Dodgers' Zack Greinke Broken Collarbone in Scuffle With San Diego's Carlos Quentin

At the Los Angeles Times, "Dodgers starter Zack Greinke injured by enraged Carlos Quentin."

Also at the New York Post, "Dodgers warn Padres, post 'Anchorman' photo to Twitter after teams brawl."

#Gosnell Murder Trial: 'They’ll acknowledge it in lower-profile formats..."

A great post from Allahpundit, at Hot Air, "Gosnell might be the worst serial killer in history, says … “Nightline” anchor."

That's the mainstream media hacks at the title, by the way. They'll acknowledge the enormous crimes against humanity on Twitter, etc., but when it comes to making a monstrous story like this the lede, well, um, we wouldn't happen to dampen the Democrat momentum, or anything.

Scientists Find the 'Missing Link'

At the Los Angeles Times, "Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'":

A team of paleoanthropologists, after four years of analysis, has made its most detailed case that Australopithecus sediba is a direct ancestor of modern humans. But many experts are unconvinced.

With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long distances by walking upright on two legs.

After four years of intense analysis, a team of paleoanthropologists is making its most detailed case yet that a pair of ancient skeletons discovered in a grassy South African valley could represent the direct evolutionary link between modern humans and the family of human ancestors that includes the Australopithecus known as Lucy.

In a series of six papers published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, the researchers argue that the "mosaic nature" of the Australopithecus sediba specimens makes them a strong candidate to be the "missing link" — the branch of Australopithecus that ultimately gave rise to the genus Homo, which includes Homo sapiens.

The skeleton fossils have so many human-like features "across the whole of the body that it must be considered, at the very least, a possible ancestor," said Lee R. Berger, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who discovered the fossils in 2008. Berger was senior author of all the new studies.

But not everyone accepts this view. Critics say the skeletons are not old enough to be the precursors to Homo. Others say the similarities can be chalked up to the diversity of early hominids, but that certain aspects of A. sediba's anatomy make it an unlikely candidate for being our forebear.

At a minimum, the new details revealed in the papers are causing scientists to revise, or at least question, some long-held assumptions about the anatomical makeup of our extended evolutionary family...

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VIDEO: Lucy Pinder for Nuts Magazine

Yowza!

VIDEO PULLED.

PREVIOUSLY: "Lucy Pinder Photoshoot for Nuts Magazine April 2013."

Boom! Conservatives Hammer Despicable Blame-Shifter @AmandaMarcotte on #Gosnell Murder Mill

See: "Disgusting Marcotte: Pro-lifers drove women to Gosnell’s house of horrors."

Gosnell atrocities didn't happen because someone was denied a "safe" and "legal" abortion. So kindly shut the hell up @amandamarcotte .
— LilMissRightie (@LilMissRightie) April 12, 2013

Exactly.

These blame-shifting progressives are absolutely death-mongering ghouls.

Mind-boggling. And f-king sick.

Stop the #Gosnell Media Blackout

There's a backlash building against the Obamedia and its refusal to report on the Kermit Gosnell murder trial.

I'll have more blogging on this throughout the day. Meanwhile, if you you have time, via Weasel Zippers, "*Must-See* Documentary About Gosnell Clinic:Tying Women To Bed, Forcing Abortions on Them, Dead Babies In Jars, And The ‘Special Room’ For The White Women."

More at Legal Insurrection, "Tweet to break the #Gosnell news blackout."

From Conor Friedersdorf at the Atlantic, "Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story" (at Memeorandum), and from Mollie Hemingway, at Patheos, "Washington Post reporter explains her personal #Gosnell blackout."

Also, from Erika Johnson at Hot Air, "Gosnell abortion-clinic worker: I assisted with abortions while in high school."

Plus, AoSHQ has some of the pathetic push-back on the left, "More Gosnell: Wikipedia Weights Deleting Gosnell's Entry Due to Failure to Attract National Media Attention; Amanda Marcotte Declares, Contrary to the Facts, That Gosnell's Abbatoir Was "Underground" and Pro-Lifers Drove Women There."

Also, the hilarious Irin Carmon, at Salon, "There is no Gosnell coverup" (at Memeorandum).

Well, no, actually --- but the progs don't care about the facts.

I'll have more later...

Anthony Weiner's Second Coming

Via Glenn Reynolds, "WHY YOU HAVE TO LOVE THE NEW YORK POST":

And see Robert Stacy McCain, "‘It’s Really Astonishing. It’s Just a Deliberate Lie From Start to Finish’."

Also at AoSHQ, "The New York Times Deliberately Misstates All of the Key Facts in Weinergate, In Order to Deny Breitbart Credit, and to Suggest That Anthony Weiner Decided Himself to Do the Honorable Thing and Confess It Was No 'Hack'."

Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead

Simply amazing news out of Great Britain, at the Guardian UK, "Thatcher's death prompts chart success for Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead." And, "BBC to play Ding Dong in chart show despite anti-Thatcher Facebook push."

And at Telegraph UK, "Play Margaret Thatcher death song, her supporters tell BBC":

Two ardent supporters of Margaret Thatcher have called on the BBC to broadcast the song mocking her death.

The anti-Thatcher anthem Ding Dong the Witch is Dead has seen a surge in popularity since Baroness Thatcher’s death and looks set to retain a top slot when the Official Chart Show airs on Sunday.

In a controversial move the BBC are likely to play the track if it is in the top five, after executives are said to see little reason to take it off of the airwaves. A final decision will not be made on grounds of taste or decency.

But the move has found support in some unlikely corners as UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Tory MP Philip Davies, who have both paid glowing tribute to the former leader, said broadcasting the song was the right thing to do.

Mr Farage said: “If you suppress things then you make them popular, so play the bloody thing. If you ban it it will be number one for weeks.

The Radical Left Running Wild Across America

A great talking points memo from O'Reilly. And I think Charles Krauthammer is badly underestimating the deleterious effects of the progressive assholes. Free speech is under assault. Yeah, these may be fringe geeks, but they're having a real perverse impact on college campuses, shutting down debate and making leftist totalitarianism mainstream. Just ask Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Stops Traffic in West Hollywood

This is something else, at London's Daily Mail, "Bravely braless! Rosie Huntington-Whiteley shows off her sensational figure in tight halterneck sweater and sheer skirt."

Democrat Group Progress Kentucky Behind Secret Mitch McConnell Campaign Recording

I didn't write about the "big" Mother Jones scoop the other day. It was just too stupid. Hack journalist David Corn attempted to get another "47 percent" moment on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and now it has backfired badly on the radical left.

It turns out that activists from the far-left group Progress Kentucky have been fingered in the scandal. WPFL Louiseville broke the story, "Source: Progress Kentucky Behind Mitch McConnell Campaign Recording." And here's the update, "Mitch McConnell Tape Fallout: FBI Digs In, How Progress Kentucky Helps the GOP, Was it Illegal?"

The Inquisitor has more, "Progress Kentucky Secretly Taped McConnell’s Campaign Office, Democrat Reveals."

And here's Megyn Kelly's interview with Jacob Conway, the state Democratic official who outed the two Progress Kentucky idiots:

Lots more at Legal Insurrection, "Wow, bombshell in McConnell bugging case." And Memeorandum.

Communist Romany Blythe Organized Campaign to Celebrate Death of Margaret Thatcher

This is frankly incomprehensible to me, but then again, she's a communist member of Britain's Labour Party. The woman organized "The Witch Is Dead Parties!"

Seriously.

At Telegraph UK, "Woman behind street parties to 'celebrate' death of Margaret Thatcher named."

And at PJ Media, "Woman Behind Parties Celebrating Thatcher's Death Is, Surprise!, a Drama Teacher."

Michelle Malkin Slams MSNBC: 'What we're talking about here is the worst kind of collectivism ... and yes, it's anti-American...'

MSNBC = Maoist Socialist Nutball Broadcasting Company.

Watch Michelle on Hannity's:

And see Hot Air, "New MSNBC promo: You have the right to health care, education, housing, and food at all times."

Great Neck Synagogue Cancels Pamela Geller Speech

At Atlas Shrugs, "PAMELA GELLER EVENT AT GREAT NECK SYNAGOGUE CANCELLED:"THE SYNAGOGUE IS UNABLE TO BEAR THE BURDEN."

And a news video here, "Pamela Geller cancelled at Great Neck Synagogue in Long Island."

Also, "VIDEO: CBS NEWS ON GREAT NECK SYNAGOGUE CANCELLATION OF PAMELA GELLER TALK."

Plus, "CREATIVE ZIONIST COALITION STATEMENT ON GREAT NECK SYNAGOGUE GELLER TALK CANCELLATION."

And at the Jewish Press, "Gagged at Great Neck: Geller's Talk Cancelled, L.I. Shul, Sun. School Kids Threatened:

Geller was dismayed that her talk was shut down, but once her opponents were willing to put the safety of Jewish Sunday School children at risk, or simply to persuade the parents that there was a risk to their children, she understood her talk would be cancelled.

They threatened the children. Way to go progs! Hard to beat that for utter authoritarian thuggery!

Media Disgraces Itself in Abortion Doctor Trial

From Kirsten Powers, at USA Today, "Philadelphia abortion clinic horror":

Let me state the obvious. This should be front page news. When Rush Limbaugh attacked Sandra Fluke, there was non-stop media hysteria. The venerable NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams intoned, "A firestorm of outrage from women after a crude tirade from Rush Limbaugh," as he teased a segment on the brouhaha. Yet, accusations of babies having their heads severed — a major human rights story if there ever was one — doesn't make the cut.

You don't have to oppose abortion rights to find late-term abortion abhorrent or to find the Gosnell trial eminently newsworthy. This is not about being "pro-choice" or "pro-life." It's about basic human rights.

The deafening silence of too much of the media, once a force for justice in America, is a disgrace.

Progressivism is collective evil, and the mass media is working overtime to perpetuate it. This is truly a stain on our national conscience.

Goat's Head Delivered to Wrigley

Gnarly.

At the Chicago Tribune, "Goat's head addressed to Cubs owner Ricketts sent to Wrigley":

A goat’s head was delivered to Wrigley Field on Wednesday afternoon, addressed to Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, and police are investigating the dropoff of the “intimidating package,” officials said.

Cubs spokesman Julian Green said an unidentified person dropped off a package with a goat’s head at Gate K of the ballpark at 1060 W. Addison St.

The head was all black and had a U.S. Department of Agriculture tag on its ear, a police source said.

It was delivered by a man who drove up to the ballpark's security gate, the source said. The man gave the package to a security guard and asked him to deliver it to Tom Ricketts, the source said. The man then got back into his truck and drove away.

The package, which did not contain a note, was never delivered to Ricketts, the source said...

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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Doubles Down on Collectivist 'Lean Forward' Propaganda

See Andrew Johnson, at National Review, "Melissa Harris-Perry ‘Doubles Down’."

And a great Megyn Kelly panel at Fox News:

Freedom, Patriotism, Integrity, Service, and Character

Allen West discusses the Joe Foss Institute and the Bowdoin College NAS report:

Nothing Is to Be Gained by Appeasing the Radical Left

A letter to Instapundit, from Professor Stephen Clark:

Over time, I’ve read opinion pieces in which the writer ponders the question of why Obama persists in pushing gun-control legislation: Is he sincere and actually believe his own BS, or is it simply to gin up his base? Well, probably both. But the real issue continues to be that guns have taken center stage in an ongoing cultural war. In particular, any legislation passed will be something to defend against the depredations of the cultural other. Look at the distorting effects of Roe v Wade over the years. In how many venues have supporters of abortion rights amplified criticism of the decision into a general assault to be resisted at all costs.

From this point forward, criticism of any control legislation will be demagogued; the critic painted as one indifferent to the murder of children.

The best reason for unyielding opposition to any of the legislation being contemplated is that the legislation is terrible on its face – even failing to address the advertised concerns of those supporting it. However, running a close second to that reason is this: Nothing is to be gained and much is to be lost by appeasing those who simply dislike you. They will continue to dislike you, and all that they think you represent, regardless.

That's actually the main reason to oppose anything from the left. It doesn't matter how good the legislation is, there's no upside in joining the radical progressives. They'll twist and distort any public policy to push the socialist agenda and destroy anyone who stands in the way.

Resist. These. Assholes.

Origins of CIA's Not-So-Secret Drone War in Pakistan

At the video, a Democracy Now! interview with Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times.

And here's his report from last Sunday's New York Times, "RISE OF THE PREDATORS: A Secret Deal on Drones, Sealed in Blood."

Part II is here.

And see Jonathan S. Landay, at McClatchy News, "Obama’s drone war kills ‘others,’ not just al Qaida leaders."

You'd think the left would be calling for war crimes tribunals for Obama/Biden, but not.