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Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 26, 2013 22 Comments
There have been several new developments today in the Boston bombings case. Authorities are searching a landfill for a laptop believed to be tied to the Boston Marathon bombers, according to CNN. Information from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself, plus other leads, spurred authorities to look through...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2013 3 Comments
A body was pulled from the water two days ago off India Point Park in Providence. There were suspicions that it was that of Sunil Tripathi, the Brown University student missing since March.  During the manhunt for the Boston Marathon Bombers, there were rumors that...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 25, 2013 8 Comments
As Professor Jacobson has noted, there’s no shortage of denial about Tsarnaev Brothers, the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing. Barry Rubin observes: Now that the two (primary, at least) terrorists from the Boston Marathon attack have been killed or captured, we enter a new...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 34 Comments
No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a “white American” was responsible, and others in the media and left-blogosphere who were hoping that another Timothy McVeigh-looking person was the perp....

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 19, 2013 14 Comments
UPDATE 1:30 pm EST: The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is at the New Jersey home of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber’s sister.  Authorities say that she has been cooperative and that there are no reports that she was involved in any of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 18 Comments
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....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2013 23 Comments
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...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 17, 2013 7 Comments
1) We wouldn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea Yesterday Max Fisher wrote, Knowledge of pressure-cooker bombs is not limited to readers of al-Qaeda’s ‘Inspire’ magazine: And “Inspire” was far from the first extremist publication to distribute instructions for making pressure-cooker bombs. Yair Rosenberg...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 08, 2013 39 Comments
Progressive and proud DC coffee shop Busboys and Poets, housed in a modern McDevelopment on the city’s NW side, turns out to be pretty thin-skinned when its customers balk at their politics. Server Nuria Kalifa-Jackson, wearing an anti-Israel shirt produced by CodePink, received a 10%...
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