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I'm not going to link to it. It's just more David Sirota link bait. Forcing a rant about "white privilege" and white men into any situation, no matter how ridiculous, has become his schtick. He did it for the Newtown shooting: And now he's doing it for the Boston...
Via CNN and television reports: An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN. After the envelope tested positive in a first routine test, it was...
Almost every initial media account of the Newtown shooting ended up being wrong, except for the fact that there was a shooting. The type of weapon used was wrong, as were reports that Mrs. Lanza worked at the school, that she had a dispute with the...
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The media apparently was in full attendance at the Kermit Gosnell trial starting yesterday. Professor Glenn Reynolds called it Breaking media silence: Now the story has gotten some coverage on CNN (Jake Tapper broke the silence first) and other networks, and while it'll never get the attention...
Martin Richard: Boston Marathon bombings victim aged 8 was waiting to give father a hug at finish line bit.ly/14sKhP5
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) April 16, 2013
Some flowers left at a home in Dorchester where an 8 year old boy who was killed st Marathon, lived. #wbz twitter.com/radiobenparker…
— Ben Parker (@radiobenparker) April 16, 2013
Via Twitchy:Two brothers watching Boston Marathon together each lose a leg bit.ly/15hYkqd
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 16, 2013
Couple just reunited. twitter.com/megansarahj/st…
— Megan Johnson (@megansarahj) April 15, 2013
1) The PA's defense budget The Palestinian Authority regularly complains about its budget woes. Nitzana Darshan-Leitner writes that the largest portion of the PA's budget goes to defense: Recently, the Palestinian Authority publicly revealed its new budget. In approving the 2013 fiscal plan, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud...
Who is surprised? President Obama's delegation to the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is drawing some flak in London. Two former Republican Secretaries of State -- James Baker and George Shultz -- will lead the U.S. delegation to the Thatcher funeral on Wednesday. Some British...
Shai Bazak is Israel's Consul General in Boston: In the hours following the attack, he said, he had been swamped with concerned phone calls - many coming from Israel - and emails from friend, colleagues and the Foreign Ministry. “It is a weird feeling to be in...
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As we mourn the dead and wounded, focus inevitably turns to the political war fought in the blogosphere and on Twitter before the facts were known. There were plenty of hateful tweets on all sides and in all directions. There also were attempts by people...
There was a lot of Twitter activity trying to drive the mainstream media to cover the trial of Kermit Gosnell. The Washington Post and NY Times, among others, now will be sending reporters to the trial, although denying that any pro-abortion bias caused them to shy...
Reports coming in of explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Live coverage at Fox 25 (no embed available) Serious injuries -- (warning on link, gruesome) missing arms and legs (warning on link, gruesome) according to eyewitness interviewed on television. (Update -- latest reports are...
Puts 2014 campaign focus on McAuliffe's questionable associations and whether he and/or supporters were behind lawsuit...
Ambassador Yehuda Avner wrote a wonderful recollection of the original Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) (formatting provided by Elder of Ziyon) "Wait!" shouted a hassid whom everybody knew as Nussen der hazzan - a cantor by calling, and a most diligent volunteer digger from the ultra-Orthodox...
The Gosnell trial is about the killing of infants born alive and a mother undergoing an abortion. The reaction, however, is not just to the killing of an infant born alive after an abortion, it is to the dismemberment, decapitation, and other gruesome means of killing...
Can I call 'em or what? Don’t say I didn’t warn you. As noted at the Wiki, the progressive movement has had a twinkle in its eye for an Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign since before she was elected to the Senate, Elizabeth Warren for President in 2016...