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Portrait of Navy Yard shooting suspect begins to emerge, including a 2010 gun incident in Texas.
Late Update: Another gun incident, this one in Seattle in 2004.
Boehner asks Obama for help delaying Obamacare.
Boehner actually released a kind of melancholy video version of the plea, after the jump … Read More
FBI releases photo of deceased Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis. Born May 9, 1979, Queens, NY. Lived in Fort Worth, Texas.
Washington Navy Yard is one of the off-the-beaten-path places I send family and friends who are visiting DC. The National Museum of the Navy there is not as grand as the Smithsonian fixtures, but it has some interesting exhibits and naval artifacts, it’s rarely crowded, and parking is easy.
And it’s just a cool place. Read More
Noted homophobe and generally far-right crazy person, Bryan Fischer, asks, Just what do I have to do to be gay-hating enough not to get picketed by Westboro Baptist church and Fred Phelps? Read More
On on-going efforts to sabotage Obamacare, President tells Republicans: Give it up. You lost the election.
Police clear one of two men who’d been sought as possible fellow assailants with the man who killed at least twelve this morning at the DC Navy Yard.