Good for Overman - he's acting like a real journalist, and I hope his assailants are identified and properly dealt with.

But how about those 'journalists' at the New York Times and Washington Post who are enlisting a whole Lincoln Brigade of 'volunteer' muckrakers to root through Governor Palin's emails for the purpose of digging up, or insinuating, or inventing scandals to use against her - whether or not she's running for office?

Seems like journalists like double standards. They did no such research on the educational record, or the personal associates, or political activism of the 'community organizer' Obama, when he actually ran for President.

And it's a travesty of journalism for the NYT and WaPo to act as the opposition research bureau for the Democrat Party.

And in that ruling, Judge Sumi was illegally attempting to trump the Senate's own internal rules for special sessions - which the Senate followed. She's abusing her position as a Judge to engage in such blatant political hackery. Unfortunately, with the mainstream media wholly in the pocket of the unions and their toadies in the Obama administration, they'll be 'taken by surprise' when she's 'unexpectedly' overturned.

" (you do know his tapes were deceptively edited and ACORN was exonerated?)"

That's the leftist mantra on every thread that discusses ACORN. Enough repetition converts slander into truth, etc etc.

Links are never given, no evidence is given. Leftist Central issued that Party Line, and that's what its stooges are going to bleat, over and over and over. Not buying, LP. O'Keefe's videos let us witness what was said, 'editing' or no. Editing can't put words in the crooks mouths.

Another major case was Brown v. Socialist Workers ’74 Campaign Committee (1982). The socialists "rightly" said, “If we have to reveal our donors, they won’t give us money. They will get harassed. Their businesses will get blackballed and that sort of thing.”

It's only "rightly" if the anonymous donors or commenters favor the far left, apparently. The DISCLOSE act was the exact opposite of this "rightly" idea - it aimed to expose donors to the right, and hound them out of public activity. Another good example was the coordinated thuggery by lefties against supporters of California's Prop 8.

In other words, lefties, if your fat cats and opinionators must be protected against public knowlege, everyone else's donors and opinionators must be as well.

Dang, raising consciousness is BAD unless some flaming lefty does it. Indeed, truth is the new hate speech.

" Take a story from start to finish, investigate it, report it, and actually right a wrong."

When 95% of journalists think that anyone to the right of a RINO is committing horrible wrongs against the public, that journalistic model sucks raw eggs.

You did well. No argument here. We'll both keep an eye on the Erdogan government.

The point was, that Hagia Sophia was commandeered by the Sultan as a mosque and monument to his Islamic victory at Constantinople, and remained so for five hundred years in the face of Christian Europe. Only because Mustafa Kemal Ataturk deliberately chucked Islam in favor of secular government did it become a museum, and that 'shift in Turkish government' away from secularism appears to be commencing right now.

Same place you got your in historiphobia.

Historiphobes deliberately blind themselves to the Islamic custom of erecting megastructures commemorating their military victories, on the very sites commemorated. Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, will do for discussion.