In rare soundbite from GE's luxury skybox in the hereafter, Reagan advises PBC on comments about recently departed Maggie Thatcher....and your humble host asks, "Are students having sex at Boston College?"
--hear part of ex-pat journalist Frank Viviano's comments about the banking crisis in Cyprus, from today's in-depth interview package
--and hear a unique take on the prospect of a US-Israeli attack on Iran from Jeff Halper, an American living in Israel
--plot thickens in story of an American who was fighting with the rebels in Syria and is now in prison in the US
--Mother Jones scores with another secret tape of GOP meeting, this time a campaign huddle with Sen. Mitch McConnell
--prospects of GOP filibuster of gun bills in the Senate decline
--crazy guy with a knife stabs 12 or more at Texas college
--PBC is offered gun advocates to comment on knife fight, because "more guns" is always the way to go
--Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog has the dirty details on Obama's new Energy Secretary, MIT's Ernest Moniz
--federal judge halts plan to frack Monterey Shale in California
--American Conservative Union seeks cash from defense and construction industries to lobby against cuts to (you guessed it!) defense and construction
--California oyster farm's lease extension is included in bill to speed Keystone XL pipeline and expand offshore drilling--NY Times covers a story you heard here first
--oh, yeah, you were promised a story about sex at Jesuit-run Boston College
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