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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday that "the mob was fed lies" before the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. "They were provoked by the president and other powerful people,"...McConnell last week said he would listen to the arguments presented during the Senate trial before deciding how to vote on the impeachment charge of inciting an insurrection that resulted in the siege of the Capitol.

KRUGMAN: "FOR THE CHILDREN..." Paul Krugman covers all too familiar ground in his New York Times column today -- supposed Bush/Blair lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and a quote-fest from the always-reliable British press (no correction or retraction of his uncritical quotation of Vanity Fair's misquotation of Paul Wolfowitz, natch). David Hogberg does a fine job of revealing the true context of Krugman's deceptively out-of-context Bush quotes. Robert Musil has speculated that Krugman is positioning himself for a job at the Financial Times. But the best single paragraph is about Bush's tax cuts. It says, in part:...