UPDATE: Rachel Maddow offered reporting from Pete Williams of NBC News from the transcript of the interview of Tsarnaev, which happened after he was read his rights and began cooperating. Tsarnaev told authorities that there was no foreign involvement; that he and his brother learned to build the bombs came through the Internet; and that [...]
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Right Smears John Brennan as “Arabist,” Ignores Purge of “Arabist” James Baker Wing
IF YOU want to start dissecting what’s happened to the sane branch of the Republican Party, it dates back to Georg H.W. Bush and James Baker, a time when realism in foreign policy took over for Ronald Reagan’s ramshackle militarism that led to Iran-Contra and near impeachment. The big story in the Republican Party over [...]
Economic News Buoys Obama, as Israel & Iran Chatter Grows
The pace of job creation surged in January, with the US economy generating 243,000 new positions while the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, according to government data released Friday. – CNBC This is fantastic news. Besides the people impacted by the turn in the economy, Obama reelect gets a boost too. “What’s not to [...]
Tim Pawlenty’s Neoconservative Spring
It’s like the ghost of George W. Bush, but with smoother segues. …and so it begins: Now is not the time to retreat from freedom’s rise. [...] Yet at the same time, we know these revolutions can bring to power forces that are neither democratic nor forward-looking. Just as the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, [...]
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