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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...

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

The alleged Fort Hood shooter will be representing himself in court, despite repeated warnings about the disadvantages of doing so from the military judge who issued the ruling today. From the Associated Press: The Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will represent himself...

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...

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...

Darrell Issa says that the IRS targeting of conservatives was coordinated out of the Washington headquarters office and that he and other lawmakers are getting the proof. From CBS News: House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., citing the testimony of IRS employees who spoke to his...

1) Remember when they used to talk about Israel like this? I'm not used to Arabs talking this way about Arabs: Brigadier General Salim Idris, the current chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Council of the FSA, said: “If the attacks of Hezbollah [on] Syrian territory...

I am still chuckling over Glenn Reynolds' lede into a story about California: WHAT IS GOOD IN LIFE? Dems Enraged Over Perry ‘Raids’ on Out of State Businesses. “Texas Governor Rick Perry has angered some Democrats for his high profile visits to blue states, inviting businesses...