Surprised that the Tsarnaevs of Massachusetts received welfare benefits?: The Tsarnaevs’ parents are former recipients of transitional assistance benefits, and both Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev received benefits through their parents when they were younger. Separately, Tamerlan and his family received … Continue reading →
See this. Commentary is almost superfluous.
Continue reading →…a war protestor. Dzhohkar Tsarnaev knows exactly how to appeal to the left. Get ready to watch him work quite a few variations on the theme.
Continue reading →I speculated some time ago that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might kill himself before capture. And in fact, I was very surprised later to learn that he’d been taken alive. It turns out, though, that there’s a very good chance he made … Continue reading →
Sunday is usually my day of blogrest. But so much has been happening lately that I thought I’d try an Instapundit turn. You’d do well to read Stuart Schneiderman on the left’s “poor pitiful bombers” narrative (hat tip: “sharpie”). And … Continue reading →
Boston bomber (I could say “alleged,” but I think it’s hardly in doubt that he’s the perp) Dzhokhar Tsarnaev blew up a bunch of people on Monday and went back to his college classes for the next couple of days … Continue reading →
…here are some interesting tidbits (offered, of course, with the caveat that so much of the news about this story has been mistaken). Was this man the inspiration for the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev? Note the boxing background which they … Continue reading →
Well, unless you were on a desert island yesterday, you probably already know that suspect #2 in the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzokhar (“Jahar”) Tsarnaev, was captured last night alive though wounded. You may have noticed that I was AWOL from … Continue reading →
You might say the whole Boston bombing story is a puzzlement, the big question being “why?” It’s easy to speculate—and I’ve done so myself—but I hope we’ll be able to find out a lot more as the days go on. … Continue reading →
Here’s a piece about how one of the most badly wounded victims of Monday’s bombing, twenty-seven-year-old Jeff Bauman, looked into the eyes of perpetrator Tamerlan Tsarnaev as he placed a bomb at his feet. Bauman apparently was able to describe … Continue reading →
Anyone who’s been watching the news knows what’s been going down in Boston. I was up till very late trying to absorb it all, hoping against hope that bomber #2 would be caught. So far, nothing doing on that. Boston … Continue reading →