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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 23 Comments
Yesterday there was a wealth of speculation based on sleuthing at 4Chan and Reddit about possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. I didn’t run the photos, because, well, these may just be guys in the crowd and the analysis did not impress me based...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 17, 2013 7 Comments
1) We wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea Yesterday Max Fisher wrote, Knowledge of pressure-cooker bombs is not limited to readers of al-Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ magazine: And “Inspire” was far from the first extremist publication to distribute instructions for making pressure-cooker bombs. Yair Rosenberg...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 39 Comments
Progressive and proud DC coffee shop Busboys and Poets, housed in a modern McDevelopment on the city’s NW side, turns out to be pretty thin-skinned when its customers balk at their politics. Server Nuria Kalifa-Jackson, wearing an anti-Israel shirt produced by CodePink, received a 10%...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2013 12 Comments
Very strange. Local police are quoted as saying they have identified two students possibly connected to the rash of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay writings on campus, but were uncertain as to their motives. As detailed yesterday, the Oberlin administration is not willing to talk about...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 07, 2013 11 Comments
My son just asked for the definition of a “Sisyphean task“, as he is studying Greek myths in school. My answer: Trying to address the most liberty-crushing item from the Obama Administration. For example, I caught a Twitter hashtag that highlights a new concern about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2013 34 Comments
I don’t think I knew who Aaron Swartz was, but this announcement of his death moved me: Aaron Swartz, online activist and founder of Infogami, a service later merged with Reddit, has committed suicide in New York City on Jan. 11, the Tech reports. The news...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 13 Comments
Because of the election, the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin, has been out of our focus.  But not for long, as the trial is scheduled for June 10, and there will be pre-trial evidentiary hearings in April. Here are some recent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 15 Comments
Israel reportedly has been under cyber attack by Anonymous, although the lethality of the attacks is questioned: Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel’s cyber problems. Its campaign against Israel is a minor annoyance compared...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 14, 2012 31 Comments
In 1961, British secretary of war John Profumo had a brief affair with a call girl named Christine Keeler, who, as it happened, was also sleeping with a senior naval attaché posted to the Soviet Union’s embassy in London. The affair would never have come...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 13, 2012 29 Comments
First came the ignominious downfall of General David Petraeus.  Now come the revelations that our top commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, got in on the action too, and that the FBI agent who chose to investigate the otherwise innocuous emails that kick started this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 13, 2012 24 Comments
It’s easy to get caught up in the Cat Fight! aspect of L’Affaire Petraeus. The emails that Jill Kelley showed an FBI friend near the start of last summer were not jealous lover warnings like “stay away from my man,” a knowledgeable source tells The...
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