HARTFORD — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy criticized the Department of Defense on Friday after a second Pentagon report found that purchasing practices failed to comply with federal law intended to promote U.S. manufacturing. [Stephen Singer| March 4, 2016 |The Hartford Courant] The Defense Department’s inspector general reported last week that it found only partial compliance…

  Failed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been claiming that Donald Trump’s (and by logical implication, Bernie Sanders’) proposed rejection of free trade would start a trade war and tip America into recession. [Ian Fletcher| March 8, 2016 |Huffington Post] Failed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been claiming that Donald Trump’s (and by…