First, Boston Police mis-ID’d the wrong suspects. Then, when they found the correct suspects, they engaged the two of them in a shootout and one escaped into the night, without a trace. A hysterical Mayor Menino (or was it Governor Patrick?) responded by ordering the entire Boston Metro area to cower in place, costing untold [...]
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Man behind ricin letters to politicians is a conspiracy theorist, Elvis impersonator
If the letters do in fact contain ricin, and not just a smear of castor oil that may fool preliminary testing, then this is a very serious threat and the suspect, Paul Kevin Curtis, should be treated seriously… but it’s damn hard. Who is Paul Kevin Curtis, the Mississippi man the FBI arrested Wednesday in [...]
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The U.K. Daily Mail is one of many media outlets reporting that the two bombs used in yesterday’s bombing are similar to those commonly used in Afghanistan and Pakistan: The two bombs that killed three people and injured at least 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were made from six-liter pressure cookers crammed with [...]
Read the rest of this entry »CBS News continues to hope Boston bomb suspect can be tied to the Tea Party
There has never been a Tea Party terrorist, ever. In fact, Tea Party events are well known for being extremely orderly and polite. The conservative movement has even gained a reputation of leaving the site of protests cleaner than the venue was when they arrived. The “persons of interest” for this Boston Marathon bombing that [...]
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Six hours after the first bomb went off, it is still too early to claim we have a great grasp of today’s events in Boston, but there are some things we can claim with relative certainty. The explosions were indeed bombs. Two detonated near the finish line at the end of the Boston Marathon. Relative [...]
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