like telling Arizona they are colonizing because they insist on building on their own state lands when there's a bunch of illegals squatting there. Those freaking little arabs are leftovers from when Jordan invaded back in 48. The treaty with Jordan was signed back in 67 -- so why are the freaky little a-rabs still there? Ruin is correct. People just quit paying attention to (and paying for) Zacaria's type of nonsense. Slate has been losing money for quite a while now. If we hit a bumpy patch in the economy, it just might do a Newsweek. According to WSJ (8/26/11), "This week, Slate ... laid off a number of key employees, including its media critic, Jack Shafer, arguably the site's best-known voice. The layoffs came just weeks after Slate's parent company, Washington Post Co., reported that ad revenue at its online publishing operations, which include the Washington Post's website and Slate, fell 13% in the second quarter." Spot on assessment. One idea is to always use scare quotes with "militants", another is to stop using the word militants and, indeed, use the word terrorists with all the references to Islamic groups that are intolerant. Janine Zacharia was friends with my ex-wife, and got her start with The Jerusalem Report during that "other publications from Jerusalem" period Barry mentions. My ex-wife was interning at the same magazine during 1996 when she befriended Zacharia, who had already been on-staff for at least a year or so. We're talking here about the