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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2013 13 Comments
Windmills! The backbone of the Obama energy plan, and something of a fetish to him: Because the windmill industry is politically correct, it gets a pass on the wholesale slaughter of Eagles and other migratory birds: AP VIDEO: Wind turbines injure and kill protected birds,...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 24, 2013 5 Comments
The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked yet another media outlet’s Twitter account. A Twitter account belonging to ITV News, which was one of the first outlets to broadcast video of one of the killers in Wednesday’s grisly London terror attack, was compromised Friday by the...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 22, 2013 6 Comments
Recently, there has been an interesting string of editorials in the Washington Post. (I’ll limit this to the discussion of unsigned editorials, not op-eds.) .@ejdionne has it exactly backward. This is not a crisis of democracy, it’s a crisis of authority. washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-di… — James Taranto...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2013 59 Comments
This is getting real. Yesterday it was just some “low level” employees involved. Now AP is reporting that senior IRS officials were aware of the targeting, via AP, IRS watchdog: Senior IRS officials knew in 2011 tea parties’ tax-exempt status being targeted (h/t @GabrielMalor): WASHINGTON...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 10, 2013 2 Comments
1) When is news not really news? The Newseum – a museum devoted to the news business – recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 01, 2013 4 Comments
The group of pro-Assad hackers calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Guardian news outlet over the weekend, marking the latest in a string of cyberattacks from the same organization.  The incident emphasizes the potential threat such attacks could pose if executed for goals...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 29, 2013 8 Comments
Previously, we brought you reports on the Boston Marathon bombings investigation and details into the lives of the suspects, first in The Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know and then in a follow-up, New Developments in the Boston Marathon Bombings...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 26, 2013 22 Comments
There have been several new developments today in the Boston bombings case. Authorities are searching a landfill for a laptop believed to be tied to the Boston Marathon bombers, according to CNN. Information from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself, plus other leads, spurred authorities to look through...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 19, 2013 14 Comments
UPDATE 1:30 pm EST: The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is at the New Jersey home of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber’s sister.  Authorities say that she has been cooperative and that there are no reports that she was involved in any of...

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...
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