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LIVE AT FIVE – 06.28.11

TOP NEWS Feds Hope Bulger Family Feeling Charitable Towards Whitey Feds hitting up powerful relatives of accused murderer to keep taxpayers from footing his defense tab Related: Whitey Sings For the G-Men Brown, Democrats Reach Budget Deal Without Taxes, Republicans GOP State Senator Bob Huff: “That’s nearly $11 billion in new revenue that the Democrats […]

Arrest of British LulzSec Hacker Renews Questions About Barrett Brown’s Activity

The arrest of a 19-year-old British hacker in connection with criminal “denial of service” attacks by the group known as “LulzSec” has raised new questions about the activities of Barrett Brown, the former self-appointed spokesman for the “Anonymous” hacker collective. The New York Times reports: LONDON — As suspects go, Ryan Cleary did not look […]

Happy Anniversary, ‘Recovery Summer’

BREAKING: Blagojevich Convicted

Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, has been convicted of several counts in his corruption and bribery trial in Chicago. UPDATE: Blagojevich was found guilty on 17 counts, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. UPDATE II: The Chicago Tribune reports: Blogojevich showed no reaction as the jury found him guilty on 17 of 20 counts […]

‘Marriage’ Is A Complete Concept

by Smitty Prefixing ‘marriage’ in any way adds no meaning to its proper, timeless understanding. Frank J cogently argues “The Arguements For Gay Marriage Are Incoherent“. Given that one finds the behavior of others is often incoherent, I like his point #2: Given that marriage is a religious institution that the government participates in, there […]

Florida: Adam Hasner for Senate

In next year’s GOP primary to take on vulnerable Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, conservatives are rallying behind Adam Hasner as the best hope of avoiding the RINO George Lemieux, who has described himself as a “Charlie Crist Republican“: With several contenders for the Republican nomination, it’s important to unite conservatives behind one candidate to prevent […]

The Semi-Smear

“If you agree with him, you think what he does is citizen journalism. If you don’t, his work is little more than crowd-sourced political sabotage that freely distorts the facts.” — Jeremy W. Peters, “The Right’s Blogger Provocateur,” New York Times No need to guess which view of Andrew Breitbart the New York Times endorses. […]

VIDEO: Greek Meltdown?

Here are a couple of video reports from EuroNews about this week’s big economic question: Can Greece deal with its debt crisis or will default trigger a global economic meltdown? At the Hot Air Green Room: The good news, such as it is: French banks have reportedly agreed to a plan to roll over Greek […]

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