Exceptional journalist Tom Gross reports: The U.S. government has announced it will finance the construction of a Palestinian computer center named in honor of arch Fatah terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 bus bombing on Israel’s coastal highway in which 37 Israeli civilians, including 12 children and U.S. citizen Gail Rubin, were murdered.... »
Archive for June 29th, 2009
NY Times Can’t Keep Its Story Straight
Seventeenth century English politician Algernon Sydney said that “liars need to have good memories.” Well, the folks at the New York Times should learn a lesson from that because they spend so much time spinning (and outright lying), that they sometimes lose track of their “facts” in the stories they spin. James Taranto of the... »
A Very Mixed-Up Anthony Weiner
While I often reserve some respect for Anthony Weiner (D-NY) due to his sometimes sensitive and sensible positions, every now and then he does something so stupid and demonstrative of such a lapse of intelligence and good judgment that it makes me absolutely livid. The last exchange of letters I had with him on... »
Sotomayor Overturned Yet Again
In this hot-off-the-wire news, the Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court ruled today in favor of the Connecticut firefighters suing over the denial of promised promotions, reversing the decision of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. This brings Sotomayor’s reversal rate up to an abysmal 67%, an astoundingly high rate, and casts some embarrassing doubt... »
John Boehner vs. Henry Waxman
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) fought a noble crusade against the Cap n’ Trade Energy Tax Bill on the House Floor on Friday, reading an hour’s worth of choice parts from the bill, illustrating the taxing effect it will have on everyone. (As The Hill reports, when asked why did that, he responded,... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]