memeorandum: Boston bombings: Cardinal O'Malley warns of ‘culture of death’ (Michael A. Memoli/Los Angeles Times)

11:45 AM ET, April 22, 2013

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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:

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.

Discussion: National Review, UrbanGrounds, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Gateway Pundit, LewRockwell.com Blog and msnbc.com

New York Times:

Suspects Seemed Set for Attacks Beyond Boston — WASHINGTON — The two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings were armed with a small arsenal of guns, ammunition and explosives when they first confronted the police early Friday, and were most likely planning more attacks, the authorities said Sunday.

Discussion: The Plum Line, Taylor Marsh, The PJ Tatler, Weekly Standard, Conservative Intelligence …, Gawker, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Gothamist and The Hill

Daily Mail:

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

Discussion: Israel Matzav, The Gateway Pundit, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Riehl World News and American Power

Jonathan Allen / Reuters:

Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses — (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, who police say engaged in a gun battle with officers early Friday after a frenzied manhunt, were not licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, authorities said on Sunday.

Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Shot in the Dark

Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:

The Conservative Paranoid Mind — There's a common thread linking conservatives' positions on gun control, immigration, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: the constant need to stoke fear. By Michael Tomasky. — Liberals and civil libertarians shouldn't yet be saying that there's utterly …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Wall Street Journal:

Enemy Combatants in Boston — Was there a FISA order issued for Tamerlan Tsarnaev? — A row has broken out over whether the Obama Administration is violating the legal due process of Boston terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by not reading him his Miranda rights before questioning.

Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show, CNN, LewRockwell.com Blog and TheBlaze.com

bigstory.ap.org:

Mass. police: Bomb suspects didn't have gun permit — You are here — Home » Massachusetts » Mass. police: Bomb suspects didn't have gun permit — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon …

Discussion: The Fix, UrbanGrounds, No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Doug Ross and The Hinterland Gazette

U.S. News:

Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is beginning to respond in writing to questions from federal interrogators, though plenty of questions still remain. NBC's Pete Williams reports. — Despite a serious throat wound preventing him from speaking …

Discussion: Shakesville, msnbc.com and The Democratic Daily

Wall Street Journal:
Boston Marathon Bombings: Turn to Religion Split Bomb Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Home

Discussion: Daily Mail

New York Times:
How to Handle a Terrorism Case

Discussion: Mediaite and Politico

Alyssa Newcomb / ABCNEWS:
Authorities: Boston Bombing Suspect Is Responding to Questions in Writing

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Taylor Marsh, Politico, The Fix, The Week, Gawker, CNN, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider and Post Politics

Daily Mail:
Bomber is awake and responding to questions after he ‘shot himself in the head while he was cornered in boat’

Discussion: BBC, Weasel Zippers, Riehl World News, Infowars and CBS News

Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
Dead suspect broke angrily with Muslim speakers

Discussion: Power Line and msnbc.com

Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Report: Suspects not licensed for guns

Discussion: Hot Air

Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Report: Suspects not licensed to own guns

Discussion: Questions and Observations, JustOneMinute and Twitchy

Washington Post:
CIA, FBI, military interrogators ready to question Boston bombing suspect

Discussion: Boston Globe, The Week, Hot Air, Prairie Weather and Post Politics

Julia Preston / New York Times:
F.B.I. Interview Led Homeland Security to Hold Up Citizenship for One Brother

Discussion: Daily Mail, ImmigrationProf Blog, Outside the Beltway and Twitchy

Tom Curry / NBC Politics:
Terrorist suspect may have traveled to Russia in 2012 under alias

Discussion: neo-neocon, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, Crooks and Liars and The Gateway Pundit

United States Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina:
Graham, McCain, Ayotte and King Statement On Enemy Combatant Status For Boston Suspect

Discussion: American Prospect and Right Turn

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
G.O.P. Lawmakers Push to Have Boston Suspect Questioned as Enemy Combatant

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, The Reaction, JONATHAN TURLEY, New Republic, The Blotter, The Huffington Post and FiveThirtyEight

USA Today:

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.

Discussion: Politico and The Hill

Mike Jaccarino / Fox News:
Town of West, Texas, recovers after plant blast kills 14, injures 200

Discussion: NewsHounds blog

Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
No Indication Obama Will Visit Devastated West, Texas

Discussion: White House Dossier, Weasel Zippers, Dallas Morning News, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

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.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and naked capitalism

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

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 …

Discussion: National Review, Right Wing News, Betsy's Page, Daily Kos, Mediaite and NewsBusters

Arutz Sheva:

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 …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Israel Matzav, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs

Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:

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.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Angela Waye / The Atlantic Online:

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.

Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:

EXCLUSIVE — SECRET EMAILS: CATO, NORQUIST, RUBIO USE BOSTON TERROR ATTACKS TO PUSH IMMIGRATION REFORM — Secret emails obtained exclusively by Breitbart News show the libertarian Cato Institute, Americans for Tax Reform, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are colluding on immigration reform messaging …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and American Spectator