A.M. Links: Lethal Fertilizer Plant Blast in Texas, Dem Senator Calls Obamacare a 'Train Wreck,' President Got His Vote But He's Still Not Happy
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U.S. Congress Between five and 15 people died, and at least 140 were injured, in an explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas.
- President Obama's signature health care plan is headed for a "train wreck," warns Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who helped write the horrible thing.
- Obama got the vote he wanted on gun control. Then he got all pissy because it didn't go his way.
- Letters that tested positive for the poison ricin and disrupted life in the nation's capital have been traced to Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi, who is in a bit of hot water.
- New York's new gun restrictions were passed for ideological reasons, not to make anybody safer, says a letter sent to the governor by the Albany Police Officers Union. The letter goes on to blast the law as morally wrong.
- Medical marijuana won a nod from the Illinois House, which voted for a four-year pilot program permitting the stuff. Don't get your hopes up — it's still Illinois.
- Taking blood samples from DUI suspects requires a warrant, says the U.S. Supreme Court. So police across the country will have to find another excuse for jabbing motorists with sharp sticks.
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