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Full coverage: Virginia Tech massacre — April 18: NBC News releases a picture of Cho Seung-Hui that was in the package the Virginia Tech gunman sent to NBC between the two shootings on Monday. — Photos & audio — Virginia Tech students, faculty come to terms with the horror of the mass shooting at the Blacksburg, Va., school.
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Dinesh D'Souza / News Bloggers Blog:
Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen? — Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there is a public gathering there is talk of God and divine mercy and spiritual healing.
ABCNEWS:
VT Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit — Harassed Two Female Students; Concerns He Was Suicidal — A Virginia court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally ill" and potentially dangerous. Then the state let him go.
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
Updates on Virginia Tech — The inspiration for perhaps the most inexplicable image in the set that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC news on Monday may be a movie from South Korea that won the Gran Prix prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2004. — The poses in the two images are similar …
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Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
McCain says he backs no gun control
McCain says he backs no gun control
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Four Things To Remember When Reading Gonzales v. Carhart — As an antidote against the inevitable chorus of fake moderates arguing that today's abortion case is no big deal, four things to keep in mind as you ponder today's decision: — Don't take assertions by the Court …
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
The Profound Effects of Justice O'Connor's Retirement
The Profound Effects of Justice O'Connor's Retirement
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Justices uphold ban on abortion procedure … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that banned a type of late-term abortion, a ruling that could portend enormous social, legal and political implications for the divisive issue. — The sharply divided 5-4 ruling could prove historic.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court upholds federal abortion ban
Court upholds federal abortion ban
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
FBI RAIDS DOOLITTLE'S HOME — Breaking, from Roll Call: … More soon, I'm sure. — Update: Remember that a former key aide to Doolittle, Kevin Ring, who'd worked with Abramoff, resigned suddenly from his job late last week. As I wrote before, that's a clear sign that Ring may be preparing …
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Can conservative bloggers tell the truth? — Here's a simple challenge for John Hinderaker, a writer for the popular conservative blog Power Line who recently revisited the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign controversy. Upset by recent media references that suggested …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
INEFFECTIVE, EVEN FOR A LIBERAL — Eric Boehlert of Media Matters must be America's lamest media critic. We knew he couldn't argue; it now appears that he doesn't read so well, either. — What prompts this observation is this post by Boehlert in which he tries to rebut the observations …
Political Radar:
Fred Thompson 2008: A Matter of When — Not If — ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Fred Thompson's top cheerleader on Capitol Hill — Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn. — said Wednesday that the former Republican senator's entrance into the 2008 presidential race is a matter of when — not if.
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Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Eisner says it's time to get the public "emotional" about gun control — Appeals to reason are so passe. Or so suggested the former Disney CEO during his appearance this afternoon on CNBC's "Power Lunch," in which he called explicitly for the abolition of handguns in America.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Don't Reward Failure By Giving Money to NARAL — I'm sure Nancy Keenan is licking her sweet chops over the latest SCOTUS decision. It is, after all, probably going to be the biggest fundraising opportunity she's had during her tenure at NARAL. Bigger even than Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.
Rick Maze / Marine Corps Times HOME:
Experts: Force increases may not be enough — The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony Tuesday that increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps may not resolve severe and growing personnel problems. There was even talk of returning to the draft to fill the ranks.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Poll reveals most negative assessment of Iraq war yet — In the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, taken April 10-12, 69 percent of Americans say things are going badly for the United States in Iraq. That's the most negative assessment yet recorded, up from 54 percent …
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
This may look like a UN plane... but Sudan used it to bomb Darfur — Britain and America threatened yesterday to impose new sanctions on Khartoum after a United Nations report accused Sudan of disguising its military planes and helicopters as UN aircraft and using them to attack villages in Darfur.