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The US media coverage of the Israeli election has misrepresented the results of Tuesday’s vote. This isn’t necessarily deliberate. Israeli elections are inscrutable for most foreigners, particularly for Americans who are used to the clarity of the presidential system and two-party system. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not lose and his challenger, former IDF chief of general staff and Blue and White faction chief Benny Gantz did not win. Despite the fact that Blue and White won 31 seats in the 120-seat Knesset to Likud’s 31 seats, Gantz cannot form a government under any circumstances. He cannot build a majority...

A THR and National Research Group survey reveals how Clinton voters and Trump voters view the Oscars differently. And you thought Obamacare was a hot-button issue. According to a new THR poll, Americans are nearly as divided about the Oscars as they are about health care. The survey — conducted by the National Research Group, which in early February canvassed 800 people (half Hillary Clinton voters, half Donald Trump voters) for their opinions about movies, award shows and politics — reveals that two-thirds of Trumpsters have turned off their TV sets because of an actor giving a political speech at...

<p>The 2015 University of Missouri uprising is widely considered a watershed moment for campus protests, and the rhetorical (and in some cases physical) aggression has only increased with the rise of Donald Trump.</p> <p>In fact, just a few short days after the now-infamous incident in which Mizzou communications professor Melissa Click berated and assaulted a student journalist—calling for some “muscle” to forcibly remove him from campus—students at Dartmouth College raided their school library, chanting “Fuck you, you filthy white fucks” at their studious peers, and even pinning one girl up against a wall for failing to display sufficient enthusiasm in support of their cause.</p>

As Ambassador Bolton said in the clip below from Fox News, Obama killed the peace process by pushing this anti-Semitic, evil resolution. He killed the peace process and all prospects for peace by destroying the foundation of the process. That foundation was "land for peace." Land for peace formed the basis of UN Security Council resolution 242 from the end of the 1967 Six Day War. It stipulated that in exchange for Arab recognition of Israel and peace with the Jewish state, Israel would cede some of the land that it took control over during the course of that war....

Assistant Professor Melissa Click, captured on video calling for “some muscle” to remove reporters from a campus protest site, was fired Wednesday by the University of Missouri Board of Curators, Chairwoman Pam Henrickson said in a prepared statement. The board voted 4-2 in favor of termination during a closed session in Kansas City, with Henrickson and curator John Phillips opposing the move, UM System spokesman John Fougere wrote in an email Thursday. Curators David Steelman, Donald Cupps, Maurice Graham and Phil Snowden voted in favor of firing Click. Click did not respond to a message seeking comment Thursday. The board...

It only took a couple of hours for the video to go viral; a bizarre confrontation between a student journalist and a communications professor during a protest at the University of Missouri last November. And the fallout was unprecedented. Especially considering the university is home to the oldest journalism school in the United States, maybe even the world. An institution ranked first in the country by the Radio Television Digital News Association, which university officials say, sets the standards for journalism institutions. In fact, less than a month after the viral incident, the RTDNA announced it had created the First...

COLUMBIA-- MU faculty member Melissa Click and MU staff member Janna Basler have apologized. And Tuesday night, Click resigned her courtesy appointment with the Missouri School of Journalism. Click was caught up in an incident Monday between a freelance photographer and protesters near the Concerned Student 1950 camp on Mel Carnahan Quadrangle. "Yesterday was an historic day at MU -- full of emotion and confusion. I have reviewed and reflected upon the video of me that is circulating, and have written this statement to offer both apology and context for my actions," Click, an assistant professor in the Department of...

Leadership with backbone would immediately shut the university down and move in to clean out radical elements and restore order within two weeks. Staff members involved in this mess need to be terminated and any student not interested in getting back to studies expelled. The behavior exhibited in all of this is inexcusable. The president was not responsible for the behavioral idiocy of someone else. I truly have a solution for this problem at MU. If this stuff is not stopped, we're going to end up with a civil war in this nation. Leadership is at fault for allowing it...

RATHER HAVE MY CHILD DIE THAN USE A GUN? If you were having trouble understanding anti-gun people, this will not help. A high school math teacher named Doug Van Gorder wrote a letter to the Boston Globe decrying the idea of having self-defense guns in schools. In part of his letter, he shows what can surely be described as one of the most telling views into the minds of gun banners. "But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in...

Last week on Car Talk, the "Puzzler" was thus: There is a word which, when pluralized, contains none of the letters of the singular version of the same word. I listened to the program this morning hoping to find out the answer, after being unable to come up with it myself in a week of trying, only to find out that The Puzzler is taking the week off and the answer won't be revealed until next week. So, how about it, all you wordsmiths? What could be the answer to this Puzzler?

On a gun forum, someone said not to click on Google because every time you click on a web site, the site makes money. How does that work?

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) -- Swindlers have stepped up their effort to fleece millions of dollars from online advertisers who use lucrative marketing networks run by Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., according to a quarterly report to be released Monday. The sales referrals generated by clicks on the brief advertising links popularized by the two Internet powerhouses are a sham 14.1 percent of the time, based on information collected from 1,300 online marketers. That's up from a click fraud rate of 13.7 percent three months ago, according to Click Forensics, a San Antonio-based consulting service that compiles the index. The...

Blind since age 3, Ben Underwood skateboards, shoots hoops and plays video games. How does he do it? Just like bats and dolphins"I'm a normal kid," says Ben, who lost his sight at 3. (above, he inspects his prosthetic eyes.) Photo by: Theo RigbyThe Boy Who Sees with Sound There was the time a fifth grader thought it would be funny to punch the blind kid and run. So he snuck up on Ben Underwood and hit him in the face. That's when Ben started his clicking thing. "I chased him, clicking until I got to him, then I...

Henry Winkler won fame on the old "Happy Days" comedy. He played Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, also know as Fonzie or the Fonz. In real life, Winkler certainly isn't the tough guy he portrayed. He is an ardent liberal who over the years has made campaign contributions to Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry and many of the usual suspects. Wednesday night on CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck show he made an appearance to plug his new movie. He was asked by the host: "So now if you saw -- I mean, if you had, you know, a remote control, like...

After the segment about the Sunday anti-war march in Portland, we were treated to the sight of the woman in the helicopter in Iraq, some time before a grenade blew her legs off. She is an Iraq war vet. She is running for office in Illinois or Indiana. I didn't catch which. We'll say it's Illinois. She says one can be loyal to the veteran and still criticize the war. This statement, like "culture of corruption," is one of the many, many talking point propaganda lines we have heard from Democrats and their dullard friends in the old media. The...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud." The proposed settlement, announced by the company Wednesday, would apply to all advertisers in Google's network during the past four years. Any Web site showing improper charges dating back to 2002 will be eligible for an account credit that could be used toward future ads distributed by Google. The total value of the credits available to advertisers will...

Today, as I listened to Rush Limbaugh and several other commentators, I was also obliged to listen to the top-of-the-hour ABC News reports. It took several news reports before I noticed something. During each of the reports ABC had a different reporter reporting from the front lines of the upcoming Democrat primaries. Some hours it was a woman, others a man. The strange thing was that while they reported on different areas and different states, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM quoted the same unnamed, undecided woman voter who said "I can't decide which to vote for but my candidate's initials...

'Safety bullet' invention aims to prevent accidental shootings A Florida man claims to have designed a safety bullet which locks up a gun when it's accidentally fired. Mike Worley says his simple invention takes gun safety to another level. He came up with the idea after a local boy was shot in his elbow while showing off his dad's .357 Magnum. The safety bullet can be hidden in the gun chamber and ejected quickly if the owner needs to fire a live bullet. If the safety bullet is fired, it jams the chamber and locks the gun until the shell...