The image of
cheering Watertown residents lining the streets honoring law enforcement was so reminiscent of the New Yorkers cheering the first responders going to the WTC in 2001. That's where your taxes go, folks. Let's have the honors from the
Globe.
Boston Globe:
‘ALIVE, CONSCIOUS, CAPTURED’
One of the men believed to be responsible for placing the bombs that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing 3 and injuring more than 170, has been taken into custody after a standoff lasting nearly two hours in Watertown.
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge was apprehended shortly before 8:45 p.m.
“They got him. He’s in custody,” a state trooper told the media gathered in the neighborhood. A crowd of onlookers broke into applause.
Boston Globe:
A relative of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said he repeatedly warned the 19-year-old fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about the bad influence of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed overnight in a shootout with police.
A picture has begun to emerge of 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an aggressive, possibly radicalized immigrant who may have ensnared his younger brother Dzhokhar — described almost universally as a smart and sweet kid — into an act of terror that killed three people and injured more than 170 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.
TPM:
New Bedford, MA police confirm to TPM that three people have been taken into custody for questioning by the FBI based on potential affiliation with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19 year old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
"FBI executed a federal search warrant this afternoon, two males and a female were taken into custody for questioning by them on the assumption that there was an affiliation with suspect number two," Lieutenant Robert Richard told TPM by phone Friday evening.
The three were taken from "off-site housing [where it's] not uncommon for U Mass students to reside," Richard said.
Still unanswered questions remain, but there is a sense of closure. That's important.
Non-Boston opinion from Stephen F. Knott:
George W. Bush’s low standing among academics reflects, in part, the rise of partisan scholarship: the use of history as ideology and as a political weapon, which means the corruption of history as history. Bush may not have been a great president; he may even be considered an average or below-average president, but he and — more important — the nation deserve better than this partisan rush to judgment.
There's no rush to judgment. Take your time and review his performance. He sucked. Even this garbage pice trying to rehab him is a just a polemic against academics with no actual data to suggest Bush deserves better. Well, I give you two things Bush did well that this guy didn't: PEPFAR and flu prep, which help greatly to minimize the pandemic of 2009. But (Iraq, Tora Bora, stem cells, Clinton's surplus to Bush's deficit, 2008 fiscal crisis) he still sucked.
Non-Boston opinion from Paul Waldman:
Many people thought that the Newtown massacre changed everything about the gun debate in America, and that new legislation was inevitable. The first part of that belief is still true; the second part is not. The bill was doomed for a number of reasons.
The Senate is an extraordinarily undemocratic institution, where outsized power goes to the small, rural states with strong support for unlimited gun rights. The 57 million Americans who live in California and New York get four votes in the Senate, all of which were in favor of background checks.
Non-Boston news from
Bloomberg:
U.S. hospitals are being urged to head off a spread of the new H7N9 avian influenza by looking out for people exhibiting flu-like symptoms who have traveled to China or had contact with someone who has the illness.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference call with health-care professionals yesterday to review procedures for treating bird-flu patients and controlling infections, Erin Burns, an agency spokeswoman, said in an e- mail. The Atlanta-based agency today issued interim guidance on the use of antiviral agents to treat H7N9 infections.