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Posted by David Gerstman on April 18, 2013 1 Comment
1)  Syria and contiguity Jacques Neria writes in Stalemate in the Syrian Civil War: While Assad has survived so far, he has not been able to quell the rebellion, the economy is in shambles, and so are most of the areas hit by the civil...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2013 26 Comments
The 844-page Immigration Reform bill was dropped on the public late yesterday. There will be a rush to a vote as on just about every other legislative behemoth in the past four years. David Frum, so far, is one of the clearer heads on the immigration charade...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 17, 2013 7 Comments
1) We wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea Yesterday Max Fisher wrote, Knowledge of pressure-cooker bombs is not limited to readers of al-Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ magazine: And “Inspire” was far from the first extremist publication to distribute instructions for making pressure-cooker bombs. Yair Rosenberg...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 19 Comments
The media apparently was in full attendance at the Kermit Gosnell trial starting yesterday. Professor Glenn Reynolds called it Breaking media silence: Now the story has gotten some coverage on CNN (Jake Tapper broke the silence first) and other networks, and while it’ll never get...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 16, 2013 14 Comments
There has not been a lot learned since last night. At a press conference this morning almost nothing was learned, except that the investigators seem desperate for information and are calling on the public to turn in videos and photos. I’m embedding the Twitter feed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 68 Comments
Reports coming in of explosions near the finish line at the Boston Marathon. Live coverage at Fox 25 (no embed available) Serious injuries — (warning on link, gruesome) missing arms and legs (warning on link, gruesome) according to eyewitness interviewed on television. (Update — latest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 15, 2013 30 Comments
The Gosnell trial is about the killing of infants born alive and a mother undergoing an abortion. The reaction, however, is not just to the killing of an infant born alive after an abortion, it is to the dismemberment, decapitation, and other gruesome means of...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 15, 2013 2 Comments
1) Bursting the balloon When I saw the following headline at the Baltimore Jewish Times I was worried, ” J Street Carved Out A Place In The U.S.-Israel Advocacy.” The article, written by managing editor, Maayan Jaffe starts by faithfully recounting all of J-Streets claims....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2013 13 Comments
Will the media compare Obama’s speeches against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act to the Gettysburg Address, as it did for Obama’s Newtown speech? I think not. Certainly not after Kermit Gosnell. They were not Gettysburg Addresses. The ground in which the dead were...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 13, 2013 5 Comments
My son just earned his Space Exploration Merit Badge in Boy Scouts. So, we were very interested to learn about plans to rope-an-asteroid for closer study: The plan would speed up by four years the existing mission to land astronauts on an asteroid by bringing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2013 23 Comments
As noted yesterday, the widespread attention to the mainstream media’s news blackout on the Kermit Gosnell trial evoked a pushback at Salon.com with the claim that “feminist” writers had written about the horrors, and therefore according to Irin Carmon, There is no Gosnell coverup. That gave...
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