"the reason I haven’t written about Mr. Gosnell is the same reason Philadelphia journalists don’t write about homicide trials in Detroit"...
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Missouri Broke Own State Law, Shared Detailed Conceal Carry Records With Feds: This story is gun registration opponents worst nightmares coming true. Missouri officials broke their own laws and shared detailed conceal carry records with the feds. Dana Loesch is all over this story: The Missouri State Highway...
What happened to the other $22?...
A secret recording of a campaign strategy session between U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his advisors was taped by leaders of the Progress Kentucky super PAC, says a longtime local Democratic operative. Mother Jones Magazine released the tape this week. The meeting itself took place on Feb. 2. Jacob Conway, who is on the executive committee of the Jefferson County Democratic Party, says that day, Shawn Reilly and Curtis Morrison, who founded and volunteered for Progress Kentucky, respectively, bragged to him about how they recorded the meeting. Conway says neither the local nor the state Democratic party had any part in the incident.This is the same Democratic PAC which ran racist ads against McConnell's wife. As previously discussed, the means of recording would determine whether it was illegal. The report is that they were not in the room and therefore not a party to the conversation, but eavesdropped:
Morrison and Reilly did not attend the open house, but they told Conway they arrived later and were able to hear the meeting from the hallway. “They were in the hallway after the, I guess after the celebration and hoopla ended, apparently these people broke for lunch and had a strategy meeting, which is, in every campaign I've been affiliated with, makes perfect sense,” says Conway. “One of them held the elevator, the other one did the recording and they left. That was what they told to me from them directly.” The meeting room door is next to the elevators on that floor. McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton has told multiple media outlets the door was shut and locked on Feb. 2. But the door has a vent at the bottom and a large gap underneath. “Apparently the gentlemen overheard the conversation and decided to record it with a phone or recording device they had in their pocket. Could've been an iPhone, could've been a Flip camera or something like that,” Conway say.If this holds up, it is very, very big time, and on its face appears to be a violation of law.
Mother Jones and David Corn better start lawyering up (which I assume they already have), because the questionWas illegal activity performed in the McConnell secret recording? You be the Judd.
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) April 11, 2013
Susan A. Patton, a Princeton University alumna who was among the 200 'pioneer' women enrolled in the Ivy League school in 1973, penned a fascinating letter to the editor of the Daily Princetonian addressed to the "daughters I never had." Here’s what nobody is telling you:...
I subscribe to the view that barring something truly unforeseeable, the Democratic nomination in 2016 is Hillary's for the taking. There is no second Barack Obama out there to take the nomination away from her. In fact, the non-Hillary Democratic bench is pathetically weak. Hillary's many...
1) The Cartoonish Mr. Netanyahu In the space of two days the New York Times featured four articles last September mocking PM Netanyahu's bomb cartoon. Nod to Obama by Netanyahu in Warning to Iran on Bomb - Rick Gladstone and David Sanger - September 27, 2012 In his...
Language is destiny, and we have lost the language...
Melissa Harris-Perry's quote will live on in infamy: “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents” Doubling down didn't help. https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/321800969786621954 We know what Lady Thatcher would have tweeted at Harris-Perry: Margaret Thatcher responds to Melissa Harris-Perry: twitter.com/AmityShlaes/st…— Whitney Pitcher (@whitneypitcher) April...
Too bad. Via Baltimore Sun: Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson...
Margaret Thatcher rescued Britain from its economic death. Yet that dying patient now is glorified by the socialists and sympathizers who fought the tough medicine needed to break the death grip. Andrew Sullivan summed it up well in a post I linked on the day of Lady...
Some interesting positions counter to the accepted public narratives. What demographic problem? When he was here, President Obama said that Israel had to reach a solution with the 'Palestinians' because otherwise we would be a minority in our own country. President Obama was wrong. In 2013, in sharp...
When a popular Democratic politician leaves office under the cloud of scandal and disgrace, the foremost question on his mind is when–not if–the media will begin reconstructing his career for him. There was the lionized Bill Clinton, who was impeached. Then there was former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, whose rehabilitation included a CNN show and a regular spot in Slate, where he proved to be an utterly conventional polemicist and shallow political thinker. And now we have the effort by the New York Times to resuscitate Anthony Weiner, whose congressional career was marked by erratic public temper tantrums and an inability to control himself or the volume of his voice. He left Congress after being caught in a sex scandal involving a college girl, and then falsely accused conservatives like Andrew Breitbart of making the story up. At every step in the scandal Weiner chose the least honorable path. Before the scandal ended his congressional term, Weiner was considered by some to be a favorite for the next New York City mayoral election. Now, two years after the scandal, he says he still wants to be mayor, and may in fact run for the Democratic nomination this year for the fall general election. Could he actually win?The NY Times rehabilitation of Weiner comes at the expense of reality, which is that Andrew Breitbart was the one who held Weiner to account, and Weiner fessed up only after lying and accusing others, and only when there was no choice:
.@nytimes How many editors had to "massage" that article to confuse the timeline and misstate critical events to get Weiner his Hero Moment?
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013
that deliberately falsified timeline @nytimes piece quoted here: ace.mu.nu/archives/33900…
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013
With each passing day, the testimony at the trial of Philadelphia abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell gets more gruesome -- events which shock the conscience. From The Daily Mail in Britain: [Stephen] Massof, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to the murder of two newborns at the...
Machine candidate Robin Kelly defeated conservative Paul McKinley in the special election to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr., in Congress that was held yesterday in Illinois' Second District. While McKinley was able to win 2/3 of the counties included in the district, the city of Chicago...
1) Egyptian plagues Last week Zvi Mazel wrote in the Jerusalem Post (h/t Leslie Eastman) In a remarkable and enduring show of unity, non-Islamic opposition parties under the banner of the National Salvation Front are boycotting the regime until their demands – canceling the Islamic constitution...
