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
Governor Rick Perry has scheduled a new special session of the legislature to begin next week. He announced that he will once again be asking the legislature to pass SB5, the bill which Sen. Wendy Davis successfully filibustered last night.
SOFREP, a special forces blog, has published the contents of Ambassador Stevens’ diary. The final entry made on September 11th reads “Never ending security threats…” Stevens also recounted a list of prior attacks in Benghazi very similar to the one
A twelve hour filibuster by state legislator Wendy Davis led to the defeat of a bill which would require abortion clinics in Texas to be more strictly regulated. The bill would specifically address some issues which were raised by the
Dershowitz weighed in on Glenn Greenwald’s publication of Snowden’s material Monday night on the Piers Morgan show: Dershowitz: Well it doesn’t border on criminality it’s right in the heartland of criminality. The statute itself does punish the publication of classified
In his speech on climate change Tuesday, President Obama seemed to make a turn on whether or not to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. President Obama has not previously declared himself on the issue of allowing Keystone
Hans von Storch is a German climate scientists who believes global warming is real but now admits, in an interview with Der Spiegel, that climate models seem to have some problems. Von Storch comes across as a moderate in the
One of the biggest battles in the Zimmerman case so far has been over the question of who yelled for help during the incident. Over the weekend, the presiding judge decided that prosecutors would not be allowed to bring two
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange placed himself at the center of the international battle over the fate of Edward Snowden this morning, posing a direct challenge to President Obama. Assange spoke on a conference call this morning. Audio of the call
Man of Steel gets a middling 57 percent rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes but a superior 82 percent from viewers. That’s fairly big split. In this case I think the division is between those who enjoyed Man of Steel
Chelsea Clinton has repeatedly described the inspiring life of her maternal grandmother as a strong influence on her commitment to service. She told part of the story earlier this week at a Day of Action in Chicago. And Life News
Anyone who witnessed last year’s Democratic National Convention knows the issue of abortion is seen as a plus by Democrats. But the Gosnell trial has changed the dynamic. Suddenly pro-choice politicians are being asked questions and, in their fumbling responses,
Fox News reporter James Rosen continues to create problems for the Obama administration. His latest report suggests that two State Department employees may have perjured themselves during depositions conducted in February. The depositions were conducted in relation to a lawsuit
In 2008 Senator Obama spoke in Berlin to an estimated 200,000 people. It was one of the highlights of his campaign: Today the President returned to Berlin and spoke to an invited crowd of just 6,000 people:
Has the collection of phone metadata on every American helped keep the country safe? According to testimony given this morning, the answer is yes, but not in a very significant way. Julian Sanchez, a Cato Institute research fellow who has
President Obama gave an interview to Charlie Rose which is set to air later tonight. During the interview President Obama admits the program creates enormous potential for abuse. Buzzfeed published a partial transcript of the interview set to air later
Last month the DNCC host committee made a police report about items it claims were lost or stolen during last year’s Democratic National Convention. The report assigns hugely inflated values to the stolen items to reach a grand total of
Talking points designed to respond to the scandal over the NSA’s collection of metadata claim that there is appropriate judicial oversight of the requests by the FISA court. But the record indicates the FISA court is just a rubber stamp.
