For instance, it was exactly one year ago today that our youngest, Tanner, gave us a scare — and my wife a memorable scar — when he entered our world by way of emergency C-section. Happy Birthday, littlest one!  The joy you’ve brought us is exceeded only by the infinite sprawl of space.  And even there it’s almost too close to call.  

Muslim extremists living among us bomb a foot race with pressure cookers, nails, ball bearings and chemical reactions — and the first reaction on the left (and the risk averse right) is to hide away the pressure cookers, then, having defended a city-wide shutdown to accommodate a militarized police presence, call for “re-interpreting” the Constitution to create a surveillance state, along with measures that would target gun ownership, gun powder,

Jim Geraghty is so spot on this morning that I don’t have anything much upfront to add.  Save that the reaction from the left to the Marathon bombings has been so predictable that even many liberals are privately (and in some brave-ish cases publicly) rolling their eyes and letting out tiny, pained groans.  So.  From “They Always Blame America First”: Jeanne Kirkpatrick had it right. In Tuesday’s New York Times,