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Argument of Girls Sports "Trans" Cases at SCOTUS was "Otherworldly"

Hawley Stumps Doctor With Simple Question: 'Can Men Get Pregnant?'

Mamdani Housing Czar: ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners are a Huge Problem’

New Zealand Defense Official Denies Military Spied on Journalist

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 29, 2013 5 Comments

A New Zealand defense official denies its military spied on a journalist, after reports surfaced over the weekend that the military had collected phone metadata of a McClatchy freelance reporter over his coverage of the treatment of Afghan prisoners. From the Associated Press: New Zealand's acting defense...

On the road to Golan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2013 14 Comments

We traveled north from Tel Aviv today to several Kibbutzim on our way to exploring the Golan Heights on Monday. First we stopped at Kibbutz Ein Shemer about mid-way between Tel Aviv and Haifa, not far form the large Israeli Arab town of Umm Al-Fahm. [caption id="attachment_60503" align="alignnone" width="480"]

(Kibbutz Ein Shemer, Israel, map location)[/caption] Founded in 1927, Ein Shemer is a fairly typical Kibbutz, about 650 people, with a variety of agriculture (dairy, cotton, etc.) as well as factories. Facing pressures facing many Kibbutzim, Ein Shemer voted a couple of years ago to allow limited “inequality” of income (up to 2.5 times what the Kibbutz pays members) for those with outside jobs in order to retain and attract younger residents. [caption id="attachment_60501" align="alignnone" width="545"]

(Kibbutz Ein Shemer residential courtyard)[/caption] We then went on to climb towards the Golan, stoping at the Mount Barkan lookout point, near Mount Gilboa, which has a tremendous view of the Galilee region of northern Israel. [caption id="attachment_60506" align="alignnone" width="523"]

(Mount Barkan Lookout Point, Israel, map location)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_60505" align="alignnone" width="552"]

(Mount Barkan Lookout, Israel, view)[/caption]

Social Media Explained

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 28, 2013 14 Comments

Here's some lighter Sunday evening tech fare for LI readers, since social media is a topic we often cover in some form or another. Are you confused by social media? Do you find all the different apps and services out there overwhelming? Don't know what to...

American Bridge to follow even more Republicans around in 2014 and 2016

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 28, 2013 23 Comments

Get ready for the oppo research wars. David Brock's American Bridge will be dispatching even more trackers to follow around Republicans all across the country. From Politico: Senior officials with American Bridge 21st Century – the group’s full, legal name – told POLITICO that the oppo-slinging outfit...

Weiner campaign spent $45K investigating ‘hacking’ he knew never occurred

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 28, 2013 14 Comments

Before Anthony Weiner finally resigned in June 2011, he manufactured the story that he'd been hacked, and continued on with that charade for days. "This was a prank, and a silly one," he asserted. "I was hacked, it happens to people, you move on," he said, as...

Northwestern U. LGBT Community Freaks Out Over Obscure Flag Painted on a Rock

Radical Leftist NYC Teachers’ Group Planning ‘Teach-In for Palestine’ on MLK Day

Amherst College Laying Off Administrators Behind Sexually Explicit Programming

U. Utah Student Charged With Making Gun Gestures, Threatening to Shoot Conservative Debaters

Trump Admin. Apologizes for Mistakenly Deporting MA College Student but Defends Her Removal

Zero Political Donations From Yale Professors Went to Republicans in 2025

Does President Obama consider Republicans a greater threat than the Muslim Brotherhood?

Posted by David Gerstman on July 28, 2013 19 Comments

President Obama denies College Republicans the same respect he gave the Muslim Brotherhood four years ago in Cairo....

Cleveland Kidnapper Gets Life while Victim Starts New Life

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 28, 2013 8 Comments

In addition to the George Zimmerman trial, one case that Americans have been following closely is that of Cleveland's notorious sex deviant and kidnapper, Ariel Castro. To avoid the death penalty for his crimes, Castro just made a deal that includes life in prison...

Anthony Weiner’s campaign manager calls it quits

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 28, 2013 23 Comments

After the latest reports of serial sexter Anthony Weiner's post-resignation online fling, his campaign manager has called it quits. From the NY Times: In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner’s embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without...

Detroit in 1965 and the divisive rhetoric that poisoned its economic future

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 28, 2013 24 Comments

As an amateur historian, I often like watching old news and documentary clips; via LA Observed, I came across a fascinating one featuring another metropolitan area: The background: This public domain film narrated by then-mayor Jerome P. Cavanaugh was made in 1965 to promote Detroit. The city...

Bill Cosby, the Zimmerman case, and guns

Posted by New Neo on July 28, 2013 148 Comments

Look, I want to give Bill Cosby his props. He's been speaking up courageously for years on the problems within the black community, and he's gotten a lot of flak for it. It can't have been easy for him. Here are some excerpts from the address...

Saturday Night Card Game (15 minutes of fame goes wrong for far left activist)

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 27, 2013 34 Comments

Note: Breitbart News notes in an interview with this activist that she was "an anti-Zimmerman demonstrator attempting to use sarcasm to prove her point," and not an infiltrator as reported on the source blog. Kristinn Taylor brought us this gem via Jim Hoft's Gateway Pundit blog...

And then there were none (of the pre-Oslo Arab killers of Israelis left in prison)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2013 25 Comments

Another in my ongoing posts from Israel: Today was a rest day, with the only real activity some time at the beach in front of our hotel in Tel Aviv. The Mediterranean Sea was warm, and the waves and undertow strong. It was great to ride the waves, but one man drowned just after we left the water. [caption id="attachment_60407" align="alignnone" width="553"]

(Tel Aviv beach in front of our hotel)[/caption] In the evening I did my part to break the boycott of Aroma Café, of which we have written before. (Remember, Buycott Israeli companies to defeat BDS.) [caption id="attachment_60408" align="alignnone" width="413"]

(Aroma Café, Tel Aviv Seaport)[/caption] But the big news of the day was that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released an Open Letter (read the whole thing) to the Israeli public signaling his intention to seek Cabinet Approval on Sunday to release all Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners convicted of security offenses prior to the 1993 Oslo Accords, thereby complying with a promise John Kerry had made to Mahmoud Abbas as a precondition to peace negotiations.

Zimmerman Redux: The Breaking Louisiana Self-Defense Case of Merritt Landry

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 27, 2013 241 Comments

Merritt Landry, a 33-year-old "white caucasian" shot the victim, a 14-year-old black boy, in the head. A single spent cartridge case was recovered at the scene, indicating that a semi-automatic weapon was used and suggesting that a single shot was fired. The hour of the...

The Supreme Court’s 9-0 Rulings Against Obama Reveal Disregard for the Constitution

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 27, 2013 18 Comments

Ilya Somin has an interesting article on 9-0 Supreme Court rulings: Those of us who follow Supreme Court decisions spend most of our time debating the contentious issues that divide justices 5-4 along predictable ideological lines. Often, that's where the loudest public debates are as well....

Clashes Between Rival Protest Groups in Egypt Turn Deadly

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 27, 2013 3 Comments

More violence has erupted in Egypt as thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in rival demonstrations for and against the continued detention of ousted Egyptian President Morsi. From CNN: Massive, rival rallies in and around Cairo ran into the wee hours of Saturday, with one...

‘Hope and debt’ week at College Insurrection

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 27, 2013 2 Comments

Paying for college isn’t getting any easier these days. Families forced to endure rising cost of college tuition Cash strapped parents are giving kids less money for college Bad economy keeps college kids from leaving the nest And it seems some things are compounding the problem. Obamacare Causes Economic Suffering...

Did Zimmerman juror really apologize for verdict or was interview deceptively edited?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 27, 2013 36 Comments

The fallout of the George Zimmerman trial continues, as one of the trial jurors made some startling admissions during an ABC interview: The only minority on the all-female jury that voted to acquit George Zimmerman said today that Zimmerman "got away with murder" for killing Trayvon...