The boys, both 16, were classmates at Riggs High School.
A 16-year-old witness who was hanging out with the boys told detectives that Williams and the other boy began to wrestle around jokingly after arguing about a paintball game.
The accused shooter then retrieved a semi-automatic shotgun, walked into the kitchen area and pointed it at the witness, according to the arrest affidavit.
Top House Republicans announced their recommendations Tuesday for the new Congress' committee chairmanships, an all-male list that includes returning Paul Ryan to the Budget panel and seven new faces to head other committees.
The leaders proposed waiving the GOP's six-year term limit for Ryan, R-Wis., to keep his chairmanship.
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords looked in the eyes of the man who shot her today and, through her husband, said she is now "done thinking about you."
October 25. Exemplifying the Post's steady rightward drift in recent years, this incoherent mush reads like about what you would expect if a committee composed of Charles Krauthammer, George Will and E.J. Dionne, Jr.--or Fred Hiatt all by himself--was tasked with writing it. Still, I'll take mush endorsing Obama over mush endorsing Romney. The editorial's last 3 paragraphs:
The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year’s best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were ready to endorse the full-throated conservatism he embraced to win the Republican nomination.
Tanabe served in a mostly Japanese-American unit of the Military Intelligence Service during the war, interrogating Japanese prisoners in India and China.
He volunteered for the Army from an internment camp where the U.S. government sent him as part of a policy to detain and isolate 110,000 Japanese-Americans after the start of the war with Japan. He spent time in both the Tule Lake camp in California and the Minidoka camp in Idaho.
Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future "Progressive Breakfast" lead piece, October 23. For any folks you know who are still looking for, or receptive to, facts or arguments on which candidate is better on jobs.
But one measure of the lack of intensity afforded to women’s issues by either candidate was that, while contraception was discussed, the word “abortion” did not come up at all, except maybe by proxy. Obama mentioned Planned Parenthood five times, once in the same sentence with Big Bird.
Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future website, today, mostly praising Obama's efforts to expose Romney and get him on the defensive, but concluding with the last 3 paragraphs of this excerpt (in a point consistent, I believe, with what Michael W wrote near the current end of his "Live-Blogging the Debates" thread), first sentence below being Borosage's lead:
This was the debate that finally exposed Mitt Romney as an empty suit running a campaign that is disingenuous at its core.
My neighbor, Glenn Kessler, Washington Post's factchecker, this morning. Romney earned 4 "pinnochios" for these claims, which the Post's ratings scale defines as "whoppers". This is the maximum number of stars a candidate for public office can earn for efforts to stretch, fold, spindle, mangle, and mutilate facts and reality. So, truly a breathtaking, stellar performance by the Mittster on this one.
Romney’s 12-million-jobs promise has garnered a lot of attention.
