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Iran’s De Facto Leader Ali Larijani Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Lawyer Among Three Arrested in Violent Restaurant Attack on Hebrew-Speaking Diners

Replacing History With Wildlife: The Suicidal Insanity of Anti-Western Ideology

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

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

It's still live on the internet. George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX Full Obituary available here....

Images and video of suspects in Boston Marathon Bombing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 26 Comments

Just released by FBI: ...

No Breaking News in #BostonMarathon, media survives day relatively unscathed (Okay — there is breaking news!)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 2 Comments

Lesson No. 1 in blogging -- never preschedule, even by 30 minutes, a "no breaking news" post! Apparently the FBI is holding a press conference soon to identify a photo of a suspect. For real. UPDATE 5:20 -- Two suspects -- images to be released soon. A At...

#Gosnell never gets better

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 14 Comments

News today, AP via Ed Morrissey, Nurse saw more than 10 babies breathing: A former abortion clinic worker has capped the murder trial of her former boss with testimony that she saw more than 10 babies breathe before they were killed. Kareema Cross is the final prosecution witness against Dr. Kermit Gosnell. She...

Missing U. Alabama Student Found Dead in Spain

Education Secretary McMahon Threatens SJSU Federal Funding for Title IX Violations

Vanderbilt Law Prof Explains the Challenge of Getting More Conservatives Into Higher Ed

Federal Probe Finds Faculty Members are Fueling Antisemitism on College Campuses

Emails Show Qatar Coordinated Messaging About October 7th Attacks With American Universities in Doha

UC-Berkeley Prof Claims Anti-DEI Efforts Rooted in ‘White Male Christian Supremacy’

Is the Maryland GOP really that stupid? (hint, you betcha)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 24 Comments

Denies media credentials to political bloggers, including Legal Insurrection...

#BostonMarathon suspects, or just guys in the crowd?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 23 Comments

Yesterday there was a wealth of speculation based on sleuthing at 4Chan and Reddit about possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. I didn't run the photos, because, well, these may just be guys in the crowd and the analysis did not impress me based on...

Albany Police Officers Union denounces “shameful” NY gun law

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 23 Comments

Blame NYS not NRA for failure of federal gun legislation...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/18/2013 – A broken crescent

Posted by David Gerstman on April 18, 2013 1 Comment

1) Syria and contiguity Jacques Neria writes in Stalemate in the Syrian Civil War: While Assad has survived so far, he has not been able to quell the rebellion, the economy is in shambles, and so are most of the areas hit by the civil war. Hundreds...

Branco Cartoon – Obama’s Cube

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 18, 2013 16 Comments

Note: You may reprint this cartoon provided you link back to this source. To see more Legal Insurrection Branco cartoons, click here. Branco’s page is Cartoonist A.F.Branco .. Twitter @afbranco ...

White Writer’s Privilege

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 11 Comments

A follow up to last night's post, Salon.com ghoulishly race baits #BostonMarathon bombing with “white privilege” rant. James Taranto observes, The Privilege of Not Belonging A theory of white racism against whites. * * * Thus today's insight: To be white in America is to have the privilege of being able...

Senate expanded background check law does not pass

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 40 Comments

The vote took place on a vote to close debate. BREAKING: Bill to expand background checks for gun purchases is defeated in the Senate.— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 17, 2013 Toomey-Manchin Fails on Cloture Vote, 54-46; Four Democrats Vote for Filibuster bit.ly/17pjCi1— AoSHQ (@AoSHQ) April 17, 2013 Fundraising...

Breaking — Arrest in #BostonMarathon bombing? (Update: Networks backtrack)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 9 Comments

Various news reports of an arrest in the Boston Marathon Bombing, or an impending arrest. Remember, early reports the day of the bombing were inaccurate -- so don't bank on it yet. Not sure if this amateur sleuthing was accurate or not. Worth rereading: Judge William Young...

You mean the media didn’t want to report about aborted babies stuck in toilets and plumbing?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 11 Comments

Marc Lamont Hill admits (to his credit) the obvious about the Gosnell news blackout...

“buy an airline ticket, apply for a student visa, and come now”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 26 Comments

The 844-page Immigration Reform bill was dropped on the public late yesterday. There will be a rush to a vote as on just about every other legislative behemoth in the past four years. David Frum, so far, is one of the clearer heads on the immigration charade known as...

Wife of suspect in Texas prosecutor killings arrested

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 4 Comments

Despite widespread speculation that "white supremacists" were behind the killings of two prosecutors in Texas (and the wife of one of the prosecutors), it turned out that a disgruntled Texas Justice of the Peace was behind the murders. As in the Newtown and Boston Marathon...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/17/2013 – Pressure Cookers and False History

Posted by David Gerstman on April 17, 2013 7 Comments

1) We wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea Yesterday Max Fisher wrote, Knowledge of pressure-cooker bombs is not limited to readers of al-Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ magazine: And “Inspire” was far from the first extremist publication to distribute instructions for making pressure-cooker bombs. Yair Rosenberg of Tablet...