Morning Jolt . . . with Jim Geraghty July 15, 2013 So, no big news this weekend, huh? The Zimmerman Trial: Just One More All-or-Nothing Moment for Our Nation's Media In the past few months, we've witnessed news events where the media quickly turned the story into a binary choice between two options: Do we want to support the Syrian rebels or the Assad regime? Is Snowden a hero or a traitor? Do we stand with Morsi or with the Egyptian military? Of course, in all of those examples, both antagonists are deeply flawed, perhaps too flawed to be worthy of official U.S. support, or even public-opinion support. The Syrian rebels have all kinds of Islamist, priest-throat-cutting goons in their ranks, and they're taking on a brutal ...

  Harry Reid Is At It Again 07/15/2013 When Harry Reid gets frustrated, he threatens to change the Senate's rules to get his way. The Senate Majority Leader, a Democrat from Nevada, has once again threatened to change the way the Senate works —this time, to push through President Obama's nominees for several controversial appointments . Reid wants to change the rules so that it would take only 51 votes, a simple majority, to break a filibuster. Now, it takes 60 votes to end debate. The filibuster is a valued tool of minority Senators to keep the majority from simply enacting everything it wants. It's one of the major differences between the House and Senate, making the Senate the more deliberative chamber. But don't take our word for it —Reid and President Obama already made the case for keeping the filibuster and the 60-vote rule intact. They argued quite well for it when they were in the Senate minority. Obama said in 2005 : what [the American people] don't expe...

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