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:
URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/chechnya-terror-link-to-u-s-well-established-by-feds-since-911/ At a Friday congressional hearing, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will begin what’s sure to be the lengthy process of lawmakers diving into the Islamic terror threat from Chechnya and Dagestan. But disturbing ties between the U.S. and Islamic radicals in the Caucasus region were known to authorities long before Tamerlan […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324474004578442630045389510.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond Earlier this week, I wrote that two GOP senators who were very quick to drag the Boston Marathon bombings into the immigration reform debate—Charles Grassley of Iowa and Jeff Sessions of Alabama—also had track records of opposing increases in legal immigration. Because some lawmakers like to pretend that they only oppose illegal immigration, I […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346579/our-much-needed-missile-defense Our attention is focused on the terrorist attack in Boston last week, but just two weeks ago we were gripped by North Korean threats of a new Korean War and the possibility of New York’s being hit attacked by long-range missiles. While North Korean promises of thermonuclear war have faded from the news for […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346591/southern-border-our-welcome-mat-terrorists The Southern Border: Our Welcome Mat for Terrorists We regularly intercept large numbers of individuals from terrorist-sponsoring nations. By There are at least 7,518 reasons to get the U.S./Mexican border under control. That equals the number of aliens apprehended in fiscal year 2011 from the four nations the U.S. government labels “state sponsors of […]
