Midweek link dump

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• A British inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings of 1972 finds that all of the victims were unarmed and peaceful, leading Prime Minister David Cameron to issue a formal apology.
• Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner reports that then-U.S. President George W. Bush promoted war as a means to revitalize the economy.
• Somali jihadists have forbidden the public from watching football on television.
• Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Arizona reports having lost control of parts of the county to Mexican gangs.
• U.S. judge Jeffrey White has upheld the need for the government to get a warrant to search a computer six months after seizing it at an airport. The Department of Homeland Security had argued for an infinite right to hold and search anything seized at an airport. White did not find anything improper in the government seizing the laptop or holding it for six months.
• The Republican Party of Lexington County in South Carolina has called for its own State Senator Jake Knotts to resign for calling gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley a "raghead". Haley is of Punjabi descent.
• The man who exposed longtime Washington Post reporter Helen Thomas as a racist, causing her to lose her job, reports receiving 25,000 hate mails including death threats.
• Ed Brayton discusses Damon Root's discussion of differences in the judicial philosophies of conservatives and libertarians.
• A 20-year study of 70 children raised in lesbian households finds the children to be better off on the average than children raised in heterosexual households.
• Mike the Mad Biologist describes the lack of scientists in the U.S. as "a demand-side, not supply-side problem."