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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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Fox News, BuzzFeed and The Other McCain
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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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protein wisdom, JustOneMinute and americanthinker.com


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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The Mental Recession

Twitter used to silence conservatives?
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Hot Air, Daily Pundit, NewsBusters.org blogs and TBogg


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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Washington Monthly, American Prospect, Paul Krugman, CNN and A plain blog about politics
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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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GOP 12, BuzzFeed, Hotline On Call and Campaign 2012


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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Politico, Taegan Goddard's …, Poynter, Washington Post, Balloon Juice and Philly.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Woodward rejects New York mag piece — From my report Sunday night on Bob Woodward, Ben Bradlee, and the new Deep Throat controversy: — Bob Woodward is strongly disputing a new report in which it is revealed that his mentor, legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, once expressed …
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New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »


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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ABCNEWS
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Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy
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Taylor Marsh, americanthinker.com, Campaign 2012, HotAirPundit and New York Magazine

Hardly a Close Ally, Clinton Teams With Obama to Raise Cash and Votes
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2012 Decoded

One year later, Obama team looks for lasting bin Laden bounce
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nation.foxnews.com


Political slowdown in Corzine probe? — The implosion of MF Global appears to be the single most investigated event in recent Wall Street history. The FBI, two US attorneys, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and several congressional committees …
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Occupy Wall Street Plans Global Disruption of Status Quo May 1
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ThinkProgress and americanthinker.com

Harvard's ‘populist’ — BOSTON — There's a reason …
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RedState and americanthinker.com


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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A plain blog about politics, americanthinker.com, Wall Street Journal, ABCNEWS and Prairie Weather
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State GOP's caucus picks leave Romney slate slighted
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Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico and Ron Paul 2012 Presidential …

The Last Man Standing — What is Ron Paul doing?
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Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, LewRockwell.com Blog and Ron Paul 2012 Presidential …


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, Nice Deb, Vox Popoli and Joe. My. God.

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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The Moderate Voice
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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, HotAirPundit, Scared Monkeys and Fire Andrea Mitchell!

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, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos


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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Althouse


No one gets lucky at Washington's prom — The White Correspondents' Dinner isn't what's wrong with politics. It's what's wrong with DC — Every year the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: Celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades …
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Guardian, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run and The Reaction

Wind farms may have warming effect - research — * Could have wider effect as more farms are built — Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United States showed on Sunday, casting a shadow over the long-term sustainability of wind power.
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit


O's college cop-out — With student-loan rates set to double, President Obama has been busy posing as Mr. Fixit. Too bad it's just a pose. — The country has a serious student-debt problem, and also a student-loan problem. But they're two different things.
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Hit & Run