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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Veterans Give Romney Big Lead Over Obama — Veterans responsible for Romney's advantage among men overall — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. veterans, about 13% of the adult population and consisting mostly of older men, support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama for president by 58% to 34% …
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Hope: The Sequel — For Obama & Co., this time around it's all about fear. — David Plouffe sits in his White House office, just a few steps from the Oval, staring at an oversize map of these United States. It's late afternoon on May 9, two hours after Barack Obama's declaration …
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Washington Monthly and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama honors troops, says ‘dark cloud’ from decade of war is lifting — President Obama commemorated Memorial Day with a speech marking the end of a decade of U.S. conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, honoring soldiers killed in those wars. — The president on Monday joined the top members …
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American Power
Barack Obama / Stars & Stripes:
Keeping faith with Vietnam veterans
Keeping faith with Vietnam veterans
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The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, Political Economy, ABCNEWS, FOX6Now.com, Politico and The Raw Story
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama Pledges No More Wars Unless ‘Absolutely Necessary’
Obama Pledges No More Wars Unless ‘Absolutely Necessary’
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Firedoglake, Hullabaloo and Corrente
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Romney tops Obama by 28 points among male veterans
Poll: Romney tops Obama by 28 points among male veterans
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ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers and The POH Diaries
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Blogs rip MSNBC's Chris Hayes on ‘heroes’ — Conservatives in the blogosphere slammed MSNBC's Chris Hayes for saying on his show Sunday that he feels “uncomfortable” calling fallen soldiers “heroes.” — “Why do I feel so uncomfortable about the word hero?” Hayes said.
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TheBlaze.com, The Jawa Report, The Right Sphere and World's Only Rational Man
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Fox News:
VFW demands apology after host says he's ‘uncomfortable’ calling fallen soldiers heroes — A top veterans group called Monday for an “immediate and unequivocal apology” after an MSNBC host said on the eve of Memorial Day that it makes him “uncomfortable” to describe fallen soldiers as heroes.
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Washington Monthly, Weekly Standard, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and NewsBusters.org
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VFW slams MSNBC host who said he was ‘uncomfortable’ calling dead soldiers ‘heroes’
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Patterico's Pontifications:
Caller to Lee Stranahan Show Claims to Be My Swatter — This was an update to my post about the hoax call that sent police to Erick Erickson's house — but I think it deserves its own post. — I was on a podcast with Lee Stranahan last night about Kimberlin and the swattings. You can hear it here.
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Thoughts and Rantings, iOwnTheWorld.com and LEE STRANAHAN dot COM
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Things to do in Denver (and everywhere else) before you're SWATted — Last night, Erick Erickson joined the ranks of conservative writers that have become the target of a particularly dangerous hoax: SWATting. Someone spoofed his phone number and called the police, claiming that Erick's wife …
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The Lonely Conservative and Truth Before Dishonor
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
SWATting the Ericksons — Last week we spent a lot of time writing …
SWATting the Ericksons — Last week we spent a lot of time writing …
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Conservative Commune, Thoughts and Rantings, Blog de KingShamus, Rhymes With Right, CANNONFIRE, Pat Dollard, The Other McCain, Twitchy, That Innocuous Girl, BREITBART.COM, American Power, The PJ Tatler, Patterico's Pontifications, TheBlaze.com, The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, Allergic to Bull, Wizbang, iOwnTheWorld.com, “The Lid”, Instapundit, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and Bob Owens
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
Humans Are Not Like Slowly Boiling Frogs ... We Are Like Slowly Boiling Brainless Frogs — Even though people keep using the famous simile — “the fatally slow human response to climate change makes us like a slowly boiling frog” — it is not quite right. — As Wikipedia puts it …
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Suburban Guerrilla
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
U.S. officials among the targets of Iran-linked assassination plots — In November, the tide of daily cable traffic to the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan brought a chilling message for Ambassador Matthew Bryza, then the top U.S. diplomat to the small Central Asian country.
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emptywheel, Weasel Zippers, Via Meadia, The Jawa Report, Israel Matzav, This ain't Hell … and The Page
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Meet ‘Flame’, The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers — Map showing the number and geographical location of Flame infections detected by Kaspersky Lab on customer machines. Courtesy of Kaspersky — A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems …
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Guardian, Daily Pundit and Outside the Beltway
Ahmed Al-Haj / Associated Press:
Yemen: US drone strike kills 5 militants — SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.S. drone strike Monday aiming for an al-Qaida leader has killed five militants in the country's south as part of a Yemeni offensive against the Islamist group, Yemeni officials said. — They said the airstrike targeted Qaid al-Dahab …
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The Long War Journal and Weasel Zippers
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Why does Romney only do Fox? Schieffer asks — This is Bob Schieffer Day. — Once again on Sunday, he hit Ed Gillespie mid-talking point (as Robert Gibbs chuckled). — “You think we're ever going to see [Mitt Romney] on one of these Sunday morning interview shows?
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The Moderate Voice, Liberal Values, Sky Dancing and Crooks and Liars
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Barney Frank Tells Black Degree Recipient He Hopes “No One Will Shoot At You” For Wearing A “Hoodie” — Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was one of several speakers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth undergraduate commencement that took place this Sunday.
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Mediaite
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New York Has Some Prisons to Sell You — One property, in the Hudson Valley, includes a 16-car garage, a piggery and hundreds of yards of lake frontage. — Another offers 69 acres of waterfront land on the west shore of Staten Island, complete with a two-story gymnasium, a baseball diamond and an open-air pavilion.
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Defectors describe horror, heartbreak in North Korea's labor camps — Seoul (CNN) — Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. They had planned to escape the North Korean labor camp they were being held in until Shin overheard …