Various mini-cons on Twitter are trying to convince me that I’m supposed to be outraged that Obama did not immediately declare the Boston Marathon bombings acts of terrorism: Obama is refusing to call this a terrorist attack. Obama is refusing to call this a terrorist attack. — Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) April 15, 2013 Declaring something terrorism is mostly a political act. It tells us nothing about the crime perpetrated, or even about the perpetrators. It does tell us how the regime feels about the perpetrators. For example, Anders Brevik, the pro-Israel, anti-Muslim Norwegian who gunned down dozens of teenagers and … Continue reading Is the Boston Marathon Bomber a Terrorist?