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Facebook: all in favor of freedom of speech! (Except criticism of Islam and amnesty.) The watchdog Gatestone Institute notes: It was only a few weeks ago that Facebook was forced to back down when caught permitting anti-Israel postings, but censoring equivalent anti-Palestinian postings. Now one of the most sinister stories of the past year was hardly even reported. In September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at a UN development summit in New York. As they sat down, Chancellor Merkel's microphone, still on, recorded Merkel asking Zuckerberg what could be done to stop anti-immigration postings being written...

Four newspaper web sites have had articles on Abercrombie and his views about "Birthers" in the past three days.  It seems to have started with the Los Angeles Times that was addressed here, and which should be read before this item.  Then The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Honolulu Star Advertiser and Politico got in on the act. This is a huge, coordinated political campaign by Abercrombie to discredit "Birthers." But Abercrombie put his foot in it when he told Sheryl Gay Stolberg, writer for The New York Times, that he remembered Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham...