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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Something happened yesterday that was highly predictable.

The door has barely closed behind me, and I can already hear my wife. The local news is on the television in the living room.

“I knew it. I didn’t want to guess because I didn’t want to be like you, but I kind of knew it.”

Kindness is in my wife’s DNA. She isn’t even slightly cynical. She works in charitable giving. We’re also both recent Catholic converts, so charity is more than just a vocation for her. She actively tries to see the best in people. I work in the media, on the other hand. I carry the bulk of the cynicism and skepticism (and aggression) in the family. Nowadays, I also carry the gun. To us, this all comes pretty naturally.

News broke Tuesday night that a woman had been fatally stabbed near Great Falls national park. By Wednesday, our suspicions had been confirmed.

“The killer was an illegal alien,” my wife said, even as I was still carrying my kids through the door.

Twelve years ago, when I first moved down here to run an ailing newspaper, this kind of stuff almost never happened. The most notable bad policy decision in the DMV was someone deciding metro trains should be carpeted.

Marvin Fernando Morales Ortez had his attempted murder charges dropped and was released into the public in Fairfax County, where I live and work. An APB was sent out the next day when he made good on his promise and allegedly murdered someone. If my wife’s place of work, the daycare my kids attend and my own place of work form a triangle, the murder occurred dead center. ICE had a retainer on the man but Democrat politicians and liberal prosecutors ignore those.

Months later, Steve Taehee Ha walked into a Gold’s Gym I go to every day, sometimes twice a day, and shot a man to death who was in the middle of doing pull ups. The man left behind an infant son and wife. Ha was found “not guilty” by reason of insanity. Weeks later news would break that officials helped accused murderer Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda get a passport and then gave him a day pass from the mental health facility, left to his own recognizance. Crazy enough, instead of killing more people, he simply left the country (ultimately avoiding punishment).

The victim in Great........

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