It is really easy to sucker the knee-jerk left – a group so broad that it includes President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google, and Bill Nye the purported “Science Guy.”  Ahmed Mohamed (or maybe his dad) just proved that by pulling off the Great Clock Caper in Texas, and now they are taking the money and running – to Qatar. Taking apart a 1980s-era digital clock and putting it into a pencil case so that it bore some resemblance to a bomb, and then bringing it to school for a science fair, was guaranteed to trigger a Zero Tolerance reaction.  School administrators have been known to throw children out of school for chewing Pop Tarts into the shape of a gun, after all.  Ahmed got exactly the reaction he expected, and with his evasive answers, he even got arrested.  Propaganda gold!  The claim that he was being persecuted because of his dark skin and Muslim name was perfect for the progressive media narrative....(Read Full Post)