High Ground Underground

We now know that Syed’s wife Tashfeen pledged allegiance to ISIS’ caliph, al Baghdadi, on Facebook about the time of the attack.  Facebook quickly reported it, but there wasn’t time for authorities to react, which may be why she delayed such openness until the last minute.  There are reports of Syed having contact and/or viewing jihadi materials.  All this learned from their recovered smashed cell phones and hard drives.  The clear terrorism connections caused the FBI to take over the case.   Hard for even this administration to relegate it solely to workplace violence. Here is the SUV from which Tashfeen was shooting through the rear windows at pursuing police.  And in which both of them were killed in Bonnie-and-Clyde fashion. I wonder whether this attempt to cover up their connections even after the attack (and apparent disavowal by ISIS) was to try to make it look like just any normal Muslim could be capable of this if even slightly offended...

Well, the cartoon exaggerates slightly – the Arabs invented only algebra, not all of math. After all, the Greeks knew something about geometry, etc. But other than that it’s quite accurate – Obama has directed that one of NASA’s prime priorities is to reach out to the Muslim world to help them feel better about their technological prowess. No doubt they’ll feel great about the condescension. Equality -- of Outcome This can be easily understood in light of the liberal/left preoccupation with equality and feeling good about oneself, whether deserved or not. For them, equal opportunity is not enough – they will not rest until there is equal outcome (socialism), and will enforce it if necessary. See also the Prager University link (above, right) on the “American Trinity” of values vs. the French trinity. Hence redistribution of wealth, apologizing for American status and attempting to lower it militarily (unilaterally), economically (at least the result, if not explicit intent), bri...