Monday Salon published a “full accounting” of “how the media outrageously blew the IRS scandal.” This is the latest attempt by the left to dismiss an actual scandal as unfounded. But the claims of media overreach are couched in some
On Monday Al Jazeera published a full English version of a Pakistani report on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. One interesting aspect of the report is the suggestion that a retired Lt. Col. may have been spying on
Vanity Fair magazine has published a colorful and detailed account of the attack on the Benghazi compound last September. The piece is focused on the 40 minutes from the moments just before the attack to the time when a member
Liberals had a problem when it came to State Senator Wendy Davis. They liked her and liked her pink shoes. And yet, some of these same folks had been outraged over a Washington Post story focusing on White House counsel
One month ago CBS news reported evidence the senior State Department officials had killed off investigations unfavorable to the department. Now KDFW in Dallas reports that the law office representing the whistleblower who supplied information for that report has been
A small group of Hong Kong filmmakers have produced a short film on Edward Snowden. The five minute movie was shot over 4 days for a total budget of $550 and released last week on You Tube. So far it
After the prosecution rested its case today, defense attorney Mark O’Mara made an argument for acquittal based on the failure of the state to make its case. The specifics of the Florida case law involved won’t be that compelling to
Lakers center Dwight Howard is a free agent. He is considering offers from a number of teams including the LA Lakers and the Houston Rockets. At the moment the Rockets are considered the most likely bet despite the fact that
Prosecutors are expected to rest their case today after Trayvon Martin’s mother and brother testified that a voice heard calling for help on a 911 recording is that of Trayvon Martin. Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, was asked by prosecutor Bernie
This photo was published by the Hyde Park Herald on July 11, 2001. Then State Senator Barack Obama was participating in an annual parade called “4th on 53rd” in which politicians from the neighborhood march in costume. Last year we
Another prosecution witness seemed to backfire on the stand today when his testimony about self-defense on cross examination brought a chuckle from the courtroom and a rare smile from George Zimmerman. Captain Alex Carter is a JAG officer who formerly
Trayvon Martin’s step-mother and attorneys for his family have both said this case is not about race, but the left-wing media keeps insisting it is. Martin family attorney Daryl Parks used to compare Trayvon to Emmett Till and said his
Over the last week Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis made the rounds of national news shows to talk about her filibuster of SB5. There was lots of talk about her life story and her pink shoes. Apparently no one thought
Moody’s Investor Service estimated the pension liability of all 50 states for fiscal 2011 and found Illinois had the highest total obligation as well as the highest as a percentage of the state’s annual revenues. According to a new report,
Public Policy Polling has released the results of a new survey on Texas politics. PPP finds that Sen. Wendy Davis got a big boost from all the positive media coverage she received last week. Davis currently is +10 with 39
Several people on Twitter have noted Craigslist ads which seem designed to hire people in connection with the protests taking place in Austin, TX this week. It turns out these ads are part of an ongoing Planned Parenthood campaign, not
In the past week since her filibuster, Sen. Wendy Davis has been asked mostly softball questions by the national media. When David Gregory did give her one tough question on Meet the Press she gave an answer which could be
The sequester was not so scary after all. That’s the conclusion the Washington Post reached after surveying a list of scary claims the White House promoted just a few months ago. Back in February the White House released an intentionally
Politifact is at it again. Last week they decided to fact check a statement made by Gov. Rick Perry and found it “Half True” even though Perry was merely taking Davis’ own misleading claims at face value. Last week at
Thursday night Anderson Cooper interviewed Daryl Parks, an attorney representing the Martin family. Parks told Cooper “We don’t believe the focus was really race.” This is very much at odds with statements Parks made last year comparing Martin’s death to
Karl Rove was at the Aspen Ideas Festival Thursday and described the two big tactical mistakes Romney made that, in Rove’s view, cost him the election. The Atlantic‘s Garance Franke-Ruta has a piece recounting the conversation between Rove and Atlantic
Matt Taibbi is a left-wing writer from Rolling Stone. Today he writes in response to accusations that Glenn Greenwald is an advocacy journalist whose work is therefore suspect. It’s a long piece but here are a few highlights. And no
Renata Salecl is a neo-Lacanian psychoanalyst and philosopher who is interested in the subject of choice, specifically the social nature of choices. Salecl has spoken of the “tyranny of choice” to indicate that she believes choice presents a problem especially
John Nolte already pointed this out but here is the Inspector General’s full letter responding to Rep. Sander Levin of the House Ways and Means Committee about the use of “progressive” in IRS BOLO lists. I’ve pasted the core of
The House Armed Services Committee held a closed door hearing Wednesday and took testimony from three men involved in the response to the attack on the Benghazi consulate. General Carter Ham reportedly told lawmakers that he was not consulted about
