Obama Judge Finds D.C. Gun Restrix Unconstitutional; WaPo Ignores

September 18th, 2015 4:14 PM
A federal appeals panel today ruled parts of a Washington, D.C. gun-regulation bill to be unconstitutional. One of the judges in the majority, Patricia Millett, is an Obama appointee who once clerked for a judge in the infamously left-leaning Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Yet that angle of the story was curiously absent from Washington Post reporter Spencer Hsu's coverage of the ruling, even…

Why Is the ACLU a 'Civil Rights Group' When It Provides Legal Support

August 4th, 2010 8:52 AM
When the American Civil Liberties Union sues the government for its right to defend the cleric that inspired the Fort Hood mass murder, couldn't the media describe them as radical, or even left-wing? Instead, the headline in the Washington Post Wednesday was "Treasury sued over edict on radical cleric Aulaqi: Rights groups say rule prevents challenge to effective death sentence."The Post website…

Obama Intel Czar Blames FBI for Lost Opportunity to Question Underwear

January 21st, 2010 4:00 PM
President Obama's handpicked intelligence czar blames officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice for failing to permit the gathering critical intelligence from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Underwear Bomber who attempted to down a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day 2009.What's more, neither Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair nor FBI director Mueller or Homeland…

WaPo Spin of the Day: Look at Secret Service Failures Back to the Cart

December 7th, 2009 8:25 AM