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This curious passage from CNN’s Muhammad profile tonight:

A motive in the sniper shootings remains unclear. Why would a Gulf War veteran and a Jamaican teenager launch a deadly spree of sniper shootings, as authorities allege?

No way CNN is going to be taken in by the old “give us ten million bucks or we keep shooting [...]

Raise your hand if John Muhammad probably didn’t shoot you too. There aren’t many of us. Authorities have now linked him to not just the murder of Keenya Cook but to a shooting at a synagogue in early May. (The synagogue shooting is one of those rare firearm discharges involving Muhammad where no one died, [...]

Since people read blogs from the top, it behooves Unqualified Offerings to note that the item below this one is full of mea culpas (mea culpae?). This item is reserved for tedious self-justification.
“Retail worker theory” and “Construction worker theory.” Neither of these turned out to have applied to Muhammad and Malvo. But Unqualified Offerings argues [...]

Postmortem sniperblogging moves into high gear as UO considers its own errors!
1) I drank the geographic profile kool-ade without understanding the recipe. I was fixated on Montgomery County, starting and ending point of the spree and, not at all incidentally, my home. The whole reason I started blogging about the sniper incident in the first [...]

comes from Mother Jones of all places. Justin Raimondo’s article for that magazine calling for a patriotic anti-war movement has garnered deserved praise from some unusual quarters. Tonight, Unqualified Offerings hopes to discuss how Saturday’s Washington March (which UO attended) did and didn’t live up to the standards Justin enunciates.

Picking up on the “pack, not a herd” concept, liberal blogger Dave Roberts says it’s time to sunset the FBI and figure out what 21st-Century law enforcement and domestic security should look like. He has an intriguing outline.

Interesting analysis in the Post today by Guy Gugliotta and Gary Matsumoto, in which biological warfare experts express doubt on the “domestic loner” theory of the anthrax attacks. The Church Lady might find it awfully convenient that these scientists pick now of all times to express their doubts, with the Administration still trying to gin [...]

Your Talking Dog formally joins the “Grow a Pair, America!” Party, and adds a WTC-related plank to the platform:

The Israelis are right, when they insist on building things EXACTLY the way they were before an attack, as a big “F-you” to those who would impose their will be violence. So, I’m going to use [...]

The fine libertarian blogger Radley Balko had been leaning in favor of a US conquest of Iraq for some time. In this superb and closely argued piece, he explains why he has changed his mind.

Egyptian state television will start broadcasting a 30-part “documentary” based on the notorious forgeries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Egypt is the second-largest recipient of US foreign aid.
Remember, the only reason we non-interventionists oppose foreign aid is because we’re “xenophobes.” (Link via Geitner Simmons via Instapundit.)