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Indictment in MySpace teen suicide case

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2008 at 9:51 pm » 3 Comments

Via AP: LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought [...]

 

Barack Obama and other reality-challenged Democrats sail down Denial River

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2008 at 7:56 pm » 11 Comments

…. and where they’ll stop, nobody knows. Earlier today, I touched on the emerging controversy surrounding comments Bush made in a speech to members of the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. As the story has gotten more play in the mainstream media, the leftosphere has erupted in a full blown outrage reminiscent [...]

 

Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm » 2 Comments

Will check back in later tonight to catch up a bit.

 

Must-read of the day

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2008 at 10:09 am » 14 Comments

TV writer Cinque Henderson writes an insightful piece in The New Republic titled “Maybe We Can’t – The black case for Obama-skepticism.” In it, he talks about the fact that he is a minority within the minority – a black man who supports Hillary Clinton, and points out, as other writers (including yours truly) have, [...]

 

What will happen with John Edwards’ pledged delegates?

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2008 at 8:43 am » 1 Comment

That’s the question on a lot of people’s minds this morning. Avi Zenilman at Ben Smith’s Politico blog has the answer: Edwards still has 16 pledged delegates who have already been named — eight from South Carolina, four from New Hampshire, and four from Iowa. (He is projected to get an extra two or three [...]