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Archive for July 9th, 2009
How Mainstream Is Sotomayor?
Yesterday’s New York Times published an article on a new study by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice on the record of Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial decisions. The conclusion was that “she has a slightly higher rate of striking down governmental actions than her appeals court’s average rate, but that the gap is small.” A... »
Hamas TV: Suicide Bomber’s Children Shown Re-enactment of Mother’s “Praiseworthy” Death
On a Hamas children’s TV show that you absolutely must see to even believe, a roomful of children are shown a video of a suicide bomber leaving her children to blow herself up as a “martyr”. The roomful of children includes the children of the actual suicide bomber being celebrated in the video and... »
Two kinds of Palestinians?
In a very confusing move, the State Department has decided that it will resettle almost 1,400 Palestinians in the United States due to their having spent recent years in one of the roughest refugee camps. You may be forgiven for actually thinking that the rough refugee camps mentioned are in the West Bank or... »

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 [...]