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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.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Jack Kingston urged Guard ‘take a pass’ on Boston Marathon
Dylan Byers / Politico:
How long until we know?  —  It's been more than 24 hours since the explosions in Boston.
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Militia Groups Denounce Boston Marathon Attack
Discussion: NationalJournal.com and Hot Air
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Al Qaeda's Recipe for Pressure-Cooker Bombs
CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for April 16, 2013
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
PRESSURE COOKERS HELP MAKE GOOD BOMBS _ AND CLUES
Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Boston Marathon bombs: al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine taught pressure cooker bomb-making techniques
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Bomb Details Emerge in Boston Case
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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Paul Krugman:
Reinhart-Rogoff, Continued  —  I was going to post something sort of kind of defending Reinhart-Rogoff in the wake of the new revelations — not their results, which I never believed, nor their failure to carefully test their results for robustness, but rather their motives.
Discussion: Quartz
Tim Fernholz / Quartz:
How influential was the Rogoff-Reinhart study warning that high debt kills growth?
Discussion: Brad DeLong
CEPR:
How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake?
Susan Tran / WHDH-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: New pics from moments before, after blasts  —  BOSTON (WHDH) — Photos sent to 7News by a viewer show the scene just before and right after the bombs went off on Boylston Street.  —  7News has provided these pictures to the FBI as they continue their investigation.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
IS THIS THE BOMBER?  Man With Black Backpack Before Bombing - Then Without Backpack Moments Before Blast  —  These photos from yesterday's marathon were forwarded to me from a trusted source and came from a Japanese Flickr account.  —  This photo here shows the Boston crowd before the bombing... And then after the bombing.
Discussion: Doug Ross and Riehl World News
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Letter sent to Roger Wicker tests positive for ricin  —  An envelope sent to the U.S. Senate office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) included a substance that has tested positive for Ricin, two sources say.  —  It was not immediately clear when the envelope was received.
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Deadly poison sent to Sen. Wicker
CNN:
Breaking: Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility
Discussion: The Jawa Report
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
On Gun Control, the Dems Don't Have the Votes  —  In the wake of Newtown, the media cheered liberal politicians who thought the moment had come to cut back on the Second Amendment.  Liberal reporters gave enormous publicity to Dianne Feinstein's proposals to ban “assault weapons,” …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Sen. Reid rolls dice on gun bill
New York Times:
Senate Sets Flurry of Crucial Votes on Gun Measures, Some Expanding Rights
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Gun control: Senate to vote Wednesday
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
AP: Ex-wife says former SC Gov. Sanford trespassed  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer says ex-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford trespassed at his ex-wife's home and he has been ordered to appear in court two days after his special congressional election.  —  Documents acquired …
Discussion: The Fix, CNN and Ballot Box
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Ex-wife accuses Mark Sanford of trespassing  —  Jenny Sanford, the ex-wife of South Carolina congressional candidate and former Gov. Mark Sanford, has filed a lawsuit alleging that her husband trespassed at her home earlier this year, the Associated Press reported Tuesday evening.
Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
Mark Sanford Trespassed At Jenny Sanford's Home: Lawyer
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Tim Rohan / New York Times:
In Grisly Image, a Father Sees His Son  —  BOSTON — When Jeff Bauman woke up in a hospital bed on Tuesday, an air tube was down his throat, both of his legs had been amputated at the knee, and his father was by his side.  He tried to talk, but he could not.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama dismisses North Korean nuclear missile threat in interview  —  President Obama said in an interview that aired Tuesday he did not believe North Korea was able to marry its nuclear weapons and missile technology.  —  “You know, based on our current intelligence assessments …
Discussion: Politico
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Texas Attorney General: Democrats Pose Greater Threat To Texas Than North Korea
Discussion: Waco Tribune-Herald and BOR
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Gosnell Worker: Toilets Backed Up With Body Parts From Abortions  —  Former abortion clinic worker James Johnson testified today during the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell and provided jurors with a nauseating account of the horrific conditions at the abortion facility.
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Lawmakers grill FDA chief on outbreak  —  House lawmakers went another round with the chief U.S. drug regulator Tuesday over a deadly meningitis outbreak and how federal authorities should oversee the type of pharmacy that produced it.  —  Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …
Discussion: Politico
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Texas Soldier Arrested for ‘Rudely Displaying’ Weapon  —  I just got off the phone with Army Master Sergeant.  C. J. Grisham, a serving American soldier and veteran of the the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who recently was illegally disarmed by the Temple Police Department while out for a walk with his son.
Discussion: protein wisdom
 
 
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