What is the difference?

The contrast between the political exploitation of Newtown and the way in which the same media outlets have gone out of their way to avoid drawing the obvious conclusions about Boston could not be greater. In one case, the media helped orchestrate a national discussion in which hyper-emotional rhetoric about the fallen drove a political agenda. In the other, they are seeking to ensure that no conclusions — even those that are self-evident — be drawn under any circumstances.

We’re living in politically correct, and culturally suicidal times.

Yes, I’m as shocked as I’m sure you all are to learn that she is also on a terrorist watch list. The more that comes out on this, the more our government looks like Keystone Cops.

But at least we can agree with her on one thing. Like her, I’m sorry that she ever brought her murdering sons to the United States.

“…or I’ll kill you or blow off your legs!”

[Update a couple minutes later]

Mark Steyn on anger management:

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.

So I guess it worked.

It always works with the fools in the media.

[Update a couple more minutes later]

“Soon we’ll be told American society is responsible for the Tsarnaevs because of our consumerist addiction to pressure cookers.”

Also, I fearlessly predict calls for, and introduction of legislation to ban the purchase and possession of recreational fireworks by the general public.

[Update a few minutes later]

Aaaaaannnndd…Jerry Rivers is first out of the gate.

Hey, it wouldn’t be the first time she’s lied under oath. She did it routinely in the nineties.

It was jihad.

Of course it was. So was Fort Hood, and it’s insane, or stupid, or both, to try to deny it.

[Update a while later]

Recognizing the enemy: lessons from the Cold War.