The NY Times:
The Planned Parenthood facility has frequently been a scene of protests since a series of videos secretly recorded by a conservative group showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of fetal organs for research.
Both the police and Planned Parenthood officials emphasized, however, that they did not know the gunmanβs motive. "Since this is still active," Lieutenant Buckley said, "it would be premature to speculate" about a motive.
It is wise for the police not to speculate. Meanwhile, all reasonable people can hang this crime around the harpy neck of Carly Fiorina, the serpentine throat of Ted Cruz, the vile chords of Mike Huckabee and the entire, immensely irresponsible Republican Party -- which has become an accomplice to domestic terrorism.
The sooner the GOP -- now little more than a gang of violently cynical opportunists -- collapses, the saner this country will be.
I apologize for the brevity; I'll have more to say when I return. For now, I'm simply absorbing just how manifestly diseased is the modern Republican Party. I would ask for a statement of shame from a party spokesman -- but of that, I know the party is incapable.