Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad  —  Let's hope the administration gets over its reluctance to recognize attacks on the U.S. for what they are.  —  If your concern about the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers is limited to assuring that they will never be in a position to repeat their grisly acts, rest easy.

EXCLUSIVE - How doctor's daughter became the Muslim convert widow of Boston bomber: Terrorist husband ‘brainwashed’ her and she gave up her dreams of college to have his baby at 21  — Schoolfriend tells MailOnline how Katherine Russell had dreams of joining the Peace Corps - but was ‘totally transformed’ by Tamerlan Tsarnaev

George W. Bush says library ‘a place to lay out facts’  —  DEDICATING A NEW PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY  —  The federal government will spend more than $68.7 million this year on programming, operations and maintenance of 13 presidential libraries, including $3.5 million for the central management office.

The Jobless Trap  —  F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself.  But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won't blame fear, per se.  Instead, they'll castigate our leaders for fearing the wrong things.

Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?  —  In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, we are suffering through the inevitable period of liberal hand-wringing.  Liberals can't help themselves: while normal people are reviling the bombers, celebrating their capture or death …

Kerry Compares Boston Victims, Marmara Terrorists  —  At Istanbul, Secretary of State makes jarring comparison between Boston Marathon terror victims, IHH terror activists killed by Israel.  —  Speaking at Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a jarring comparison between …

Why Is Congress Trying to Make Our Internet Abuse Laws Worse, not Better?  —  The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is too vague and broad to make sense in an increasingly computer-mediated world.  Yet legislators don't seem to get it.  —  In January this year, political activist and net guru Aaron Swartz committed suicide.

Obama political arm strikes fear in GOP  —  As if President Barack Obama's political machine hasn't left them battered and bruised enough, Republicans are fretting that it could help Democrats win the House next year.  —  The president's deep-pocketed political arm, Organizing for Action …

Boehner Faces Competing Immigration Paths  —  Two immigration trains have left the station in the House, but no one knows which one Speaker John A. Boehner wants to eventually arrive on the floor.  —  A secretive bipartisan working group — akin to the Senate-side “gang of eight” — is trying to finalize its “comprehensive” proposal.

Memories of the First Earth Day  —  43 years ago today, America celebrated the first Earth Day.  And in the public high school I attended in conservative Cobb County, Georgia, we had a big Earth Day program, complete with a speech by actor Hal Holbrook, who had identified with the environmentalist cause …

A red state/blue state chasm  —  In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don't think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome.  —  Unfortunately, the problem is bigger than that.