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New York Times in Hot Pursuit of Rupert Murdoch for Telling the Cold Truth About Islam

Rupert Murdoch is a media mogul, not a politician, but he owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, so he is plenty familiar with politics—and he is no stranger to battles with The New York Times. And yet unlike most politicians, Murdoch has always had a reputation for candor. And Twitter, of course, makes candor even easier; we are all just a tweet away from letting loose what we really think.

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JK Rowling issues blistering bitchslap to Wiccan wannabes

Of the various insights into the diversity of Hogwarts culture JK Rowling has been sharing on Twitter lately, one in particular caught my eye. It wasn’t the revelation, reported by the Guardian, that the school had Jewish wizards. (So what?) Nor was it that Hogwarts