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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
MSNBC Host Issues Apology for Saying He's ‘Uncomfortable’ with Calling Fallen Soldiers ‘Heroes’ — MSNBC host Chris Hayes has issued an apology one day after saying on national television that he is “uncomfortable” with calling fallen soldiers “heroes.” — “On Sunday, in discussing the uses …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Blogs rip MSNBC's Chris Hayes on ‘heroes’
Blogs rip MSNBC's Chris Hayes on ‘heroes’
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The Jawa Report, The Camp Of The Saints, TheBlaze.com, World's Only Rational Man and Mediaite
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
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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Datechguy's Blog, The Daley Gator, The PJ Tatler, Absolute Moral Authority, hogewash and Conservative Commune
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Donald Trump / CNN:
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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Little Green Footballs
Raymond Ibrahim / Gatestone Institute:
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
Marian Burros / New York Times:
Michelle Obama Writes ‘American Grown’ — Every so often, a flash of Michelle Obama's humor comes through in her otherwise serious book about the White House garden and her campaign against childhood obesity, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America,” which goes on sale Tuesday.
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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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Lynn Sweet, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers and The Page
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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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama honors troops, says ‘dark cloud’ from decade of war is lifting
Obama honors troops, says ‘dark cloud’ from decade of war is lifting
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Politico and American Power
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama Pledges No More Wars Unless ‘Absolutely Necessary’
Obama Pledges No More Wars Unless ‘Absolutely Necessary’
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Hullabaloo, Firedoglake and Corrente
Barack Obama / Stars & Stripes:
Keeping faith with Vietnam veterans
Keeping faith with Vietnam veterans
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The Moderate Voice and FOX6Now.com
Patrick Reis / Politico:
Obama touts path to peace at Arlington visit
Kim Zetter / Wired:
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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Securelist, Israel Matzav, The Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and Daily Pundit
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Extended Federal Unemployment Benefits Begin to Wind Down — Hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Americans are receiving their final unemployment checks sooner than they expected, even though Congress renewed extended benefits until the end of the year. — The checks are stopping …
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The Page
Paula Hancocks / CNN:
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 …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
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
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
Maxim Lott / Fox News:
Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change believers, study says — The predicted temperature changes (darker red indicating greater change) due to global warming, based on data that scientists, policymakers and the public are now questioning. — Are global warming skeptics anti-science?
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Wintery Knight and Weasel Zippers
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Bain Attacks Could Backfire — The ham-handed Barack Obama campaign attack ads on Mitt Romney's former firm Bain Capital have drawn a lot of ire from other Democrats. — And not just because they were sloppily fact-checked (the ads hit Romney for layoffs long after he left Bain) …
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