Suspect arrested in Ricin letters attack; another three-name perpetrator

American Thinker  "Well, at least he wasn't a right wing nut, right? Just your garden variety, everyday sort of nut. Anyone on the left who tries to tie this guy to the right will look even more foolish than when they tried to portray Jared Loughner's attack on Gabby Giffords as the result of a bullseye map of targeted congressional races posted by Sarah Palin."

Man Used Same Words on Facebook and Ricin-laced Letters
"The Mississippi man arrested for sending letters laced with Ricin to President Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) included the identical phrase, "to see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance" and were signed, "I am KC and I approve this message," the Clarion Ledger reports."....

Confirmed: Ricin Terrorist Paul Kenneth Curtis Is a Democrat Activist

Paul Kenneth Curtis is crazy – And he’s a Democrat.

But, if the terrorist is not an Islamist, he is most likely a left-wing extremist.

List of Recent Left Wing Terrorists Inspired By Democrat Media Propaganda 

How bad is Obama's gun control debacle?

American Thinker   "There are several reasons why the president's efforts on the gun control issue failed, but perhaps the two biggest were his arrogant assumptions regarding his own powers, and his refusal to acknowledge that the issue was a constitutional one, not a public safety matter."  More...
...."How many calls to Democrats did he make? How many to Republicans? Besides jawboning at photo-ops across the country, just what did the president himself do to get this bill passed?"

President Obama needs an attitude adjustment   "President Obama's reaction was a pitiful performance or the actions of a man who doesn't get the political reality around him. He is also a man who does not respect those who disagree with him."   As someone once put it, this man has ice water in his veins.

With these next posts, Lucianne remarks on Obama's reaction: "The subsequent presidential hissy fit that followed was anything but presidential."

Barack Obama can't pass gun control despite 90 per cent support. Truly, he is a lame-duck president
"Whatever your position on gun control, yesterday’s events are a damning indictment of Obama’s presidency – a flash of style, lots of soaring rhetoric and, when the votes are actually counted, little show for any of it. America has four more years of this lame-duck president telling them that it has let him down."

Say this three times real fast: Blame Bloomberg   "So people look at Bloomberg-land and ask, where is he leading us? Where does he want to go? The way we interpret the decision of the Senate yesterday is that it is saying, “not one more inch in that direction.” Good for the Senate."

Senate gun defeat makes Obama angry--and weaker
"Take Montana's Max Baucus. Please. He voted against Obama's wishes on background checks. Now, Baucus is a notorious political shape-shifter the year before any reelection, as he stops ACLU-ing and starts NRA-ing for the gullible folks back home.
"He now hopes you don't, but you may recall that Baucus was a key architect of ObamaCare, currently crumbling under the weight of widespread state resistance and its own regulatory-bureaucratic-costs."

The TW posted this back in December: Seeking an effective argument FOR gun control
Here, two respected writers discuss the case against taking away individual firearms from Americans. Yes, it is true that if guns did not exist everywhere in this nation those little children in Sandy Hook would be living right now and I only wish that were the case. But it is not and there are violent people out there in their thousands and they are armed; willing and lusting to watch innocent people die in bunches by their hands. How, exactly do you gun-control advocates plan to remove those weapons from their blood-thirsty hands?
I will honestly look for a reasoned argument FOR gun control that contains effective means for keeping us safe from those who carry weapons illegally and are willing to do us harm. Cartoons showing crazed, wild-eyed gun owners don't wash.
As yet, I have seen only politically correct, emotional responses to the issue that have no value other than simply making a politician look as if they are doing something. TD

North Korean Mythologies

 http://terrellaftermath.com/

Victor Davis Hanson "Much of what is written about the North Korean crisis seems to me little more than fantasy. Let us examine the mythologies."

Below are small excerpts from Hanson's discussions of each item Mr. Hanson lists:

1)      China is a responsible partner in checking North Korea and, of course, does not want war.

 And it reveals the United States as a sort of impotent and neurotic busybody that eventually offers concessions and pays bribes in direct proportion to its serial announcements that it has quit doing just that.

2)      Our regional allies are on the same page. 

Barack Obama has found hundreds of ways to aggravate allied Israel and Great Britain in a way that he would never do to an increasingly Islamist Turkey.

 

3)      The U.S. has clout in the region.

 But fairly or not, after the last four years, bad actors worldwide have sensed a predicable pattern in U.S. foreign policy. Stung by Afghanistan and Iraq, and trapped in multicultural, UN rhetoric, we talk loudly and carry a small stick. Iran learned that the more the U.S. announced deadlines about ceasing nuclear proliferation, the less they had to worry about consequences. (So much so that President Obama apparently worried about saying a single word of encouragement to the million Iranians who hit the streets during the spring 2009 protests).

4)      All would lose equally in a new Korean War.

But do not assume that China is working for peace, that war is just too unprofitable to break out, that South Korea is well-integrated with its allies, that concerned parties listen to the U.S., or that an unthinkable and nihilistic war could neither be won nor lost.

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Some Muslims Celebrate Boston Marathon Bombing By Praising Allah and Handing Out Candy

Mr. Conservative

It’s one of the iconic images from 9/11. It’s not the one of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers. It’s not one of the vast plumes of smoke. It’s not the series of pictures showing panicked people jumping into endless space. No, this iconic image is the one that Palestinians dancing in the streets and handing out sweets to celebrate a massive terrorist attack on American soil, one that took 2,996 lives. Well, they’re at it again.

"Showing a savvy, if disgusting, use of social media, Al-Shabaab, the al Qaida-linked, Somali terrorist group tweeted hateful messages such as “Don’t you just hate it when you can’t make it to the finish line” and “Amputations mean that some will never be able to run another marathon again.” Meanwhile, the Shumukh al-Islam Islamist forum quoted bin Laden’s battle cry about destroying America’s security, with people then adding enthusiastic comments:"
...."The Left, of course, believes absolute that, because the attack occurred on April 15 (Tax Day) that it must have originated with the Tea Party.. Time will tell."    Hat tip to Gerald Thomas, formerly of Garibaldi, Oregon

Imagine the effect of this bomb on a three-foot-tall child.   Photo source.
 

Obamacare so far

Obamacare Author Fears Law Is Headed For A “Huge Train Wreck”…

 ...."Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana confronted Obama’s health secretary Wednesday during a routine budget hearing that turned tense.

"Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said he is “very concerned” that new health insurance marketplaces going live next year in every state will be a flop. Consumers and small business owners are not getting enough information, and the administration has not been forthcoming with lawmakers, he said.

David Sirota: "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American"

Salon  " That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
"This has been most obvious in the context of recent mass shootings. In those awful episodes, a religious or ethnic minority group lacking such privilege would likely be collectively slandered and/or targeted with surveillance or profiling (or worse) if some of its individuals comprised most of the mass shooters. However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings — even though most come at the hands of white dudes."
 

“Innocent” Saudi has ties to several Al-Qaeda Terrorists

Walid Shoebat  Former Muslim Brotherhood Member Now Peace Activist


Photo: Atlas Shrugs

"After the bombings, a Saudi by the name of Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi was hospitalized and became a ‘suspect’, then a ‘person of interest’. His apartment was searched by federal and local authorities. No confirmation has been given so far to his involvement. The Media were quick to claim his innocence, of course.
"This brings us to the Boston marathon bombings. Foreign Policy is reporting that he’s ‘no longer a person of interest’, which means he’s “innocent”, right?
Perhaps a quick look at the Arabic sources should raise the eyebrows of every American relative to the extent of the problem at hand. Many from Al-Harbi’s clan are steeped in terrorism and are members of Al-Qaeda. Out of a list of 85 terrorists listed by the Saudi government shows several of Al-Harbi clan to have been active fighters in Al-Qaeda:"

Saudi Bombing Suspect, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi: “If Today Really Was the Last Day, How Would You Spend It?”

That cheerful message was reposted by Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi from the Boston Muslim Community on his Facebook page last year. FOX News is reporting that Alharbi (harb = sword) is the “person of interest” being questioned. This is still preliminary information and may not pan out in the long run.

 "Alharbi’s Facebook page hasn’t been updated in a while. He is a Saudi student and poses in the photo above holding a golden gun on Saudi Day. If he turns out to be one of the perpetrators, then the timing for Obama’s new open door policy to Saudi travelers will have been a particularly bad one."

The Banality of Bias; Journalists are awfully liberal, Arendt they?

Wall Street Journal


The phrase "the banality of evil" 
 comes from Hannah Arendt's book,
 "Eichmann in Jerusalem:  A
 Report on the Banality of Evil."
 

(As an aside, the "online furor" was sparked by a Kirsten Powers op-ed in USA Today. Although USA Today is a website, it is also a newspaper with a circulation of 1.8 million, second only to The Wall Street Journal.)
....
 "Do liberal journalists really think that accusations of bias amount to a "conspiracy theory"? That seems to us a lazy assumption, and sheer laziness is surely a major element of media bias. Others are prejudice against ideological outgroups and hubris, which leads newsmen to make categorical assertions like "we never decide what to cover for ideological reasons" rather than reflect on whether that's really true.

 

"Laziness, prejudice and pride are ordinary human failings. As we've seen from the press's treatment of the Gosnell story, they can lead those whose calling is to bear witness to avert their eyes from radical evil. Call it the banality of bias."

Didn't Mr. Obama promise this transparency?

Does Rich Terrell nail it here or what?

Jay Carney: Obama ‘does not and cannot’ take position on Gosnell

Conservative Daily News   "Very interesting. Obama cannot take a position on the House of Horrors abortionist, but he has no problem inserting himself into other cases that are ongoing, such as the Trayvon Martin case.  The House of Horrors case does not fit his agenda, so he wants to be silent on the issue. Jay Carney simply calls the matter “unsettling”. Unsettling? That’s all you can conjure, Mr. Carney? Seriously? Yes, I understand, Mr. Carney. Mr. Obama is very clear where he stands on a woman’s “choice”." 

"Inspire" Al Qaeda Magazine: Jihad Propagandist Called for Attacks on Sports Events

Atlas Shrugs  "Abu Musab al-Suri, the jihadist behind this article is part of the opposition in Syria --here's  a backgrounder by Dr. Andrew Bostom: "Al-Qaeda Theorist on Targeting Americans for “Mass Slaughter” "

[p. 24] …The type of attack, which repels states and topples governments, is mass slaughter of the population. This is done by targeting human crowds in order to inflict maximum human losses. This is very easy since there are numerous such targets such as crowded sports arenas, annual social events, large international exhibitions, crowded marketplaces, sky-scrapers, crowded buildings… etc.

http://legalinsurrection.com/tag/a-f-branco/

Moral compass failure: Dr. Ben Carson, bad; Bill Ayers, good

Rich Cutter Avallone   "The Horrible tragedy in Boston brings back memories of the Weather underground. They were an American Radical Terror Group led by none other than Bill Ayers a long time friend of Obama. Of course Obama staunchly denied his association as nothing more than casual. Yet another Lie by the Liar in Chief. The other day the Left wing radical was speaking at College in Oregon; Bill Ayers, Not Obama. There Ayers confirmed that he and the president indeed had a more than casual acquaintanceship. He also confirmed they had a fund raiser at his home that Obama attended. What is troubling is that Bill Ayers, a known Anarchist, and communist has been floating in high positions in our educational system for over 30 years. While a man like Dr. Benjamin Carson had to pull out of his speaking engagement at John Hopkins...  Ayers is embraced by faculty, students and our government."
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Wackademia doesn’t want Dr. Ben Carson 

Bona fide terrorist Bill Ayers is welcomed in Wackademia with open arms, but pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson isn’t. Such is the insanity that exists these days in “education.”

Why does Johns Hopkins changing not want such an accomplished black man to speak? Because Dr. Ben Carson has an opinion on gay marriage. Exactly what that has to do with a commencement exercise at a medical school is unknown. But what isn’t unknown is that Wackademia and other Liberal institutions don’t like it when black conservatives have an opinion, particularly one that differs from the mainstream.
So what Dr. Ben Carson is not gay, and believes marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s not like he blew up a police station or was a member of a terrorist group.
The petitions began after Carson told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, “My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality — it doesn’t matter what they are — they don’t get to change the definition.”

http://terrellaftermath.com/