http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/04/25/swat-nation/?print=1 Fear. Horror. Disgust. For me, that melancholy trinity defines the response to latest act of Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil, the hideous bombings at the Boston Marathon just over a week ago that left 3 dead and more than 260 injured (at least 15 were in critical condition). [2] Let’s start with the horror. […]
George W.Bush was a fair….mostly mediocre….president, but compared to Barack Hussein Obama, he was a prince.
After enduring the vilification of the Democrats and the mainstream media and being blamed for absolutely everything by the Obama administration, his presidential library opens at Southern Methodist University, and his image is now being burnished by a host of political commentators.
Not so fast. His response to 9/11 and his speeches to Congress and the United Nations were perfect. But then, his obsequiousness to the Saudis and his obfuscating on our enemies; calling Islam a great and peaceful religion “hijacked” by a teeny, tiny, microscopic minority of meanies; his launching of two wars without ever naming the enemy or the object of the missions; his tolerating rules of engagement which favored exquisite sensitivity to the brutal mores of our antagonists at the expense of the safety of our own forces; his encouragement of appeasement by Israel and surrender of Gaza; his inability to foresee the perverse intentions of North Korea and Putin….all these point to a very mediocre administration.
He is a decent man whose intentions cannot be faulted. But spare me the encomiums. Compared to Barack Hussein Obama every former President looks good with the exception of Jimmy Carter.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/spineless-americans-accept-airline-delays?f=puball Why is it that everything that has Obama’s fingerprints on it has an expensive and idiotic component to it? The latest are the airline delays, but spineless Americans simply wait around as delayed flights steal their time and productivity, and harm the economy. Sequestration was Obama’s idea, a device to force a bi-partisan congressional […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/turkey-convicts-world-renowned-pianist-for-defaming-islam A Turkish court on April 15, 2013, convicted world-renowned pianist Fazil Say under Article 216(3) of the Turkish Penal Code. This article punishes “[a]nyone who openly denigrates the religious values of a part of the population” with imprisonment of six months to a year. Say’s case highlights once again the limits to free speech […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Means, opportunity and motive are the three crucial elements of investigating a crime and establishing the guilt of its perpetrator. Means and opportunity tell us how the crime could have been committed while motive tells us why it was committed. Many crimes cannot be narrowed down by motive until a suspect is on the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/did-terrorism-denial-cause-the-boston-bombings/ Means, opportunity and motive are the three crucial elements of investigating a crime and establishing the guilt of its perpetrator. Many crimes cannot be narrowed down by motive until a suspect is on the scene; but acts of terrorism can be. Almost anyone might be responsible for a random killing; but political killings are […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/04/hillary_lied_under_oath_about_benghazi.html Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifying in January 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said “…what difference at this point does it make?” Clinton was speaking about the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans. Well, Hillary, it does make a difference, as we are now finding out. A report of findings […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/after-boston-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/?print=1 Future Islamist terrorists can take comfort in the reluctance of both the media and the president to blame the culture of Islamic extremism. Sometime in the not-to0-distant future there will be meetings of the various law enforcement agencies involved in the hunt for the Boston terrorists. They will look at what worked and what […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/now-a-french-spring/?print=1 Less than one year after François Hollande’s election as president and the stunning victory of his socialist supporters at the National Assembly, there is a widespread feeling in France that his administration is doomed. According to the latest poll [1] released by Journal du Dimanche on April 21, 74% of the French now entertain bad […]
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In a post titled “Anger Management,” Mark Steyn writes, “Former brother-in-law Elmirza Khozhugov explains Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s grievances to The New York Times“:
So he blew up an eight-year old boy and a couple of hundred other Americans.
And now the media are full of stories about how the Tsarnaevs were all-American kids and “beautiful, beautiful boys” and maybe it was the boxing or the Ben Affleck movies or the classical music but, whatever it was, it was nothing to do with Islam. Nothing whatever.
I blame The Catcher in the Rye. Particularly after the New York Times‘ Michiko Kakutani did, too, on their front page, to boot. (Link safe; goes to Newsbusters):
Given the layers of irony, sarcasm and joking often employed on Twitter, it can be difficult to parse the messages of a stranger. Yet some of them can seem menacing or portentous, given what we now suspect: “a decade in america already, I want out,” “Never underestimate the rebel with a cause” or “No one is really violent until they’re with the homies.” But others suggest a more Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation: “some people are just misunderstood by the world thus the increase of suicide rates.”
As Ace notes, Kakutani is “the writer they usually trot out when they need to have a conservative’s book reviewed for their book review. Oddly enough, she doesn’t drip with such conspicuous sympathy for law-abiding people who haven’t murdered anyone.”
Presumably Kakutani will be calling for a parole of Mark David Chapman in tomorrow’s edition of the Times. He also had a Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation, which he publicly expressed in a manner as nearly as effusive as the Tsarnaevs.
Update: At Twitchy, “Bomber in the Rye.” And at the Breitbart.com Conversation, Iowahawk runs into Muggeridge’s Law, which posits that there is no way a satirist can compete with reality for its sheer absurdity. Or the New York Times, whichever strikes first:
