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Supreme Court DOMA decision – Unconstitutional

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 26, 2013 33 Comments

Full opinion embedded at bottom of post. Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:02 Amy Howe: 5-4 per Kennedy. 10:02 Amy Howe: Roberts dissents. Scalia dissents. Equal protection. 10:02 Amy Howe: Alito dissents, joined by Thomas in part. 10:03 Amy Howe: DOMA is unconstitutional as a deprivation...

Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2013 26 Comments

[Note — More decisions will be released Tuesday — check back here at 10 a.m.] Full opinion embedded at bottom of post Via ScotusBlog live blog: 10:14 Amy Howe: The opoinion by Kennedy. The Fifth Circuit is vacated and remanded. 10:15 Amy Howe: The holding...

Mideast Media Sampler – 06/14/2013 – The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Merit Badge of Terror

Posted by David Gerstman on June 14, 2013 4 Comments

1) Earning merit badges in terror Following recent revelations that Hamas plans to train thousands of children soldiers a number of media outlets are reporting that Palestinian Islamic Jihad is running summer camps training youngsters in the fine points of urban warfare. Ynet reports: An...

Mideast Media Sampler – 06/12/2013 – Richard Falk running the UNHRC Asylum

Posted by David Gerstman on June 12, 2013 2 Comments

1) How can you tell the difference between a terrorist organization and a liberal democracy? The title is a trick question. In international fora, the terrorist organization gets a lot more respect. Last week the Ireland led the way to prevent the European Union from...

Former NSA Employee Leaked Surveillance Details Prior to Snowden

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 10, 2013 20 Comments

Why didn't the prior revelations cause as much controversy?

Mideast Media Sampler – 06/05/2013 – Erdogan’s straits

Posted by David Gerstman on June 05, 2013 8 Comments

1) Talkin’ Turkey Claire Berlinski provides the recent background for the foment going on in Turkey: Of late, almost every sector of the electorate has felt unease about one part or another of Erdoğan’s agenda. Restrictive new alcohol legislation, rammed through parliament, as usual, with...

Electric car company “A Better Place” has gone to a better place

Posted by David Gerstman on May 28, 2013 16 Comments

A Better Place, the Israeli electric car company, filed for bankruptcy after burning through over $800 million. Painful Bankruptcy For Better Place: Dec 31 Cash $34M, Assets $149M. Liabilities $915M. Fin's http://t.co/4jtyp06jX7… pic.twitter.com/JxMXnAkfOX — PrivCo (@PrivCo) May 27, 2013 Unlike other electrical vehicle makers, A...

“Pushing Back” Week at College Insurrection

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2013 2 Comments

Pushing back against the narratives: CAMERA launches new website for pro-Israel college students “Affirmative Action Baby” … Or Survivor? Prager U. Video – The Separation of Church and State FIRE works overtime for targeted Syracuse U. students College Fix Editor: Porn is a weapon in the...

Live House Judiciary Committee Hearing: Tense Moments During AG Eric Holder Testimony

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 15, 2013 6 Comments

The House Judiciary Committee has been conducting a hearing this afternoon to receive testimony from Attorney General Eric Holder on a variety of topics. Given the recent developments with both the IRS and AP stories, the hearing was expected to experience a few tense moments....

Dems find their IRS-Tea Party Scandal savior — look, Citizens United!

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2013 15 Comments

Repeat after them, "Citizens United made the IRS do it"

The post-#Benghazi hearing spin begins

Posted by David Gerstman on May 09, 2013 17 Comments

After public editor, Margaret Sullivan’s unconvincing arguments about the New York Times coverage of Benghazi, I was expecting the New York Times and other members of the MSM to be out today with editorials spinning yesterday’s testimony in favor of the administration. .@sulliview insistence on...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/08/2013 – Where the terror supporters are

Posted by David Gerstman on May 08, 2013 1 Comment

1) Guess the source A) In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine. For two years, the Islamic Resistance Movement (known by...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/07/2013 – The “Syria is not Iraq” Conundrum

Posted by David Gerstman on May 07, 2013 7 Comments

1) Bill Keller’s truism Former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller states the obvious, “Syria is not Iraq.” In short, Keller argues that he trusts President Obama’s instincts. However since he offered a mea culpa for having once supported the Iraq war,...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/01/2013 – New York Times Op-Ed Index for April 2013

Posted by David Gerstman on May 01, 2013 0 Comments

Final total – Anti-Israel – 3 / Pro-Israel – 6

The #BostonMarathon Bombing Hard Cell

Posted by David Gerstman on April 25, 2013 8 Comments

As Professor Jacobson has noted, there’s no shortage of denial about Tsarnaev Brothers, the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing. Barry Rubin observes: Now that the two (primary, at least) terrorists from the Boston Marathon attack have been killed or captured, we enter a new...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/24/2013 – Friedman, Fayyadism, Failure

Posted by David Gerstman on April 24, 2013 2 Comments

1) Friedman resurrects “Fayyadism” Some time ago, Thomas Friedman coined the term “Fayyadism,” a concept that, according to Nathan Brown, never had a chance. Why Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad never had a chance to meet the high expectations placed on him http://t.co/veLJpvVyU0 — Foreign...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/10/2013 – The fading hope of the Arab Spring

Posted by David Gerstman on April 10, 2013 2 Comments

1) Egyptian plagues Last week Zvi Mazel wrote in the Jerusalem Post (h/t Leslie Eastman) In a remarkable and enduring show of unity, non-Islamic opposition parties under the banner of the National Salvation Front are boycotting the regime until their demands – canceling the Islamic...

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