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Teenage burglar in New Orleans self defense case charged in separate home invasion

Posted by Andrew Branca on May 06, 2014 20 Comments

Marshall Coulter, shot while attempting to burglarize Merritt Landry, has been accused of another burglary after the shooting, and now also for a home invasion committed in 2012 when he was 13 years old

Monica Lewinsky: “Sure, my boss took advantage of me”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2014 32 Comments

And Bill Clinton still is the most revered elder statesman of the Democratic Party

Vassar College Wins (Update – Video added)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2014 29 Comments

My speech for Israel and against the academic boycott was well-attended.

Massachusetts starts over on its troubled health exchange website

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 06, 2014 2 Comments

After months of technical problems, the state of Massachusetts will abandon much of its health insurance exchange website and replace it with new software, while simultaneously preparing to shift its exchange to the federal healthcare.gov system as part of a “dual track strategy.” From the...

John Kerry’s Long Knives

Posted by David Gerstman on May 06, 2014 25 Comments

When All Else Fails, Blame Bibi

Boko Haram: the real war on women

Posted by New Neo on May 05, 2014 37 Comments

This should have been big news from the moment the girls were kidnapped: Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls [kidnapped from school on April 14, almost 3 weeks ago] turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant...

Hiding the harsh realities of the “creative destruction of capitalism”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 05, 2014 11 Comments

Conservative dynamo Tammy Bruce recently took a look at the how the federal government is masking the realities of our very questionable economic “recovery,” disguising the fact that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person in the household who is employed....

‘Stand Your Ground’ Repeal Effort Mercifully Dies In Florida Senate

Posted by Andrew Branca on May 05, 2014 5 Comments

SB116 spent almost nine months dying a slow death in the state Senate, receiving not even a single vote in any committee

North Korea concludes: U.S. “worst human rights abuser”

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on May 05, 2014 9 Comments

Report cites Trayvon Martin case, unemployment, and the NSA scandal

De Blasio Takes Up Bloomberg’s Fight To Ban Large Sodas

Posted by Rusty Weiss on May 05, 2014 5 Comments

As the clock was winding down on 2013, pundits were openly wondering if the newly elected mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, would actually be worse in championing nanny-statism than his predecessor. He’s off to a pretty good start. De Blasio has partaken...

Supreme Court upholds prayer at town council meetings

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 05, 2014 22 Comments

Decision this morning from the U.S. Supreme Court: From Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of government entities across the United States to allow sectarian prayers prior to public meetings. The court said on a 5-4 vote that the town of...

Today is Israel Independence Day, and I’m going to Vassar

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2014 25 Comments

What a coincidence. Observance of Israel Independence Day begins this evening.

George Orwell, the socialist anti-Communist

Posted by New Neo on May 05, 2014 63 Comments

When MSNBC host Krystal Ball opined on what she considered the true meaning of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, her comments met with a storm of derision from the right. Here’s what Ball said, and at first glance it seems preposterous: Animal Farm, hmmm — isn’t...