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Twitter suspends another conservative account; Update: Chris Loesch free, flag-spam prog brigade still loose; Update: Loesch suspended again … Just as with @FreeMarket_US last week, Twitter has suspended the account of conservative Chis Loesch. Chis is the husband of talk radio host …
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Twitter, you have a problem: An infestation of radical flag-spam abusers … Hat tip to @Ed: … He is not alone. — And you will not be surprised to learn that at least one of the Twitter libs identified as a flag-spam ringleader also happens to be spearheading a Stop Rush Limbaugh effort online.
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FREECHRISLOESCH: TWITTER AND CONSERVATIVES — Earlier this evening my husband, Chris Loesch, had his Twitter account suspended. There have been stories going around of conservatives getting suspended from Twitter over innocuous things while accounts like @KillZimmerman …
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Twitter used to silence conservatives?
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The Legendary Paul Ryan — Mitt who? — The implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign—the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion—came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering. He used the phrase, last May …
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The Ticket: Paul Ryan's Kinetic Rise in G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. — At 6:30 every morning, he leads an adoring cast of young, conservative members …
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The Red Flag in the Flowerpot — Four decades after Watergate, there's something that still nags at Ben Bradlee about Deep Throat. — One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office. He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.
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Woodward rejects New York mag piece
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Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1 — Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth.
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Harvard's ‘populist’ — BOSTON — There's a reason …
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Why Obama Owns bin Laden — Judging from the Republican response, President Obama's ad asking whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that captured Osama bin Laden raises serious questions — U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to American troops in Hinesville, Ga., on April 27, 2012
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Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy
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New York Times, Taylor Marsh, Campaign 2012, americanthinker.com, HotAirPundit and New York Magazine

Sununu: ‘19 or 20’ names in the VP bowl — Portsmouth, New Hampshire (CNN) - The Romney campaign is considering about 20 names for the presumptive GOP candidate's vice presidential slot, said top campaign adviser and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu. — “I know that the bowl has about 19 …
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Obama campaign video teases new slogan: ‘Forward’ — A new Obama campaign video suggests a new slogan for the 2012 election: ‘Forward.’ (YouTube / April 30, 2012) — It looks like the Obama campaign may have settled on its slogan for the 2012 election: “Forward.”
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Obama Campaign Confronts Voter ID Laws
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State GOP's caucus picks leave Romney slate slighted — When Massachusetts Republicans went to their caucuses on Saturday, many didn't vote for Mitt Romney's picks. Instead, they went for Ron Paul. — Having all but locked up the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney …
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The Last Man Standing — What is Ron Paul doing?
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BREITBART'S CORONER POISONED TO DEATH? — Police probe mysterious demise of L.A. medical examiner — Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand …
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Wonkette, Vox Popoli and Joe. My. God.


Mitt Romney's road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map — It's no secret that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a narrow path to win the presidency this fall. Nowhere is that reality more apparent than when examining the electoral map on which Romney and President Obama will battle in November.
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Former Israeli Premier Assails Netanyahu on Iran — Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, plunged on Sunday into the country's growing debate over Iran policy with harsh criticism of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu. — As several recently retired top security officials have done …
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Mondoweiss, Via Meadia, Swampland and The Daily Dish
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Chances of Iran Strike Receding, U.S. Officials Say
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Daniel W. Drezner, New York Magazine, Mother Jones and Mondoweiss

Wasting Our Minds — In Spain, the unemployment rate among workers under 25 is more than 50 percent. In Ireland almost a third of the young are unemployed. Here in America, youth unemployment is “only” 16.5 percent, which is still terrible — but things could be worse.
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The Moderate Voice, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos


Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility — MILPITAS (CBS 5) — Three months ago, CBS 5 caught Solyndra tossing millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes used to make solar panels. Now the bankrupt solar firm, once touted as a symbol of green technology, may be trying to abandon toxic waste.
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Michelle Malkin, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, HotAirPundit and Fire Andrea Mitchell!


WITH ‘TYRANNY OF CLICHÉS,’ JONAH GOLDBERG DELIVERS A SECOND TRIUMPH — No one who writes for a living wouldn't want to be the person behind Jonah Goldberg's “Liberal Fascism,” which was not only a number-one New York Times' bestseller, but also a seminal publication in the growing canon of conservative-leaning books.
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