Officials brief press on marathon bombing. Watch.
With morning, I wanted to bring you up to date on where the Boston story stands as of this moment. Read More
Others have kicked this around a bit already — the media’s, and our collective, obsession with the word “terrorism.” But it was still nagging at me late into the night and early this morning, and it wasn’t until an hour or two after President Obama’s remarks yesterday that I put my finger on exactly why.
Two reasons really. Starting with the first: Why were so many people in the media standing on pins and needles, wondering whether Obama would call what happened in Boston terrorism? Obviously the word is heavily charged, and carries great political and legal significance, and if reporters were really interested in how Obama himself viewed what happened — and thus how he might respond to it — it would be perfectly appropriate. Read More
Well, it turns out the Path to Citizenship in the Gang of 8 immigration bill is the real deal.
A good example of the fun Marco Rubio is about to embark on: he’s having to caution fellow Republicans not to tie Immigration Reform to the Boston marathon bombing.
As the bombings unfolded yesterday in Boston, the background check compromise was losing ground in the Senate. Democrats are trying to save it.
“If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil, that’s it. Selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.”
President Obama, witnesses and Massachusetts officials respond to the bombing in Boston.