Marc Lamont Hill admits (to his credit) the obvious about the Gosnell news blackout...
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...
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...
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...
Took place today in London. Despite calls for protests, there was little disruption. Via The Telegraph: ...
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...
I'm not going to link to it. It's just more David Sirota link bait. Forcing a rant about "white privilege" and white men into any situation, no matter how ridiculous, has become his schtick. He did it for the Newtown shooting: And now he's doing it for the Boston...
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...
Almost every initial media account of the Newtown shooting ended up being wrong, except for the fact that there was a shooting. The type of weapon used was wrong, as were reports that Mrs. Lanza worked at the school, that she had a dispute with the...
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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...
Martin Richard: Boston Marathon bombings victim aged 8 was waiting to give father a hug at finish line bit.ly/14sKhP5
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) April 16, 2013
Some flowers left at a home in Dorchester where an 8 year old boy who was killed st Marathon, lived. #wbz twitter.com/radiobenparker…
— Ben Parker (@radiobenparker) April 16, 2013
Via Twitchy:Two brothers watching Boston Marathon together each lose a leg bit.ly/15hYkqd
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) April 16, 2013
Couple just reunited. twitter.com/megansarahj/st…
— Megan Johnson (@megansarahj) April 15, 2013
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...
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...
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...
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...
