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Zimmerman Update Exclusive — Mid-Day 8 — State Wins Evidentiary Battle, Loses Testimony War
on July 03, 2013
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Today seemed to begin with a rare and much needed “win” for the State prosecutors. Unfortunately, what followed was a relentless unraveling of that win into a snatching of defeat from the jaws of victory. First, however, we should start with what little good news...
Zimmerman Update: BLOCKBUSTER: State witness says Zimmerman wanted to be Prosecutor!
on July 03, 2013
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BREAKING NEWS State witness Scott Pleasants, a Professor of George Zimmerman’s for an online criminal justice course, just testified on cross-examination by O’Mara that Zimmerman’s stated career goal was to become and attorney and eventually a State prosecutor. This is not going well for the...
Zimmerman Trial Day 7 Wrap Up: Prosecution recovers a little, prepared to introduce college records
on July 02, 2013
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We covered the morning’s events with our mid-day update, available here at the link below. If you’ve already viewed it, be aware that I have just now added to that post the video recordings of the morning testimony, so if you are interested in seeing...
Full Transcript of Q&A session with NSA leaker Edward Snowden
on June 17, 2013
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A full transcript of the Guardian’s live online Q&A session with NSA leaker Edward Snowden is provided below. The contents of the session were transcribed as is, without any edits or corrections to content, only formatting edits. You can also download it via PDF. (Note: ...
While Obama ponders Syria post-red line moves, Hezbollah reiterates it will fight for Assad
on June 14, 2013
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After concluding that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against its own people in Syria, Obama administration officials indicated on Thursday that the president will authorize US assistance to the opposition rebels, although the extent of that assistance and when it will...
Zimmerman Case: Experts Call State’s Scream Claims “Absurd” “Ridiculous” and “Imaginary Stuff”
on June 09, 2013
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A Badly Mismatched Battle of the Experts We covered yesterday’s testimony of the state witnesses at length here, so no point in going over that again. Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the expert witness testimony of two more of the defense...
Mideast Media Sampler – 06/05/2013 – Erdogan’s straits
on June 05, 2013
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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...
Did Syria Receive Russian Missiles?
on May 30, 2013
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In an interview today, President Bashar Assad of Syria claims that Russia has delivered some of the S-300 missiles he bought.The Lebanse paper, Al Akhbar, quoted from an exclusive interview Assad gave to Hezbollah’s Al Manar television channel. “Syria has received the first batch of...
Mideast Media Sampler – 05/27/2013 – Why Mr. Passive-Aggressive rejected Olmert’s offer
on May 27, 2013
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1) Why didn’t Abbas answer Olmert? Last week Avi Issacharoff reported on a recent interview he had with Ehud Olmert in The Tower. Much of the story was known, but Olmert provided some new specifics about his offer to Abbas and Issacharoff obtained a map...
WaPo looks closely at the Obama administration … but not too closely
on May 22, 2013
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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...
Mideast Media Sampler – 05/19/2013 – The Kurdish Gambit
on May 19, 2013
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Erdogan ♥s Ocalan? Last week Soner Cagaptay and James Jeffers asked Can Obama Save Turkey From a Syrian Quagmire? in the New York Times: The Syrian war has also awakened Turkey’s once dormant Marxist militant groups. These groups vehemently oppose any government policies they see...
Will today be a no good, awful, very bad day for Obama and Hillary?
on May 08, 2013
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Hearings are scheduled today before Darrell Issa’s committee. I thought that Roger L. Simon was going a bit overboard late last week. New RLS blog #TCOT Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched bit.ly/15d5RXW — Roger Simon (@rogerlsimon) May 4, 2013 Even Simon acknowledged that his...
Mideast Media Sampler – 05/06/2013 – Mixed Messaging on #Syria
on May 06, 2013
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1) The Israeli “message” Why is it that threats against Israel are regularly downplayed by the media? ‘Everywhere an #Iranian embassy exists, they plan terror on #Jews, #Israelis‘ ow.ly/kJZlH — Israel Hayom English (@IsraelHayomEng) May 6, 2013 Typical of this phenomenon is the headline Airstrikes...
Developer of Eliminationist Narrative still claiming Jared Loughner was “right-wing”
on April 24, 2013
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My post, Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives, seems to have gotten the attention of Dave Neiwert of Crooks and Liars, the developer of the Eliminationist Narrative. Neiwert responds with Right-Wingers Use Boston Bombing to Paper Over Their Own Extremist Terror....
Mideast Media Sampler – 04/24/2013 – Friedman, Fayyadism, Failure
on April 24, 2013
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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...
New Boston Bombing narrative: “It’s not them, it’s us”
on April 23, 2013
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Can I call ’em or what? On Sunday, I wrote about how the media and left-blogosphere were trying to move the Boston Bombing narrative to focus on what is wrong with how we treated the bombers as immigrants and away from the problem of Jihadism, Politically...
