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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 …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CLASS ACT, ALL THE WAY.... On Friday, publius — Hilzoy's Obsidian …
CLASS ACT, ALL THE WAY.... On Friday, publius — Hilzoy's Obsidian …
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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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
U.S. Considering Restoring N. Korea to Terror List
U.S. Considering Restoring N. Korea to Terror List
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The Moderate Voice
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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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.
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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Jenny Barchfield / Associated Press:
For the Obamas, date night in Paris
For the Obamas, date night in Paris
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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% …
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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 …
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.
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.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hugging Republicans Until It Hurts — WASHINGTON — As Representative John M. McHugh of New York began planning his retirement from the House after being picked to be the new secretary of the Army, a chunk of Republican morale prepared to depart with him. — And that was just what Democrats had counted on.
Natalie Apsell / CNN:
Reliable Sources: For journalists, how close is too close? — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Author and former Newsweek journalist Richard Wolffe is refuting charges that he acted more like Barack Obama's campaign spokesman than as a journalist covering Obama's presidential campaign.
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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