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% …

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.

Somebody Tell Nina Totenberg Her Buddy Brett Kimberlin Is Making News Again … FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION  —  In the fall of 1988, when convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin was still locked up in federal prison and claiming to have sold dope to GOP vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle …

Saudis Demand Punishment for McDonald's Toy They Say “Insults Muhammed” … Saudi Arabians are angry at a McDonald's toy which they say mocks their prophet Muhammad.  According to a report appearing today (5/27/12) on the Arabic news website, Kermalkom.com, the McDonald's fast food restaurant …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.