Category Archives: Media Watch

Boston Bomber Roundup for April 24, 2013

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Lawrence Person

So much new Boston Bomber information has come to light that I thought I’d put a big old LinkSwarm on just that topic: It’s the Jihad, stupid. Mother of the Boston bombers: “If they are going to kill him. I … Continue reading →

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Two More Boston Bombing Tidbits

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Remember: Massachusetts has no death penalty. For Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be executed, he’ll have to catch a federal charge. Also, by way of IowaHawk, comes this oh-so-insightful take on who committed the bombing from NPR:

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Boston Bombing Suspect Update: One Dead, One in Custody

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Just in case you weren’t breathlessly watching coverage of being unable to see a suspect hiding under a tarp in a boat that wasn’t on fire you couldn’t see in a trailer behind a house you couldn’t see, the second … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 12, 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Time for another Friday LinkSwarm: Mary Steyn on Margaret Thatcher: “A generation on, the Thatcher era seems more and more like a magnificent but temporary interlude in a great nation’s bizarre, remorseless self-dissolution. She was right and they were wrong, … Continue reading →

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Liberal Anti-Gun Ads Target…Ted Cruz?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Lawrence Person

ObamaOrganizing For America is using anti-gun ads to target Sen. Ted Cruz. That’s some mighty fine political ad targeting you’ve got going on there, Lou. The same Ted Cruz that pantsed David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff because Dew … Continue reading →

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More on Margaret Thatcher: Quotes, Videos and Tributes

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Lawrence Person

More on the late Margaret Thatcher: In her own words. A few choice examples: “I am not a consensus politician. I’m a conviction politician.” “There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 4, 2013

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Been a while since the last Friday LinkSwarm, so here it is! The problem with Europe’s economy? It’s the spending, stupid. Government spending on bailouts, subsidies, grants, salaries and entitlements commands a much larger share of these economies than it … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Counterproductive Behavior

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Lawrence Person

You know what’s counterproductive? Trying to make satire disappear on the Internet because you’re offended by it. Here’s a chart of my blog hits over the last two days: Over 12,700 hits just today, and rising. In addition to the … Continue reading →

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WisCon’s Feminist Failfandom Brigade Gets My Locus April Fool’s Piece Taken Down

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Lawrence Person

In an effort to prove that they’re not dour, humorless, thin-skinned avatars of political correctness with authoritarian tendencies, Wiscon’s Feminist failfandom brigade had my contribution to Locus Online’s April Fools Day festivities taken down. (Note that, under the transparent pseudonym … Continue reading →

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Droning On and On

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Senator Rand Paul has launched an old-fashioned filibuster against Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan to protest the Obama Administration’s refusal to rule out drone strikes against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Under questioning by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Eric Holder … Continue reading →

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