New York Times Jun 25, 2012
Rate of Killings Rises 38 Percent in Chicago in 2012
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's first reading material each morning, at 5:30, is not a budget update, a legislative proposal or a packet of headlines. It is an e-mail from the Chicago Police Department listing the crimes that were committed during the night that just ended. By 7 a.m., he is calling Garry F. McCarthy, the police superintendent. That is unlikely to be their final conversation of the day, or even of the morning. ...read the full article


Wicked Local Watertown Jun 24, 2012
Holmes: A ‘furious’ diversion from the real issues
The issues our leaders are elected to grapple with are large. The things they find to fight about, once you pin them down to specifics are, too often, vanishingly small. ...read the full article


Reuters Jun 24, 2012
No evidence of White House cover-up in gun case: lawmaker
The congressman heading an investigation into a botched gun-trafficking case said on Sunday he had no evidence the White House was involved in a cover-up about the operation or in providing misleading information to Congress. ...read the full article


Chicago Tribune Jun 24, 2012
13-year-old boy among 2 dead, 13 wounded overnight
A 13-year-old boy was one of two people killed, and 13 other people were wounded, in shootings in the city overnight that stretched from Montrose Avenue south to 97th Street, authorities said. ...read the full article


USA Today Jun 22, 2012
Zimmerman defense releases tapes of his shooting account
Trayvon Martin covered George Zimmerman's mouth and nose with his hands and went for Zimmerman's gun before the neighborhood watch volunteer shot and killed the unarmed teen, Zimmerman told police in the days after the shooting. In the most dramatic retelling of the rainy night of Feb. 26, Zimmerman detailed the incident for Sanford, Fla., police in 8 video and audio taped interviews released early Thursday by Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara. The attorney did not return a call for comment. ...read the full article


The Atlantic Jun 22, 2012
The Real Scandal of Fast and Furious
Leave it to Stephen Colbert and his fearless writers to hone in on the extent of the cynicism and hypocrisy that marks the latest iteration of the "Fast and Furious" story. Before the sun had set on a day that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee had voted Attorney General Eric Holder "in contempt" for failing to produce enough documents about the failed gun-running sting, the gang at Comedy Central was telling it like it is. ...read the full article


Washington Post Jun 21, 2012
Stephen Colbert explains Operation Fast & Furious
Stephen Colbert exposes the government's "Fast & Furious" gun-tracking campaign as an unconscionable waste of money in an effort to take away America's Second Amendment rights while promoting senseless acts of violence like the movies for which it was named. ...read the full article


The Rachel Maddow Show Jun 21, 2012
Rachel Maddow - Gun rights fanatics invent violence conspiracy, ignore actual gun violence
Rachel Maddow describes the paranoid gun rights fantasy that is the basis behind the Republican political interest in the "Fast and Furious" gun tracking operation. ...read the full article


Washington Post Jun 21, 2012
White House, Republicans dig in for battle over Holder investigation
A day after a congressional committee recommended that the House hold the nation's attorney general in contempt in connection with an investigation of a botched federal gun-running operation, the White House and its Republican rivals sought to position themselves as the principled parties in a high-stakes game of election-year brinkmanship. ...read the full article


National Public Radio Jun 20, 2012
House Panel's Contempt Vote Against Holder Part Of Political Firefight
Good luck if you're looking to see what Americans think about the "Fast and Furious" gun-running controversy that has escalated into a constitutional fight between President Obama and the GOP-led House. The No. 1 concern of voters is clear: In survey after survey, the economy comes out on top. But the impact of Fast and Furious, the since-killed program that funneled weapons from U.S. gun dealers to Mexican drug gangs, is a lot murkier. ...read the full article