In case you missed it over the weekend, the FBI finally moved in and arrested James Everett Dutschke, the man now suspected of being behind those ricin-tainted letters sent to President Obama, Sen. Wicker and others. He’s scheduled to appear in court in today.
Botswanan President lightly wounded by over-excited Cheetah.
On Saturday evening, Montgomery County, Maryland police got an urgent and fake message claiming that someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer’s home. (In fact, he was fine and actually not even in town.) A perimeter was set up around the home, the whole deal.
What makes this jump out to me is that something seemingly almost identical happened at roughly the same time at the Michigan home of Rep. Mike Rogers (R). (Our Pema Levy confirmed the story around noon today.)
No evidence that the two incidents are connected. But uncanny and more than a bit unsettling.
A photo that tells you we’re living in the teens and not the nineties.
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If you’ve been watching US politics for a year or a decade or a century, this is amazing. in 2012 African-American voter turnout topped White voter turnout.
Think what you will about his policies, President Obama has masterful comedic timing.
Fascinating story. Meet Kenneth Feinberg, the man who’s become the go-to overseer of catastrophe compensation funds from Agent Orange, to 9/11, the BP Oil Spill, Virginia Tech and Aurora. He just got hired to take over overseeing the ‘One Boston’ fund.