With 3 dead and over 130 people injured, what is the right wing freaking out about? Obama didn’t say the word ‘terror’ in that 3 or so minute speech. Never mind that nobody knew yet what the hell was going on or that terrorism tends to be a word with legal implications and that messing around with accusations might interfere with actually, you know, charging people and getting it to stick.
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Boston Marathon Bombing
Guantanamo prisoners clash with guards
Hunger striking Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees used improvised weapons to clash with guards before being confined to single cells, military officials said.
The stupid is strong today
If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted. – It’s an article of faith on the right that the gubmint has absolutely no right to regulate firearms, but can and should invasively and aggressively regulate a woman’s health care decisions.
Taxing who ought to be taxed
President Barack Obama’s new budget proposal, released Wednesday, would raise $16 billion in revenue over 10 years by getting rid of one of the ways millionaires and billionaires pay lower taxes than their secretaries. It’s called the carried interest tax break

Terrorism: Being armed isn’t going to help you much
If every man, woman and child at the finish line of the Marathon had a gun, it would have done them absolutely no good when the bombs went off