And this is something not entirely explicable by some of the fringe views held by Tea Partiers.

FORBES: The Tea Party And The Return of Media Bias

In the tension between America's values and America's interests, the variety of responses is both explicable and defensible.

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When violence suddenly ruptures the course of our lives, we tend to tell ourselves stories in order to make it more explicable.

NEWYORKER: A Loaded Gun

Explicable it may all be.

ECONOMIST: The world��s new currency worries

To the outsider's eye these complaints tend to display a high degree of pettiness and conceit, as with the applicant for a medical job with the commission who argued that his non-hiring was explicable only by a prejudice on the commission's part against Swedish medical qualifications.

ECONOMIST: Jacob Soderman, wrist-tapper general