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Commerce nomination cost Pritzker a pretty Penny

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Posted by    Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 12:31pm

Today President Obama nominated “friend” and fellow Chicagoan Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary, a post that has not been filled since June 2012.

In doing so he has gifted one of his top fundraisers (and one of the heirs to the Hyatt chain) with a title, perhaps in exchange for her superior...

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Mideast Media Sampler – 05/02/2013 – BBC “Team” Sports: Deception in Gaza

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Posted by    Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 11:00am

1) Might? May?

In March, a report from the UN suggested very strongly that Omar Masharawi (or Mishrawi) was killed by a Hamas rocket.

In response, Robert Mackey of the New York Times wrotemight have been caused by ‘a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel.’”

Mackey’s counterpart at the Washington Post, Max...

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Thou shalt not

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Posted by    Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 11:00am

From the Baltimore area.

This is an eclectic bunch, though I don’t like them all.

My favorite is the “Don’t steal” one.

Bumper Stickers - Baltimore - Gridlock

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Three Classmates of Boston Bombing Suspect Charged With Interfering in Investigation

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Posted by    Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 9:45am

Three college classmates of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with the investigation.

From the FBI’s official press release:

Dias Kadyrbayev, 19,...

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Cyberattack on US Department of Labor Website, Triggers Malware

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Posted by    Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 8:30am

A sub-domain of the Department of Labor website was hacked on Wednesday, causing the site to be taken offline until further notice.

The DOL confirmed the incident in a statement to WUSA-TV.

A U.S. Department of Labor spokesman confirms one of its websites is offline after being targeted by hackers.

“A DOL program appeared...

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Branco Cartoon – No Child Left Behind

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Posted by    Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:00am

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click hereBranco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco

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L.A. Times outdoes even the language police — tosses “illegal immigrant” and “undocumented immigrant”

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 8:22pm

I knew we lost “illegal immigrant” and “illegal immigration” to the language police.

The preferred and completely politically correct substitute term was supposed to be “undocumented immigrant.”

Even Colorlines, the group pushing the claim that “illegal immigrant” is racist, used the term “undocumented immigrant” in a recent story:

Hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been...

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Some deep and meaningful thoughts on news filtering

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 6:15pm

In times of important breaking news (see, Newtown and Boston Bombing), I find myself devoting substantial and increasing amounts of time towards filtering mainstream news media reports trying to figure out what is sufficiently reliable as to be worthy of passing on to my blog readership.

I find myself modifying mainstream news reports...

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Help me find Media Matters’ #EveryoneBlogAboutPigford entry

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 4:44pm

As Lee Stranahan notes, it took the NY Times to vindicate Andrew Breitbart against the attacks led by Media Matters:

Many have noted the irony of Andrew Breitbart’s tireless work to expose the fraud and corruption in Pigford being vindicated by the liberal New York Times–but it’s less ironic than you might...

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Social media – Obama likes it … when he controls it

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 2:51pm

In the wake of the 2008, election a column at the LA Times declared Obama, the first social media president:

Some things we know: Obama is no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. And he’s no Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook). Rather than being given to deranged leaps …

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Mideast Media Sampler – 05/01/2013 – New York Times Op-Ed Index for April 2013

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 12:30pm

Final total – Anti-Israel – 3 / Pro-Israel – 6

1) A Turkey-Israel Opening – Soli Ozel and Charles A. Kupchan – April 1, 2013

For the better part of a decade, Turkey and Israel have been growing apart politically. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has Islamist leanings; confrontation with Israel is part of its popular appeal. The A.K.P. caters to a...

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Boston Police: 3 more suspects taken into custody in Boston Marathon Bombing

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 11:16am

Whoa.

Details to follow.

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#Masen, again

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 10:09am

Pretty much the only mention we made about the Massachusetts Senate special election to fill the seat vacated by John Kerry was a spotlight on February 12 about Gabriel Gomez, The Great Republican Hope (in Massachusetts)?

Gomez won the primary yesterday pretty handily, and will face off against Ed Markey, who has...

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Hacking the News: Information Warfare in the Age of Twitter

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 8:05am

The group of pro-Assad hackers calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Guardian news outlet over the weekend, marking the latest in a string of cyberattacks from the same organization.  The incident emphasizes the potential threat such attacks could pose if executed for goals far more malicious than intimidation or...

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Daily Mail says Saudis warned U.S. about Boston Bomber #1, Obama admin denies

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Posted by    Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 6:31am

Be cautious about the headline of the day

The Daily Mail has dropped a bombshell which, if true, will blow the Boston Marathon Bombing case wide open.

But … that’s “if true.”

Interestingly, the author of the article is David Martosko, who recently left The Daily Caller, where he was Executive Editor.

This surely will dominate the news all day, but be cautioned:

The...

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