Phyllis Schlafly Recommend this article The Boston Marathon
Bombing, where three people were killed and 264 wounded, many
with legs or feet blown off, continues to be a big media story,
but we are still waiting for answers to many questions. How did
our government miss so many clues that the Tsarnaev brothers
were a deadly danger to Americans?  They came into the United
States as visitors from Kazakhstan, where many ethnic Chechens
live without persecution and then cooked up a claim to be
refugees, which was a fraud. After a few years, the father
returned to Dagestan, Russia, where he now lives safely.  Once
admitted into the United States, the entire family cashed in on
generous U.S. welfare benefits, cash and food stamps. Those
receiving taxpayer handouts included the two criminal sons, both
of their parents and, ultimately, Tamerlan's wife and child.
Tamerlan can be said to have financed his radicalization with
welfare handouts from our taxpayers. Those were the years when
Tamerlan became a more devout Mu