Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
MUST SEE... First Pitch at Busch Stadium Becomes Marriage Proposal (Video)  —  For Love and Cardinals.  —  Spc. Will Johanson, a military policeman assigned to the 463rd Military Police Company, 4th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, surprises his girlfriend, Shelby Fetsch, during the FOX Sports Midwest …

Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Lunch with the FT: Paul Krugman  —  The Nobel Prize-winning professor of economics talks to Martin Wolf about what Japan got right, what the Federal Reserve got wrong and how the eurozone can be saved  —  I enter the Landmarc restaurant, at the Time Warner Center, on Columbus Circle …

Alex Pareene / Salon:
Luke Russert, nepotist prince  —  Luke Russert is being groomed as a simulacrum of his father — but without the inspiring rags-to-riches story … Tim Russert was not the unalloyed saint of tough journalism that his celebrators describe in posthumous tributes, but he was at least …

Maggie Habermanand Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Cory Booker's brand takes a hit  —  It only took 15 seconds on “Meet the Press” to turn Cory Booker's gold-plated political brand into an imperiled commodity.  —  Booker has cemented a reputation as a rising Democratic star with crossover appeal, whose open secret is his desire to become either senator or governor.

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
A Zealous Romney Fan Becomes a Valuable Campaign Asset  —  CLEVELAND — In Florida, a state trooper pulled Jim Wilson off the highway, but instead of issuing a speeding ticket, asked a favor: Could he have a few Romney for President bumper stickers?  —  In Michigan, a woman left …

BuzzFeed:
Meet The Weiner Truthers  —  One year later, a dogged handful still believe that Anthony Weiner was framed.  —  New York congressman Anthony Weiner resigned in disgrace a full year ago, admitting to having sent lewd photos to female fans of his on Twitter.  —  But for one corner of the Internet, Weinergate is very much not over.

Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey  —  Updated  —  An advisory to readers who may be driving on this Memorial Day weekend: If, as you travel the nation's highways, you spot a hitchhiker with a wiry build, a pencil mustache and a mischievous look in his eyes …

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Florida Supervisor of Elections: Gov. Scott's Voter Purge Will Remove Eligible Voters From Rolls  —  According to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, eligible voters will be removed from the voting rolls as a result of the massive voter purge ordered by Governor Rick Scott.

Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics:
Number of the Week: Half of U.S. Lives in Household Getting Benefits  —  49.1%: Percent of the population that lives in a household where at least one member received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 2011.  —  Cutting government spending is no easy task …

Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Crime Scene: With Confession in the Patz Case, the Difficult Work Begins  —  The man breaks down and cries and says yes, I did it.  I killed that 6-year-old boy 33 years ago.  I did it.  —  It should be a detective's dream come true.  The police have their man, their investigation sewn up with a tidy bow of his own damning words.