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President Obama’s refusal to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister comes to Washington in March to address a joint meeting of Congress is a petulant, juvenile snub — one that couldn’t be more badly timed. The Israeli leader “spat in our face,” an unnamed senior U.S. official told Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “and there will be a price.” An unnamed source “close to Kerry” told the Washington Post the House speech “could blunt Secretary Kerry’s enthusiasm for being Israel’s primary defender.” That’s gangster talk, aimed at one of America’s closest allies — all because the Israeli leader dared...

A 10-year-old boy has been charged with criminal homicide after he brutally beat 90-year-old Helen Novak to death. Tristen Kurilla, apparently angry because the 90-year-old woman shouted at him, hooked a cane around Novak's neck and then held her down and beat her to death while she was in bed, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said today that they have charged the child as an adult for the murder of Helen Novak, a woman who was under the care of the child's grandfather. The Associated Press reported that the incident occurred on Saturday when the boy was visiting his grandfather's house...

Authorities aren't saying exactly what happened, but WCVB-TV reports that Chism can be seen on surveillance video carrying what appears to be a pencil and following the woman into a locker room. After he began choking the woman, other staffers quickly pulled him away, reports the TV station, which points out that the scenario "bears a chilling resemblance" to how teacher Colleen Ritzer was murdered at Danvers High School last year.

Authorities say a 15-year-old boy faces 2 counts of murder in the Christmas night slayings of two Newark children. […] The juvenile was apprehended in connection with the fatal shootings of a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy outside a home in the southern end of Newark near Interstate 78. […] Newark will end 2013 with more than 100 murders, the most the city has had since 2006. …

31 minutes into the debate and one thing is clear - Joe Biden’s behavior will appeal to the obnoxious who are already in his corner – but any decent person watching the circus environment of his creation - will recognize the absolutely sophomoric behavior for what it is. Biden had his first strike against himself when he walked out on the stage with his face pulled so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it. At first I asked my wife what Barbara Walters was doing on the stage. Biden’s non-stop, fake laughter was bizarre and painful to watch....

Still a BFD

While Mitt Romney "considers" Lorne Michael's offer to host SNL, Barack Obama is preparing for a Late Night comedy take-over!! Next Tuesday Jimmy Fallon will host a special President Obama-themed episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The episode will be filmed live from the swing state Obama lusts for University of North Carolina, instead of where he doesn't need votes the show's NYC studio.

A cash-strapped 18-year-old man from northern Sweden was found leaving a sex shop with a nipple chain hidden in his pants after his lack of funds prompted him to pilfer the trinket for his girlfriend. The man took his time browsing around the shop, which is called Ladyland and located in central Sundsvall, in June last year. Store employees recalled him as friendly and chatty, according to local paper Sundsvalls Tidning. However, upon leaving, the 18-year-old set off the store's anti-shoplifting alarm. A search of the man revealed he had pocketed a so called nipple chain, worth some 119 kronor...

New Ron Paul Ad ("Big Dog")

Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy's lawyer tried to have the charge dismissed, Riniker replied: "The legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute if it wanted to. The legislature did no such thing." According to the complaint (PDF), the girl is "the daughter of a well-known political figure in Grant County," and her brother, who is the same...

  Why Are the Movies Dying? David C. Stolinsky Oct. 27, 2011 The other evening my wife and I went to the movies. We intended to see “Margin Call,” a film about the financial crisis starring Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Paul Bettany, and Jeremy Irons. The cast is outstanding and the subject timely. But the film was playing in only one small theater in all of the West Side of Los Angeles. The theater held only about 150 seats, and all but the first two rows were taken. So instead we went to another theater playing “The...

Herewith is my proposal for a new word to be added to the English langtuage. I looked it up and no such word currently exists. The word is "ediphile". The word applies to (for example) a typical New York Times journalist who would call patriots and those genuinely concerned with the future of their country "terrorists" in an effort to generate "buzz" over their harebrained, left-twisted nonsense. Since Conservatives generally do not engage in this type of bomb-throwing juvenile name calling and are thus left undefended against same, we need a word to describe someone who would commit unspeakable acts...

Forget the Grand Old Party. Today's maddening, intransigent GOP is a Gang of Purists This was the week when the grand bargain on the debt ceiling all but died, when Republicans opted to continue impaling themselves on the hook of the Paul Ryan plan — because they really do want to voucherize and destroy Medicare.... Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who may care about the country but surely understands political strategy, then offered another path out of the box canyon into which Republicans have backed themselves — where they face the prospect of being blamed for collapsing the full faith...

Rogue 4 July tweets on TV news channel's politics service go viral but Fox News is apparently back in control Fox News has apparently fallen victim to hacking, with its politics Twitter feed repeatedly announcing President Barack Obama had been shot dead. @foxnewspolitics began tweeting the information to its 33,000 followers at about 2am local time, with the posts rapidly being shared around the internet. The rogue tweets appeared to begin after the account sent a message saying Fox had just "regained full access to our Twitter account". The following tweets all related to the supposed death of Obama, with...

I know from experience that I'm going to get into hot water over this, but I don't give a tinker's curse whether I do or not. There are times to keep your mouth tightly closed and there are times to yell. This is one of these occasions. In the name of the sweet and suffering Christ Almighty what is wrong with ye over there? How is it even remotely possible that a significant number of the citizens of your mighty and well-educated nation have created a political climate which sees Sarah Palin emerging as the most likely Republican choice to...

Two women are charged after a video showing a brutal attack on a teenage girl at a Baltimore-area McDonald's restaurant surfaced on the internet Friday. According to the Baltimore Sun, police have charged a 14-year-old girl as a juvenile, and charges are pending for her 18-year-old accomplice. The attack reportedly occurred April 18 at the 6300 Kenwood McDonald’s location. The Sun is also reporting that State’s Attorney Scott D. Shellenberger says that the assault may be classified as a hate crime because the attackers were both black, and the victim white.

County prosecutors from across the metro said Friday they are overhauling their policies to ensure that juvenile prostitutes are treated as crime victims instead of criminals, even as some regions of the state see an uptick in teen prostitution cases. "We need to do the right thing as it relates to children who are victims of prostitution," said Ramsey County Attorney John Choi, who was joined at a news conference by prosecutors, police chiefs and victim advocates from across the Twin Cities. "I believe we should be doing everything we can to get them out of the system, and never...

Juvenile Department Director Tim Loewen and Detention Center Director Scott Paasch explained that youths are held pre-trial only when a judge feels they constitute a flight risk or pose a danger to themselves or others. By virtue of being in the detention center, they argued, the youths present a danger that needs to be rectified by handcuffing them while they interact with the public in the hallways. Lawrence said such precautions should be applied far more selectively. She said shackling juveniles can prove psychologically damaging, making youthful offenders feel like hardened criminals or kindling repressed memories of abuse.

As Matthews ibnsults abnd smears against Reublicans become more crazed ans childish, someone should be putting together a video montage of all his slimy LibPerv attacks on their characters. From "She dopesn't know *anything!*, to "She's a balloon head!" to "enemy territory" to "She's crazy!", to "They're a bunch of racists!" to "He's a racist!" to "monochromatic" to "Bigoted". to "tribal" to "ethnic". to the numerous insinuations of corruption based on nothing but his opinion just to be able to smear...and on and on, The same should be done for Ed 'Hate Pig' Shults and all his slaner and calling...