Mass killing at Colorado movie theater premier of new Batman movie will produce massive coverage, but no change in gun laws or enforcement, the NRA rules and Democrats duckAlso:
--excerpt from our interview with Charlie Glass, regarding the reasons Syrians want to overthrow Assad
--excerpt from our interview with David Vine, regarding expansion of US military bases worldwide
--judge in Bradley Manning's court martial throws out the evidence that the leaks did no serious harm
--Chevron wins oil contract with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq
--day 2 coverage of the death of Egyptian torturer Omar Suleiman in Cleveland, still no explanation of how he got there
--Louisiana Supreme Court justices scheme to prevent the only black justice from becoming chief justice
--San Francisco Chronicle buries an important story by Bob Egelko that an unidentified phone company is resisting an FBI national security letter demanding a customer's phone records
--San Francisco 'Ethics' Commission concludes testimony from the Sheriff's wife, and refuses to investigate the serious allegations that the Mayor perjured himself in sworn testimony before the Commission
--the late Curtis Mayfield would've been 70 this week, and there is a concert in his honor; we serve up a few choice tunes from Curtis.
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