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NRO’s\u00a0The Corner<\/em><\/p>\n If only the president might show the same audacity to weigh in on the murderous Tsarnaev brothers as he did when he expressed his displeasure during the ongoing Henry Louis Gates or Trayvon Martin matters \u2014 or perhaps at least an anguished cry of the heart that the two killers were part of something \u201cshameful\u201d or were habitually \u201clying\u201d as in the case of his commentary about gun-control opponents. Could we at least expect another presidential call to \u201cpunish our enemies\u201d or an unguarded moment of furor from Eric Holder about the attack on \u201d my people\u201d from these \u201ccowards\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s\u00a0The Corner If only the president might show the same audacity to weigh in on the murderous Tsarnaev brothers as he did when he expressed his displeasure during the ongoing Henry Louis Gates or Trayvon Martin matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[146,536],"tags":[12,35,372,855],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1xc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5867,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-paradoxes-of-the-boston-bombings\/","url_meta":{"origin":5902,"position":0},"title":"The Paradoxes of the Boston Bombings","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Al-Qaedism A certain American (or for that matter Westernized) resident or citizen \u2014 usually male, almost always young, born a Muslim, prone to guilt over temporary secularization or Westernization, as often (or more so) from Pakistan, a Russian Islamic province, the Balkans, Iran, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Immigration"","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":849,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-the-trayvon-martin-tragedy-to-a-national-travesty\/","url_meta":{"origin":5902,"position":1},"title":"From the Trayvon Martin Tragedy to a National Travesty","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Rules of Outrage \u2014 Or Why the Trayvon Martin Tragedy Divides the Country Every year hundreds of Americans are shot and killed under controversial circumstances, where the evidence is incomplete and subject to dispute, often making impossible an immediate charge of murder or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Human Rights"","block_context":{"text":"Human Rights","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/american-culture\/human-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5900,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamas-psychodramas-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5902,"position":2},"title":"Obama’s Psychodramas","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Unlike Sandy Hook and gun control, the Tsarnaev case teaches real lessons about immigration. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events \u2014 and in ways usually illogical and incoherent.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Immigration"","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":818,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-administrations-implode\/","url_meta":{"origin":5902,"position":3},"title":"When Administrations Implode","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. 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