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From the UK Telegraph comes a tribute to the amazing courage of the two hostages killed in Sydney: That’s Tori Johnson on the left.  He was the manager of the Lindt Cafe, just 34 years old on the day of

A remarkable story by Jessica Pressler at New York magazine spread through mediaspace with lightning speed on Monday, reappearing in major media outlets with a speed normally only achieved by Star Wars Episode VII teasers flashing across teenage Facebook pages:

There’s a scene in just about every crossover adventure of Superman and Batman where a villain or henchman must be interrogated to obtain essential information.  Superman takes a stab at it first, but even the lowliest pistol-wielding thug laughs in

The campus rape crusade, which yielded positively Orwellian “consent rules”  at some institutions, was driven in part by an oft-repeated, jaw-dropping statistic that one in five women are victimized by sexual assault during their time at college.  The Justice Department

It’s been a couple of days since the “Sons of Anarchy” finale aired, but just in case, this is a spoiler warning.  Don’t read any further if you want to avoid knowing any details of the series ending. : :

It’s a good thing lying in sworn testimony before Congress isn’t a crime for liberals, or slippery con artist Jonathan Gruber would be a world of hurt.  Under oath, Gruber became a brain-damaged basket case who can’t remember anything he

In response to “Are You Smart Enough to be President of the United States?”: This reminds me of the running gag about the hapless Senator Bedfellow in the “Bloom County” comic strip, forever facing rigged “gotcha” questions from the satirical

Barack Obama and Rick Perry both got into the news by quoting the Bible recently.  In Obama’s case, the quote wasn’t even accurate, but of course he gets a total pass.  Plumping for his illegal amnesty orders at a campaign

The latest Person of the Year award from Time Magazine is another one of those generic group deals where they salute a group or class of people, rather than a specific individual.  Their rules have long allowed such citations, but

Sony Pictures is still bleeding confidential data from the sucking server wound inflicted by hackers, leading executives to take some remarkable steps to reassure understandably nervous employees.  From the New York Times: As hackers made public more Sony Pictures Entertainment

No big surprises in Louisiana on special election night; even the Democrat machine knew Mary Landrieu was toast, which was quite vexing to Mary Landrieu.  It looks like she lost by about 13 points to Republican challenger Bill Cassidy.  Landrieu

In response to Rolling Stone Editor Offers 2nd Apology Amid Intense Criticism: What a season of journalistic meltdowns we’ve had!  From the grand jury demolition of Ferguson mythology, to the media’s bizarre obsession with the Facebook postings of an obscure

Just the other day, Hillary Clinton told a half-empty auditorium in Georgetown that her vision of “smart power” included empathizing with America’s enemies and respecting them.   Presumably that includes the murderers of Ambassador Chris Stevens and his defenders, whose

A long-standing injustice perpetrated by the Obama Administration is about to be overturned by Congress, as reported at the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury

Iran turns out to be a big player on the Cyber War battlefield, as reported by ComputerWorldUK: For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations from 16 countries,

The latest high-profile hacking story is a raid on Sony Pictures that put a major film still in theaters, plus some movies that haven’t even been released yet, online for illicit downloads.  Variety surveys the damage: Copies of DVD screeners

Watchdog group Cause of Action has been trying to use a Freedom of Information Act request to get some information about a Treasury Department probe into the IRS improperly giving taxpayer information to the White House, as part of the

The media framing for stories about fiscal responsibility now involves portraying Republicans as “anti-science” when they object to handing out fat research grants for stupid projects.  For example, Politico’s big article on the subject is entitled, “Next Battle In the

The modern movie marketing machine is a marvel to behold.  We don’t just have trailers now.  We have teasers, which are very short trailers for the actual trailer.  The teasers get scrutinized and reviewed as if they were one-minute movies.

This morning, during prayers, a horrifying terrorist attack was perpetrated at a synagogue in Jerusalem. Using guns, knives and axes, two Palestinian terrorists killed four and wounded over a half-dozen others, before they were shot by Israeli police. Three of

In response to Obama Claimed to Have ‘Stolen Ideas’ from Gruber in 2006: Allow me to toss a few more tidbits onto the fire as we burn whatever remains of Barack Obama’s credibility: former Administration official Steve Rattner testifying –

I’ve long been fascinated with the business of manufactured popularity, in which various forms of sock puppetry are used to make a person or product seem much more popular than it actually is.  It’s amazingly easy to do on the