At least President Obama did not call it “workplace violence,” and at least he acknowledged that the horrific slaughter was an “act of terror.” That’s the good news about his statement a few minutes ago about the carnage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. But there is bad news, too. There was no mention whatsoever of Islam, radical Islam, or jihad. It was purely an “act of hate” of no particular character. His statement on motivations contained lawyerly qualifications enabling him to obscure the fact that the killer shouted “Allahu Akbar     !” (“Allah is supreme!”) as he murdered. Watch at about a minute into his statement as he said, “We have reached no definitive judgments on the precise motivations of the killer. “ “Definitive” and “precise” are the weasel words he uses to obscure the obvious fact that this was jihad.  And they did not...(Read Full Post)