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Chris Hayes Apologizes For Saying He Feels ‘Uncomfortable’ Calling Killed Soldiers ‘Heroes’ (VIDEO) — Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy … FOLLOW: — MSNBC, Video, Chris Hayes, Memorial Day, Chris Hayes Heroes, Chris Hayes Soldiers, Chris Hayes Uncomfortable, Media News
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Blogs rip MSNBC's Chris Hayes on ‘heroes’
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VFW demands apology after host says he's ‘uncomfortable’ calling fallen soldiers heroes
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VFW slams MSNBC host who said he was ‘uncomfortable’ calling dead soldiers ‘heroes’
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!

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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Hot Air, Booman Tribune, Washington Monthly, The POH Diaries and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Keeping faith with Vietnam veterans
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Obama honors troops, says ‘dark cloud’ from decade of war is lifting
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American Power and Politico

Obama Pledges No More Wars Unless ‘Absolutely Necessary’
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Hullabaloo, Firedoglake and Corrente

Poll: Romney tops Obama by 28 points among male veterans
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Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS and The POH Diaries

Romney doesn't back away from ‘birther’ Trump — (CNN) - Mitt Romney said Monday he wasn't concerned about Donald Trump's commitment to the “birther” conspiracy, one day before the GOP presidential candidate hosts a fund-raiser alongside the celebrity business magnate.
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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 …
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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 …
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Bare Naked Islam, Raymond Ibrahim and iOwnTheWorld.com


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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The Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and Daily Pundit


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 …

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

What Print Cuts at Times-Picayune Mean for Papers — New Orleans Daily Latest to Reduce Publishing Schedule in Bid to Survive Digital Revolution — The New Orleans Times-Picayune survived Hurricane Katrina. Now it is making its play to stay alive during the digital revolution …
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Firedoglake and The Huffington Post

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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Star bank traders struggle to shine with own funds — LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest traders to have swapped working at a bank for running their own hedge funds are finding it much tougher on their own, with returns since they launched lagging rivals and disappointing investors.
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Firedoglake, Eschaton and New York Times


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.