(CNN’s John King reported last week that arrests had been made when none had. AP and Fox News followed suit.) By Friday night, when we all felt as though we were craning our necks around police cordons to get a better view of the action through our motley screens, it seemed as though the television […]

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(Boston was locked down Friday as police searched for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: AP via CSM) As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good English and seemed at home in his adopted country. While hundreds of police officers pursued the 19-year-old during a nationally-televised rampage across […]

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(Fourteen are dead and 200 injured after the West Fertilizer Plant exploded last week.) Everyone I know usually stops in West, Texas, on the otherwise barren trip from Austin to Dallas or Fort Worth (Waco notwithstanding), drawn by the Czech bakeries just off the highway. The biggest advertises “We Gotcha Kolache!” I go for the […]

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Editor’s Note: The Senate filibustered criminal background checks on gun buyers on Wednesday. A bipartisan proposal crafted by Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Pat Toomey fell short by six votes. President Barack Obama said the fight was not over but, as Reuters noted, this was his “best hope to pass meaningful gun-control legislation after the […]

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In 2006, Barack Obama, less than two years in Congress as a pure neophyte, was the only U.S. Senator to attend the first meeting of former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin’s meeting of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute. In the video above, Obama talks about the new economic order. Watch Obama heap praise on […]

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