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Grover’s Best Trick
New York Magazine, by Jason Zengerle
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/2/2012 6:24:02 AM
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| In November 1995, a National Journal reporter boldly went where no member of the mainstream media had gone before: the Washington, D.C., conference room of Americans for Tax Reform on a Wednesday morning. That’s where—and when—ATR’s president, Grover Norquist, had been convening a weekly confab for various conservative operatives for the past couple of years. “Jackets are off and participants devour bagels and cream cheese,” the article relayed. “The goal of the Wednesday meetings … is to make sure the leaders of all the major conservative organizations know what everybody is up to.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/2/2012 7:50:13 AM (No. 9044101)
They´re saying Grover is over because a couple Republicans have caved on their pledge.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/2/2012 11:36:43 AM (No. 9044470)
FTA: “I have job security that most people don’t have, okay?” Norquist said. “At least the marijuana-legalization people could end up out of a job in a couple of years, if they win, right? We’re always going to feel that our taxes are too high.”
The Bush tax cuts took millions off the tax rolls. If we go over the cliff, 90% of new tax revenue will come from the not-rich. Those people will decide by the end of January that maybe taxes are too high. Let it happen.
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A Slow-Motion Sausage Factory
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National Review Online, by Robert Costa
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 5:46:22 PM
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Four months ago on a cold January day, an exhausted John Boehner walked into a windowless room in the Capitol basement, turned to his colleagues, and conceded. No longer, he told House Republicans, would he conduct closed-door negotiations with President Obama. House business, he declared, would now be ruled by “regular order.” In Beltway-speak, this meant that, from then on, Boehner would chiefly use the committees to craft legislation. Lawmaking, in almost every sense, would be slowed down. (Snip) It was a critical moment, and ever since, “regular order” has limited Obama.
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Calling a Spade a
Spade in Boston
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PJ Media, by Roger Kimball
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 5:41:49 PM
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One of the curious, but also most predictable, responses to the Boston Marathon bombings from the Left has been the fervent expression — amounting nearly to a prayer — that the perpetrator or perpetrators of this act of mass murder be “homegrown,” preferably white, male, Christian, and conservative. Why? Why does the Left prefer to have its terrorism served up by Timothy McVeigh rather than Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad? It’s an interesting question. That the Left exhibits this prejudice is, like Falstaff’s dishonesty, “gross as a mountain, open, palpable.” David Sirota, writing at Salon, gives almost comic expression to the genre
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Revoke Obama’s Peace Prize
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American Spectator, by Christopher Orlet
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 12:02:33 PM
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After a 45-year hiatus, Democrats appear to have recovered from Vietnam Syndrome enough to retake the mantle of America’s war party. They are welcome to it. (Snip) Obama, who less than nine months after his inauguration won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” while fostering “a new climate” in international relations, especially in reaching out to the Islamic world, has the U.S. engaged in conflicts in six Muslim nations. Today Mr. Obama has more troops in Afghanistan than when he took office.
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Authorities say between 5 and 15
killed in West explosion;
rescue efforts continue
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Waco Herald-Tribune [TX], by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 11:30:27 AM
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UPDATE 9:15 a.m.: A statement from President Barack Obama on the explosion: “Today our prayers go out to the people of West, Texas in the aftermath of last night’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant. A tight-knit community has been shaken, and good, hard-working people have lost their lives. I want to thank the first responders who worked tirelessly through the night to contain the situation and treat the wounded.(Snip)McLennan County Judge Scott Felton has issued a declaration of disaster for the county. ---- UPDATE, 8:40 a.m.: Officials say three or four West volunteer firefighters remain missing
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President Barack Obama: A tale
of two press conferences
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Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 7:49:23 AM
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President Barack Obama 4/15/13: (video) President Barack Obama 4/17/13: (video) Question: Why is President Barack Obama so much angrier and more animated about losing a Senate vote than about somebody bombing the Boston Marathon? Maybe it has something to do with this: The Senate’s effective rejection of President Barack Obama’s post-Newtown gun control bill robs the Democratic Party of an important tool for trying to regain a majority in the House in November 2014. “Are they serious?” a visibly angry Obama demanded of opponents of the Toomey/Manchin Senate bill.
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Gun Control Meltdown
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 6:23:37 AM
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President Obama´s gun control agenda was routed in the Senate on Wednesday, and Mr. Obama naturally blamed the National Rifle Association. The truth is that Mr. Obama invited this meltdown by assuming he could exploit the Newtown massacre to ram through a liberal wish-list that wouldn´t have stopped the next mass murder. The day´s biggest news was the defeat of the amendment expanding background checks by Senators Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.). It fell six votes short of the 60 needed to pass, as four Democrats defected:
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Dubya’s Reemergence
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American Spectator, by William Murchison
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 6:16:56 AM
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I’ve decided—and it wasn’t much of a decision: more a “duh” moment—that arguments over the legacy of former President George W. Bush will cease, oh, around the time we get an accurate count of all those angels said to be breakdancing on the head of a pin. The opening, on May 1, at Southern Methodist University, of the $250 million George W. Bush Presidential Center will further the discussion (or slugfest, whichever) in ways both predictable and unexpected. This is what happens, is it not, when individuals, however highly placed, seek to direct the course of public conversation.
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´Like a nuclear bomb´: Deadly fertilizer
plant blast devastates Texas town
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CNN, by Lateef Mungin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 6:01:36 AM
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The full extent of the devastation will have to wait until the light of day Thursday. But residents of the small Texas town of West already know what to expect. "There are a lot of people that got hurt," West Mayor Tommy Muska forewarned Wednesday night. "There are a lot of people that will not be here tomorrow." A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant on the edge of the town killed at least two people, wounded more than 150, leveled dozens of homes and prompted authorities to evacuate half their community of 2,800.
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Violating Immigration Law — by
Executive Command — in Texas
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National Review Online, by Andrew Stiles
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 5:54:47 AM
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The immigration issue is front and center in Washington this week, as the so-called Gang of Eight finally unveiled a comprehensive reform bill at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Meanwhile, in Texas, a federal judge is set to rule within days on a pending lawsuit that has gone largely unnoticed, although it could have serious implications for the immigration debate. The suit pits the Obama administration against its own immigration-enforcement agents, who are suing over the administration’s use of “prosecutorial discretion” to dictate how immigration law is enforced — or not enforced. A group of ten U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Exploiting the Boston massacre
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Washington Times, by Editorial
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 5:51:51 AM
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Bipartisanship is honored mostly in the breach, but nowhere is there more agreement among partisans in Washington than in celebration of Rahm Emanuel’s admonition that “you never want a crisis to go to waste.” The angels of mercy at the finish line of the Boston Marathon had hardly collected all the severed limbs in the killing field before partisan exploitation of the terror began. President Obama invoked his rules for civil behavior. “I’ve updated leaders of Congress in both parties,” he said, “and we reaffirmed that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats.
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Obama Responds to His Gun Control
Defeat With Self-Righteous Solipsism
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Reason, by Jacob Sullum
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 5:35:35 AM
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"There are good people on both sides of this thing," President Obama said in a gun control speech a couple of weeks ago, "but we have to be able to put ourselves in the other person´s shoes." He worried that "both sides of the debate sometimes don´t listen to each other" and wondered, "How do you build trust?" Not this way: There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn´t do this. It came down to politics—the worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections....They caved to pressure,
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It Wasn’t the Aryan Brotherhood,
Apparently: Texas Woman Confesses
to Role in D.A. Murders
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Daily Beast, by Christine Pelisek
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/18/2013 5:27:44 AM
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A Texas woman, the wife of a local justice of the peace, has confessed to being involved in a high-profile series of shootings in Kaufman County—shootings that were initially linked to members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Kim Williams, 46, confessed to Texas police about the role she and her husband allegedly played in the murder of local district attorney Mike McLelland, his wife Cynthia, and another prosecutor, Mike Hasse.(Snip)No concrete links to the Aryan Brotherhood were ever established. And in fact Kim Williams’s husband Eric, also 46, emerged as a prime suspect in the murders just hours
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
despite 90 per cent support. Truly,
he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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Obama angrily denounces
gun-rights groups as willful liars
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/17/2013 6:37:42 PM
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President Obama angrily blamed the defeat Wednesday of his centerpiece gun-control proposal on lies spread by the National Rifle Association, calling it “a pretty shameful day for Washington.” “The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Mr. Obama said in the White House rose garden about 90 minutes after the vote. “It came down to politics.” As he spoke, Mr. Obama was surrounded by family members of victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Also with him was former Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Boston Marathon bombings
present new test for Obama
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Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/17/2013 6:01:37 AM
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Authorities on Tuesday revealed little new information about the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, the most high-profile bombing on U.S. soil in more than a decade and a tragedy that presents a new test for President Obama. Obama, like all Americans, is standing by, waiting for answers as to who planted two bombs improvised from pressure cookers at the finish line of the storied race, and why. Three Americans were killed in Monday´s attack and more than 170 others were injured. "Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror," Obama said,
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Senate rejects background checks
on gun purchases in 54-46 vote
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Hill [Washington,DC], by Alexander Bolton
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 4:41:19 PM
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The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again. GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk
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A growing sense that we´re not
getting the truth about Boston bombing
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
down gun legislation ‘out of fear’
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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A Stirring Send-Off For
the Iron Lady – And No
One Missed the Obamas
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PJ Media, by Mike McNally
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 11:39:38 PM
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After all the controversy – it was too much, and too expensive; it would be marred by protests – this morning’s funeral for Lady Thatcher in London was a splendid and memorable affair, which did her memory, and her country, proud. It was a moving, dignified and pitch-perfect occasion: unmistakably British, and a fitting send-off for the country’s greatest post-war prime minister. Big Ben fell silent – for the first time since the funeral of wartime leader Winston Churchill – and tens of thousands of admirers lined the streets to applaud Lady Thatcher’s coffin
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CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb
´Right Wing´ Signature
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Lee Stranahan
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/17/2013 8:56:39 AM
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An article published on CNN´s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a ´signature´ of ´right-wing extremists.´ The article was co-written by Jennifer Roland and Peter Bergen. Bergen is the CNN ananlyst made the claim that right-wing extremists could be behind the bombing less than two hours after it took place. The article says (emphasis added) :A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the
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Let’s hope the Boston Marathon
bomber is a white American
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SALON, by David Sirota
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/17/2013 7:38:32 AM
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As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
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Obama: Gun lobby ´lied´ about
background check bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/17/2013 6:09:57 PM
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Washington — President Barack Obama says the Senate’s opposition to a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers marks a “shameful day” in Washington. He says a minority of senators decided “it wasn’t worth it” to protect the nation’s children. Obama spoke in the Rose Garden shortly after the Senate vote rejecting a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers. (Snip) The president pinned the blame for the measures failure, though five Democrats also opposed the plan. He also said the gun lobby and its allies “willfully lied” about background check bill.
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Misinformation and Anxiety in
Boston Terrorism Investigation
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PJ Media, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/17/2013 10:38:32 PM
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Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday’s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon. The anxiety stemming from the attack and the stream of inaccurate news about it is further freighted, moreover, by the FBI’s confirmation that two letters addressed to top political officials — President Obama and Senator Richard Wicker (R., MS) — tested positive for ricin, a deadly poison. As noted below, a man identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, has reportedly been arrested in connection with the mailings. Early this afternoon, massive confusion
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