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Posted by Andrew Branca on June 17, 2013 5 Comments
Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Jury Selection Day Six live, all day, along with a separate end-of-day wrap-up post. To catch up on the lastest events in State of Florida v. Zimmerman, click here and take a look at our re-cap of last...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 14, 2013 0 Comments
1) Syria considerations Last week former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller wrote Syria is not Iraq. The gist of his argument is that he trusts President Obama but shouldn’t have trusted President Bush. It’s a silly argument. However, as Dexter Filkins...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 09, 2013 4 Comments
On April 22, 2013, we noted that a terror plot to derail trains headed for the United States was foiled, Canadian terrorist plot foiled — arrests made (Update – supported by al-Qaeda in Iran). The FBI made the following announcement of the indictment of a Tunisian,...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 09, 2013 17 Comments
After public editor, Margaret Sullivan’s unconvincing arguments about the New York Times coverage of Benghazi, I was expecting the New York Times and other members of the MSM to be out today with editorials spinning yesterday’s testimony in favor of the administration. .@sulliview insistence on...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 07, 2013 4 Comments
Professor Glenn Reynolds likens Washington, D.C ., to the iconic Panem, capital city of “The Hunger Games“. As the nation’s wealth becomes concentrated along the Potomac, it becomes easier to make the analogy: America’s capital seems bubble-wrapped in its own vibrant economic boom, while great...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2013 29 Comments
You may recall my post, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals: … I happened upon a website called Upworthy, which had one its posts run at HuffPo, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever,...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 24, 2013 2 Comments
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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 12 Comments
John Kerry tagged team with Obama to extract a humiliating apology from Israel over the deaths of Turks who violently attacked Israeli soldiers lawfully boarding a ship breaking the lawful Gaza military blockade. The Turks and others in the Muslim world took the apology as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2013 25 Comments
The policy here has been that the children of politicians are off limits to criticism, even when they do stuff that otherwise might be newsworthy. That policy has been invoked as to the Obama children, consistent with our criticism of the left’s despicable and vile...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 28, 2013 12 Comments
Earlier this week, I noted that the banks in Cyprus will be opening Thursday, once the regular people had time to embrace the levy and understand all the awesome goodness in the new bailout plan. Shockingly, the Cypriots are still not down with the political...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 19, 2013 5 Comments
1) Is there any hope left for Mideast honesty in the New York Times A few people have pointed out that I missed an op-ed by Rashid Khalidi, Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? One paragraph really stuck out. Until 1991 most Palestinians, although...

Posted by Joel Engel on March 16, 2013 6 Comments
Everything that’s wrong with the corruptocracy known as Los Angeles is contained in this L.A. Times report about the departure of Tim Leiweke as head of Anschutz Entertainment Group—and there’s little doubt, given how the details were spaced out in the 1,000-word story, that reporters...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 07, 2013 6 Comments
Those “apartheid” buses A number of British publications recently featured articles about some new Israeli bus lines devoted to transporting Arab residents of Judea and Samaria into Israel. These publications have outrageously called the buses, “apartheid” buses. Lori Lowenthal Marcus lays out some of the...
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