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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...

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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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 3 Comments

Took place today in London. Despite calls for protests, there was little disruption. Via The Telegraph: ...

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

The third person killed in the bombing of the Boston Marathon has been identified. Via Riehl World News: The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings is a 23-year-old Chinese graduate student at Boston University who came to the U.S. because it was her dream to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 1 Comment

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 7 Comments

Via CNN and television reports: An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN. After the envelope tested positive in a first routine test, it was...

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 16, 2013 6 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 19 Comments

The media apparently was in full attendance at the Kermit Gosnell trial starting yesterday. Professor Glenn Reynolds called it Breaking media silence: Now the story has gotten some coverage on CNN (Jake Tapper broke the silence first) and other networks, and while it'll never get the attention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 14 Comments
There has not been a lot learned since last night. At a press conference this morning almost nothing was learned, except that the investigators seem desperate for information and are calling on the public to turn in videos and photos. I'm embedding the Twitter feed at the bottom of the post, which is a good way to keep track during the day. CBS Boston Live Stream (Added) https://twitter.com/bfouhy/status/324220519882829824 Via Twitchy:

Posted by David Gerstman on April 16, 2013 2 Comments

1) The PA's defense budget The Palestinian Authority regularly complains about its budget woes. Nitzana Darshan-Leitner writes that the largest portion of the PA's budget goes to defense: Recently, the Palestinian Authority publicly revealed its new budget. In approving the 2013 fiscal plan, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 29 Comments

Who is surprised? President Obama's delegation to the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is drawing some flak in London. Two former Republican Secretaries of State -- James Baker and George Shultz -- will lead the U.S. delegation to the Thatcher funeral on Wednesday. Some British...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 16, 2013 2 Comments

Shai Bazak is Israel's Consul General in Boston: In the hours following the attack, he said, he had been swamped with concerned phone calls - many coming from Israel - and emails from friend, colleagues and the Foreign Ministry. “It is a weird feeling to be in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 13 Comments

As we mourn the dead and wounded, focus inevitably turns to the political war fought in the blogosphere and on Twitter before the facts were known. There were plenty of hateful tweets on all sides and in all directions. There also were attempts by people...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 10 Comments

There was a lot of Twitter activity trying to drive the mainstream media to cover the trial of Kermit Gosnell. The Washington Post and NY Times, among others, now will be sending reporters to the trial, although denying that any pro-abortion bias caused them to shy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 68 Comments

Reports coming in of explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Live coverage at Fox 25 (no embed available) Serious injuries -- (warning on link, gruesome) missing arms and legs (warning on link, gruesome) according to eyewitness interviewed on television. (Update -- latest reports are...

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