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May 27, 2012 | | ENOUGH! After The Daily Beast’s Meghan McCain gave an interview to MSNBC about extremism in the Republican Party, Twitter and the blogosphere blew up with personal attacks against her. She asks: what will it take to stop name-calling and focus on the issues? UNSOLVED The man who recently confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz more than 30 years ago shared “intimate details” of the killing with detectives, sources told the New York Post. According to the Post, the suspect’s inside knowledge of the case has convinced at least some New York City Police Department detectives that Pedro Hernandez, a bodega stockboy at the time of the killing, was involved. But the FBI reportedly remains skeptical about the credibility of Hernandez’s confession. “The bosses are very skeptical,” a source told reporters. “They don’t believe him. He’s got mental problems, and there’s no other evidence. They think we moved too fast.” DRAW A LINE No more, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday after a massacre in Syria by government forces left 32 children and more than 60 other people dead. “Those who perpetrated this atrocity must be identified and held to account,” Clinton said. “And the United States will work with the international community to intensify our pressure on Assad and his cronies, whose rule by murder and fear must come to an end.” British Foreign Secretary William Hague also said he wanted to see a “strong response” to the brutal attack. Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi denied that Syrian forces perpetrated the attack, saying that the killing of women and children is not “the hallmark of the heroic Syrian Army.” GROWING PAINS Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg botched his company's IPO badly. Newsweek's Dan Lyons on the business challenges ahead—and why the kid genius may not be up for the task. CAMPAIGN CROUCH From Mitt Romney’s “prairie fire of debt” to Obama’s “cowpie of distortion,” the pastoral imagery has flown thick as flies on, well, a cowpie as the two campaigns fight over who is best equipped to manage America’s checkbook. Recent polls show Americans are concerned about the amount the government is laying out, and Republicans want to capitalize on that—leading Obama to say on recent campaign stops that Romney’s plan would lead to $5 trillion in tax cuts, crippling the debt. | | 
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