President Obama denies College Republicans the same respect he gave the Muslim Brotherhood four years ago in Cairo....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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.)
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(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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
An internal joke that was never intended to make it to the news desk is reportedly at the center of a California TV station's embarrassing on-air blunder, according to a new report Friday. Ever since San Francisco area FOX affiliate KTVU erroneously aired the painfully obvious...
My husband and I made a wager. He insisted that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (Democrat) would be forced to resign once the women in Democratic Party leadership began clamoring for his ouster. I said that he would never leave office willingly -- he would need...
(Itamar map, Samaria, Israel)[/caption]
Itamar, founded in 1985, is an rambling agricultural community of 175 families spread over quite a distance, with a dairy, goats, chickens and vineyards (which looked to me to have been recently planted). The products are "organic" and apparently sell for quite a high price in the main Israeli cities. We had some fresh yogurt at the small public café.
Unlike Barkan and Ariel, discussed below, many (but not all) of the homes were nothing more than simple trailers or small block houses:
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(Itamar, Samaria, Israel)[/caption]
In this photo of my wife taking a photo of me, you can see how Itamar towers over the surrounding landscape (our "guide" for the day -- my friend from Moscow days -- is to the left):
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(me at Itamar)[/caption]
Itamar has a long history of being attacked by Arabs from neighboring villages, the most infamous of which was the stabbing murder of the Fogel family, including a baby in its crib. We covered that event extensively:
As happens with gratifying frequency, one of the Legal Insurrection commenters today made a great contribution to yesterday's thread, "When Is Evidence of Your Attacker’s Character Admissible In Court?" This particular comment was posted by "Edgehopper" (I could tell you his real name, but then I'd...
Pat Smith has something to say to President Obama: The mother of a Benghazi victim is furious about the new White House strategy of calling the terrorist attack and many other scandals plaguing the Obama administration “fake” or “phony.” Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, who was...
