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As Professor Jacobson's recent pictorial essay noted, there is something for both the left and right to hate about the Obama Administration's use of drones. As the co-founder of San Diego's first Tea Party group, I love the grassroots initiative displayed by the citizens of one...
Just when I thought the anti-religious, anti-First Amendment left couldn't get any more base, any more insulting, I read this: The Freedom from Religion Foundation wants the proposed Statehouse Holocaust memorial changed by removing what it sees as the Jewish religious symbolism of the Star of David. In...
Larry Elder handed Piers Morgan his rear-end earlier this week. It's was good. Not surprisingly, Epic clash between Larry Elder and Piers Morgan; Libs unleash torrent of haterade Elsewhere in bizarre world, Chris Matthews has apologized...
I headed off to JFK Airport for my trip to Israel on Friday not long after Obama gave his surprise speech on the Florida jury verdict finding George Zimmerman not guilty of Second Degree Murder and Manslaughter in the killing of Trayvon Martin. The presidential statement elevated...
This is turning out to be a case of one TV station that just seems determined to perpetuate the Streisand Effect. KTVU, which was recently duped into reading off the very obviously fake names of several purported pilots from Asiana Flight 214, has apparently been trying...
The push for an economic boycott of Florida has ratcheted up in recent days, with some members of the Congressional Black Caucus now publicly supporting the idea of such an action. The underlying target of their ire? Stand Your Ground laws, of course. From The Hill: A...
As opposed to what should be considered a bombshell? I refer you to this column by Peggy Noonan entitled "A Bombshell in the IRS Scandal": The IRS scandal was connected this week not just to the Washington office—that had been established—but to the office of the chief...
As the racialist wing of our body politic suffers through the Kubler-Ross seven stages of grief at the "Not Guilty" verdict in the Zimmerman trial, we find that they are currently transitioning from the "Anger" to "Bargaining" stage. How do we know? Because all they...
"Justice for Trayvon" rallies and marches are scheduled all across the nation today, organized by The Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network (NAN). In protest of the recent 'not guilty' verdict in the Zimmerman case, leaders and attendees will demand that the federal government...
By its very name, you know that any lawsuit sponsored by Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will do three things: Target some successful, American corporate entity. Be based on anything other than science. Go counter to any interest that I, as an informed American consumer,...
Those of us who have been following Andrew Branca's excellent coverage of the Zimmerman trial here on LI weren't at all surprised by the verdict. Indeed, we'd have been surprised by anything else; however, leftists are busy little bees, working their race-baiting denial-of-facts-and-law nonsense with...
Either President Obama identifies pretty strongly with Trayvon Martin, or he's pretending to do so for political purposes. First we had Obama's statement that, if he'd had a son, he'd have looked like Martin. That was fairly early in the game. But now, post-verdict, we have...
Now that the Zimmerman criminal trial has concluded, much attention has focused on the prospects for Zimmerman seeking protection under Florida's self-defense immunity statute from any possible civil action against him. Florida's statute 776.032, is among the broader self-defense immunity statutes, in that it possesses all...
Bear with me, LI readers - I'm a little bit of a geek, so I find stories like these exciting. It might not be of interest to everyone, but I do think there's one point about it that will resonate with all of you. Amazon founder...
While the president began by commending the judge in the case as "professional" and the jurors as "properly instructed," he brought the case into the much broader context of race in America. "When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said this could've been my son. Another way of saying that is, a Trayvon Martin could've been me 35 years ago. When you think about why in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away." He also said that "there are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping at a department store. That includes me." The same goes for African American men who have heard "locks click on the doors of cars," or seen a "woman clutching her purse nervously" in an elevator. The president also said that "there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws" -- from the death penalty to drug laws. He continued (with our emphasis): "Folks understand the challenges that exist for African American boys. But they get frustrated that they feel that there's no context for them, that that context is being denied. And that all contributes to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that from top to bottom both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different."
NSA head General Keith Alexander said at a forum earlier this week that the agency is taking steps to insure that a breach of its systems like the one committed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor employed through Booz Allen Hamilton, cannot occur again. ...
