Peter King calls for “increased surveillance” of Muslims after Boston (salon.com) Republicans Urge Obama To Treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Suspect, As ‘Enemy Combatant’ (Huffington Post) Thanks to my old friend from Backwash.com, Val, I knew about the bombs that went off in Boston before television-watchers did. She retweeted some of the first tweets about the bombs at the Boston Marathon as soon as they were posted, and when I switched on cable news I found that they were still calmly running stories on other topics.…

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Wonkbook: Can sequestration be stopped? (Washington Post) About a month ago I had car trouble, losing my car for a few days thanks to some lingering issues flaring up when the weather got incredibly cold. I was coming off of winter break, so I hadn’t been paid for a few weeks, and I wasn’t exactly flush with cash. We keep a reserve fund in the family for when unexpected things like this come up, so I was covered, but if I hadn’t had the money…

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Lindsey Graham Plans To Block Chuck Hagel, John Brennan To Get Answers On Benghazi (Huffington Post) It’s hard to believe that we’re less than a decade removed from when Republicans, then in charge of the Senate, threatened the so-called “nuclear option” to do away with the filibuster for good, all because Senate Democrats were holding up six of President Bush’s judicial appointments. Republicans cried that Democrats were abusing the filibuster like it had never been abused before, and looked to be on the verge of…

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