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Not a joke. From WaPo, Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos: The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four...

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Over the weekend, we covered the news of Tony Wang, the general manager of Twitter UK, apologizing to women who have experienced abuse on its site, after a female UK lawmaker and several journalists received threats of violence. In the face of very public backlash over...

Why the sudden and hysterical terror alerts causing shutdown of U.S. Embassies in the Middle East and worldwide concern? This may be the reason, via ABC News: The senior U.S. official said there is concern about devices that could be implanted inside the body of a terrorist. “We...

NBC is preparing a Hillary Mini-Series. While we don't know the content, it's predicted that it will be favorable to her. The RNC is protesting, sending a letter (embedded below) to NBC threatening no cooperation with NBC as to 2016 presidential debates:
I'm writing to you to express my deep disappointment in your company's decision to air a miniseries promoting former Secretary Hillary Clinton ahead of her likely candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. As an American company, you have every right to air programming of your choice. But as American citizens, certainly you recognize why many are astounded at your actions, which appear to be a major network's thinly-veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election.... There's ample cause for concern. Executives and employees of Com cast, NBC's parent company have been generous supporters of Democrats and Secretary Clinton. David Cohen, Comcast's EVP, raised over $1.4 million for President Obama's reelection efforts and hosted a fundraiser for the president. Comcast Corp. employees have donated $522,996 to the president and donated $161,640 to Secretary Clinton's previous campaigns.... Out of a sense of fairness and decency and in the interest of the political process and your company's reputation, I call on you to cancel this political ad masquerading as an unbiased production. If you have not agreed to pull this programming prior to the start of the RNC's Summer Meeting on August 14, I will seek a binding vote of the RNC stating that the committee will neither partner with you in 2016 primary debates nor sanction primary debates which you sponsor.
According to Breitbart.com, a similar letter was sent to CNN.  (Letter added below, h/t Andrew Kaczynski) The RNC also has started a petition drive aimed at liberal media pro-Hillary bias:

RNC Website re Pro Hillary Media

Already the "waaahs" have started: https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/364410629857087488 https://twitter.com/aburnspolitico/status/364411364019671041

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If I had not received this from a highly reliable source, I never would have believed this was seen in Ithaca. From someone whose identity is being held so secret I had to black out his reflection on the chrome trim, came this photo and note: I enviously...

The Department of State issued a travel alert Friday, warning of al Qaeda and affiliated organizations planning potential terrorist attacks "particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula" between now and the end of August. ...

Bringing people "out of the shadows" is the newest greatest. So what about polygamists? We've addressed this issue before, in a call for intellectual honesty: Polygamy – another love that now dares speak its name again “Polygamy would have to be permitted” Polyamory – at least be honest about it On...

Occupied by a Prius. Spotted in the IKEA parking lot in Tampa, Florida: ...

I tend to make light of the language police when it comes to the Saturday Night Card Game, but it's actually a very serious subject. The incessant attempt to turn race-neutral phrases into racial testing grounds is part of a larger political war in which race agitators seek to turn everything into a discussion of race all the time in every sphere of life. Here are some prior examples we have considered: Black List, Baa Baa Black Sheep, RejiggerProvidence PlantationsBlack FridayGobbledygook, Illegal Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Master Bedroom, and even the use of white copy paper. We also addressed the idiom Chink in the Armor after a sportscaster was suspended and a copywriter (who happened to be married to an Asian woman) was fired for using the phrase in connection with discussing basketball player Jeremy Lin's on-court weaknesses.  The controversy was contrived, but it drove race into the headlines:
“Chink in the armor” is a non-racial idiom, not a single word, denoting:
A vulnerable area, as in Putting things off to the last minute is the chink in Pat’s armor and is bound to get her in trouble one day . This term relies on chink in the sense of “a crack or gap,” a meaning dating from about 1400 and used figuratively since the mid-1600s.
Now "chink in the armor" is back in the news because a CNBC reporter used the phrase in assessing whether Wendi Deng, the Chinese wife of Rubert Murdoch, could overcome trust agreements as part of their divorce. The phrase was not used to refer to Ms. Deng, but to legal arguments Deng's lawyer would use to allow her to access the Trusts which contained most of Murdock's vast fortune. Here's the discussion, via Hot Air:
"What do you think the chink in the armor here might be, that's what [the lawyer] is so good at, is finding a chink in the prenupts and all these trusts."

So, about that expected wave of new gun violence in concealed-carry counties in Illinois. This is a good question. https://twitter.com/Watchdogorg/status/363734808179916800 From Watchdog.org: “There haven’t been any problems,” Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons said. “I suspect that no one is even aware when someone around them is carrying. ...

The general manager of Twitter UK, Tony Wang, sent a series of tweets Saturday, apologizing to women who have experienced abuse on its site. https://twitter.com/TonyW/status/363602538022436864 The social media company also posted an update to its blog Saturday morning, outlining changes it plans to make to its policies. The developments come after UK lawmaker Stella Creasy and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez were the targets of rape threats on Twitter, sparking a very public backlash against the social media company. Arrests were later made in connection with that investigation. Several female journalists also received bomb threats on Twitter, including Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, Independent columnist Grace Dent, Emma Barnett of The Daily Telegraph and Europe editor of Time magazine Catherine Mayer. The threats triggered a petition calling for Twitter to modify its policies and make it easier to report abuse, and some called for boycotts.  Creasy took it a step further though, calling the threats a "hate crime." From the BBC:
[Journalist Caitlin] Moran has called for a 24-hour Twitter boycott on 4 August to try to get Twitter to come up with an "anti-troll policy". Labour MP Ms Creasy said: "This is not a technology crime - this is a hate crime. If they were doing it on the street, the police would act." She told the BBC she had been chasing Twitter for the past 24 hours but they had not yet responded to her. "I am absolutely furious with Twitter that they are not engaging in this at all," she said.

Lindsey Graham deserves a primary challenge. He has several million in the bank, and surely will receive a lot more from those who want to keep him fighting for amnesty (assuming he doesn't pull it off prior to the election). There now are two people are...