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SO I JUST WATCHED AN NYC LOCAL NEWS STORY (PIX 11 NEWS) ON THE SANTA MONICA SHOOTING, and they never mentioned the shooter’s name, which is John Zawahri. Instead they spent a lot of time talking about guns.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “I don’t know how significant the ‘Middle Eastern’ness of the last name really is. Most Arabs in America are Christian. The first names of the brothers ‘John’ and ‘Chris’ are not very Islamic.”

Yeah, but the point is what the press doesn’t think we should know.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Santa Monica gunman had past mental issues, police sources say. Typical. Also typical is that not much was done, even though apparently everyone saw him as a powderkeg.

THE HILL: Cincinnati Staffer: IRS in DC showed “unusual” and “over the top” interest in Tea Party cases.

Related: Average Americans Share Their “Targeting” Stories.

WHO KNEW? Fred Lapides’ GoodStuff Blogging Magazine is now up to #106.

ADVICE FROM BILL QUICK: GOP Losers Ought to Try Rand, Not Christie.

ONE MUST LOOK TO THE LEADERS OF THE HERD FOR THE APPROVED NARRATIVE: “I remember the first time I saw Andrew Dice Clay — on TV, doing his typical routine — and I thought it was obviously a spoof of exaggerated masculinity. Later, I found out that right-thinking women were supposed to assume the ‘that’s not funny’ position.”

SO I WAS TOUTING MY 2001 WRITING ON TERRORISM AND SECURITY THE OTHER DAY, and Randy Barnett sent this piece of his. Yeah, it holds up pretty well, too.

HEY, RUBE! Americans Are Outraged Because in Voting for Obama, They Thought They Were Rejecting Bush. Meet the new boss, yada yada.

UPDATE: Heh. Obama’s Apology Letter To George W. Bush. “I am sorry that, as a United States senator and presidential candidate, I was critical of you about so many things I now, myself, am doing. . . . You can take heart that, even though I am a Democrat, I decided to keep going nearly all your vision and plans on national security and even take it to all-new levels.”

REMEMBER, ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS: Police Chief Accidentally Shoots Himself In Hand.

USA TODAY EDITORIAL: Massive secret surveillance betrays Americans.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Know Your Billionaire Bullies. “As if Mike Bloomberg’s billions weren’t enough for us to fight, another plutocrat has joined those arrayed against gun ownership. Venture capitalist and Huffington Post founder Ken Lerer has started a new website called Stop The NRA.” How’s that going for you, Ken?

AT COLLEGE INSURRECTION, it’s Harassment Week.

RICH HAILEY: I’m A White Knight. Is That So Bad?

As I’ve noted before, chivalry was part of a system, in which expectations were imposed on women and girls, as well as boys and men.

CARTER HULL UPDATE: IRS lawyer who oversaw conservative targeting is retiring and his Facebook page has been removed. I think he’s a fall guy. I’d be very surprised if he’s the highest-up official who was involved in this.

SOME NICE TUNES from Rick Torres’ project, The Smart Set.

U.S. NEWS: Second Amendment Hero Dick Heller Offers Searing Indictment Of Media Coverage Of Guns.

“You folks in the media, I challenge you to add another [notch] to your resume. Learn about guns. Take a safety course,” Heller told a room of reporters at the National Press Club. “If you don’t … you’re going to have a struggle understanding the process. When I see people take a firearms class, and they start out as antigun, they enjoy it, they start to absorb that environment. If you did, you would not make mistakes, like calling a magazine a clip.”

That advice is one the gun rights community has offered before.

But the press, for the most part, hasn’t listened.

SPIN: NY Times A1 Story Wrongly Credits NSA’s PRISM for Foiling Zazi Case. “Yesterday both the NY Times and Reuters claimed the Zazi terror plot against New York subways was foiled by an NSA email collection program called PRISM. That was not the case. The key to stopping the Zazi plot was an arrest and investigation by British authorities.”

PROF. JACOBSON ON TURKEY: Everyday I’m Çapuling!

BREAKING: Parts of NSA’s PRISM program declassified. So are we at the “modified limited hangout” stage?

UPDATE: Here’s the DNI statement.

DETECTING DANGEROUS ASTEROIDS.

NOTHING SAYS “CAREFULLY HONED SYSTEM THAT WON’T GO OUT OF CONTROL” like naming it “Boundless Informant.” Plus, note from the map that the U.S. gets spied on much more than, say, Russia.

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DAVID PETRAEUS’ SEX SCANDAL EXPOSED by illegal surveillance of his emails?