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Appeals Court Upholds No-Bond Detention Of Illegal Aliens In Huge Win For Trump

Red, White — and Ashamed? Team USA Skiers Bash the US

Are Nursing and Other “Caring” Professions a “Sink for Pathological Personalities”?

At Boston Marathon as in Newtown, initial media reports almost entirely wrong

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 18 Comments

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...

Branco Cartoon – Terror Street

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 16, 2013 6 Comments

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MSM attends #Gosnell trial, posing threat to pro-abortion narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 19 Comments

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...

#BostonMarathon Bombing Updates

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 14 Comments

There has not been a lot learned since last night. At a press conference this morning almost nothing was learned, except that the investigators seem desperate for information and are calling on the public to turn in videos and photos. I'm embedding the Twitter feed at the bottom of the post, which is a good way to keep track during the day. CBS Boston Live Stream (Added) https://twitter.com/bfouhy/status/324220519882829824

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

Two brothers watching Boston Marathon together each lose a leg bit.ly/15hYkqd
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 16, 2013

Via Twitchy:

Couple just reunited. twitter.com/megansarahj/st…
— Megan Johnson (@megansarahj) April 15, 2013

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/16/2013 – PA plays Defense

Posted by David Gerstman on April 16, 2013 2 Comments

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...

Ohio State U. Hires 'Assistant Professor of Black Sexualities'

Hunter College President Announces ICE Will Not be Permitted on Campus Without Legal Order

NYU Prof Claims Trump's Whole Milk Push is ‘Dog Whistle to Far Right’

Immigration Judge Blocks Deportation of Anti-Israel Tufts Student

Viterbo University Instructs Staff to Lower Academic Expectations for Illegal Alien Students

Finalist for Columbia Middle East Teaching Job Participated in Anti-Israel Encampment at Princeton

Obama snubs Brits on Thatcher funeral

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 29 Comments

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...

The #BostonMarathon Bombing – through Israeli eyes (Updates added)

Posted by David Gerstman on April 16, 2013 2 Comments

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...

Most pathological #BostonMarathon Tweet

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 13 Comments

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...

Infographic — Conservative Tweets Force MSM Coverage of #Gosnell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 10 Comments

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...

Explosions at Boston Marathon finish line

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 68 Comments

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...

Terry McAuliffe’s firm rattles hornets’ nest with suit against Franklin Center

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 9 Comments

Puts 2014 campaign focus on McAuliffe's questionable associations and whether he and/or supporters were behind lawsuit...

Israeli Independence Day – what it was, what it isn’t

Posted by David Gerstman on April 15, 2013 3 Comments

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 banality of the defense of the #Gosnell news blackout

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 30 Comments

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...

Progressives start push for Elizabeth Warren 2016

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 17 Comments

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...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/15/2013 – Deflating J-Street

Posted by David Gerstman on April 15, 2013 2 Comments

1) Bursting the balloon When I saw the following headline at the Baltimore Jewish Times I was worried, " J Street Carved Out A Place In The U.S.-Israel Advocacy." The article, written by managing editor, Maayan Jaffe starts by faithfully recounting all of J-Streets claims. But,...

Health Nut

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 6 Comments

From Peter: Seen near? where else a health food store ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2013 0 Comments

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