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Yourish.com: Iran’s undeclared war against Israeli
Iran’s undeclared war against Israel is being raised several notches:Officials in Baghdad said that Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has given Major General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force Revolutionary Guards, the responsibil...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:30am -07:00T (455 words)
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Yourish.com: Thursday, briefly
Gee, you think they might have been lying all along? So much for the “we had to use keywords because we were flooded with applications” excuse.The scrutiny began, however, in March 2010, before an uptick could have been observed, according to ...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 7:30am -07:00T (261 words)
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Yourish.com: The NEW New Journolist spin
Out: There were so many new applications for tax exemption, the IRS had to choose keywords to sort out the riff-raff.In: The IRS peons were incompetent, but management put a stop to that as soon as they found out. So you see, there was no conspiracy. Also...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 7:00am -07:00T (710 words)
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Yourish.com: Mideast Media Sampler – 05/14/2013
1) Syria considerationsLast week former executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller wrote Syria is not Iraq. The gist of his argument is that he trusts President Obama but shouldn’t have trusted President Bush. It’s a silly argument. H...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 9:30am -07:00T (1124 words)
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Yourish.com: The New JournoList spin on the IRS
That’s funny. Two different articles, one in Mother Jones, one in the WaPo, yet they’re running the exact same explanation as to why the IRS targeted conservative groups filing for tax exemptions.From Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog:The context fo...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 1:30pm -07:00T (321 words)
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Yourish.com: The AP: Working hard to not tell the truth, much
Even the AP can’t hide the hate anymore, but don’t worry, they’re working hard on trying.Remember all that bullshit about the Muslim Brotherhood “moderating”? The media has decided to be honest about the Israel hatred in Egyp...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 8:15am -07:00T (343 words)
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Yourish.com: The unbiased media circles the wagons
The IRS targeted groups for their political ideology when deciding whether or not to give them tax-exempt status. The New York Times barely covered the story when it broke, downplaying it as an apology for a few lower-down echelons in an isolated case. No...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 5:30am -07:00T (943 words)
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Yourish.com: Happy Mother’s Day!
I have no kids, so these will have to do....
Dateline: 2013-05-12 9:15am -07:00T (10 words)
 
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Yourish.com: Terrorist, journalist, what’s the difference?
The Newseum is a museum in Washington that covers, well, the news business. Journalism, both print and television, is its focus. I’ve been mildly interested in visting it. They advertise heavily on WTOP in the DC area, and they run some interesting ...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 7:00am -07:00T (479 words)
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Yourish.com: Mideast Media Sampler – 05/10/2013
1) When is news not really news?The Newseum – a museum devoted to the news business – recently held an event to honor journalists killed in the line of duty. Included in that honor members of Hamas who were killed by Israel this past November....
Dateline: 2013-05-10 11:45am -07:00T (1160 words)
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Yourish.com: Friday briefs
Because we’re Jews: When have you ever read of any other country raising money for its enemies? This is Judaism.Jerusalem native Moti Kahana heads a group of Israeli businessmen and American Jews who travel to the Syrian refugee camps to provide hum...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 7:00am -07:00T (371 words)
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Yourish.com: This is why U.S. healthcare costs so much
Everyone shops using price comparisons. If you know that milk was $10 a gallon in Ripoff Mart and $3 a gallon in the supermarket, you’d never shop at Ripoff Mart. But look at how prices vary in hospitals.For joint replacements, which are the most co...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 7:00am -07:00T (397 words)
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Yourish.com: The Al Gore al-Qaradawi connection
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is visiting Hamas, thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Egypt. Al-Qaradawi is a vicious anti-Semite who is lying about the 3,000-plus-year-old ties of Jews to the land of Israel.A prominent Islamic scholar who is making a...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 7:00am -07:00T (636 words)
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Yourish.com: Jerusalem Day
Today is Yom Yerushalayim in Israel, the day that Jerusalem was reunited under Jewish rule for the first time in two milennia. I wrote about it six years ago. Take a look back, and take a look at Ofra Haza singing Naomi Shemer’s “Jerusalem of ...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 3:30pm -07:00T (71 words)
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Yourish.com: Anti-Israel bias on Jerusalem Day? Yeah, we’ve got that.
Israeli police detained the mufti of Jerusalem to interrogate him about a riot by Palestinians on the Temple Mount the day before. Western press is breathlessly reporting every moment; I could barely find the story in the Israeli papers. But take note of ...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 2:15pm -07:00T (1223 words)
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