Monday, August 18, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Ferguson is Not Binary

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Nation

Ferguson is Not Binary: Erick Erickson
Eye Witness: “Brown Doubled Back Toward Police”…: Treehouse
Oh, the Things We Choose Not to See!: Claire Wolfe

Police, Looters Exchange Tear-gas, Rubber Bullets, Molotov Cocktails: ZH
Officer Down, Shots Fired In Ferguson, Molotovs Thrown At Police: ProgsToday
America's Chickens Come Home to Roost: Obiter Dictum

Democrat star Castro unsure if violent gang members should be deported: Exam
The Hill more or less publishes its ‘Democratic candidates 2016′ list: Moe Lane
De Blasio's Policies Already Taking Effect: TAB

Barack Obama’s Zero Sum World: Star Parker
Brown Autopsy: Contrary to Eyewitnesses, All Shots From the Front!: Sooper
Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before shooting: Jason Sickles

Economy

HHS Obamacare Agreement Also Full of 'Typos': Breitbart
The Market-Distorting Effects of Current Affirmative Action Policies: Leon Wolf
In a stew over inversions: George Will

Scandal Central

High-Flying Landrieu Orders 'Review' of Her Taxpayer-Funded Chartered Flights: Breitbart
'Dead Broke' Hillary Demands Presidential Suite, $39 Million Jetstream to Give Speech: TR
Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg’s Drinking Problem and Abuse of Power: Tatler

As Military Daughter Buries Her 2-Star General Dad, Obama is Nowhere to be Found: IJR
Distraught Mother Abandoned by Obama: Sara Noble
Rick Perry Becomes a Victim of Lawfare: Leon Wolf

Media

Media Shows Home Of Ferguson Cop Who Shot Mike Brown: Clash
DEEEEE-LICIOUS: Al Gore Says He Got Stiffed By Al-Jazeera On The Current TV Deal: HayRide
This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous: Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait Is Correct: “This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous”: Patterico
Sounds familiar: Press treats Perry’s indictment as a political scandal: Noah Rothman
'Thanks Michelle!': Disgusted teens across U.S. pose alongside new healthy vending machines: DailyMail

NYTimes Reporter: Obama ‘Greatest Enemy To Press Freedom In A Generation’: DC
Lawsplainer: How Mike Brown's Alleged Robbery Of A Liquor Store Matters, And How It Doesn't: Ken White
The knockout game seems to be alive and well: Hot Air

World

Islamic State jihadis kidnap more than 3,000 women and girls in 2 week rampage: Robert Spencer
Islamic State beheads hundreds of members of Syrian tribe: Post
ISIS brutally subdues rebellion in Syria, beheading and crucifying tribesmen who resisted their rule: NatlPost

Yazidi Woman Held Hostage By ISIS Pleads With U.S. To Bomb Prison With Her Inside: WZ
Obama Golfs As Three Girls Raped by ISIS Jump Off Mt. Singhal: Sara Noble
Philosophy and chemistry banned in schools by ISIS: Al Arabiya

Victor Davis Hanson On The State Of The World Under Obama's Foreign Policy: Hugh Hewitt
Robin Williams’ ‘Aladdin’ quote inspires Syrian rebels: Post
Unreal: UK Supermarket Pulls Kosher Items From Shelves Fearing Attacks By Anti-Israel Protesters: WZ

The President's True Colors Finally Revealed: Steven Emerson
IS Recruiter: “We Are Living In A Joy That I Can’t Describe”: Tammy Bruce
Lashes for Saudi woman who called morality police liars: newspaper: Reuters

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google Maps Has Been Tracking Your Every Move, And There’s A Website To Prove It: Elizabeth Flux
A Sky Full of Cameras: Tomas van Houtryve
Infected items looted in quarantine centre raid, Ebola patients flee: TVNZ

Cornucopia

This, This is Awesome: It's Madden Season: Ace
D.C. Whispers: Valerie Jarrett: “They Think We’re Done? Not Quite. Not Yet. Not Even Close.”: Ulsterman
Travis County (Austin TX) Grand Jury Indicts Rick Perry: AmDigest

Image: Islamist militants tweet gruesome images of dead American soldiers and vow to blow up embassies
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QOTD: "The president and the attorney general both spoke nobly about the First Amendment after two reporters were arrested in Ferguson, Mo., while covering the racial protests in the wake of Michael Brown’s death.

Obama said that “here, in the United States of America, police should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are just trying to do their jobs and report to the American people on what they see on the ground.”

Holder seconded the sentiment, saying that “journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.”

So why don’t they back off [New York Times reporter James] Risen? It’s hard to fathom how the president who started with the press fluffing his pillows has ended up trying to suffocate the press with those pillows.

How can he use the Espionage Act to throw reporters and whistle-blowers in jail even as he defends the intelligence operatives who “tortured some folks,” and coddles his C.I.A. chief, John Brennan, who spied on the Senate and then lied to the senators he spied on about it?

“It’s hypocritical,” Risen said. “A lot of people still think this is some kind of game or signal or spin. They don’t want to believe that Obama wants to crack down on the press and whistle-blowers. But he does. He’s the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.”" --Maureen Dowd

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