Euphemisms won't stop bombs from exploding and knives from slashing

Our elected leaders STILL don’t get it

Benjamin Weingarten

Yesterday’s events in Seaside Park, N.J., the neighborhood of Chelsea in New York City, and St. Cloud, Minn., are the latest reminders that our free and willfully blind society is highly vulnerable whether such incidents are motivated by jihad (in the case of St. Cloud) or “intentional acts” of violence. I say “intentional act” because this is the language of New York’s ardently leftist Mayor Bill de Blasio. His use of this phrase during a press conference in the late hours of Saturday night leads us to ask the inevitable question: “What distinguishes an “intentional act” of blowing up a dumpster on a street in Manhattan — with a pressure cooker device found a few blocks away — from a terrorist act?” ..........To Read More....