Putin's Power Grab
Vladimir Putin's oh-so-convenient use of the school massacre to consolidate power reminds me of this rightly famous InstaPundit post from 9/11:
It's Not Just Terrorists Who Take Advantage: Someone will propose new "Antiterrorism" legislation. It will be full of things off of bureaucrats' wish lists. They will be things that wouldn't have prevented these attacks even if they had been in place yesterday. Many of them will be civil-liberties disasters. Some of them will actually promote the kind of ill-feeling that breeds terrorism. That's what happened in 1996. Let's not let it happen again.
Some things are too predictable.