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Update on the West, Texas, Fertilizer Explosion

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This piece from today?s Dallas Morning News is probably the best summary I?ve read yet on the oversight issues surrounding West Fertilizer Co. The opener: Texas? environmental agency knew in 2006 that West Fertilizer Co. was handling 2,400 tons a year of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate in a warehouse near schools, houses and a nursing home, documents show. The notation in a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality permit form apparently raised no concerns, either internally or with ... Quick Read

Tom Friedman Silent on Sichuan Earthquake

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Tom Friedman is quick to bash U.S. infrastructure in the course of idiotic columns on the miracle of wi-fi on China?s trains and the like, but he?s yet to write on last weekend?s earthquake in Sichuan. A disaster that?s killed nearly 200 people and set off a wave of protests against the government. Remember when Friedman wanted ... Quick Read

Fact-Checking Reuters and Media Matters

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Media Matters was angry last night that the cable-news channels were not reporting on the West Fertilizer Co.?s Department of Homeland Security ?regulation violation? regarding the storage of ammonium nitrate. They quote Reuters as their source: Reuters: TX Fertilizer Plant Was Storing ?1,350 Times The Amount Of Ammonium Nitrate That Would Normally Trigger Safety Oversight By The ... Quick Read

POTUS to Multitask in Texas

From National Review

The president is off to Texas where he?ll do what he?s supposed to do . . . Obama to Attend Memorial Service for Victims of Texas Blast . . . do what he probably doesn?t want to do. . . President Obama preps for Texas trip, dedication of Ge ... Quick Read

AP Summary: Illegal Immigrant (n)? Out. Illegal Immigration (v)? OK.

From National Review

First read Dan's piece on the AP's ridiculous new guidelines which eliminate “illegal immigrant' from its reporting, and then read this AP wire story from April 3 to see how well they're implementing the new policy. Up first, the use of “illegal immigrant' as a noun: Plenty of Arizona Republicans fear their state will go the way o ... Quick Read

Jonathan Capehart: Obama Is Not A Sexist Because I Say So

From National Review

According to Capehart, the president wasn't out of line when he called attorney general Kamala Harris “by far, the best looking attorney general' because Obama and Harris are friends: What’s also true is that Obama and Harris are longtime friends. She was a featured speaker at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte. And Harris was a guest at the state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. (Full disclosure: We were at the same table that night.) And. . . ... Quick Read

Carney Avoids Questions on Jay Z-Beyonce Trip to Cuba

From National Review

Via GOP.com: Despite requests from Members of Congress to explain why celebrities can evade the travel restrictions to Cuba, the Obama Administration has remained silent on this the. American celebrities traveling to Cuba as tourists glamorizes the Castro regime, one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. Why won’t the Obama Administration respond to questions regarding what kind of licensees Beyonce and Jay-Z used to travel to Cuba? Video of the briefing ... Quick Read

Fox News Reporter Going to Jail For Protecting Her Source?

From National Review

Via CNN's Jack Tapper: Journalism 101: Don't give up a source. But Jana Winter, an investigative journalist for Fox News, is facing hard time for refusing to do just that. A friend of Winter's told CNN, “She does not want to go to jail but is prepared to. She will not ever give up her sources and this whole ordeal has been very stressful.' In July 2012, anonymous law enforcement sources told Winter that before he went on a shooting spree, Aurora movie theater shooter James ... Quick Read

NYT: 'Deregulation' Benefits Consumers

From National Review

Here?s economics reporter Catherine Rampell writing on income inequalities in different cities: This two-tier economy can seem inevitable, but other middle-income cities ? particularly Sun Belt hubs like Houston and Charlotte ? are now offering a third option, says Edward L. Glaeser, an economist at Harvard. A large part of their appeal has to do with policies that make it easier to build homes and expand the affordable housing stock for those people fleeing cities like New York. Places like ... Quick Read

Ricin Letter Suspect Released on Bond

From National Review

False alarm? The Mississippi man charged with sending toxic letters to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator has been released from jail, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Tuesday. Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was released on bond, Jeff Woodfin, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Oxford, Mississippi, told Reuters. His release came as court documents showed a hearing on his detention has been indefinitely postponed but the charges against him had not been dropped. Let me haza ... Quick Read

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Update on the West, Texas, Fertilizer Explosion

Tom Friedman Silent on Sichuan Earthquake

Fact-Checking Reuters and Media Matters

POTUS to Multitask in Texas

AP Summary: Illegal Immigrant (n)? Out. Illegal Immigration (v)? OK.

Jonathan Capehart: Obama Is Not A Sexist Because I Say So

Carney Avoids Questions on Jay Z-Beyonce Trip to Cuba

Fox News Reporter Going to Jail For Protecting Her Source?

NYT: 'Deregulation' Benefits Consumers

Ricin Letter Suspect Released on Bond

THINGS WE LIKE

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