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Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 20, 2013 1 Comment
Several websites with the Qatar (.qa) domain extension have been restored to normal after being disrupted by the Syrian Electronic Army this weekend. The hackers targeted the Qatar Domains Registry and altered DNS records for several high profile domains, according to Softpedia, then defacing pages...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 19, 2013 14 Comments
Tech blog Ars Technica asks Are partisan news sources polarizing Americans? as it takes a look at the book “Changing Channels or Changing Minds: Partisan News in an Age of Choice .”  The book focuses on, among other things, whether or not partisan news programs...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 15, 2013 29 Comments
A former high-ranking member of “Gangster Disciples” street gang, “Noonie G,” has called out the Chicago machine for failing to address the root causes of Chicago violence: the illegal drug trade. Speaking to Breitbart’s Rebel Pundit, he referred to people like Jesse Jackson, Jr., and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2013 43 Comments
You know the story why this blog was started on October 12, 2008 at 5:42 p.m. Here’s what the blog looked like on November 15, 2008 and for the first 2 1/2 years while we were on Google Blogger (Yikes! It’s like looking at your junior high school photo): Hey, look...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2013 19 Comments
I followed Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart and Larry O’Connor over an edited video of Sherrod’s speech to an NAACP chapter very carefully early on, demonstrating beyond doubt that the core of Sherrod’s claim, that she was falsely portrayed in a short video Breitbart released,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2013 4 Comments
It was, as usual, a busy weekend.  We covered a number of “Barrycade” events.  John Nolte at Breitbart.com has an even more extensive list of petty and unnecessary closures and lock-outs.. Here are some of the shut-down scale-back related items we covered, in case you...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 12, 2013 12 Comments
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to meet with top Republican lawmakers next week to discuss a number of policy issues. From Bloomberg News: Facebook Inc. (FB) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been pushing for a revision of U.S. immigration law,...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 12, 2013 17 Comments
For event organizers, the definition of failure is when counter-protesters and police outnumber your intended audience. A good example to total event failure was the “Million Muslim March,” which was just a bit shy of its goal…by 999,975 people. And it seems that the event...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 07, 2013 6 Comments
A Missouri man will plead guilty for his role in connection with a 2011 series of cyberattacks on websites associated with Koch Industries that occurred during the recall protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. From the Smoking Gun: In a plea agreement struck with Department...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 05, 2013 27 Comments
Leave it to MSNBC to provide Alec Baldwin with his very own platform. From the Hollywood Reporter: It’s Official: Alec Baldwin to Host Talk Show on MSNBC: Alec Baldwin has finalized a deal to host a weekly night-time talk show on MSNBC. The program –...
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