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Update: SEIU gets phone call “threatening to teach union officials a thing or two about ‘the Second Amendment’” Brian Beutler reported at Talking Points Memo on Friday that a health care protester in New Mexico had been encouraging those following him on Twitter to bring their guns to town hall meetings — and use them if provoked. “If ACORN/SEIU attends these meetings for disruptive purposes, and you have a license to carry….carry,” Scott Oskay wrote in one tweet. In another, he suggested, “Stop being peaceful, and hurt them. Badly.” The Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) appears to be the latest bogeyman for the anti-health care protesters. Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, for example, claimed on Friday that “SEIU thugs rolled up their sleeves and attacked a black conservative protester in St. Louis.” As described by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, however, the facts of the incident cited by Malkin were far less clearcut. Out of the half a dozen people arrested following a to...

by Holly Sanders Ware For such a sophisticated and secretive company, Twitter is proving to be an awfully easy target for computer hackers. A hacker swiped hundreds of confidential documents about Twitter and its employees after breaking into the e-mail and Internet accounts of several Twitter workers, including co-founder Evan Williams. Among the stolen documents are floor plans for the firm's new San Francisco office, a pitch for a possible Twitter-themed reality TV show and growth projections for the micro-blogging site. The hacker also lifted private information from employee accounts, including resumes, credit-card numbers and phone logs. The hacker, who uses the identity "Hacker Croll," leaked the documents yesterday to TechCrunch, an industry site run by Michael Arrington, and a French blog called Korben. In May, the same hacker infiltrated a Twitter employee's account and from there gained access to the Twitter accounts of several high-profile users, including...