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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
REPORT: Aaron Walker Arrested After Maryland Hearing on Kimberlin Case — Aaron Walker, whose complaint against convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin became a conservative cause célèbre this past week, was reportedly taken into custody today after a court hearing in Rockville, Maryland.
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Tiffany Gabbay / TheBlaze.com:
BLAZE CONFIRMS: CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER ARRESTED FOLLOWING COURT HEARING WITH CONVICTED SPEEDWAY BOMBER BRETT KIMBERLIN — This is a breaking story. Please check back frequently for updates. — UPDATE I: The Blaze spoke to a clerk at the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County …
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LEE STRANAHAN dot COM, The Volokh Conspiracy, Examiner, Truth Before Dishonor, Atlas Shrugs, Pat Dollard, WorldNetDaily and PJ Media
Dmoynihan / Munsey's Technosnarl:
When Your Honor, This Man Is a Convicted Domestic Terrorist Is Not Enough — Update: Apparently Walker was arrested on Battery Charges filed by Kimberlin over an iPad at the close of the hearing. Also, welcome everyone, this site is mostly about free ebooks, especially pulp fiction …
Chris Smith / Twitchy:
Blogger and Brett Kimberlin target Aaron Walker arrested in Maryland … This is absolutely outrageous. In a positively Kafka-esque turn of events, a Maryland judge has ordered that Walker be taken into police custody while serial harasser, terrorist, and killer Kimberlin remains free.
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Michelle Malkin and Pink Flamingo Bar
SOOPERMEXICAN:
Judge in Kimberlin Hearing Woefully ignorant of Internet, Twitter — From @OlympiaPress, who attended the Brett Kimberlin hearing [I added emphases]: … Read the entire post here — Update — I inquired of @OlympiaPress about the death threats:
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An Ex-Con's View
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: Domestic Terrorist Kimberlin Has Conservative Blogger Arrested ...Update: Aaron Worthing Asks For Help — The World Is Upside-Down — Conservative blogger Aaron Walker was arrested today after the Maryland hearing on the Kimberlin case. — ‘Speedway Bomber’ …
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Truth Before Dishonor, The Daley Gator and therightplanet.com
New York Times:
Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will — WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: Stop letting Mitt Romney off easy
The Morning Plum: Stop letting Mitt Romney off easy
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Trump, Romney's surrogate, goes on ‘birther’ offensive
Trump, Romney's surrogate, goes on ‘birther’ offensive
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CNN, ABCNEWS, Guardian and Prairie Weather
The Daily Beast:
Drones: How Obama Learned to Kill
Drones: How Obama Learned to Kill
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Mediaite, ABCNEWS and Suburban Guerrilla
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Mitt Romney: Economy improving ‘in spite’ of Obama
Mitt Romney: Economy improving ‘in spite’ of Obama
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Washington Post, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Denver Post and CNN
Mike Allen / Politico:
Mitt Romney camp to attack the stimulus
Mitt Romney camp to attack the stimulus
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CNN, Washington Post, PERRspectives, Politicker, Wake up America, The Agonist, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, National Review and Campaign 2012
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD — “Militants”: media propaganda
GLENN GREENWALD — “Militants”: media propaganda
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New York Times and Firedoglake
Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Pro-life group's hidden camera footage shows complicity in ‘sex-selective’ abortions — Live Action says Planned Parenthood and other U.S. abortion providers are willing to assist in the termination of baby girls for pregnant women who choose abortion because they want to have baby boys.
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Jezebel, LifeNews.com, The Lonely Conservative, Examiner, The Mental Recession, Chicks on the Right, UrbanGrounds, Hyscience and Althouse
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
New Live Action video shows Planned Parenthood encouraging gender-selective abortion, Medicaid fraud — Want to see a real war on women? Not one defined by the opposition to the imposition of a Hubby State and subsidies, but one in which women of the future are systematically eliminated?
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Planned Parenthood Sting Caught On Video, Released By Anti-Abortion Activists … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Video, Anti-Abortion Activists, Planned Parenthood Video, Politics News — A group of anti-abortion activists that Planned Parenthood has suspected …
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Washington Monthly, LifeNews.com, Hot Air, Adrienne's Corner and The PJ Tatler
Max Pizarro / Politicker NJ:
Booker communications director resigns — Anne Torres, communications director for Newark Mayor Cory Booker, is resigning, effective today. — Sources say her resignation comes amid internal adminstration strife in the aftermath of Booker's appearance on Meet the Press.
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Politico, Mediaite, Gothamist, Politicker, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
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David Giambusso / New Jersey Online:
Newark City Hall communications director resigns in wake of Booker's ‘Meet the Press’ appearance
Newark City Hall communications director resigns in wake of Booker's ‘Meet the Press’ appearance
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The Hill, Washington Post, Jammie Wearing Fools and TheBlaze.com
Maggie Habermanand Emily Schultheis / Reuters:
New Sarah Palin approach; better results — Everyone has wondered who the Sarah Palin of 2012 would be. The answer is...Sarah Palin. — Palin's star power faded along with that of the other conservative Mitt Romney alternatives and her media presence has dwindled.
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ABCNEWS and Taylor Marsh
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
In Texas, a rising conservative star takes on the establishment
In Texas, a rising conservative star takes on the establishment
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ABCNEWS, Washington Wire, National Review, NewsBusters.org and Left Coast Rebel
David Smith / Guardian:
Robert Mugabe appointed as UN international envoy for tourism — The Zimbabwe president, accused of ethnic cleansing and bankrupting his country, asked to champion tourism — With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin …
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The Herald …, National Post, Michelle Malkin, msnbc.com, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, Fausta's Blog, Via Meadia and The PJ Tatler
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Edwards put move on gal, 25 — GREENSBORO, NC — Horndog hubby John Edwards shamelessly hit on comely co-eds just months after his wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer. — Edwards, 58, who is on trial on charges of campaign-finance violations, flexed his trial-lawyer charm on pretty Andrea Love …
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TheBlaze.com
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
In Defense of Chris Hayes — The MSNBC host is getting beat up for remarks he made about the heroism of American soldiers. Really, his critics are the ones who should be apologizing. — Very few Americans wake up early on weekend mornings to watch public intellectuals chat.
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American Prospect, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Mediaite, Hit & Run and The Moderate Voice
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
Michelle Obama sponsors Navy's first submarine with all-female crew — The USS Illinois, the first Navy submarine to be staffed by an all-female crew, received the support of the White House on Memorial Day. — On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama officially sponsored the Virginia-class submarine …
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Politico, CNN, BLACKFIVE, Lynn Sweet, Sky Dancing, The PJ Tatler, Shakesville, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers and The Page
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: 'We're all fighting for a decent America'
Michelle Obama: 'We're all fighting for a decent America'
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Weasel Zippers
rt.com:
'Allah's enemy!' Radio host slash-attacked for anti-Islam rant on air — Photo from www.radiomayak.ru — A radio host has been hospitalized after being cut 15 times by an unidentified criminal. Two weeks ago the journalist ventured to criticize the founder of Islam, the Prophet Mohammed, on air.
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Atlas Shrugs, Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Bare Naked Islam, Jihad Watch and The Gateway Pundit
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Romney's pants on fire — There are those who tell the truth. There are those who distort the truth. And then there's Mitt Romney. — Every political campaign exaggerates and dissembles. This practice may not be admirable — it's surely one reason so many Americans are disenchanted with politics …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama safe in Michigan — Barack Obama won't have to worry too much about holding Michigan for the Democrats this fall- he leads Mitt Romney 53-39 there, a lead little changed from PPP's last poll of the state in February when his advantage was 54-38. — Romney just doesn't have much of a home field advantage in the state.
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The Caucus, Liberal Values, Ballot Box, Politico and Swampland
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House to vote on bill penalizing abortion based on sex of child — The House will vote this week on legislation imposing criminal penalties on anyone performing an abortion based on the sex of the child, but the measure runs the risk of failing on the floor because of how the GOP is calling it up.
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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Feministing and The Huffington Post
Craig Pittman / Tampa Bay Times:
Wetlands expert suspended by DEP after she refuses to approve permit — Florida's top state wetlands expert has been suspended after she refused to issue a permit on a controversial project — one that she said her boss was willing to bend the rules to approve.
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ThinkProgress and Crooks and Liars
Bloomberg:
Debt-Ceiling Deja Vu Could Sink Economy — Europe is crumbling. China is slowing. The Federal Reserve is dithering. Yet the biggest threat to the emerging U.S. economic recovery may be Congress. — John Boehner, the leader of the House Republicans, has promised yet another fight …
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American Prospect and ThinkProgress
Phil Vinter / Daily Mail:
Woman stalked by rogue kangaroo for TWO DAYS before vicious attack which left her with 12-inch scar — A hostile kangaroo launched a savage assault on a mother after spending two days stalking her - then attacked her husband as she recovered in hospital. — Kirrily McWilliams was left …