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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
SWATting the Ericksons — Last week we spent a lot of time writing about Brett Kimberlin and the incident involving blogger Patterico where someone spoofed his phone number and told 911 he had shot his wife. — Tonight, my family was sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner when sheriffs deputies pulled up in the driveway.
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The Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin, Allergic to Bull, American Power, TheBlaze.com, Twitchy, BizzyBlog, NewsBusters.org, “The Lid”, The Camp Of The Saints, Bob Owens, AMERICAN FREEDOM, No More Mister Nice Blog, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Mahablog and The American Catholic
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Patterico's Pontifications:
BREAKING: Bogus Call Sends Police to Home of Kimberlin Critic Erick Erickson — He and his family are OK. He just put up the tweet minutes ago: … I asked him if he was serious and he said yes. Again, he said that he is OK, though. After he started writing about Kimberlin …
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The Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain and Wizbang
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Brett Kimberlin's Heiress Aunt Helping Fund His Tax-Exempt Harassment — Convicted felon Brett Kimberlin is the nephew of a wealthy Maryland woman who has contributed to a foundation that helped fund a 501(c)3 organization of which Kimberlin is the director.
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Nice Deb and The Daley Gator
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Chris Hayes: I'm ‘Uncomfortable’ Calling Fallen Military ‘Heroes’ — Effete: affected, overrefined, and ineffectual; see “Chris Hayes.” OK, I appended the name of the MSNBC host to the dictionary definition. But if ever you wanted to see the human embodiment of the adjective in action …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Chris Hayes Feels ‘Uncomfortable’ Calling Fallen Soldiers ‘Heroes’ — It's Memorial Day weekend, and while many may be marking this occasion as a time for barbecuing with the family, it's also an important time to reflect on the sacrifice of those who lost their lives serving the country.
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emptywheel and Outside the Beltway
Gatordoug / The Daley Gator:
Chris Hayes epitomizes the definition of educated beyond one's hat size — I like to say that people who are, while educated, lacking in real wisdom, are educated beyond their hat size. What I mean is that they do not possess the ability to apply their education to the real world.
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The POH Diaries and Pirate's Cove
MiamiHerald.com:
Naked man killed by Police near MacArthur Causeway was ‘eating’ face off victim — It was a scene as creepy as a Hannibal Lecter movie. — One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten …
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Scott Walker / CNN:
Wisconsin recall's a ‘test run,’ DNC chair says — Washington (CNN) - Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Sunday classified Democratic efforts in the Wisconsin recall election as a “test run” for the presidential race. — “It's given the Obama for America operation …
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Hot Air, Balloon Juice, Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Monthly
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Wisconsin recall election: Scott Walker's fate will have November implications
Wisconsin recall election: Scott Walker's fate will have November implications
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Power Line and Daily Kos
Bobby Bank / ABCNEWS:
George Will Calls Donald Trump a ‘Bloviating Ignoramus’ — This morning on “This Week,” ABC News' George Will called Donald Trump a “bloviating ignoramus,” questioning why presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is associating with the real estate mogul …
Gregg Re / The Daily Caller:
Media hastily erase articles about Malia Obama's appearance at One Direction concert — Several media outlets have again pulled or edited already-published articles about the activities of President Barack Obama's daughter, even though the stories appeared to pose no active security risk to the first family.
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Ten Years: Ten Thoughts (plus John's) — It was ten years ago this weekend — ten years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow — that John Hinderaker went to Blogger and set up Power Line. On Memorial Day that weekend he gave me a call and invited me to contribute.
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Europe's Maquina Infernal has crippled Spain — Spain is spiralling into the vortex of debt-deflation. This has nothing to do with Greece. It is not the result of fiscal extravagance over the past decade, or other such Wagnerian myths. — In Spain, unemployment has reached 24.4pc, or 32pc in Extremadura.
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Firedoglake and National Review
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
Pentagon has military plans ready to prevent nuclear Iran, says Panetta — The Pentagon has a plan ready for military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but the United States and its allies remain focused on reaching a diplomatic solution, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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