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Saudis go soft — may drop public beheadings because of shortage of swordsmen
on March 11, 2013
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Via Times of Israel: A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheading as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square. The...
Hispolitica launches
on March 11, 2013
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Hispolitica has been launched by Javier Manjarres, who runs the great Shark Tank blog in Florida, as announced today: I’m proud to announce the re-launch of Hispolitica. Hispolitica brings a balanced journalistic approach to the issues and concerns of Hispanics in light of their increasing influence in the...
Ashley Judd
on March 11, 2013
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She will be the progressive cause of 2014. She will raise tens of millions of dollars from Hollywood and the netroots. The media will adore her. Snarky ads like this one run the risk of backfiring because they will allow her to play victim while trivializing...
Mideast Media Sampler 03/11/2013
on March 11, 2013
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1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week's revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, Samuel Tadros, the scholar who had uncovered...
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Conservative Iowa law professor denied new trial in political discrimination case
on March 10, 2013
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The lawsuit by Teresa Wagner against the former Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Law has received a lot of attention, a tortured procedural history (including a prior appeal) and confusing results. In the latest twist, a judge has denied Wagner's motion for a...
Sunday afternoon Open
on March 10, 2013
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Been traveling for a couple of days. What did I miss? Updates: Noticed this, by someone who is a blogger at a major online publication's blog section, presumably gets paid for it and gets eyeballs from the publication's readership, and therefore can say things such as: Personally I have...
Al Gore: sale of network to Al Jazeera will “raise the game for television journalism”
on March 10, 2013
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Al Gore was questioned Saturday at the SXSW festival about the sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera, which as the interviewer noted, is owned by Qatar--a government largely funded by oil money. Gore replied that he placed the desire to make a "disruptive move"...
Chinese bureaucrats disloyal to government vehicles, choose Audis instead
on March 10, 2013
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Chinese bureaucrats are under increased pressure to support Chinese-made car brands instead of the preferred luxury brands such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age reports: The combined market share for Chinese sedans and compact cars fell to a four-year low of 28% in 2012, according...
“It’s not as though the twelve Republicans on this campus pose much of a threat to the tenured bully pulpit”
on March 10, 2013
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UW-Madison grad student defends student fees for CPAC attendance...
I don’t know why readers sent me tweets about Bobby Jindal, Elizabeth Warren and Indians
on March 10, 2013
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Via Twitchy, apparently Bobby Jindal made funny at the Gridiron dinner last night. Several readers sent me links to tweets about how Jindal made some joke about himself, Elizabeth Warren and Indians. I don't get it. Is Bobby Jindal Cherokee too? Is that supposed to be funny,...
Wolfpack Pride
on March 10, 2013
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Hi Professor, Apologies for not sending more frequently, but this one was too good to pass up. She's proud, but I'm ashamed...
The Great Obama Failed Recovery, in graphs
on March 09, 2013
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A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war "recoveries." Jacob Goldstein writes on the NPR blog that while this first chart, produced by the blog Calculated Risk,...
Saturday Night Card Game (What you see is not always what you get)
on March 09, 2013
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Oberlin College cancelled classes based on a report that an individual was seen wearing a KKK-hood. It turned out that the mystery figure likely was a woman in a blanket. As we wait for further details as to who was behind hate-graffiti in the weeks prior to the dramatic...
Liberals v Reality, take two
on March 09, 2013
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The other day I was moved to reflect that the world liberals believe in—a Utopia where bad guys are just one tax hike on “the rich” away from being good guys—exists only on car bumpers. Anodyne, nonsensical phrases seem to be the exclusive province of the...
The statist impulse at the Washington Post
on March 09, 2013
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In late February, the Washington Post ran an editorial Solution Politics in Virginia that began: IN VIRGINIA, A REPUBLICAN governor and a GOP-dominated legislature have joined forces with Democrats to enact the first long-term increase in transportation funding since the Reagan administration — and the state’s...
California’s New GOP Chair Donates $1300 to Democratic LA Mayoral Candidate
on March 09, 2013
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As a Democrat, I am often grateful to the support shown to me by Republican friends. However, California's new Republican Party chairman may have taken support for a Democrat one step too far for the comfort of his party's membership and the GOP contender in a...
