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Anders Behring Breivik’s mother “sexualized” her four-year-old son and often told him she wished he were dead, according to child psychologist reports in a book on the Norwegian killer. The reports also show that his mother became preoccupied with fears that he would assault someone. “She saw him as an adult violent person, though he was only a small boy,” said Aage Borchgrevink, author of A Norwegian Tragedy. “She was afraid that he would assault people.” The psychologist reports show that Wenche Behring already felt that her son was “aggressive, hyperactive and clingy” when she was breastfeeding him. By the...

In 2011, Anders Brevik set off a bomb outside a government building in Norway and then slaughtered dozens of unarmed people on a retreat, methodically picking them off as they tried to escape from an island. Seventy-seven people died in Brevik’s murder spree, and the unrepentant killer gave an unemotional description of his actions in court. The court in Norway reacted by handing down a maximum sentence of 21 years in prison — just under 100 days per murder victim: "A Norwegian court ruled Friday that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was sane, deciding he was criminally responsible for...

In AMC's zombie series, "The Walking Dead," tensions build between an old-fashioned veterinarian farmer, named Hershel Greene -- who thinks zombies have a disease that may be cured someday -- and a caravan of gun-packing refugees, led by Deputy Rick Grimes. Because Hershel wants to protect the zombies he has hidden in his barn, he orders Rick and company to leave his property -- even though leaving could make Rick, his family and his friends easy pickings for the undead. It's disturbing how self-congratulatory humanitarians can be willing to endanger the lives of others in order to maintain their worldview....

Will the self-confessed killer, Breivik, be housed in the luxurious Halden prison? Norway’s soft-on-crime culture embraces, hotel-style prisons where violent offenders are “mothered.” From the Mail Online: Luxury: Every private cell has a mini-fridge, flat-screen TV and even a private en-suite bathroom and barless windows to let in more sunlight… If only Breivik was fathered. Or policed. From The Telegraph: Their [father-son] relationship broke down when Breivik was a teenager and his behaviour became more unruly and rebellious. A keen fan of hip-hop music, he would spend his evenings with a small gang of friends spraying graffiti on buildings around...

The “Hunt for possible second gunman in Norway” post by our ABC’s [Australia] Europe correspondent Rachael Brown (“Updated July 24, 2011 15:15:55”) is clear: Key details: • 92 dead, may rise to 98 • Ring-wing Christian extremist charged • His farm searched for explosives • Possibility of a second gunman Traditionally, the ABC plays down religion when Islam is linked to a massacre. Now, curiously, messengers see a “Right-wing Christian extremist charged” – his alleged faith and politics, in bold type. But did journalists and reporters jump too early? […] In sum, then, an organic-loving fan of trance music, with...

Often the Left is so predictable. While Norway mourns the deaths of the 92 (so far) shooting victims, kook bloggers at FireDogLake, Democratic Underground, and elsewhere are already labelling the alleged killer to be "right wing." This meme appears to have started with a comment made by a Norwegian political science professor who speculated that the shooter might be "right wing." Even Sarah Palin is now being blamed for the shooting because the suspect reportedly favored the creation of a European Tea Party. The media keeps repeating the mantra that the shooter is "right wing." But what does it even...