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...
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 wrote “might have been caused by ‘a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel.’”
Mackey’s counterpart at the Washington Post, Max...
From the Baltimore area.
This is an eclectic bunch, though I don’t like them all.
My favorite is the “Don’t steal” one.
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,...
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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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...
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...
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...
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 …
… of...
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...
Whoa.
Details to follow.
Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow.
— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) May 1, 2013
BREAKING: Three college students taken in...
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...
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...
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...
