Second Suspect Arrested & Responsive 

Everyone cheered when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, was found hiding in a boat late Friday evening. He is currently under heavy guard in Beth Israel Hospital. He is reportedly unable to speak but is communicating with authorities in writing. Here are some additional details: 

• There were reports over the weekend that the FBI was investigating the possibility that the brothers were part of a larger sleeper cell. On ABC's Sunday talk show "This Week," reporter Pierre Thomas said that while there was no evidence yet of a broader plot, there was nonetheless "deep, deep concern about the amount of ammunition, guns and working bombs these men had." 
   
• In addition, the FBI wants to speak with Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, the wife of slain bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. 

  She converted to Islam when she married him and they have a three year-old daughter. According to her attorney, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev had no reason to suspect her husband since she was working 70 to 80 hours a week, seven days a week to support her family.   
   

• The mosque the brothers attended has a checkered past. It has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and recently hosted a left-wing author who believes the "war on terror" is really a "war against Islam" being waged by America and its allies. 
   
• The brothers' parents, Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev, insist their sons are innocent. In fact, the mother, Zubeidat, contends it is all a plot by the FBI. During an interview with a Russian news agency, she said, "He [Tamerlan] was controlled by the FBI for three to five years… they were controlling his every step and now they say that this is a terrorist act! …I am 100 percent sure that this is a set up." 

  Mrs. Tsarnaev's paranoia aside (I'll come back to that below), this is a point that officials must take more seriously. The FBI had investigated Tamerlan before. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey writes in today's Wall Street Journal, "Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the fifth person since 9/11 who has participated in terror attacks after questioning by the FBI."
   

• Mrs. Tsarnaev seems to be a radicalized Muslim herself. According to this column, Mrs. Tsarnaev, like her eldest son, became increasingly religious in America and abandoned western dress for Islamic garb. She set up her daughters in arranged marriages and is a "9/11 truther." She once told a customer that 9/11 was carried out by the government to make America hate Muslims. "It's real," she said, "My son knows all about it. You can read on the internet."

9/11 Trutherism & The Left 

A lot of people continue to wonder why leftists, who are pro-abortion, pro-gay rights and secular, have made political alliances in United States and Europe with Islamists who are opposed to them on a host of issues. Radical Islamists are not debating same-sex marriage, but whether gays should be killed. 

What is often overlooked is that in both groups there is propensity to favor big government. Radical Islamists want a caliphate to regulate every aspect of our lives based on Islamic principles. The left wants to tell us what to eat, what to drink, what to drive and what to say and think. 

Many on the left also despise Judeo-Christian civilization and its two pillars -- America and Israel. Both groups believe absurd and obscene charges about our country. They do not believe America is a "shining city upon a hill" or a force for mainly good in the world, but rather the source of much of the world's ills. 

One of the most obscene lies in recent years is the idea that the 9/11 attacks were "an inside job." Some on the left believe that George W. Bush knew the attacks would happen and didn't do anything because he believed the country's reaction would provide cover to take oil in the Middle East and wage wars that he and other "warmongering neo-cons" wanted. 

But others on the left (and sadly even some on the Paulian right) believe the attacks were actually carried out by elements of the U.S. government. They call it a "black flag" or "false flag" operation. According to one 2006 poll, more than half of Democrats were willing to entertain the notion that Bush either knew about or ordered the 9/11 attacks. 

Just like many political leftists, Mrs. Tsarnaev has chosen to deny the truth about 9/11. (By the way, Paul Kevin Curtis, the man arrested in Mississippi for mailing letters containing the poison ricin, was also a 9/11 truther.) Polling in Islamic countries shows large majorities do not believe that Arabs were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Why do we never hear about this? 

It's not as though the American media are averse to reporting on bizarre theories and the people who believe them. But the conspiracy they are fixed on is "birtherism" -- that some Americans don't think Obama is a citizen. They miss few opportunities to vilify such individuals and put conservative politicians on the hot seat. But the liberal media show no interest at all in the widespread belief on left and among radical Muslims that the Bush Administration attacked America on 9/11. 

Anger Management 

What angers you more -- Congress not doing what you want or Islamists blowing up your neighbors? Watching his performance last week, you would have to conclude that President Obama seems more bothered by Congress voting against his gun control legislation than by the Boston Marathon bombing.

Obama spoke about the two events several times last week, and he showed far more emotion over losing the Senate vote on background checks than he did about the jihadist bombings in Boston. During his Rose Garden press conference on the gun control vote, Obama was petulant, angry and over the top. He could barely hide his disdain for his opponents, calling them liars and suggesting the vote was "shameful." 

But when it came to the Boston bombing, Obama was almost emotionless. He initially refused to call the attack terrorism. Friday night he lectured us, urging everyone not to "rush to judgment -- not about the motivations of these individuals; certainly not about entire groups of people."  That's what he felt was really important to tell American people. 

So, Obama thinks some supporters of the Second Amendment are liars but doesn't want to rush to judgment with alleged jihadists. 

Exploiting The Boston Bombing 

Believe it or not, Reuters and some liberal politicians are citing the Boston jihadists as justification for tougher gun control laws. Here's the reasonsing, and I use that term loosely: The two men were not licensed to own guns, did not go through background checks, thus we need more laws. 

As the Reverend Al Sharpton said, "How can we have such upheaval, such bedlam, and people don't even want to check who we allow to have deadly weapons. Something don't make sense to me." 

The left-wing ideology doesn't make sense to me. Think about that for a second: The criminals were obviously ignoring laws on the books and the left's solution is to pass more laws that criminals will undoubtedly ignore, but that will create additional burdens for law-abiding Americans!