The Left's Habitual and Ironic Rush to Judgment

The Left's Habitual and Ironic Rush to Judgment

        When a radio host asked me what I thought of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., I had to ask for clarification. I said: "What do you mean? Who could deny it's an unspeakable tragedy?"

        What he was really asking me was to address it in a political context. The problem is that I don't believe there was any political context to the shooting; not everything is political.

        But unfortunately, elements of the left seemed determined to graft political implications onto the event, irrespective of the absence of any factual basis for doing so. They seized on it both...