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Listen to BOSTON POLICE SCANNER LIVE. Suspect #1 in black cap dead. Died in same hospital still caring for bombing victims. Suspects believed to be from abroad, foreign trained. "We believe this man to be a terrorist, someone who came here to kill people." Tied to...
Ben Smith on the crowdsourcing photo analysis and media failures of the past few days: The media's new and unfamiliar job is to provide a framework for understanding the wild, unvetted, and incredibly intoxicating information that its audience will inevitably see — not to ignore it. A...
It's still live on the internet. George Soros, enigmatic financier, liberal philanthropist dies at XX Full Obituary available here....
Just released by FBI: ...
Lesson No. 1 in blogging -- never preschedule, even by 30 minutes, a "no breaking news" post! Apparently the FBI is holding a press conference soon to identify a photo of a suspect. For real. UPDATE 5:20 -- Two suspects -- images to be released soon. A At...
News today, AP via Ed Morrissey, Nurse saw more than 10 babies breathing: A former abortion clinic worker has capped the murder trial of her former boss with testimony that she saw more than 10 babies breathe before they were killed. Kareema Cross is the final prosecution witness against Dr. Kermit Gosnell. She...
Denies media credentials to political bloggers, including Legal Insurrection...
Yesterday there was a wealth of speculation based on sleuthing at 4Chan and Reddit about possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. I didn't run the photos, because, well, these may just be guys in the crowd and the analysis did not impress me based on...
Blame NYS not NRA for failure of federal gun legislation...
1) Syria and contiguity Jacques Neria writes in Stalemate in the Syrian Civil War: While Assad has survived so far, he has not been able to quell the rebellion, the economy is in shambles, and so are most of the areas hit by the civil war. Hundreds...
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A follow up to last night's post, Salon.com ghoulishly race baits #BostonMarathon bombing with “white privilege” rant. James Taranto observes, The Privilege of Not Belonging A theory of white racism against whites. * * * Thus today's insight: To be white in America is to have the privilege of being able...
The vote took place on a vote to close debate. BREAKING: Bill to expand background checks for gun purchases is defeated in the Senate.— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 17, 2013 Toomey-Manchin Fails on Cloture Vote, 54-46; Four Democrats Vote for Filibuster bit.ly/17pjCi1— AoSHQ (@AoSHQ) April 17, 2013 Fundraising...
Various news reports of an arrest in the Boston Marathon Bombing, or an impending arrest. Remember, early reports the day of the bombing were inaccurate -- so don't bank on it yet. Not sure if this amateur sleuthing was accurate or not. Worth rereading: Judge William Young...
Marc Lamont Hill admits (to his credit) the obvious about the Gosnell news blackout...
The 844-page Immigration Reform bill was dropped on the public late yesterday. There will be a rush to a vote as on just about every other legislative behemoth in the past four years. David Frum, so far, is one of the clearer heads on the immigration charade known as...
