ED DRISCOLL: Slate Airbrushes Racist Trayvon Martin Headline.
As Bremmer concluded, “Slate shouldn’t be using the Zimmerman trial to accuse all Americans of a lack of empathy for blacks.”
Well, yes. Especially when Zimmerman is of a diverse mixed ethnic background himself.
Which the media keep failing to note.
VIDEO: The Insta-Wife confronts Tucker Carlson, et al., about his Uncle Tim-ishness. Always outnumbered, but never outgunned . . . .
AUDIO: The Insta-Wife appears on the Hinderaker-Ward Experience talking about her book Men On Strike with John Hinderaker and Brian Ward.
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE: My Body Stopped Speaking To Me.
VIRTUAL PRESIDENT BILL WHITTLE TALKS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND THE SUPREME COURT:
“A WINNER, NOT A WEINER:” Greg Gutfeld For NYC Mayor.
JOHN HAYWARD: Yes, the Zimmerman trial is a racial circus.
In response to Martin Family Atty: ‘We don’t believe the focus was really race”:
That’s a remarkable statement to come from the Martin legal team, since race is the only reason we’re having this trial at all. Everyone from the Martin family’s lawyers, to the professional grievance industry, to characters like the New Black Panther Party was busy whipping up riot conditions and treating Zimmerman as a fugitive from racial justice, which led to filmmaker Spike Lee endangering the lives of an innocent couple that just happened to be named “Zimmerman.” And there’s a good reason the media referred to Zimmerman as “white” until photos of him finally leaked out, and they had to change it to “white Hispanic,” a very special demographic of which George Zimmerman seems to remain the only high-profile member.
Indeed. Though he’s actually blacker than Homer Plessy.
Related thoughts from Ann Althouse.
THE WAVE OF PROTEST: A wave of anger is sweeping the cities of the world. Politicians beware. “Just as in 1848, 1968 and 1989, when people also found a collective voice, the demonstrators have much in common. Over the past few weeks, in one country after another, protesters have risen up with bewildering speed. They have been more active in democracies than dictatorships. They tend to be ordinary, middle-class people, not lobbies with lists of demands. Their mix of revelry and rage condemns the corruption, inefficiency and arrogance of the folk in charge.”
Well, to be fair, the folk in charge have generally given them a lot to work with.
DER SPIEGEL: Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices.
Remember how Obama was going to win over the Europeans who had been alienated by that dumb cowboy Bush and his spy-happy sidekick Cheney?
SCOTT SHACKFORD: So How About That Polygamy? Time to Talk About It? “Polygamy will bring some interesting challenges to family court, and the solutions that countries that permit polygamous marriages use sometimes involve treating women and children in ways the United States (or other Western countries) probably doesn’t want to emulate.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ivy Tech looking at layoffs, campus closures.
Since it became Indiana’s statewide two-year college system in 2005, Ivy Tech Community College’s enrollment has grown by more than 60,000 students. Along the way the college has been called a national model for statewide efficiency and received praise for close ties to employers.
During that time Ivy Tech has also developed serious financial problems.
College officials say state funding has failed to keep pace with enrollment, which hit 166,000 students last year. The system is now wrestling with how to close a $68 million funding gap, including the possible closure of up to 20 of its 76 campus locations.
Ouch.
UPDATE: Reader Mark Raftery writes:
They may need to close some of their smaller campuses for financial reasons, but Ivy Tech is a god-send for middle class parents and students. It is five to ten times cheaper than traditional colleges, the facilities are first-rate, and the students can continue to live at home and work while they study. Two of my children got 2-year degrees from Ivy Tech, one continued with a program from Indiana University East to get a bachelors degree, with classes at the ivy-tech campus in our town. There is a good reason so many students are now attending Ivy Tech, which is a unquestionable value for that education dollar.
Good to hear.
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A TWEET THAT’S AMUSING IN ITS LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS:
Now threats and intimidation? Appalling how far congressional Rs are willing to go to try and impede success of ACA. http://t.co/VixwNIBwlA
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 29, 2013
CLAIRE BERLINSKI: The Gezi Diaries: Can We Still Call Turkey Civilized? “Throughout the country, protests sparked by the sight of cops kicking the snot out of peaceful protesters have been met by more cops kicking far more snot out of (largely) peaceful protesters. It’s true that some protesters have lost their cool and broken windows, smashed cars, and—in one remarkable case—hotwired a sizable backhoe to face down the police. But even the most violent protester is no match for what is, effectively, an army. Not a day goes by without reports of protesters getting pummeled. And that is not the worst of it: Not a day goes by without reports of arrests. What this means, in Turkey, is that hundreds of families may never see some of their loved ones again. . . . Yet, in the past decade, since the rise of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party, the world has decided that Turkey is finally democratizing—and this precisely as the screws have in fact tightened around crucial pieces of what you would call an ordinary democratic civil discourse and judicial norms. Indeed, Erdoğan has so thoroughly undermined free civic expression and the rule of law that a great many Turks feel that their country has been ripped from their hands.”
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FREE ON KINDLE THROUGH JUNE 30: The Fairy Rescue League. Reader/author Kevin Rattan notes: “I would point out – it has a boy narrator for boys to identify with, so might just help with the ‘boys don’t read’ bit.”
IS LANDSCAPING FOR CURB APPEAL worth the money?
CAROLINE GLICK: “US foreign policy is failing worldwide.”
A “DECIDEDLY NON-NEGATIVE VIEW:” 10 Years After the Fall of Saddam, How Do Iraqis Look Back on the War? “For those of us who lived under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and understand what tyranny means, … the difficulties of today, the pains of today, and the disappointments of today — and they are very profound, because Iraqis deserve better — these pale in comparison to what we had to endure.”
CLAIRE BERLINSKI: Notes On The Turkish Troubles. “What is not understandable is that the situation does not appear to be the chief concern, or indeed of any concern, to America’s ambassador in Turkey, Frank Ricciardone.”
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