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Posted by Anne Segal on April 23, 2013 8 Comments

April, the month when the sting of the government's overreach is most acute, provided the backdrop for a series of infographics illustrating just how onerous the tax burden (and fiscal irresponsibility) is to our country. Groups like the Cato Institute, AFP, Illinois Policy Institute, and...

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Posted by David Gerstman on April 23, 2013 4 Comments

It's being reported that Sen. Max Baucus will not run for re-election in 2014. Our last poll of Montana found Baucus already running 5 points behind a pair of potential Republican candidates: publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/02/s…— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) April 23, 2013 Politico reports: Montana Sen. Max Baucus will not seek reelection...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 23, 2013 0 Comments

1) Middle East arms deal The United States is concluding an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hoagland: arms deal "weaken the only containment strategy Obama consistently practiced - the containment of Israel" wapo.st/12D0xtp— Shmuel Rosner (@rosnersdomain) April 23, 2013 The New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2013 50 Comments

Can I call 'em or what? On Sunday, I wrote about how the media and left-blogosphere were trying to move the Boston Bombing narrative to focus on what is wrong with how we treated the bombers as immigrants and away from the problem of Jihadism, Politically correct...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2013 13 Comments

Reader Thomas was not happy when he saw the Tea Party Bomb, the Worst Boston Bombing prediction in one image: So he decided to respond: No way I was going to let this one go without a rebuke. Sydney Morning Herald, Salon.com, MSNBC and Wolf Blitzer can stick...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 24 Comments

And the reason we need "immigration reform" urgently is? I'm getting very uncomfortable with the rush to vote on an 844-page bill. Let it hang out in the air for a while. If it doesn't stink, the fresh air and sunshine won't hurt it. If it does stink, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 31 Comments

Amanda Palmer, who grew up in Lexington, MA, is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Two days before the Boston Marathon Bombing, Palmer "performed live at Wesleyan’s Humanity Festival, a one-day musical celebration in solidarity against bigotry, racism and social divisions within a community": In keeping with the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 8 Comments

I previously have written how I saw Richie Havens live at My Father's Place when I was in high school, at the time we ran several of his songs as Videos of the Day in late January 2012: I saw Richie Havens at My Father’s Place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 21 Comments

And you thought it was bad here. Via Tim Blair's blog (h/t sdog), an image that ran last Friday morning in the Sydney Morning Herald, as part of a column praising Obama for not  jumping to conclusions as to the source of the bombing, Bomb response refreshingly...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 34 Comments

No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a "white American" was responsible, and others in the media and left-blogosphere who were hoping that another Timothy McVeigh-looking person was the perp. I'm...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 22, 2013 4 Comments

1) The red line? Back in December, NBC News reported that Syria had loaded chemical weapons onto planes and was prepared to use them against civilians. Syria prepared to use chemical weapons against own people; military awaits final orders, US officials tell @nbcnews nbcnews.to/RCH3Cz— Breaking News (@BreakingNews)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 5 Comments

On April 9, 2013, at 9:37 a.m., I ran a post .@TheFix and @FixSean run dubious Thatcher/Palin story, fail to correct about the failure of The Fix blog at The Washington Post, run by Chris Cillizza, to correct a commonly told story about Margaret Thatcher supposedly refusing to...

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 22, 2013 10 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 24 Comments

Maybe the David Sirota Award? "xaxnar" diarist at Daily Kos, April 16, 2013, The Right Wing Media Is Nervous: Charles P. Pierce noted today that the conservative media wing nuts are freaking out over anything or anyone that suggests what happened in Boston at the Marathon just...

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