“These fake conservatives need to go away before they do more damage.” Brent Bozell, today on the Rove/Law money group to shut down Tea Party Senate candidates. Read More
Essie Mae Washington Williams, the long unacknowledged biracial daughter of arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond, has died at 87.
John McCain says he won’t support a filibuster of Chuck Hagel’s nomination. Which means about as clearly as can be that this drama (farcical drama, but drama) is over.
We’ve just gotten some very limited but telling detail on the end of that survivalist hostage standoff in Alabama. Police and FBI authorities raided the bunker and rescued the boy, who appears to be at least physically unharmed. The hostage taker died when the FBI agents moved in. Presumably the rescuers shot him during the raid, though this wasn’t stated explicitly. So possibly he took his own life as it unfolded.
Operationally just how that happened wasn’t clear. But the gist seems to be that hostage negotiators thought the situation was deteriorating rapidly and the hostage taker might be about to harm the boy. That’s when they moved in.
More news as we get it.
Law enforcement news conference on the latest developments in the Alabama hostage standoff. Watch.
We have very sketchy information. But the Alabama survivalist hostage standoff has ended. And we have reports that the 5 year old hostage is free and unharmed. More news as we get it.
Late Update, 5:04 PM: We now have multiple reports that the hostage taker is dead. What’s not clear is how he died, though some sort of law enforcement action or suicide.
As the GOP money establishment tries to shut down the Tea Party and its zany Senate candidates, there may be more obstacles than they realize.
Sheriff says Alabama survivalist who murdered school bus driver and took a 6 year old boy hostage in his underground bunker “feels like he has an important story to share.”
The ATF has given the official okay to the gun factory that will be located at The Citadel, the planned prepper planned community/ashram out in Idaho.