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The Koch Sequester

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 28 Comments

If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit: At a Los Angeles Times in-house awards ceremony a week ago, columnist Steve Lopez addressed the elephant in the room. Speaking to the entire staff, he said, "Raise your hand if you would quit if the...

Tuesday afternoon Open

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 18 Comments

I missed the press conference today. Did I miss anything? Just going to leave this open for a while, as I'm under the weather a bit....

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/30/2013 – New York Times running interference for Obama on #Syria

Posted by David Gerstman on April 30, 2013 7 Comments

1) The proof? Yesterday I noted that the New York Times seemed eager to relegate an article about the administration's reluctance to believe that Assad had employed chemical weapons to the ash heap of history. In a new editorial, Ill-considered advice on Syria, the New York...

Boston Bombers got $100k+ family stimulus plan

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 22 Comments

The Boston Herald previously broke the story that the Boston Bombers and their families were on welfare until last year. Now the Herald has some more details, apparently based on documents produced to Massachusetts legislators by the Patrick administration, Tsarnaev family received $100G in benefits: The Tsarnaev family,...

Iran sets its own “red line” on chemical weapons use in Syria

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 1 Comment

Iran is declaring a red line in Syria on the use of chemical weapons ...

Brown University Students Report Campus Break-Ins and Theft

Students Object After NYU Cancels Identity-Based Graduation Ceremonies

Police Investigate After ‘Kill All Jews’ is Found Written in Bathroom at San Jose State U.

Chicago Public Schools to Allow Bible College Students Into Teaching Program, Following Lawsuit

University of Evansville to Host Second Abortion-Themed Theatrical Event of School Year

Women's Basketball Team at Howard U. to Remain in Locker Room Rather Than Stand for National Anthem

Best evidence Ted Cruz is doing something right

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 18 Comments

The NY Times is concern trolling: Cruz Breaks With Senate Tradition While Criticizing Colleagues (emphasis added): In his short time at the Capitol, Senator Ted Cruz, a freshman Republican from Texas, has shown little regard for long-standing rules of decorum. But on Friday, he publicly discussed the closed-door...

The Benghazi open wound

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2013 20 Comments

Some developments today. And as usual, Fox News is driving the media investigations. Obama administration officials threatened whistle-blowers on Benghazi, lawyer says At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as ...

Australian PM denounces anti-Israel academic boycott movement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2013 4 Comments

Similar to the resolution passed by the Association for Asian American Studies...

Does not fit the BDS Jerusalem narrative

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2013 3 Comments

French court: Jerusalem light rail project legal A French court ruled that Israel did not violate international law by building a light rail line in eastern Jerusalem. The ruling on March 22 by the Versailles Court of Appeals came in response to a lawsuit filed in 2007...

If not for prior #Gosnell Twitter campaign, would MSM be covering Bronx and D.C. revelations?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2013 24 Comments

We previously noted how an active Twitter movement forced the mainstream media into covering the Gosnell trial, Infographic — Conservative Tweets Force MSM Coverage of #Gosnell. Another pro-life group has released videos of clinics in the Bronx and District of Columbia, and it is getting mainstream newspaper...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/29/2013 – Chemical weapons used by Syria, or not

Posted by David Gerstman on April 29, 2013 7 Comments

1) The New York Times, Syria, Chemical Weapons and the Obama Administration Last week the editors of the New York Times asked Were Chemical Weapons Used in Syria? It would be alarming if Mr. Assad crossed a line few others have crossed. Within one minute, nerve agents...

Pigford payoffs

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2013 6 Comments

The Editors of National Review have an excellent entry today in which the Pigford scandal is explained, Pigford Forever. Here is a key point which is not often understood, that the payments were tied to Obama's political maneuvering (emphasis mine): But as the Times reports in great...

Boston Bombings 2 Weeks Later – What We Do and Still Don’t Know

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 29, 2013 8 Comments

Previously, we brought you reports on the Boston Marathon bombings investigation and details into the lives of the suspects, first in The Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know and then in a follow-up, New Developments in the Boston Marathon Bombings...

Collaborators no more in the conservative blogosphere

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2013 30 Comments

I previously have posted about doom and gloom for the small conservative blogosphere, first in response to a post by John Hawkins about how bloggers need to go big or go home, Is there a place for me? Later as to what I was sensing leading up to and...

Branco’s Chris Matthews cartoon on Fox News

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2013 3 Comments

Once again Fox News has picked up on one of A.F. Branco's cartoons. This time it was the Chris Matthews cartoon run last week, Hard Boiled. Here's the screen shot: Here's the full segment, it appears and is mentioned at the 4:00 mark: Watch the latest video at...

Politico home page becomes living self-parody of self-absorbed media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2013 19 Comments

Politico hasn't been this excited since Herman Cain. Looking at the tweets from attendees at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was nauseating enough. Obama's speech was fine, he had some good one liners and some cheap shots, but it certainly wasn't the funniest speech ever: I just witnessed...

Rain tax, Rain tax, go away …

Posted by David Gerstman on April 28, 2013 12 Comments

Not in Maryland where it's just starting Former senate candidate, Dan Bongino, discussed the "rain tax" on Fox and Friends. One of our blessings in Maryland is that the legislature is only in session for three months. It limits the amount of damage our legislators can do....