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Ayatollah Khamenei Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Anti-Trump Revolt - Tucker Calls Iran Decision 'Disgusting and Evil'

My View From Moscow April 1980 - The Failed American Hostage Rescue Mission

NRA’s new liberty culture war not like the old culture war

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2013 21 Comments

The NRA seems to be broadening the issue of gun control into a broader culture war issue. But it doesn't seem to be the old religious/moral culture war, it's more a liberty culture war. It makes sense from a strategic point of view because it ties...

Did Israel bomb Syria overnight? (Update – hit convoy of missiles headed to Hezbollah)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 14 Comments

That's what some of the cable networks are reporting. It was just mentioned by Jennifer Griffin on Fox News: CNN reports: The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN. U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most...

Oberlin update — two white male student suspects but motives unclear

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 2 Comments

It has been over two months since a series of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs were found written on the campus of Oberlin College. When a student reported seeing someone in a Klan outfit -- a sighting which likely was a woman walking wrapped in a blanket --...

Republican Bundler Outraged Media Syndrome

Posted by David Gerstman on May 03, 2013 11 Comments

In a telling editorial last year, the Washington Post railed against Mr Romney's Secret Bundlers: Who are these men and women to whom the campaign is so deeply indebted? Mr. Romney has yet to answer — indeed, he has yet to be directly asked — why...

The silence of Assoc. of Asian American Studies members regarding anti-Israel academic boycott is deafening

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 7 Comments

We have written several times about the academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the Association of Asian American Studies, and how it is part of the greater Boycott Divest Sanction movement meant to delegitimize Israel: A stain on academia — Association for Asian American Studies calls...

U. Arizona Prof Who Told MAGA and Zionists to 'F--k Off' Faces Calls for Firing

Student Groups at Purdue Hold 'No War on Iran' Protest

Socialists at U. Vermont Protest Strikes on Iran

Iowa House Bill Targets Private Universities With DEI Offices

Students and Alumni at Smith College Protest for Divestment From Israel

Flyer Found at Penn State U. Says ‘Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill’

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/03/2013 – The Benghazi Bungle

Posted by David Gerstman on May 03, 2013 5 Comments

1) The innocence of the Obama administration Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on September 14, 2012: https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/246718237939748865 This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave...

#MASEN boom #2 – PPP finds Markey leads by only 4 pts

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 11 Comments

Yesterday we posted how an Emerson College student polling group found Democratic Congressman Edward Markey leading in the June 25 Special Election over newcomer Republican Gabriel Gomez by a mere 6 points. To the extent that student group could be discounted, it's going to be harder...

Where were you when the internet went live?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 16 Comments

Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute was there, one of just 25 active servers...

Jobs report — the new definition of “good”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 9 Comments

The jobs report released today is "good" news compared to what has been. 165,000 net new jobs were added. That's good. Approximately 230,000 net new jobs would need to be added just to keep pace with population growth, so we're still not actually growing...

Xistential denial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2013 6 Comments

Because the bumper sticker was not enough. From BoPMonkey in the Tip Line: Snapped this pic the other day. ...

Did Boston Bombing kill immigration “reform”?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2013 24 Comments

Threw the bill off its fast track....

Rebel Pundit squares off with Dick Durbin over May Day speech

Posted by Anne Segal on May 02, 2013 9 Comments

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke at Chicago's annual May Day celebration in Chicago as a flag of Che Guevara waved before him, yet when questioned by Rebel Pundit about his presence at the rally teeming with anarchist, communist, and socialist groups with their red flags,...

Here we go — Markey (D) only up 6 over Gomez (R) in #Masen (Update – Markey launches first attack ad with Gomez / bin Laden split screen)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2013 12 Comments

"Independents are breaking for Gomez at a nearly 2 to 1 rate"...

Yippie! Daily Beast has a retraction policy for inaccurate and misleading posts (Update – Daily Beast drops Kurtz)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2013 4 Comments

I totally missed the Howard Kurtz kerfuffle. John Nolte at Breitbart.com has the background. The short version is that Kurtz made a factual error regarding whether Jason Collins had disclosed that he previously was engaged and then tried to minimize the error through after-the-fact editing ...

Commerce nomination cost Pritzker a pretty Penny

Posted by Anne Segal on May 02, 2013 10 Comments

Today President Obama nominated "friend" and fellow Chicagoan Penny Pritzker as Commerce Secretary, a post that has not been filled since June 2012. In doing so he has gifted one of his top fundraisers (and one of the heirs to the Hyatt chain) with a title,...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/02/2013 – BBC “Team” Sports: Deception in Gaza

Posted by David Gerstman on May 02, 2013 2 Comments

1) Might? May? In March, a report from the UN suggested very strongly that Omar Masharawi (or Mishrawi) was killed by a Hamas rocket. In response, Robert Mackey of the New York Times wrote "might have been caused by 'a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel.'" Mackey's...

Thou shalt not

Posted by David Gerstman on May 02, 2013 3 Comments

From the Baltimore area. This is an eclectic bunch, though I don't like them all. My favorite is the "Don't steal" one. ...