Liberals: Charlie Hebdo Attack was 'Workplace Violence'

Spurred
Islamist extremists behead Western journalists in Syria, massacre thousands of Iraqis, murder 132 Pakistani schoolchildren, kill a Canadian soldier and take hostage cafe patrons in Australia. Now, two gunmen have massacred a dozen people in the office of a Paris newspaper.

The rash of horrific attacks in the name of Islam is spurring an anguished debate among Muslims here in the heart of the Islamic world about why their religion appears cited so often as a cause for violence and bloodshed. (New York Times, 1/9/2015)

Why is Islam "cited so often as a cause for violence and bloodshed." Gosh, that is a tough one. RedStateVT will defer an opinion until we have an opportunity to study the matter more fully. In the meantime, we solicit reader input.


Evidentiary
M. Steven Fish, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, sought to quantify the correlation between Islam and violence. In his book, “Are Muslims Distinctive?,” he found that murder rates were substantially lower in Muslim-majority countries and instances of political violence were no more frequent....“Is Islam violent? I would say absolutely not,” Mr. Fish said in an interview. “There is very little empirical evidence that Islam is violent.” (New York Times, 1/9/2015)

Parents, do not send your children to the University of California, Berkeley. 

Under any circumstance.


'Irregardless'
The unequivocal conclusion: the appointments are unlikely to be beneficial. Regardless of which screenings and tests were administered, studies of annual health exams dating from 1963 to 1999 show that the annual physicals did not reduce mortality overall or for specific causes of death from cancer or heart disease. And the checkups consume billions, although no one is sure exactly how many billions because of the challenge of measuring the additional screenings and follow-up tests. (Ezekiel J. Emanuel, New York Times, 1/9/2015)

Obamacare architect Emanuel first opines that life should end at age 75. Now he tells us not to get an annual physical. Both of which explain - finally - how Obamacare will bend the cost curve: If you are dead, you cannot incur medical expenses.  

Next up: Yes, there really will be death panels.