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Giving Iran’s Rouhani the benefit of the doubts never given Netanyahu

Posted by David Gerstman on October 07, 2013 9 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 10/07/2013 - The Columnists who Cried "Sheep"

NBC Nightly News features children turned away from NIH, ignores Dem funding opposition

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2013 17 Comments

After Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a funding bill for the National Institutes of Health, NBC Nightly News has run two feature stories about children and other patients who could not enroll in a cancer clinical trial at NIH because of the “shutdown.”...

You might be a liberal if … you think the government “shutdown” is racist

Posted by Laurel Conrad on October 05, 2013 26 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game

NYC art installation asks passersby how they feel about capitalism

Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 05, 2013 20 Comments

“Capitalism works for me. In my life this is: true or false.” That’s the choice being posed to passersby in Times Square in New York City over the next few days as part of an art installation. The artist, Steve Lambert, says he wanted to create...

Battle of the Barrycades – Vets storm Vietnam Memorial, U.S Park Police called in

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 05, 2013 106 Comments

The barrycades at the WWII Memorial and Lincoln Memorial have received most of the attention. But on Friday a group of Vets decided to storm the barrycades erected by the Obama administration at the Vietnam Memorial, as reported by the local NBC News station (via The...

House to vote on 11 funding bills including child nutrition, FDA, Head Start, FEMA and Intelligence Agencies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2013 16 Comments

UPDATE - FEMA and WIC funding bills pass, 164 Dems vote NAY

Obama to veto NIH funding – will liberals who screamed about kids with cancer call him out?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 26 Comments

“Research for Lifesaving Cures Act” will be killed. (Update - VIDEO: Harry Reid scoffs at question, "if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?)

Obama barricades Lincoln Memorial unlike during 1995 “shutdown”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2013 26 Comments

Barry-cades become symbol of Obama's shutdown.

Obama foreign policy – Keep your enemies close, push your friends away

Posted by David Gerstman on October 01, 2013 9 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 10/01/2013

Cities may need to “Kickstart” bankrupt budgets

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 01, 2013 8 Comments

As a big fan of capitalism, I am fascinated by the concept of crowdfunding, whereby individuals network and pool their money via websites to support potentially profitable enterprises initiated by savvy entrepreneurs. It’s small-scale venture capitalism! Perhaps the best known crowdfunding enterprise is Kickstarter, which...

Obama Press Statement on Shutdown, but how much really shuts down?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2013 22 Comments

Coming up at 4:45 p.m. Any guesses? [live feed over now][transcript here] Basically what was expected. The 2012 election was about Obamacare, he won, we lost, it’s done, move on. The election was about Obamacare? Actually, it was about everything except Obamacare: Update: This National...

Two arrests as robberies continue to hit San Francisco Bay Area news crews

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 29, 2013 23 Comments

Two 19-year old men have been charged with robbery, weapons and conspiracy offenses after a San Francisco television reporter was robbed of his equipment Friday. A security guard accompanying the reporter fired shots upon the men during the confrontation. From Reuters: Two teenagers have been...

Saudi cleric claims driving can damage women’s ovaries

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 29, 2013 32 Comments

Amidst a campaign to fight Saudi Arabia’s de facto rule that bans women from driving, a Saudi cleric said that women who drive risk negative physiological impacts that could damage their ovaries. From Reuters: A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk...

Did SNL really mock Obamacare?

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 29, 2013 24 Comments

So, a lot of folks are talking about last night’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live and its skit on Obama’s sell of Obamacare. Many are commenting that it mocks Obamacare. I’m not sure I really saw it entirely the same way. Check it out for...

Dear Hamilton College Bd. of Trustees, maybe your Diversity Industry is making race relations worse

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2013 15 Comments

Saturday Night Card Game

Cyberbullying gets complicated as schools, police combat fake social media profiles

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 28, 2013 10 Comments

Cyberbullying is getting more complicated for schools and law enforcement these days, as authorities are dealing with students creating fake online profiles to harass and threaten fellow classmates. And in one recent case in Tennessee, the student doing the cyberbullying also sent messages to herself...

“Why you should read College Insurrection” week

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2013 5 Comments

FIRST, you find out stuff before your friends. Case in point, on Monday afternoon Leslie wrote Hamilton College sponsors “I Love Female Orgasm” workshop based on an obscure Facebook page we stumbled upon while researching the Hamilton segregation scandal. The post was tweeted and shared on Facebook hundreds of times. It...

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