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How Boston Will Impact Washington

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

The Boston attacks will have an inevitable, if unpredictable, impact on the debates in Washington D.C.

We now know that the perpetrators were legal residents, that they were Muslim, that they were Chechen, that they were pretty young. We know the older one was disaffected and unhappy with living in America. We know he was radicalized to become anti-American.

We surmise that the younger one was less radical but perhaps more prone to being influenced by his big brother. Continue reading →

Miranda

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

Suddenly, every cable news anchor, every pundit, every Sunday show guest, and every waiter in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia has become an expert on whether or not Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be informed of his Miranda rights.

Let’s assume, for the moment, that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has never watched a single episode of “Law & Order” in any of its manifestations and, thus, does not know he can ask for a lawyer – or refuse to answer any questions with a lawyer or without. Continue reading →

Homeland

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

Season Three of Homeland might debut in September on Showtime, but on CNN, MSNBC, Fox and all of the other networks, Homeland season three debuted last night.

Talk about reality and fantasy merging together.

Some might have thought that the television series starring Damian Lewis and Clare Danes and the always entertaining Mandy Pantinkin had already jumped the shark. Continue reading →

Terrorists Never Win in America

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

In 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled English Catholics hatched a plan to blow the British Parliament to smithereens by tunneling under the massive building, rolling in kegs of gunpowder and lighting the whole thing afire just as the House of Lords was entertaining King James the First.

Alas, the plan was discovered before the spark was lit, and Guy Fawkes and his merry band of terrorists were executed and the cause of freedom of worship for English Catholics was set back for hundreds of years.

Most terrorist bombing campaigns don’t work. But some do. Continue reading →

False Sense of Insecurity

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

Here we go again.

On my morning walk with my dog I saw the Capitol Police friend of mine. We both shook our heads at the events that happened in Boston. Here we go again, we both said.

More overtime is in the future for him. More insecurity for me and my family.

We don’t know who set off the bombs in Boston. It could have been a Saudi National. That was the early speculation. It could have been a home-grown Continue reading →