Mideast Media Sampler - 08/24/2013...
"Real" but part of a "hoax" about which Oberlin never told students....
The spate of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and homophobic posters and graffiti that plagued the Oberlin College campus in February 2013 was definitively exposed as a hoax led by a pro-Obama liberal anti-racist student activist seeking to get a reaction from the community. The post by Chuck Ross of The Daily...
I am happy to report the San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who has been accused by 17 separate women of sexual harassment incidents, has announced his resignation. The San Diego City Council voted 7-0 to accept Mayor Bob Filner's resignation. Filner will step down on August...
that's it, sentence over. Andrew Branca spotted this vehicle in Fredericksburg, VA: ...
A history not taught in school and our children will never know...
Maybe to thank them for building the gun that allowed him to lawfully defend himself against a brutal beating which put him in reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm? Maybe, as is speculated, to check out tactical shotguns? Maybe just because he is a private...
The Guardian has announced that it will partner with the New York Times to report on files leaked by Edward Snowden pertaining to the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). From The Guardian: The Guardian has struck a partnership with the New York Times which will give the...
In a unanimous verdict, Nidal Hasan has been found guilty on all counts in the November, 2009 Fort Hood massacre. https://twitter.com/NBCDFW/status/370962863424561152 https://twitter.com/chrissadeghi/status/370962880021008384 Hasan had been charged with 13 premeditated counts and an additional 32 attempted premeditated counts of murder. Today's verdict means that Hasan will face the death...
Actually, this law wasn't intended to punish crime victims, that's the result of an ideology that demonizes legal gun owners--even to the point that they are considered more dangerous than violent sexual predators with known criminal records: On Sunday, Governor Pat Quinn signed Illinois House Bill 1189,...
500 released mental patients given one-way bus ticket...
Yesterday the WSJ published an editorial on the Christopher Lane case: Some are focusing on the ease of obtaining a gun in the U.S., as (inevitably) is the reflexive CNN, and it would almost be a relief if we could blame such a murder on guns. Then we...
Mideast Media Sampler 08/23/2013...
A UK court has limited authorities’ access to digital data that was seized from the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, except in the case of national security purposes. David Miranda was detained and questioned for nearly nine hours Sunday as he transited through Heathrow airport...
Gee, I wonder why . . . ALBANY, N.Y. — A new report from the nonprofit Tax Foundation shows people moving out of the state during the last decade took $45.6 billion in personal income from New York's economy, the most in the nation. The Washington, D.C.-based...
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman, was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, for a hearing on perjury charges brought against her in connection with her husband's recent murder trial. This hearing has been postponed. In place of the trial, a status conference on her upcoming...
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