peruse the London Review of Books.
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Babalú Blog, Six Meat Buffet, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, JammieWearingFool, Sweetness & Light, Neptunus Lex and The Daley Gator
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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.
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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% …
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.
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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Change.org's Universal …
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
State Coverage Model No Help for Uneasy Insurance Industry
State Coverage Model No Help for Uneasy Insurance Industry
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TPMCafe
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 …
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 …
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Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Dems express ‘growing concern’
Dems express ‘growing concern’
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Maggie's Farm, The Strata-Sphere, Wizbang, Doug Ross, PoliGazette, RedState and Patterico's Pontifications
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.
William Kates / Associated Press:
Palin helps NY town celebrate Alaska anniversary — AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin set aside politics only briefly Saturday to help Auburn officials celebrate their inaugural Founder's Day and raise money for a museum honoring William Seward, the 19th-century U.S. secretary …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Strata-Sphere, Macsmind, Conservatives4Palin.com, Hot Air and The American Mind
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