Still no word from San Francisco on casualties in the Asiana Airlines crash at SFO some two hours ago, but reports from the scene suggest there are survivors. Remarkable considering the images of the burned-out plane on the runway.
Also remarkable: this is the first major commercial airline crash in the U.S. in more than a decade.
John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
Many critics have unfavorably compared Edward Snowden to Daniel Ellsberg because he fled the country rather than stand trial. But Ellsberg now says that’s not a fair comparison because “The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago.”
Both as a rhetorical question and a real question I’m curious just what Ellsberg means by that. His basic argument is that he was able to stay out on bail and that wouldn’t have been an option for Snowden. On the other hand, the White House at the time was running a special operations team against Ellsberg out of the White House, including breaking into his psychiatrist’s office and at least some discussions of having him killed. So I’m not sure we can call those the glory days.
Not everyone happy about “White History Month” parade float in North Carolina town.
Egypt’s top cleric, who stood beside top general announcing Morsi overthrow, goes into seclusion, warns of civil war.
A major insurer of schools has declined to continue offering coverage to Kansas schools after passage of a new state law allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms on campus.
The company, EMC Insurance Cos currently covers between 85% and 90% of Kansas school districts.
Whatever the facts turn out to be on who fired the first shots, the embattled and deposed Muslim Brotherhood now has its martyrs. Latest report list at least 51 killed in a clash between the Egyptian Army and Brotherhood protestors camped outside the military barracks where Morsi is apparently being held. More details on each side’s account of what happened here.
Three year old accidentally shoots himself in the head with an unattended hangun. The boy died.
Longtime TPM Reader JL tries a hypothetical with himelf. What would Rand Paul have to do, have to propose to get him to abandon the Democratic candidate in 2016?
I’m just one person and this is about just one moment in time but …
Yesterday, reading the NYT article on FISA Court, I found myself thinking, if Rand Paul were to make GWOT reform the, or at least a, centerpiece of his campaign … and if he were to get the nomination … what would he have to include, and perhaps more importantly exclude or downplay, to get me to vote for him over Hillary, assuming Hillary runs and defends the GWOT status quo.