Dick Durbin earned the nickname Turban Durbin when he compared U.S. soldiers to Nazis in 2005, a verbal example of Godwin's law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one Norbie remembered it: Snapped this pic at a red light on...
"organized email campaigns against her by leftie groups like Media Matters"...
Mideast Media Sampler - 08/15/2013 - The situation in Egypt is bad; could it have been worse?...
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The Syrian Electronic Army is claiming credit today for hacking content recommendation service Outbrain, which appears to have affected several media outlets that include TIME, CNN and the Washington Post. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/368038668709019648 Outbrain has confirmed the attack (without mention of SEA). https://twitter.com/Outbrain/status/368044125536272386 The Washington Post also confirmed its disruption this...
You'd think a police officer would know better, but I've come across a MD incident in which a New Jersey detective (working for a State prosecutor's office) managed to violate multiple principles of the law of self defense and get himself charged with 1st degree...
A car bomb killed at least 10 people in the southern suburb of Beirut Thursday, a stronghold of Hezbollah, security sources told The Daily Star. The sources said at least 30 people were also wounded in the blast on the main road between Rwais and Bir al-Abed, a neighborhood of the southern suburb that in July was the target of a similar car explosion. Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel confirmed that the blast was the result of car explosion. TV footage showed scores of residents screaming while trying to flee the carnage with dozens of cars in flames and other extensive damage in the area. Emergency response teams rushed to the scene of the blast that caused thick plumes of smoke to fill the sky over the Lebanese capital. Over 50 people were wounded on July 9 after a car bomb ripped through the Bir al-Abed neighborhood of the southern suburb of Beirut, in an incident widely linked to the crisis in neighboring Syria.NOW Lebanon has live coverage.
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Larry Sabato came out with his rankings of presidential contenders today. I was going to write about the downgrade of Marco Rubio, but that's old news. More interesting is the rankings of Democrats. There is no "First Tier" other than Hillary. The drop from Hillary to Joe...
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--------------- The death toll from yesterday's violence has risen to over 500, including numerous policemen. https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/367962951564525568 It's also becoming clear that the Muslim Brotherhood fired weapons on police who sought to evict the protester's encampment, which likely contributed to the high death toll as police responded with live fire (video via WaPo): Attacks on Christian churches by Islamists also have spread (list here).Saw a lot of these in 2012. But now that he's reelected, displaying one of these may be deemed a capital offense. So ride 'em cowboy, while you still can. From Nanette: I LOVE Texas!! My favorite so far this year!!! ...
I was interviewed this morning by Lee Rayburn of WHCU 870 AM in Ithaca. The topic was the release of prisoners by Israel and the Middle East Peace Process. ...
As the defense neared the end of its side in the sentencing phase of Bradley Manning's trial, the convicted Wikileaker spoke to the court himself today. In an unsworn statement, he began with an apology, saying, "I am sorry that my actions hurt people; I...
We don't actually know that Megyn Kelly is replacing Sean Hannity, even if the Drudge scoop is true that Kelly is taking the 9 p.m. slot at Fox News. Hannity may be moving to another prime time slot, or there may be some out-of-the-box schedule...
What with the damn rodeo clown getting fired, banned, and the whole association subject to sensitivity training for the offense of clowning around at the expense of the President. What with the long history of rodeo and other clowns mocking presidents at public events (even down to the...
It appears Israel is gearing up for its own citizen army to defend itself - on social media. From the Jerusalem Post's article, Government to use citizens as army in social media war: The Prime Minister’s Office has a far-reaching plan to utilize students and other supporters...