Trayvon Martin was using a street drug called “Lean”

Lean is a concoction made from certain prescription cough syrups and a beverage medium, often made more palatable with candy like Skittles. One of the recipes for “lean” calls for using Arizona Iced Tea Co.watermelon fruit juice cocktail as the beverage of choice, and Skittles candy… the items found on Trayvon Martin’s body the night he was shot […]

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‘The Lynching’: Bill Whittle lays out Zimmerman facts media kept hidden

One more outrageous aspects of the press’s negligent coverage of the circumstances surrounding the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman confrontation is its insistence on describing Martin as having bought “Skittles and iced tea” at a convenience store roughly 40 minutes before Zimmerman, as a neighborhood watch volunteer, spotted him. The drink was not “iced tea”, and then […]

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POLITICO: Obama Must Use ‘Fear’

Despite mounting evidence of the federal government’s abuse of power, Politico’s analysts have decided that the cure for Obama’s second-term “doldrums” are that he must use “fear” to exert his will on Washington. “Obama does not instill fear–one of the customary instruments of presidential power,” write John F. Harris, Jake Sherman, and Elizabeth Titus. The […]

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5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations

The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter) into one of its sprawling leak investigations. As we wrote last week, by obtaining the call records of twenty AP phone lines, “the Justice Department has struck a terrible blow against the freedom of the press […]

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CBS Spins IRS Scandal To Advocate More Spying

The Internal Revenue Service has been caught harassing groups that seemed “conservative” or “right-wing.” Yet the fact that the IRS did not give the same unjust treatment to all right-wing advocacy groups is being treated  by CBS as a kind of negligence. Under the headline, “IRS targeting overlooked biggest players in outside political spending” CBS reported, […]

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