Glass Houses

Devoted
Aware that intensified American counterterrorism efforts have made an ambitious Sept. 11-style plot a long shot, Al Qaeda propagandists for several years have called on their devotees in the United States to carry out smaller-scale solo attacks and provided the online education to teach them how. (NYT, 5/5/2013)

The article - as the New York Times says in this first paragraph - is on al Qaeda's calls for attacks in the U.S. The accompanying pictures are of Maj. Nidal Hasan, Faisal Shahzad, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev....and Timothy J. McVeigh.

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not like the other........

It frustrates the Liberals at the Times (and elsewhere) to no end that it is Muslims carrying out these attacks. And so their response whenever possible is to gratutitously throw in references to non-Muslims, right-wing militias and domestic terrorists...but not Bill Ayers.


Interested In You
Republican senators are likely to be interested in the Pritzker family’s reputation as innovators in the use of offshore trusts and foreign bank secrecy laws to shelter their wealth from income, capital gains and inheritance taxes. Even after tax code loopholes were closed, the family’s trusts were grandfathered in and it kept benefiting from them.

Indeed, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, has called for scrutiny of her family’s trusts, saying she was “associated with the kind of tax avoidance activity that the president dismisses as fat cat shenanigans for others. It’s hypocritical to overlook tax avoidance when it’s convenient.” (NYT, 5/5/2013)

It might surprise you to know that RedStateVT has no problem with any of Pritzker's legal offshore accounts or foreign bank holdings, just as we had no issues with those of Mitt Romney.

But it is incredibly fun nonetheless to chronicle once again the utter hypocrisy of Liberals.

And so we add "being a 1%er" to the list of things that Liberals can no longer accuse Republicans of being. 


Lapsed
Clinton, the former Secretary of State and likely frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, could be severely damaged by testimony about the attacks, which occurred in part because of security lapses for which the State Department is primarily responsible. 

Past testimony about the attacks has also revealed that President Barack Obama did nothing once informed the attacks were under way, and that there was no communication among key members of the administration and military who could have responded. (Breitbart.com, 5/6/2013)

History has shown that Republican scandals live on forever while scandal-ridden Democrats are rehabilitated. Bill Clinton is now a revered senior statesman and Anthony Weiner can seriously considering running for mayor of NYC. Jay Carney has already described Benghazi as "old news." Think about what Democrats will say four years from now should Hillary run for office. Likely they will deny it ever happened.