IT’S NOT LIKE TV: Orin Kerr: Tsarnaev and Miranda Rights. “A lot of people assume that the police are required to read a suspect his Miranda rights upon arrest. That is, they assume that one of a person’s rights is the right to be read their rights. It often happens that way on Law & Order, but that’s not what the law actually requires.”

Plus: “If Tsarnaev is going to be charged in federal court, the more pressing limit on his interrogation may be the limits imposed by Rule 5 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.”

PAPER GOLD CRASH PRODUCING PHYSICAL GOLD BOOM? Funny, I was talking to a coin dealer I know the other day and he was saying that even with coins at a premium demand was way ahead of supply.

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED: Howie Carr on refugees who become terrorists. “I know you’re not supposed to paint with a broad brush, unless you’re a liberal, in which case you are not only permitted, but expected to make Adam Lanza the poster boy for 100 million law-abiding legal gun owners.”

WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE? NRA is named new promoter of outdoor show in Harrisburg, replacing show canceled over gun ban. “The National Rifle Association has emerged as the new promoter of the area’s annual outdoors show at the Farm Show Complex, replacing the now-cancelled Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show. . . . The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show was canceled this year after its promoter, Reed Exhibitions, banned the sale or display of assault rifles and vendors threatened to boycott.”

20 years ago, the gun community often responded to attacks with appeasement. That lesson has been learned.

UPDATE: Reader Larry Patty writes: “Where are the lamentations of their women?” Try reading Maureen Dowd’s latest.

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“SMART DIPLOMACY” UPDATE: Obama Losing Control of Middle East Policy. “The Obama administration is losing control of its Middle East policy and with it, Washington’s credibility. Yesterday the State Department and Pentagon gave conflicting accounts of the administration’s Syria policy before a bewildered Senate Armed Services Committee.”

I really think that the purpose of the Kerry appointment was to ensure that Hillary — whose record was nothing to write home about — would look better in retrospect.

BOB MCMANUS: NYPD Vindicated: Will the AP apologize?

Looks like it’s time for the Associated Press to give back its Pulitzer Prize.

Just as it’s time for politicians — and especially the press — to stop chewing on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s leg over the NYPD’s so-far-enormously-successful anti-terrorist surveillance programs.

Knock wood on the “successful” part, of course. If America has learned anything about terrorism since 9/11, it’s that the threat is incessant, though hugely unpredictable as to source, specific motivation and any given terrorist’s tool kit of choice. . . .

No doubt the dark fantasies that put the Boston bombers into motion will be teased out of their personal histories in the days and weeks to come. But there was enough on the record yesterday to discern radical Islamist motives in their plot.

That is, to ratify once again the wisdom of Ray Kelly and the NYPD in targeting Islamic extremism as a profound and continuing threat to New York and its citizens — all of its citizens, including thousands upon thousands of Muslims — and then acting accordingly.

Where was Kelly & Co. supposed to go to protect the city from Islamist terror — Lutheran quilting bees?

No. And he didn’t.

Meanwhile Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder were worrying about Tea Partiers.

OOPS: ObamaCare May Put Some Unions Out Of Business. “It would be ironic indeed if many of the private sector unions who supported Obamacare (with the promise that these problems would later be fixed) had actually signed their own death warrant. But it seems this may be what has happened. There’s no money in the budget for the government to extend subsidies to the union plans, or exempt them from the various coverage expansions and taxes. And there’s no money in the union coffers to compete with the government subsidies that have already been enacted.”

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PRO PUBLICA: “Counterterror officials believe the brothers were Islamic extremists. And the information available so far suggests that they appeared to integrate well into U.S. society, yet slid into a spiral of Islamic radicalization with bloody results. The profile has similarities to the home-grown terrorists behind attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, according to counterterror officials.”

Related: Brothers in Marathon bombings took two paths into infamy.

Also: License Plate: Terrorista#1. And more arrests. Plus this odd detail:

Two Russian speaking men in their early 20s later arrived at the apartment and told reporters they were journalists from the Boston Globe.

They then entered the apartment through an unlocked patio door. When asked what they were doing they said: ‘We are friends of theirs. They are talking, they are talking’ and closed the door.

When MailOnline rang the City desk of the Boston Globe, a man said: ‘We’re very busy right now. Consider us informed’.

Hmm.

LOOKING AT THE physiological sources of crime.

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ALAN BOYLE: Big-time players are getting serious about asteroid perils and profits. “Experts on near-Earth objects wondered whether February’s meteor blast over Russia would serve as a wakeup call about asteroids — and two months later, there’s ample evidence that it has. But there are two sides to that wakeup call, having to do with potential opportunities as well as potential threats.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Freedom of assembly: Scientists see nanoparticles form larger structures in real time.

AN UNDERCOVERED STORY: Dispatches from West, Texas: What the Incredible Explosion Felt Like.

This morning, Evelyn Moon says, she and her husband David talked their way past blockades to get access to the West Rest Haven nursing home, since David is a former president and current board member of the facility. They found half the building in complete ruins. David reports that while every resident was evacuated and relocated, one person was killed. The building was near full capacity and was one of the largest employers within the community.

Bill Pierce, son-in-law of the Moons, came down around 12 a.m. to help with the damage and check in on friends and family. This big blast came from a relatively small plant, he says: “Everyone seems to think this was a major fertilizer operation. It’s relatively small potatoes. This was not a big facility at all—just an area where they stored chemical compounds. I believe there were two tanks and one was still intact.”

Read the whole thing.

READER BOOK PLUG: “Saw that you put up a link to bestsellers in military history about 3 hours ago. Maybe you’d be interested in plugging a book I just recently published on World War I as an update? When The Somme Ran Red. Super interesting (or at least I think so) read on trench warfare on the western front.”

FAKE MARRIAGES IN CHINA: WHEN GAY MEN MARRY LESBIAN WOMEN.

FROM ADAM GARFINKLE: Thoughts On The 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Massive University of Wisconsin Slush Fund Discovered. “While the University of Wisconsin has been raising tuition and clamoring for more taxpayer support they have been stockpiling hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent tuition and federal grant monies.”

Related: Scott Walker Calls for Tuition Freeze After Slush Fund Uncovered.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Boston Manhunt and the MSM’s Gun Control Blind Spot.

We wrote about the MSM’s inability to grasp the politics that caused the gun control bill to fail in the Senate this week. The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing illustrates the divide.

Millions of Americans listening to the bulletins on the developing manhunt were either glad they had guns in their homes or thought seriously about getting them. Yet for many professional journalists, and maybe especially those in the Acela corridor in the Northeast, this reaction is incomprehensible.

Put simply, millions of Americans don’t want to depend only on the police for protection. They think about the inevitable interval between calling 911 and the arrival of the cops, and they don’t want to wait helplessly for the good guys to arrive. Events like this one reinforce deeply held public beliefs about the dangerous world we live in and the limits of the state’s ability to protect the people from the bad guys.

This may not strike enlightened and well credentialed Acela liberals as sensible or rational, but that’s not the point.

They talk about empathy and understanding for other cultures. But . . . .

SEEMS LIKE AN OVERREACTION TO ME: Should The Police Have Shut Boston Down?

Related thoughts here: “If you’d shown me those pictures a quarter century ago and told me that’s what Boston will look like after a terrorist attack, I would have thought: Oh, my God! The neutron bomb!”

Plus, from the comments: “Given what happened in LA during the Dorner manhunt, and the number of police deployed here, it’s as much to prevent accidental shootings by police as to make the manhunt easier.”

But I think this is the last word: “So lockdown is lifted because they can’t find the suspect…which allows boat guy to leave his house…and find the suspect.”

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NOW ON YOUTUBE, MY INSTAVISION INTERVIEW WITH WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Should The GOP Distance Itself From The Bush Legacy?

PROF. JACOBSON: Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives.

Related: Telegraph: Obama lulled America into false confidence over terror threat. “Even when that fight does directly touch on American lives, as it did last September when the US ambassador to Libya was murdered in Benghazi by an al-Qaeda linked group, the administration appears at pains to deny the connection.”

UPDATE: Speaking of eliminationist: MJ Rosenberg Calls for Public Execution of Republicans and Matt Drudge.