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USA Men's Hockey Team Wins Olympic Gold in Absolute Thriller

Intersectionality is an "intellectual foundation for violence, terrorism, antisemitism, and anti-westernism"

Purges of Conservative and pro-Israel Faculty leave "very few to speak up for Jewish students"

Saturday Night Card Game (Masters of the English language)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 39 Comments

This all is making my head hurt. A couple of weeks ago we lost Illegal Immigrants. Now we're losing the Master Bedroom. Homebuilders scrap 'master bedroom' because of racist, gender-biased connotations: The “master suite” is being phased out — not from our homes, but from our lexicon. A survey of...

Students react to Boston Marathon Bombing (Updates added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 3 Comments

From College Insurrection: MIT community recalls officer Sean Collier, shot by Boston bombing suspect Emerson College Students United After Boston Marathon Bombing Missouri State Student: What We Know About Boston Springfield College Paper Recounts Horror of Boston Marathon Bombing The Northwestern Chronicle Reacts to the Boston Marathon Bombing Emory student decries...

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Phoned Uncle Hours Before His Death

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 20, 2013 15 Comments

A few hours before he would be shot and killed by law enforcement, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev called an uncle with whom he had not spoken in about two years. During that call, he asked his uncle for forgiveness. From USA Today (via the...

Cops may have played the media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 27 Comments

The NY Post and other media outlets are being raked over the coals for releasing a photo of alleged suspects which turned out to be wrong, as I discussed. It turns out the cops may have been playing the media deliberately to give the real suspects...

Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 51 Comments

Most Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes you safer: A Washington Post-ABC News poll — not a Rasmussen or some Rove outfit, but the Post and an alphabet network — finds that by a wide margin, more Americans believe that having a...

Texas Tech Cancels Event Organized by Group Promoting Late-Term Abortions

Judge Refuses to Dismiss Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk Murder Case

North Dakota State Urges ‘Safe Zone’ Trainees to Sign LGBT ‘Ally’ Pledge

UT-San Antonio Consolidating Race and Gender Departments

Villanova U. Prof Says Academia Should be Used as a 'Trojan Horse' for Socialism

Texas Tech Prof Arrested for Alleged Involvement in Fentanyl Ring

Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 40 Comments

It started with Bill Sparkman, the part-time Census worker who went missing and then was found dead, setting off an avalanche of mainstream media and left-blogosphere accusations that he was the victim of anti-government "right-wing" hate. It turned out that Sparkman killed himself, but there...

Coexist, “reportedly”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 9 Comments

Many people sent me links to this image. I don't know if it's real, or was obtained from Reddit, 4Chan, or CNN. But it's too good not to print, with all the caveats, "reportedly." Picture of the century: highjacked car had "COEXIST" bumper sticker twitter.com/chelseagrunwal…— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 19,...

Reports — Second Suspect “Down” (UPDATE – in custody)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 20 Comments

UPDATE -- Suspect in custody. Ace has the photo of the take down. Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013 "We got him" #oneboston twitter.com/mayortommenino…— Mayor Tom Menino (@mayortommenino) April 20, 2013 -------------------------------------------------- Just breaking. Large volley of...

Boston curfew lifted, mass transit reopened, suspect still on the run

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 9 Comments

At a news conference at 6 p.m. the reopening of mass transit and the lift on the request for people to stay in their homes has been lifted. There will be increased police patrols. The suspect still is on the run. No indication was given as to...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/19/2013 – #MiddleEast reacts to #BostonMarathon bombing

Posted by David Gerstman on April 19, 2013 8 Comments

1) The Middle East and Boston What have been the reactions in the Middle East to the Boston Marathon? Jordanian Salafists, unsurprisingly, endorsed the terror. "American blood isn't more precious than Muslim blood," said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted in an al-Qaida-linked plot to attack U.S. and other...

Chilling history of #Gosnell and babies struggling to survive

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

On this day when we are focused on Boston, also remember Philadelphia...

Letter from the Family of Lu Lingzi

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 6 Comments

The family of Lu Lingzi, the Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, issued a statement Thursday, via BU Today: We are grieving and at a loss for words to describe the pain and sadness we are experiencing following the sudden passing of our...

Boston Marathon suspect manhunt underway – ongoing updates

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 19, 2013 14 Comments

UPDATE 1:30 pm EST: The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is at the New Jersey home of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber's sister. Authorities say that she has been cooperative and that there are no reports that she was involved in any of the...

Boston Marathon manhunt Live Feeds

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 15 Comments

I'm going to leave this as a stand alone post for you to follow updates as they happen in real time. MOVED TO NEWER POSTS...

Shootout with Boston Marathon Suspects — One dead, one on loose — developing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2013 22 Comments

Listen to BOSTON POLICE SCANNER LIVE. Suspect #1 in black cap dead. Died in same hospital still caring for bombing victims. Suspects believed to be from abroad, foreign trained. "We believe this man to be a terrorist, someone who came here to kill people." Tied to...

Journalism sometimes means you are not the one to break the story

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

Ben Smith on the crowdsourcing photo analysis and media failures of the past few days: The media's new and unfamiliar job is to provide a framework for understanding the wild, unvetted, and incredibly intoxicating information that its audience will inevitably see — not to ignore it. A...

Reuters publishes George Soros Obituary prematurely