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Reuters apparently shocked that people act horridly when a city’s being sacked.

Seriously, what did Reuters expect was going to happen?

On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi’ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had expelled the barbarous Sunni radicals.

Then, some of the liberators took revenge.

Near the charred, bullet-scarred government headquarters, two federal policemen flanked a suspected Islamic State fighter. Urged on by a furious mob, the two officers took out knives and repeatedly stabbed the man in the neck and slit his throat. The killing was witnessed by two Reuters correspondents.

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Reuters can’t quite bear to say that Obamacare is a bear for New Hampshire Democrats.

This Reuters article is fascinating reading, not least because it’s a hoot. Executive summary: Barack Obama and the Democrats’ call to run on Obamacare will be tested in New Hampshire… where people hate it, and both the Senator and two Representatives up for re-election this year are currently in deep trouble over the law and things aren’t improving for any of them*.

Let me drill down on this, with ‘this’ being the reaction of local voter Derek Gagnon:

Gagnon’s distaste for the individual mandate dovetails with a principal line of conservative attacks nationally on the law.

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Reuters: Eric Holder signed off on the raid of reporter James Rosen’s email account.

Such a bald statement from Reuters about the Department of Justice’s targeting of Fox News reporter James Rosen: “The Justice Department said on Friday that officials up to Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose report on North Korea prompted a leak investigation” (Bolding mine). But there are three things that we can safely enough deduce from this:

  1. The decision to try to criminalize what is pretty standard journalistic behavior – simply put, the government has always reserved the right to punish leakers while also accepting (usually through gritted teeth) that they had to keep their hands off of reporters – was ultimately made by Attorney General Eric Holder.  That is known.  They just admitted it.
  2. It is virtually impossible to credit that Barack Obama has regulated his government in such a way so that Eric Holder does not feel either obligated or required to go to his boss and say Oh, by the way: we’re going to name a journalist as a flight risk and potential co-conspirator in a leak case so that we won’t have to tell his news organization that we’re tapping his email.  Which does not mean that many people will not try to get around that rather commonsense observation.
  3. Eric Holder maybe will survive today, more’s the pity. He may even make it past next Friday. But even the Huffington Post has given up on this guy.

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