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Second Boston Marathon victim identified: Krystle Campbell — A second victim in the Boston Marathon bombings has been identified: Krystle M. Campbell, a 29-year-old originally from Medford, Mass. — Her father, William A. Campbell Jr., told Yahoo News he's in shock that his daughter was killed.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Bomb Details Emerge in Boston Case — BOSTON — The explosives used to kill three people and injure 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were likely some kind of “pressure-cooker” devices that sent sharp bits of shrapnel flying into victims in the vicinity of the blast, several law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Injured Saudi is a witness, not a suspect, in Boston bombing — U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday that a Saudi national injured in the Boston Marathon bombing is regarded as a witness, not a suspect. — The Saudi, who is recuperating at a Boston hospital, is in his 20s …
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Weasel Zippers and Outside the Beltway
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
PHOTOS of SAUDI NATIONAL Person of Interest in Boston Custody ...Update: Saudi Ruled Out as Suspect — Here is the Facebook page of the Saudi national guarded by federal agents at a Boston hospital. — Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi — The name was released by Townhall and Free Republic.
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Report: 2 escorted off Boston plane — Officials in Boston are taking no chances, a day after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon — including on flights out of nearby Logan Airport. — A plane headed to Chicago was brought back to the gate at Logan Airport, after some passengers …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, MyFoxBoston, Bloomberg and msnbc.com
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Jack Kingston urged Guard ‘take a pass’ on Boston Marathon — A year ago, Rep. Jack Kingston was so concerned about the National Guard's shriveling budget that he wanted it to “take a pass” on major events like “the Boston Marathon.” — The Georgia Republican pleaded with the guard's leaders …
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Daily Kos and Yahoo! News, more at Mediagazer »
Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
An Al-Shabaab Link to Boston Marathon Bombings? — A series of Twitter gloats today raised questions about the possible involvement of Somali terror group Al-Shabaab in the Boston Marathon bombing. — No person or group has yet directly taken responsibility for the attack that killed three and wounded 176, 17 of those critically.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Week, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon
Larry Celona / New York Post:
FBI grills Saudi man in Boston bombings — ‘Smells of gunpowder’ — An FBI investigator examines a bag inside an apartment in Revere, in a building on the street where a man being questioned in the bomb attack lives. — Police took a 20-year-old Saudi national into custody near the scene …
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Daily Mail:
Pictured: Boy, 8, who was waiting to give his runner father a hug at finish line is named …
Pictured: Boy, 8, who was waiting to give his runner father a hug at finish line is named …
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Riehl World News, The Smoking Gun, Israel Matzav, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Kate Kowsh / New York Post:
Roommate calls Saudi national ‘quiet and clean;’ number of injuries rises to over 170
Roommate calls Saudi national ‘quiet and clean;’ number of injuries rises to over 170
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New York Post:
Authorities ID person of interest as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital
Authorities ID person of interest as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital
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Carl Weiser / Politics Extra:
Schmidt: 'I've never been so close to death'
Schmidt: 'I've never been so close to death'
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Associated Press:
AP source: Boston Marathon bombs built out of pressure cookers packed with shrapnel
AP source: Boston Marathon bombs built out of pressure cookers packed with shrapnel
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The Week, WorldViews and Mediaite
CNN:
Tagg Romney: They messed with the wrong people
Tagg Romney: They messed with the wrong people
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Politico, The Hinterland Gazette and Post Politics
USA Today:
Boston bombs were pressure cookers filled with metal
Boston bombs were pressure cookers filled with metal
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ABC 7 Eyewitness News, Gothamist, Guardian, Outside the Beltway and The Week
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
FBI Press Conference: “This Will be a Worldwide Investigation”
FBI Press Conference: “This Will be a Worldwide Investigation”
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Fox News, The Daily Caller and Fox News Insider
Jimmy Golen / Associated Press:
FBI SEEKS IMAGES IN BOSTON MARATHON BOMB INQUIRY
FBI SEEKS IMAGES IN BOSTON MARATHON BOMB INQUIRY
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New Orleans Times-Picayune and Firedoglake
Mike Konczal / nextnewdeal.net:
Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems. — In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their “main result is that...median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Is The Reinhart-Rogoff Result Based on a Simple Spreadsheet Error? — So this is huge. Or, rather, it won't matter even a tiny little bit but it ought to be a big deal anyway. You've probably heard that countries with a high debt:GDP ratio suffer from slow economic growth.
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ThinkProgress, The Tell and Gawker
peri.umass.edu:
Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogof — Abstract: — Herndon, Ash and Pollin replicate Reinhart and Rogoff(2010a and 2010b) and find that coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting …
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
Obama's Second Term Already Looks Like a Failure — President Barack Obama's second term has so far been a story of high liberal hopes and scant liberal achievements. — The president has been re-elected, demographic trends favor the growth of his coalition, his party has a technological edge …
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Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, American Prospect and National Review
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Senate at war over Thatcher resolution — Senate Republicans and Democrats are in an intense battle over the contents of a resolution to honor former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died last week and will be laid to rest on Wednesday. — The fight has prompted Senate Foreign …
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BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway and The PJ Tatler
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James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Obama's snub to Thatcher: President won't send envoy to funeral - and leaves it to her old allies from the Reagan era — President Obama made decision not to send a member of his administration before yesterday's bombings in Boston — Instead, Reagan's former Secretary of State George Shultz …
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National Review, The Lonely Conservative, The PJ Tatler, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Ed Driscoll
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
No White House envoy to Thatcher funeral? Update: Boehner sending House delegation
No White House envoy to Thatcher funeral? Update: Boehner sending House delegation
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AmmoLand.com Shooting …, Naked DC and Heritage Action for America
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Axelrod: Obama Thinks Boston Bombings Could Be Related to ‘Tax Day’ — In explaining why President Obama didn't call the Boston bombings a “terrorist attack,” former adviser David Axelrod said, “I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is — we really don't know who did this — it was tax day”:
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The Lonely Conservative, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler, Jihad Watch and Conservatives4Palin
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes — WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” …
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ThinkProgress, Guardian, ACS Blog, The Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune and Shakesville
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
How out of touch is today's GOP? — I already touched on today's new Post poll this morning, but there are a bunch of numbers in here that really deserve their own post. — To wit: It finds that only 23 percent of Americans — that would be fewer than one in four — believe the Republican Party is …
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Washington Post, CNN, Taegan Goddard's … and The Fix
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Tom Kington / Los Angeles Times:
Pope Francis reaffirms crackdown on U.S. nuns — The pontiff backs a Vatican assessment last year that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was promoting ‘radical feminist themes.’ — A nun watches Pope Francis hold Mass in Vatican City last month before his first Easter message.
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Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh and Shakesville
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Pope Upholds Reprimand of American Nuns' Group
Pope Upholds Reprimand of American Nuns' Group
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No More Mister Nice Blog and The Agonist
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Barney Frank: ‘No Tax Cut Would Have Helped Us Deal With This’ — Barney Frank discussing the Boston marathon bombing on CNN this morning: — “We are talking about recovery here all morning, as this city, as this state tries to bounce back from this,” the CNN host said to Frank, a former congressman from that state.
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Jeff Flake · 19,330 like this — In a previous post I said that I wanted to study the Manchin-Toomey proposal before commenting on it. — Here are a few thoughts: Manchin-Toomey would expand background checks far beyond commercial sales to include almost all private transfers …
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New York Times, Washington Post, The Plum Line and The Fix
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Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Fate of Manchin-Toomey gun proposal uncertain
Fate of Manchin-Toomey gun proposal uncertain
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BuzzFeed, Politico, BuzzFeed and The Reaction
Katherine Connell / National Review:
After Boston, Congressman Urges Caution on Immigration Reform — Representative Steve King of Iowa, a prominent House conservative, says Congress should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday's bombing in Boston, where three people were killed.