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iowahawk:
Help Me Bring the Weiner Hacker to Justice — I have never been much of a community activist, but I can no longer sit idly while America remains at risk of attack by the most nefarious identity thief in the history of Internet. And cheap page views are to be had.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, Datechguy's Blog, Power Line, minx.cc and House of Eratosthenes
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Congressman, Sharp Voice on Twitter, Finds It Can Cut 2 Ways — For nine months, Representative Anthony D. Weiner has been tweaking others via Twitter, poking fun at Sarah Palin, John A. Boehner and especially Michele Bachmann as he offers his 46,000-plus followers an unusually candid window …
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The Note, JustOneMinute, Althouse, Big Government, Bark Bark Woof Woof, American Power and The Other McCain
The Politico:
Anthony Weiner hires attorney in Twitter incident
Anthony Weiner hires attorney in Twitter incident
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New York Post, The Other McCain, Mediaite, American Spectator, Sky Dancing, Soup, CNN, Datechguy's Blog, CANNONFIRE, Ironic Surrealism, Taylor Marsh, Little Green Footballs, Big Government, Doug Ross, Pajamas Media, The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Caller, The Last Tradition and The Mahablog
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin fakes out reporters at Gettysburg hotel — Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (CNN) - Sarah Palin pulled a clever bait and switch on reporters in Gettysburg on Tuesday, as her “One Nation” bus tour rolls into its third day. — The Palin family and a few members of her staff snuck out of their hotel early …
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Ben Smith's Blog and The Daily Beast
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Dan Hirschhorn / The Politico:
Palin in Gettysburg as Day 3 begins
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Palin Dismisses the Press, but They Come Back for More
Palin Dismisses the Press, but They Come Back for More
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msnbc.com, Connecting.the.Dots, Pirate's Cove and Mediaite
Aharding / CNN:
Iowa-bound Palin: Republican presidential field will change
Iowa-bound Palin: Republican presidential field will change
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The Politico, The Caucus, NationalJournal.com, Iowa Caucuses, GOP 12, USA Today and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
Cyber Combat: Act of War — Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S …
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The Jawa Report, The Moderate Voice, Battleland, Neptunus Lex, POWIP, The Volokh Conspiracy and Emptywheel, more at Techmeme »
CNN:
Egyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters — Cairo (CNN) — A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.
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New Black Woman, msnbc.com, Boing Boing, Israel Matzav, New York Magazine, The Jawa Report and Lisa Graas
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Ben Shapiro / Townhall.com:
Exploring the Hollywood Propaganda Machine — Hollywood matters. — It matters because we watch Hollywood product day in and day out. Your children spend six or seven hours at school, and couple of hours with their friends, and a couple of hours with you. They spend a full three hours with the television.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Audio: What Hollywood really thinks about conservatives
Audio: What Hollywood really thinks about conservatives
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Five Feet of Fury and The Jawa Report
New York Post:
2nd banker in hotel sex bust — Another international moneyman has been busted for sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, cops said last night. — Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar — the 74-year-old former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria — allegedly groped and “gyrated” …
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Hot Air
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CNN:
Counterprotesters confront Westboro Baptist Church at Arlington — Washington (CNN) — Protesting members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met with an unlikely group of counterprotesters Monday at Arlington Cemetery. — Hours before President Barack Obama led the nation's Memorial …
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TBD All News, Gawker, Josh Blackman's Blog, Towleroad News #gay and Boing Boing
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Cost of war in Afghanistan will be major factor in troop-reduction talks — Of all the statistics that President Obama's national security team will consider when it debates the size of forthcoming troop reductions in Afghanistan, the most influential number probably will not be how many insurgents …
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Battleland, Neptunus Lex, Jared Bernstein, The Nation and Reuters
Guardian:
Al-Jazeera footage captures ‘western troops on the ground’ in Libya — Five of Gaddafi's generals are among latest defectors to rebels as South African president seeks to broker ceasefire — Armed westerners have been filmed on the front line with rebels near Misrata in the first apparent confirmation …
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ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, American Thinker, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, Gawker and Mediaite
Aharding / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama's approval rating edges up thanks to foreign policy — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's performance on national security and international affairs and his image as a strong leader appear to be behind his rising approval rating, according to new national poll conducted …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
‘Birther’ book soars — (CNN) - A new book, now number six on the New York Times' Best Sellers list, is putting the so-called “birther” issue back on the national stage. — “Where's the Birth Certificate?” by Jerome Corsi, which debuted on the list out Sunday, argues President Obama …
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New York Times and ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
Growth Slowdown Becomes a Concern — Weakness in First Quarter Now Showing Signs of Persisting — The world's largest economy may be facing a growth problem. — After a disappointing first quarter, economists largely predicted the U.S. recovery would ramp back up as short-term disruptions …
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The Foundry, FT Alphaville and Economist's View
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Medicare Plan for Payments Irks Hospitals — WASHINGTON — For the first time in its history, Medicare will soon track spending on millions of individual beneficiaries, reward hospitals that hold down costs and penalize those whose patients prove most expensive.
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ThinkProgress and The Lonely Conservative
David Brooks / New York Times:
It's Not About You — Over the past few weeks, America's colleges have sent another class of graduates off into the world. These graduates possess something of inestimable value. Nearly every sensible middle-aged person would give away all their money to be able to go back to age 22 and begin adulthood anew.
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The Agonist