murderer is a blonde, blue-eyed, norwegian-born anti-slim crusader does not mean he's not a swarthy, ululating, middle eastern madman. [laughter] jim? >> what do you make of the fact he looked nordic? >> in the first few hours after any such event, there's so much information or misinformation drawing about, i wouldn't want to draw too many conclusions. maybe it was a good disguise. [audience reacts] >> stephen: yes, which is more plausible: a non-muslim did this or al qaeda has developed poly-juice potion? [applause] now, fortunately cooler heads are covering their asses. in an editorial response to their editorial, the "wall street journal" calls breivik an al qaeda copycat and reminds us that if this does prove to be the work of islamists, it will be noted that neither norway's opposition to the war in iraq nor its considerable financial and political support for the palestinians spared it from attack. and if that hypothetical day should come, that's an imaginary lesson they will not soon pretend to forget. [laughter] and as the "washington post"'s jennifer rubin wrote in her retrarks "the

of retroactivity in the fair sentencing act should be a signal enough we exceed authority end of ululate congressional intent by making the amendment retroactive under any circumstances and i want to take a moment to address this issue. the commission has over its history used its authority under 28994 infrequently to make retrospective guideline amendments that reduce sentencing ranges. this is because the finality of judgment is an important principal in our judicial system and we require good reasons to disturb final judgments. indeed, while the vast majority of the 750 amendments to the guidelines over the last 25 years and over my tenure on the commission, have been to increase the penalties approximately 100 have reduced penalties yet only 28 of the guideline reducing the amendments have been made retroactive over the history of the commission. the commission's authority to make guideline reducing amendments retroactive is consistent with purposes and duties leave out by congress and inorganic statute. the conagra's gave both lofty goals and practical. on the lofty goals of congres