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June 2013

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2013 4 Comments

From Linda, spotted in Manchester, TN, near the forum at which government officials were speaking as to whether criticism of Islam could be a civil rights violation and the free speech counter-protest over the attempt to criminalize speech and shut down political discourse. Because the photo was at...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 04, 2013 7 Comments

Day two in the military trial of Bradley Manning continued today. While much of the day’s events are reported to have focused on chain-of-custody issues and other evidentiary matters, one notable highlight was the testimony of the man who first alerted authorities to the extensive leak...

Posted by David Gerstman on June 04, 2013 4 Comments

1) Music lives in Israel Arsen Ostrovsky interviewed Zubin Mehta about performing Israel: According to Mehta, "it's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music." He adds "the amount of culture going on in a small...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2013 2 Comments

On May 23 I wondered Will Qusayr be Hezbollah’s Stalingrad? It's hard to know what really is going on, with pro-Assad forces claiming great progress while rebel supporters claim they are hanging on and receiving reinforcements.  There has been a mostly futile attempt to gain world...

Posted by Anne Segal on June 04, 2013 9 Comments

Noticed the trend of legislators going beyond issuing press releases and fully embracing social media to distribute and market their point-of-view? Rep. Darrell Issa has been especially active in marketing himself and his committee's activities, including design-heavy graphics and an active twitter account. Today Rep. Eric Cantor's...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 04, 2013 17 Comments

At College Insurrection, I recently covered a West Virginia professor who ranted that his state was a "national laughingstock" while deeming NRA members traitors. The presumption! California is the nation's laughingstock! And to prove my point, here is a story about one of  our most powerful bureaucratic bodies...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2013 11 Comments

From J: Subject: Is this the biggest hypocrite in America? (bumper sticker) Thought you'd appreciate this. Spotted in Charlottesville, VA. Guess this Obama bootlicker didn't get the memo from Leftist Central, that anyone who drives a Hummer is more evil than Bin Laden and Jerry Falwell rolled up...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 03, 2013 4 Comments
If you happened to read my prior post, you're aware by now that today was Day One in the Trial of Accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning.  One of the sites that has been reporting on the trial and the ongoing protests by supporters of Bradley Manning is Russia Today.  The site has long offered coverage that is, shall we say, favorable to Manning and Wikileaks. That apparently doesn't sit well with some, most notably Antileaks, an outfit that is opposed to Wikileaks. Last year, Antileaks launched a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Wikileaks' website in retaliation for Julian Assange's attempt at escaping potential prosecution by retaining asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy.  They also targeted Russia Today at the time for its coverage of Wikileaks.  And that in turn prompted a skirmish between Antileaks and other hackers claiming association to Anonymous. Now that the Manning trial has begun, Antileaks is back.  And today they took aim again at Russia Today. https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/341671645678817280 https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/341675340042747904 https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/341677051146825728 https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/341680757317701633 https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/341680601906171904 https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/341627470870630401

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 03, 2013 12 Comments

Day one of the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who stands accused of leaking more than 700,000 military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks, began today.  Starkly different portraits of Manning were portrayed by prosecutor Army Capt. Joe Morrow and defense attorney David Coombs. From the New...

Posted by A.F. Branco on June 03, 2013 11 Comments

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Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 03, 2013 17 Comments

US Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) passed away this morning. From NorthJersey.com (The Record): Frank R. Lautenberg, who rose from a poor Paterson boyhood to become a multimillionaire businessman and New Jersey’s longest-serving U.S. senator, died  Monday at 89 of viral pneumonia, his office said. The oldest member of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2013 26 Comments

The Boston Spanish language paper El Planeta has an Op-Ed by its former(*) Director and longtime Spanish language media executive Gerardo (Jerry) Villacrés, in which Republican Senate candidate and former Navy pilot and SEAL Gabriel Gomez is called a LINO (Latino in name only)(h/t @DBernstein), ¿Qué es un...

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