“Never waste a good crisis,” is a favorite saying of President Obama’s chief strategist, as a crisis can be used to leverage all sorts of projects. Now, we can update this to “don’t waste a good murder,” as the right sort of killing can do the same thing.

Two “good” murders came along in two weeks, one the killing in Kansas of a late-term abortionist, and the other an assault by a racist at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, in which a security guard was killed.

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