December 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/world/middleeast/gaza-medic-israel-shooting.html

NY Times concludes Israel did not intentionally shoot medic Rouzan al-Najjar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2018 28 Comments

Rouzan al-Najjar was a female Palestinian medic who died of a bullet wound during violent protests near the Gaza-Israel border. As we have documented dozens of times, those protests are organized and manipulated by Hamas and other terror groups, who plant their military members in the crowds under cover of burning tires. Dozens of Hamas and other terror members have been killed in the attempts to breach the border with the intent to attack Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The Ten Most Outrageous Higher Ed Stories From 2018

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 30, 2018 4 Comments

2018 was another year full of crazy happenings on campus. So many in fact, that it was difficult to narrow the list down to just ten. Some of these stories are beyond parody.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-mcclatchy-report-cohen-cell-phone-pinged-in-prague-in-2016-1411357763862

McClatchy reporter on publishing flimsy Cohen cell phone ping story: “It is a competitive business”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2018 23 Comments

Since the 2016 primaries, the mainstream media has been in a "scoop fever" to be the first to break news damaging to Donald Trump. That obsession with scoops is evident on Twitter, where Journalist Twitter makes sure to let other Journalists know when they have a SCOOP.

Report: Father of Guatemalan Child Who Died in U. S. Custody Refused Medical Treatment

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 29, 2018 3 Comments

Back in 2014, then-president Obama and his administration were alarmed by the huge number of unaccompanied minors flooding into the U. S. From October 2013 to September 2014, a whopping 52,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended by border control. The problem was so severe, that Obama officially warned parents in South American countries to stop sending their unaccompanied children to the U. S. He assured them that the children would be deported back to their country of origin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RXQwLZRSOQ

As part of the continuing battle to neutralize Hezbollah attack tunnels dug from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces has release a lot of interesting graphics, images and video. Perhaps my favorite was That moment a Hezbollah terrorist comes face-to-face with an IDF camera in an attack tunnel:

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December 2018

NY Times concludes Israel did not intentionally shoot medic Rouzan al-Najjar

The Ten Most Outrageous Higher Ed Stories From 2018

McClatchy reporter on publishing flimsy Cohen cell phone ping story: “It is a competitive business”

Report: Father of Guatemalan Child Who Died in U. S. Custody Refused Medical Treatment

Transformer explosion gives NYC a spectacular light show ahead of New Year’s Eve

Leslie’s Top 5 Posts of 2018

“The cannabis industry is being choked by California’s penchant for over-regulation”

CUNY to Host ‘Queer Milton’ Event on Poet John Milton

Bernie Bros See Beto as Another Obama and That’s a Big Problem

Marquette Law Prof Suspended for Alleged Inappropriate Relationship With Student

German ISIS Bride Charged with Murder of 5-year-old ‘Slave’

Mizzou Official Says Tall Men Asking Out Short Women Might be Sexual Misconduct

Double Standards Week in Higher Education

Legal Insurrection’s 10 most-viewed posts of 2018

Leaked Info Exposes How Facebook Polices Global Political Speech

Apple to Move Production of Top-End Apple Phones to India, Out of China

Lawyers for Boston Marathon Bomber Argue He Shouldn’t Have Been Tried in Boston

VIDEO: Hezbollah terrorists sent scrambling when Israel floods attack tunnels with concrete slurry

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