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Several Oregon government and law enforcement agencies are patting themselves on the back for preventing a possible mass shooting incident by sending a SWAT team to arrest a recently laid-off employee of the state’s Department of Transportation. A news release from the Medford, Oregon, police department (yes, they put out a news release announcing their good work) says the man purchased three guns after his dismissal, and that former colleagues described him as “very disgruntled.” He was taken to a mental hospital for evaluation. The problem is that the man doesn’t appear to have committed any actual crimes.

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Oregon Officials Consult Precogs, Arrest Man for Bloody Shooting Spree That Killed Four Next Week

Some positive developments this week in two ongoing Mississippi stories I’ve been covering. First, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has rejected the state’s motion for a rehearing in the Cory Maye case. Maye was convicted of capital murder for killing a police officer who broke into his home during a 2001 drug raid.

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Good News From Mississippi

Freedom Works’ Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, who have been heavily involved in the Tea Party movement, issued a funny little rejoinder today to David Brooks’ contention last week that Tea Partyistas are a mirror version of New Left radicals of the ’60s. Here’s most of it: [T]his decentralized grass-roots network has little in common with the New Left. It is rooted in the American traditions of individual freedom and constitutional limits on government power, and looks “anti-establishment” only because the political establishment ignores these principles.

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Mr. Brooks, Meet Mr. Smith

These three sentences appeared consecutively in today’s New York Times : But the real question, still unanswered, is whether you can cut school taxes without damaging schools. The average teacher salary in Hastings is $96,597

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“Unanswered” Questions That Answer Themselves in the Very Next Line

Palestinians pull out of peace talks . Ethics troubles mount for Sen.

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Reason Morning Links: Palestinians Balk, Virginia Says No to Obamacare, Helu Tops Gates and Buffet

Writing at The Daily Beast , Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris responds to the news that President Barack Obama is currently reading one of his books about Theodore Roosevelt. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Roosevelt was a man of action and a gifted political operator.

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Mr. President, You’re No Theodore Roosevelt

Earmark reform is all the rage for the minute in D.C.

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As Congress Gets Set to Yap & Maybe Even Ban Some Earmarks, Check Out Where DC Insiders Party on Your Dime

From our April issue, Anthony Randazzo explains why the White House’s claims that the economy is on the mend don’t add up.

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New at Reason: Anthony Randazzo on the Myth of the Recovery

Climategate and glaciergate have set off a firestorm of criticism against the less-than-transparent Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. Bowing to public pressure, the IPCC is now seeking an independent review of it procedures by the InterAcademy Council. The IAC is the umbrella organization for various national academies of science from countries around the world.

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Independent Review of U.N. Climate Panel Set