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February 2019

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2019 24 Comments
The Daily Beast is the 342nd most trafficked website in the U.S., out of tens of thousands, according to Alexa.com. Under Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman, The Daily Beast has aggressively joined the anti-Trump "Scoop" wars, sometimes with actual reporting, other times in Gawker-style clickbait, leading Recode to ask last November, Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 23, 2019 34 Comments
There has been a concerted effort to portray Amy Klobuchar as a brutal and mean boss who treated her staff poorly. This has the smell of a classic oppo dump, using the media as accomplices. (In case you didn't know, reporters are lazy, and if someone can spoon-feed them some oppo research, they'll run with it with their own 'investigation' as cover.)

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 23, 2019 37 Comments
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a serious problem, and it just won't go away.  She tried explaining that her high cheekbones, family lore, and Pow-wow Chow recipes meant that she was Native American; she issued denials that she claimed Native American heritage status for years; she tried partnering with Native Americans on gambling rights; and now she's trying out support for reparations for Native Americans in the vain hope this one will fly . . . and disappear her decades-long ethnic fraud problem.

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 22, 2019 46 Comments
The 2020 election campaign season is kicking into high gear, and a number of Democratic party hopefuls are jumping onto the reparations train. But it's one they may find could derail their aspirations for higher office.

Posted by Andrew Branca on February 22, 2019 16 Comments
An acquittal in a murder case out of Louisiana provides a real-time illustration of the difference between the application of what I refer to as “hard” Stand-Your-Ground provisions versus “soft” Stand-Your-Ground provisions. (Details here are as reported by The Advocate and other news sources.) The facts of the case involve a bare-handed attack by a large aggressor against a smaller defender, one Jacob Westbrook, who was armed with a knife. Westbrook, who testified at trial that he had never been in a fight before, stabbed the aggressor once in the chest after, he says, the larger and stronger aggressor punched him in the head. It is noteworthy that the aggressor was a guest, perhaps little wanted, in Westbrook's home at the time of the conflict.

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2019 27 Comments
Hayden Williams, a student at UC Berkeley, was helping the conservative group Turning Point USA when he was attacked and punched in the face in broad daylight. It was all captured on camera. Will the media give this story one percent of the attention they devoted to Jussie Smollett?
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