Print John Sexton Follow Read Full Bio Salon on Gosnell: What Coverup? Salon's Irin Carmon is annoyed at the pesky right wing writers who have recently announced that the Gosnell story deserves more coverage. Her response "There is no Gosnell Coverup" is a partisan pass at a story that has been passed on by partisans long enough. 12 Apr 2013 Terry Moran: Gosnell Probably Most Successful Serial Killer in History After two years of almost total silence, suddenly it seems the media has decided the Kermit Gosnell story will not go uncovered for another day. Here, in a few words, is what the media landscape looks like today: 12 Apr 2013 Post Reporter: Gosnell is Just a Local Crime Story This tweet from the Post's Sarah Kliff is pretty revealing: 11 Apr 2013 KY Democrat: Progressive Activist Group Behind Secret McConnell Recording A new report identifies two founders of Progress Kentucky as the parties responsible for recording a February 2nd strategy meeting at Senator McConnell's campaign office that was later published by Mother Jones. Breitbart News was the first site to present the possibility, based on sources close to the campaign, that the recording might have been made by placing a microphone near a back door leading to a hallway. 11 Apr 2013 FBI Pulled Video Surveillance from McConnell Campaign HQ A source with detailed knowledge of the situation indicates that the FBI was seen pulling video surveillance footage from the building where the meeting was held. There is speculation, not confirmed yet by the FBI, that investigators may have zeroed in on a possible intruder and are now searching for specific individuals. 11 Apr 2013 Is a Return to Public Life a Good Idea for Anthony Weiner? Ace is right that the author of the Times' piece, Jonathan Van Meter, really dropped the ball on the timeline of the central event in his story. And it's not as if he didn't know that Weiner is trying to rehabilitate himself with this interview. Later in the story he writes "there certainly was a lot of strategic thinking in deciding to tell their story six months before the mayoral primary." And yet he lets Weiner skate on the ugly details that actually pushed him to come clean. 10 Apr 2013 Youth Unemployment at 22.9% The current unemployment rate among Americans under the age of 25 would be 22.9% if the labor participation rate had remained constant since 2007. [Hot Air headlines highlighted the WSJ story today.] 8 Apr 2013 North Korean Propaganda Update: Dogs of War Edition North Korea has certainly been crying havoc for the past month, so it's probably appropriate that they let slip the dogs of war in their latest propaganda video: 8 Apr 2013 Melissa Harris-Perry Wants Us to Spend More Educating 'Our' Children Melissa Harris-Perry has one of those MSNBC spots in which hosts "lean forward" into progressive verities. In this case, the need for more education spending. The problem as Harris-Perry sees it is that our view of parenting isn't sufficiently collectivist: 7 Apr 2013 Privately Funded Neighborhood Security on the Rise As cities are forced to lay off police officers for budgetary reasons, some residents are responding by hiring private security guards. Doug Mosher, an Oakland resident says "At its current staffing level, [the police] are just unable to provide regular patrols up in the neighborhoods." The result has been an increase in break ins and crime. But residents--primarily those in upscale neighborhoods who are frequent targets--are fighting back. Hiring private security is one way to fill in the gaps left behind by city layoffs. 7 Apr 2013 Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
Salon on Gosnell: What Coverup? Salon's Irin Carmon is annoyed at the pesky right wing writers who have recently announced that the Gosnell story deserves more coverage. Her response "There is no Gosnell Coverup" is a partisan pass at a story that has been passed on by partisans long enough. 12 Apr 2013
Terry Moran: Gosnell Probably Most Successful Serial Killer in History After two years of almost total silence, suddenly it seems the media has decided the Kermit Gosnell story will not go uncovered for another day. Here, in a few words, is what the media landscape looks like today: 12 Apr 2013
Post Reporter: Gosnell is Just a Local Crime Story This tweet from the Post's Sarah Kliff is pretty revealing: 11 Apr 2013
KY Democrat: Progressive Activist Group Behind Secret McConnell Recording A new report identifies two founders of Progress Kentucky as the parties responsible for recording a February 2nd strategy meeting at Senator McConnell's campaign office that was later published by Mother Jones. Breitbart News was the first site to present the possibility, based on sources close to the campaign, that the recording might have been made by placing a microphone near a back door leading to a hallway. 11 Apr 2013
FBI Pulled Video Surveillance from McConnell Campaign HQ A source with detailed knowledge of the situation indicates that the FBI was seen pulling video surveillance footage from the building where the meeting was held. There is speculation, not confirmed yet by the FBI, that investigators may have zeroed in on a possible intruder and are now searching for specific individuals. 11 Apr 2013
Is a Return to Public Life a Good Idea for Anthony Weiner? Ace is right that the author of the Times' piece, Jonathan Van Meter, really dropped the ball on the timeline of the central event in his story. And it's not as if he didn't know that Weiner is trying to rehabilitate himself with this interview. Later in the story he writes "there certainly was a lot of strategic thinking in deciding to tell their story six months before the mayoral primary." And yet he lets Weiner skate on the ugly details that actually pushed him to come clean. 10 Apr 2013
Youth Unemployment at 22.9% The current unemployment rate among Americans under the age of 25 would be 22.9% if the labor participation rate had remained constant since 2007. [Hot Air headlines highlighted the WSJ story today.] 8 Apr 2013
North Korean Propaganda Update: Dogs of War Edition North Korea has certainly been crying havoc for the past month, so it's probably appropriate that they let slip the dogs of war in their latest propaganda video: 8 Apr 2013
Melissa Harris-Perry Wants Us to Spend More Educating 'Our' Children Melissa Harris-Perry has one of those MSNBC spots in which hosts "lean forward" into progressive verities. In this case, the need for more education spending. The problem as Harris-Perry sees it is that our view of parenting isn't sufficiently collectivist: 7 Apr 2013
Privately Funded Neighborhood Security on the Rise As cities are forced to lay off police officers for budgetary reasons, some residents are responding by hiring private security guards. Doug Mosher, an Oakland resident says "At its current staffing level, [the police] are just unable to provide regular patrols up in the neighborhoods." The result has been an increase in break ins and crime. But residents--primarily those in upscale neighborhoods who are frequent targets--are fighting back. Hiring private security is one way to fill in the gaps left behind by city layoffs. 7 Apr 2013
Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCare25 May 2013, 10:55 AM PDT
Unions, the reliable Democratic supporters, split from president on ObamaCare25 May 2013, 10:55 AM PDT