{"id":18309,"date":"2013-04-23T22:50:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=18309"},"modified":"2013-04-23T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:50:45","slug":"the-daily-gouge-wednesday-april-24th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=18309","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge, Wednesday, April 24th, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Wednesday, April 24th, 2013&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, though we rarely agree with Alex Jones, this video shot during the height of the Marathon Manhunt causes us great consternation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LrbsUVSVl8\" height=\"225\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sorry folks, but in our view, failure of local and national law enforcement to track and apprehend <\/strong><strong>Dzhokhar Tsarnaev doesn&#8217;t constitute grounds for suspending the 4th Amendment; even temporarily.\u00a0 And given the description of the 19-year-old fugitive Chechnyan, can police <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>really<\/em><\/span> justify forcing a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>blond, pony-tailed woman<\/em><\/span> to flee her home with her hands raised?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And call us a Bitter-Clinger, but we somehow feel far more capable of protecting our own home and hearth than the same fools who let this apparently-amateur terrorist slip through their fingers&#8230;let alone granted him citizenship in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of fools, Marco Rubio&#8217;s living proof it&#8217;s better to be silent and thought one than to open one&#8217;s mouth and remove all doubt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" id=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Truth According to Marco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2013\/04\/23\/immigration-will-continue-to-benefit-all-americans\/?test=latestnews\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here&#8217;s the truth about my plan for immigration reform<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/paw_2EJBzFs\" height=\"225\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>To mangle a phrase from Bill McKinney, &#8220;Sounds like we got us a Rube &#8216;stead of a Rubio!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marco, here&#8217;s a hint:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Democrats find much to like in immigration bill<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Senate&#8217;s Gang of Eight delivered an immigration overhaul bill this week that was far more generous to their constituencies than Democrats and Hispanic activists expected<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dick_Durbin_and_Chuck_Schumer_and_Marco_Rubio_and_John_McCain_split_insert_c_Washington_Blade_by_Michael_Key.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18311\" alt=\"Dick_Durbin_and_Chuck_Schumer_and_Marco_Rubio_and_John_McCain_split_insert_c_Washington_Blade_by_Michael_Key\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dick_Durbin_and_Chuck_Schumer_and_Marco_Rubio_and_John_McCain_split_insert_c_Washington_Blade_by_Michael_Key-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dick_Durbin_and_Chuck_Schumer_and_Marco_Rubio_and_John_McCain_split_insert_c_Washington_Blade_by_Michael_Key-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dick_Durbin_and_Chuck_Schumer_and_Marco_Rubio_and_John_McCain_split_insert_c_Washington_Blade_by_Michael_Key.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, John McCain, Lindsey Grahamnesty, not to mention a majority of Dimocrats, Hispanice &#8220;activists&#8221; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and<\/em><\/span> The Obamao are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>for<\/em><\/span> it, it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>cannot<\/em><\/span> be in the best interests of the United States!!!\u00a0 As for your 2016 presidential aspirations&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_nc42tliHDE#t=8s\" height=\"225\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This isn&#8217;t immigration &#8220;reform&#8221;; it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>surrender<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 And our lack of border security isn&#8217;t the result of broken promises&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lb0423cd20130422085302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18330\" alt=\"lb0423cd20130422085302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lb0423cd20130422085302.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lb0423cd20130422085302.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lb0423cd20130422085302-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;rather it&#8217;s the inevitable consequence of policies which were never intended to be implemented.\u00a0 The Gang of Eight&#8217;s 884 pages of legislative ludicrousness isn&#8217;t designed to overhaul America&#8217;s immigration policies, let alone protect her borders; the only thing its designed to protect is our already-entrenched ruling political class&#8230;which now includes Marco the Rube.\u00a0 Thus Senator Rubio joins the list of Republicans we refuse to support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of the unsupportable&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Kerry: Let&#8217;s Face It, We Have &#8220;More Important Things&#8221; to Worry About Than Benghazi<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mr9JbMwIkZk\" height=\"225\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do we get the feeling Team Tick-Tock would just as soon sweep Benghazi under the rug?\u00a0 Perhaps more importantly, why, inquiring minds want to know, would Dana Rohrbacher, a Republican, ever allow Kerry get away with so stunning a statement?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, as this next item courtesy of Fielding Cocke and <em>The American Spectator<\/em>&#8216;s Jeffrey Lord details, innocent civilians weren&#8217;t the only victims of the Marathon Massacre:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Jihad Blows Up the Liberal Utopia<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2679986148_ac42d17bb5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18338\" alt=\"2679986148_ac42d17bb5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2679986148_ac42d17bb5.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2679986148_ac42d17bb5.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2679986148_ac42d17bb5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"innerText\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Jihad has blown up The Liberal Utopia. The visionary liberal land of political and social perfection. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>President Obama is not happy \u2014 and he isn\u2019t alone.<\/strong> <\/span>You know the place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2022 The Liberal Utopia is a land where gun background checks prevent mass murder.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u2022 The Liberal Utopia is a land where Islamic fundamentalists have changed their perception of America because the President travels to Muslim nations to give lovely speeches, believes that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere is a wonderful sign of an Arab Spring, and refuses to use the word \u201cterrorist\u201d whether his administration is investigating Ft. Hood, Boston, or Benghazi.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2022 The Liberal Utopia is a land where a 2009 presidential video proclaiming a \u201cnew beginning\u201d in American relations with Iran will halt the effort to build a nuclear bomb.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u2022 The Liberal Utopia is a land where the good intentions of Social Security will never bankrupt the Social Security Trust Fund.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2022 The Liberal Utopia is a land where the good intentions of Medicare could not possibility result in trillions of unfunded liability.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u2022 The Liberal Utopia is a land where the War on Poverty was supposed to end poverty \u2014 and instead winds up sending violent crime skyrocketing, and, in the words of Thomas Sowell, setting up the American black family for rapid disintegration in the liberal welfare state \u201cthat subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One could go on \u2026and on and on\u2026.spotting those will-o-the-wisp glimpses of The Liberal Utopia (Obamacare here, the Obama stimulus over there, the promise to close Guantanamo way back there) with example after example of this miserably failed attempt to find or create a Liberal Utopia. Or what our friend Mark Levin deftly calls <em> Ameritopia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coming-soon-graffiti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18339\" alt=\"coming-soon-graffiti\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coming-soon-graffiti.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coming-soon-graffiti.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coming-soon-graffiti-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The search for this Liberal Utopia has been going on in this country since at least 1932 and in fact before that when one keeps going on back to Woodrow Wilson\u2019s progressives and beyond to the late 19th century when the progressive movement began to gain political steam with the likes of William Jennings Bryan and a whole host of other if lesser known figures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The idea is always the same. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">To quote Levin:\u00a0<em>\u201cUtopianism is the ideological and doctrinal foundation for statism.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong><em> <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Or, to simplify: <em>if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only<\/span> Americans are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">made to do X<\/span>, The Perfect Society <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> manifest<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"innerText\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What is X? The above list suffices: background checks, a video sending nice words to Iran, opening up to the Muslim Brotherhood, setting up a government-run Social Security or Medicare or Obamacare, declaring a government-run War on Poverty. The Obama stimulus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And let\u2019s not forget the Philadelphia abortion scandal where live human babies outside the womb were repeatedly killed \u2014 a direct contradiction of the entire\u00a0<em>Roe.v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>sacrament. Etc. Etc. Etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let\u2019s start with two stories that have dominated the news in the last week: gun control and the Boston Marathon murders. Recall that after the Senate defeated the Toomey-Manchin background amendment, President Obama, outraged, took to the White House Rose Garden to say this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p>\u201c<em>The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. They claimed that it would create some sort of \u2018big brother\u2019 gun registry, even though the bill did the opposite. This legislation, in fact, outlawed any registry.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Next up was former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who took to the Op-Ed page of the <em>New York Times<\/em> to say \u201cI\u2019m furious.\u201d Giffords accused the Senate of being in the \u201cgrip of the gun lobby\u201d fearful of political consequences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/602005_452477864836612_196940482_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18345\" alt=\"602005_452477864836612_196940482_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/602005_452477864836612_196940482_n.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/602005_452477864836612_196940482_n.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/602005_452477864836612_196940482_n-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gifford\u2019s statement was filled with irony. There are people aplenty out there who have also discussed issues other than guns as being a problem in this area of violence in America. Indeed just this last Sunday Boston\u2019s Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley not only talked about guns but the role of abortion in what O\u2019Malley called a \u201cCulture of Death.\u201d But did Gabby Giffords want to talk about abortion as a contributing factor? Did the president? Of course not \u2014 and for exactly the reason they attributed to those who oppose background checks. Which is to say, pro-choice politicians both, neither Giffords nor Obama have the guts to take on the abortion lobby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But let\u2019s stay focused on background checks and its role in the liberal Utopia. Remember the Brady law? So named for President Reagan\u2019s press secretary Jim Brady who was seriously and permanently wounded during the assassination attempt on Reagan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The Brady law mandated background checks across the country.<\/strong><\/span> Challenged in the Supreme Court, the law was mostly upheld in 1997, with the exception of the mandate. States however, were free to do background checks. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>One of the states that picked up on this \u2014 as did most states \u2014 was, yes, Massachusetts.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>In 1998 Massachusetts, headed on that endless journey to The Liberal Utopia, passing what has been called \u201cthe toughest gun control legislation in the country.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>Reported <em>Boston Globe<\/em> columnist Jeff Jacoby \u2014 just two months ago on February 17, 2013 \u2014 the \u201ctoughest gun control legislation in the country\u201d was signed into law by the-then Republican governor and praised to the hilt by the Democratic Attorney General, as well as a leading anti-gun activist. Jacoby quoted from the <em>Globe<\/em> story of 1998 that trumpeted the bill\u2019s signing:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p>\u201c<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Today, Massachusetts leads the way in cracking down on gun violence,\u201d said Republican Governor Paul Cellucci as he signed the bill into law.<\/strong><\/span> \u201cIt will save lives and help fight crime in our communities.\u201d <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Scott Harshbarger, the state\u2019s Democratic attorney general, agreed: \u201cThis vote is a victory for common sense and for the protection of our children and our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/span> <\/strong>One of the state\u2019s leading anti-gun activists, John Rosenthal of Stop Handgun Violence, joined the applause. \u201cThe new gun law,\u201d he predicted, \u201cwill certainly prevent future gun violence and countless grief<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Catch all that? Massachusetts was \u201ccracking down on gun violence.\u201d This \u201cwill save lives and help fight crime\u201d in the state\u2019s communities. The new law was a \u201cvictory for common sense\u201d that was a \u201cvictory for common sense\u201d and \u201cthe protection of our children and our neighborhoods.\u201d The law \u201cwill certainly prevent future gun violence and countless grief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ofascistordersyoutostopreading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18342\" alt=\"ofascistordersyoutostopreading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ofascistordersyoutostopreading.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now let\u2019s leave aside the point of Jacoby\u2019s column \u2014 that in fact the law did none of that and that indeed, in Jacoby\u2019s words:<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2026<em>the law that was so tough on law-abiding gun owners had quite a different impact on criminals<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Since 1998, gun crime in Massachusetts has gotten <em>worse<\/em>, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> better<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> In 2011, Massachusetts recorded 122 murders committed with firearms, the <em>Globe<\/em> reported this month \u2014 \u201ca striking increase from the 65 in 1998.\u201d Other crimes rose too. Between 1998 and 2011, robbery with firearms climbed 20.7 percent. Aggravated assaults jumped 26.7 percent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"innerText\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let\u2019s stay focused on the fact that the Boston bombers did in fact have guns. That\u2019s right, in addition to bombs, the brothers Tsarnaev had guns. And surprise surprise, in spite of all that \u201ctoughest\u201d gun law in the country business \u2014 you guessed it. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The brothers didn\u2019t apply for a license<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That\u2019s right. As the <em>Huffington Post<\/em> has noted here, and I have placed the real news in bold:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>WASHINGTON \u2014 <strong>The Boston bombing suspects engaged in a deadly firefight with police<\/strong> last week, <strong>possessing<\/strong> six bombs, <strong>handguns, a rifle and more than 250 rounds of ammunition<\/strong>. <strong>But the Tsarnaev brothers did not have proper licenses to possess the firearms, according to the Cambridge Police Department \u2014 a revelation that comes just days after the Senate voted against strengthening and expanding background checks for gun sales.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Cambridge Police Department spokesman Dan Riviello told The Huffington Post that neither Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, nor Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, appeared to have a license to own a handgun.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>\u201cThe younger brother could not have applied as he is not 21 years of age and the older brother did not have a license to carry and we have no record of him ever applying,\u201d Riviello said.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Got all that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tell-me-more-about-how-criminals-OBEY-the-law-100101851262.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18344\" alt=\"Tell-me-more-about-how-criminals-OBEY-the-law-100101851262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tell-me-more-about-how-criminals-OBEY-the-law-100101851262-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tell-me-more-about-how-criminals-OBEY-the-law-100101851262-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tell-me-more-about-how-criminals-OBEY-the-law-100101851262-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Tell-me-more-about-how-criminals-OBEY-the-law-100101851262.jpeg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>So in spite of the Brady law, which subjects law-abiding gun owners to all manner of rules and regulations, and in spite of the Massachusetts law, which was \u201cthe toughest\u201d gun control law in the country, and in spite of the hundreds (thousands) of other gun control laws that bind the country, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, hell bent on murder and mayhem, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>never bothered to get a \u201cproper license<\/em><\/span><em>.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong> <\/span>Brother Dzhokhar, of course, wasn\u2019t permitted to have a license because he was just too young.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Yet somehow, without being licensed, the two managed to have \u201chandguns, a rifle and more than 250 rounds of ammunition.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> With which the unlicensed brothers shot MIT policeman Sean Collier to death \u2014 and came close to killing Boston Transit policeman, Richard Donohue. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Shocker, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t it<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yet there is no more shock in listening to the reasoning of liberals on gun control than there is in listening to their reasoning on Islamic fundamentalists. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The subjects may be different \u2014 although they happened to become two stories in one this last week \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but the reasoning is always the same<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let\u2019s hear from Andrew McCarthy, who was the Clinton-era prosecutor of the Blind Sheikh, the brains behind the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Andy later wrote the more than aptly titled book <em> Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad<\/em> and now writes this from <em>National Review<\/em> in an article headed:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Jihad Will Not Be Wished Away: But willful blindness remains the order of the day.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"innerText\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Writes Andy:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cOutlook: Islam.\u201d So reads the personal webpage of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who ravaged Boston this week, along with his now-deceased brother and fellow jihadist, Tamerlan \u2014 namesake of a 14th-century Muslim warrior whose campaigns through Asia Minor are legendary for their brutalization of non-Muslims.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Brutalizing our own non-Muslim country has been the principal objective of jihadists for the last 20 years. This week marks a new and chilling chapter: the introduction on our shores of the tactics the self-styled mujahideen have used to great, gory effect for the past decade in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Willful blindness remains the order of the day, as it has since the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">It is freely conceded that, when the identities and thus the motivation of the Marathon terrorists were not known, it would have been irresponsible to dismiss any radical ideology as, potentially, the instigator.<\/span> But in our politically correct, up-is-down culture, to suggest \u201cOutlook: Islam\u201d was unthinkable. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So the most likely scenario<\/span> \u2014 namely, that jihadists who have been at war with us for two decades had, yet again, attacked innocent civilians \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">became the least likely scenario in the minds of media pundits<\/span>.<\/span> Instead, they brazenly prayed (to Gaia, I\u2019m sure) for white conservative culprits with Tea Party hats and Rush 24\/7 subscriptions.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>To borrow from the gun control debate, closing one\u2019s eyes to Islamic fundamentalism is not just displaying a lack of common sense (to borrow a phrase from the gun control debate) \u2014 <em>it is indeed, as Andy McCarthy accurately calls it, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">willful blindness<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/suicide-free-zone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18343\" alt=\"suicide-free-zone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/suicide-free-zone.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/suicide-free-zone.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/suicide-free-zone-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And this particular willful blindness on jihadists is lethal.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>It is exactly the same as the willful blindness that kept the State Department from understanding that there was a reason for the repeated pleas from the now murdered Benghazi diplomats for security assistance.<\/strong><\/span> When the attack came on those diplomats last September, the U.S. government had been willfully blinded \u2014 right from the top \u2014 that such a thing could be the result of Islamic fundamentalism<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ditto with the attack on Ft. Hood by the Islamic fundamentalist Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major. Shouting \u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d \u2014 God is Great \u2014 as he opened fire, Hasan killed 13 and wounding more than 30. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The response from the US government? To declare yet another mass murder in the name of Islam to be \u201cwork place violence\u201d \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>and then have the then-Army Chief of Staff murmur aloud that to treat this as anything else would somehow hurt the military\u2019s diversity push<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And so it goes. From the promises of Obamacare that you can keep your own doctor to the massive indebtedness of Social Security and Medicare to the War on Poverty that wasn\u2019t and the Obama stimulus that wasn\u2019t either\u2014 and on and on and on \u2014 liberalism\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel is that it isn\u2019t about serious, common sense ideas that display an understanding of everyday human reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>What liberalism is about is creating Utopia.<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong>A Utopian world where gun control stops criminals, being politically correct with jihadists means they won\u2019t attack, the value of helping the aging means Social Security and Medicare cannot possibly be in debt to the tune of trillions, that Obamacare will work just as the War on Poverty worked, and that forcing banks to give millions of Americans the money to buy homes they can\u2019t afford can\u2019t possibly crash the economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And on goes the endless parade. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Substituting sentiment for common sense, then watching the results crash and burn in a hurricane of dead Americans, impoverished Americans, massively indebted Americans or continually impoverished, jobless and hopeless Americans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/intolerance.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18340\" alt=\"intolerance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/intolerance.jpeg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Does anyone really wonder why so many Americans listen to President Obama say that \u201cthe gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill\u201d \u2014 <em>and believe it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the President<\/span> who lies<\/em>?<\/strong> <\/span>And that they believe this for the simple reason that all the other liberal Utopian promises haven\u2019t been kept? With a lie just this last week about the results of Massachusetts gun control being all too painfully obvious? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Who, based on hard real-life experience with these Liberal Utopians, would ever believe that the Toomey-Manchin bill will never result in what Obama calls \u201csome sort of \u2018big brother\u2019 gun registry\u201d? <span style=\"color: #008000;\">If you believe this, you believe the Boston bombers simply forgot to apply for a license to carry a gun.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The response by liberals to these repeated liberal disasters is to simply ignore the results and walk away.<\/strong><\/span> Then finding yet another \u201cproblem\u201d on which to visit this same disastrous pattern of emotionally charged non-common sense. Promising once again that if Americans just do this next X, Utopia will finally arrive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The question here is whether a majority of Americans will ever come to understand the game.<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong>To know that the real meaning of Utopia is not some visionary system of political or social perfection, as the dictionary says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Utopianism is, precisely as Mark Levin documents, the ideological and doctrinal foundation for statism. It is dumb. It is wrong. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It is a call to mindless emotion instead of careful, logical thought.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will<\/em><\/span> bankrupt. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>can<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will<\/em><\/span> \u2014 and as we have seen this last week it does \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>kill<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Which makes the ideas of a Liberal Utopia not just wrongheaded. It makes them dangerous. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Which makes it time to say <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>enough is enough<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mrz042213dAPR20130422074517.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18322\" alt=\"mrz042213dAPR20130422074517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mrz042213dAPR20130422074517.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mrz042213dAPR20130422074517.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mrz042213dAPR20130422074517-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/81_13068520130423042351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18323\" alt=\"81_13068520130423042351\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/81_13068520130423042351.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/81_13068520130423042351.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/81_13068520130423042351-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042213dAPR20130422024512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18324\" alt=\"bg042213dAPR20130422024512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042213dAPR20130422024512.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042213dAPR20130422024512.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042213dAPR20130422024512-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042313dAPR20130423044515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18325\" alt=\"bg042313dAPR20130423044515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042313dAPR20130423044515.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042313dAPR20130423044515.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bg042313dAPR20130423044515-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gv042313dAPR20130423044516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18326\" alt=\"gv042313dAPR20130423044516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gv042313dAPR20130423044516.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gv042313dAPR20130423044516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gv042313dAPR20130423044516-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sk042313dAPR20130423064513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18327\" alt=\"sk042313dAPR20130423064513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sk042313dAPR20130423064513.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sk042313dAPR20130423064513.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sk042313dAPR20130423064513-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/042313.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18328\" alt=\"042313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/042313.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/042313.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/042313-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/h2D5754CF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18329\" alt=\"h2D5754CF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/h2D5754CF.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/h2D5754CF.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/h2D5754CF-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/h2D5754CF-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, courtesy of Bill Meisen, we&#8217;ll call it a day with yet another sordid story ripped from the pages of the Crime Blotter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry_title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Long Island mom accused of driving kids during BB gun joyrides<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"225\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.nbcnewyork.com\/designvideo\/embeddedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"v=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnewyork.com%2Fi%2Fembed_new%2F%3Fcid%3D203932241%26path=\/on-air\/as-seen-on\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"225\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nbcnewyork.com\/designvideo\/embeddedPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"v=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnewyork.com%2Fi%2Fembed_new%2F%3Fcid%3D203932241%26path=\/on-air\/as-seen-on\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Long Island, eh?\u00a0 We&#8217;d have bet the farm she was a Jersey girl!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday, April 24th, 2013&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up, though we rarely agree with Alex Jones, this video shot during the height of the Marathon Manhunt causes us great consternation: Sorry folks, but in our view, failure of local and national law enforcement to track and apprehend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev doesn&#8217;t constitute grounds for suspending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18309"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18350,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18309\/revisions\/18350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}