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1:55 PM ET, May 25, 2012

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Patterico's Pontifications:
Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, and Their Campaign of Political Terrorism  —  You're about to listen to one of the most bone-chilling pieces of audio you will ever hear.  At least, it was to me when I first heard it.  —  It's a phone call that could have gotten me killed.
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Tiffany Gabbay / TheBlaze.com:
MEET SOROS-FUNDED DOMESTIC TERRORIST BRETT KIMBERLIN WHOSE ‘JOB’ IS TERRORIZING BLOGGERS INTO SILENCE  — Drug dealer, alleged child molester, and convicted perjurer, forger and Indiana Speedway Bomber (who is also believed to have played a role in the assassination of a grandmother) …
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Interviewing Robert Stacy McCain About Brett Kimberlin  —  Robert Stacy McCain, who blogs at RWN on occasion, has become a story himself this week.  After reporting on “Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin, Stacy announced to the world that Kimberlin had been in touch with his wife's employer …
Washington Examiner:
How to kill the First Amendment  —  Fox News' Roger Ailes said this recently during an address at his alma mater, Ohio University: “I have one wish for OU, that it continues to be a place for open debate where people from different points of view with various opinions can meet and discuss these things openly.
Mike Allenand Jim Vandehei / Politico:
Obama stumbles out of the gate  —  Nothing inspires Democrats like the Barack Obama swagger — the supreme self-confidence on stage, the self-certainty in private.  —  So nothing inspires more angst than when that same Obama stumbles, as he has leaving the gate in 2012.
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Politico:
Obama stumbles out of the gate
Discussion: The New Republic and Swampland
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Leaps Into Direct Attacks
Des Moines Register:
Obama pokes fun at Romney in Iowa
Discussion: Althouse and The Raw Story
BuzzFeed:
A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama  —  Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college.  Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School …
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Olivier Knox / ABCNEWS:
Obama's high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book  —  Bill Clinton he was not.  When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules.  You had to embrace “total absorption” or face a penalty.  When you smoked in the car, “the windows had to be rolled up.”
Discussion: Hit & Run
Mary Carmichael / The Boston Globe:
Filings add to questions on Warren's ethnic claims  —  US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ago.  —  But for at least six straight …
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Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Mitt Romney's Moment  —  The GOP nominee explains why he thinks America is at an ‘inflection point.’  —  It's been a good week for Mitt Romney.  The polls are up, he's just off a two-day swing through Connecticut and New York, where he hauled in big donors and hard money …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Egos and Immorality  —  In the wake of a devastating financial crisis …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:
Unions angry with Democrats over lack of help in Wisconsin governor's recall  —  Top union officials are lashing out at Washington Democrats, claiming they haven't done enough to help them unseat Gov. Scott Walker (R) in Wisconsin's recall election.  —  President Obama has been silent …
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Sean Sullivan / Hotline On Call:
Led by Walker, Republicans Winning Wisconsin Ad Spending Battle
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Albany Times Union Editor Says Police Targeted His Wife's Spa  —  ALBANY — In early spring, the police raided a spa near the Capitol, alleging that a masseuse was actually a prostitute.  —  It appeared to be a minor arrest, except that the spa's owner is the wife of the investigations editor at the local newspaper, The Times Union.
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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Police raid draws internal review
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Mitt Romney's New BFF: Donald Trump  —  Forget Clooney for Obama.  Team Romney now has a Trump fundraiser, a Trump super PAC, and a former presidential aspirant who won't stop talking about where the president was born.  —  First things first: Donald Trump is delighted that Mitt Romney …
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Explaining the sudden shift on gay marriage among African Americans  —  The big polling news today is that in the wake of President Obama's “evolution” on marriage equality, African American voters have flipped from opposition to support — to such an extent that changes among black voters …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The facts about the growth of spending under Obama  —  (Carolyn Kaster/AP) “I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration.  I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness.”
Wall Street Journal:
To Get Growth, Shrink the State  —  The best stimulus is a smaller government.  —  Confusion reigns supreme.  The International Monetary Fund told the U.K. this week that it should cut taxes and boost spending while also praising the fiscal consolidation of 2010, which saw a mere 1% cut from public spending.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Investor's Business Daily:
Scooter Obama Outs Navy SEAL Team 6 Leader For Movie  —  National Security: New documents obtained by a watchdog group show our commander in chief gave the name of a Navy Seal Team 6 commander to the makers of a movie about Osama bin Laden.  Valerie Plame, call your office.
Discussion: The Mental Recession
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Federal Judge Rules DOMA, Tax Code Force Unconstitutional Treatment For Same-Sex Couples  —  On Thursday evening, a federal judge in California held that the Defense of Marriage Act and a provision of tax law unconstitutionally limit same-sex couples and domestic partners from participating …
Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Gave Risk Oversight To Museum Head Who Sat On AIG Board  —  The three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) include a museum head who sat on American International Group Inc.'s governance committee in 2008, the grandson of a billionaire and the chief executive officer …
Discussion: New York Magazine, The Awl and DealBook
 
 
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Democrats disagree over who should pay higher tax rates
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Busted!... Obama Headlined a DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA Event in 1996 **FLIER**
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Marion Barry commits new gaffe while apologizing to Asians
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