Down goes Frazier!

Hearst officials say Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper has been put up for sale.
SEATTLE – Hearst Corp. put Seattle’s oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale on Friday and said that if it can’t find a buyer in the next 60 days the paper would likely close or continue to exist only online.
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Red-handed.

Power Line – War Crimes.
More on that UN School bombing the other day. Was it a school or was it a Hamas base? Watch the video and see for yourself.
One wonders, too, what was going on at the UN-run school. Why were dozens or hundreds of children present? Is the UN unaware that Gaza is [...]

Anatomy of a hoax.

Anatomy of a Hoax.
This is stunning to see laid out as it is. With the time that Hamas spends lobbing rockets into civilian cities like Sderot and then fabricating “evidence” of “atrocities” by Israel, you’d think they’d get around to setting up a useful and productive civilization for themselves at some point.
The message they should [...]

Here comes Chicago Slim!

Obama serves Reid taste of Chicago Way — chicagotribune.com.
Obama, often treated by the national media as the gentle Mr. Tumnus of American politics, got privately hardball with Reid over the [Roland Burris] issue.
According a story in the Tribune by Rick Pearson and Mike Dorning, Obama didn’t want the Chicago Way on parade in Washington, less [...]

Blagojevich impeached.

Ill. House Impeaches Gov. Blagojevich, Vote Is 114-1; Fate Of Indicted Democrat Will Pass To Senate Which Will Decide Whether To Remove Him From Office – CBS News.
Before the vote, lawmakers lined up to denounce the governor and expressed anger and embarrassment over his alleged behavior, that includes a criminal complaint that he attempted to [...]

ABC News: Bush: U.S. Calls for Monitored Cease-fire Pact

ABC News: Bush: U.S. Calls for Monitored Cease-fire Pact.
Can someone please tell me what relevant purpose there is in having President Bush’s face superimposed on a photo of a bombed out building in Gaza?
I mean, Getty Images/AP are supposed to be objective news outlets, right? Is that still the plot? Because I question whether or [...]

Self defense and proportionality.

Deadly And Proportionate Force: The Tragedy Of Hamas – Forbes.com.
The claim is that it is not permissible for the Israelis to kill many individuals, including civilians, to stop sporadic deaths from rocket fire. Sorry. As with individual aggression, proportionality has no place in dealing with deadly force, where the right rule is that all necessary [...]

Big Picture.

Mike Gallagher : Hamas, Israel and the American Media – Townhall.com.
On the question of why so many liberal Americans are siding with Hamas in Israel’s war of self-defense (how’s THAT for an anti-AP headline!), the Author, Mike Gallagher, points to Bill Gertz’s explanation, which to me, makes “big picture” sense:
But perhaps the most astute observation [...]

Corky Simpson Update–D’OH!

Home Run Derby » Corky Simpson would like his Rickey Henderson vote back – I want his BBWAA card.
It was all a mistake, apparently.
Climb down from the barricades.