Results for "janet napolitano"

Obama was supposed to set a “new tone” in Washington tonight. Don’t think he meant the tone to sound like snoring.
Janet Napolitano should have brought her Snuggie to the State of the Union Address. Here she is putting the “nap” in Napolitano:

(hat tip: Cristy Li)
Harry Reid forgot to drink his Red Bull, too: Zzzzzzz.

As part of the pre-State of the Union publicity blitz, the Obama White House had its cabinet members sit down for quickie videos to tell you how they all “got to work” and “took bold steps to rescue the country from a potential second Great Depression; to rebuild the economy for the long-term — so [...]

File under “Homeland Security is a Joke.”
Milblogger/independent war correspondent extraordinaire Michael Yon reports that he was stopped at Sea-Tac airport and handcuffed by TSA agents (*update* – several readers write in that it may have been CBP agents, not TSA):
Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The [...]

My column takes a look at a trio of under-reported stories of 2009. It was hard to pick just three, of course. FoxNews.com has its own list here. What’s on your list?
Related end-of-year notes: A few of my Cone of Shame 2009 awards.
***
Under-reported stories of 2009
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Most news outlets end the year [...]

My column today spotlights Yemen’s dangerous catch-and-release program for terrorists — and ours. But before you read it, please inform yourselves of this sad passing: American sailor/U.S.S. Cole bombing survivor Johan Gokool died in Florida yesterday. He lost a leg in the attack and suffered severe PTSD. Gokool was 31. R.I.P. and never forget.
In [...]

No doubt Janet Napolitano will find a way to praise this as an example of her homeland security system working:
A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the [...]

Scroll for updates…
President Obama is scheduled to make a public statement this afternoon on the Christmas Day jihadi attack at around 3pm Eastern.
Sure bet: He won’t use the word “jihad.”
Via AP:
The White House says President Barack Obama is preparing to make his first public statement on the Christmas Day terrorist attack and describe U.S. efforts [...]

Jihadists never rest.
And their m.o. has always been: Try, try again.
Hello:
The Associated Press has learned that a second Nigerian man has been taken into custody aboard a jetliner in Detroit after locking himself in the airliner’s bathroom.
A law enforcement official tells the AP that the incident took place aboard the same Northwest flight that was [...]

Obama’s biggest joker.

Not a peep from the national mainstream media about the embarrassing withdrawal of US Attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte and the damning indictment of the Colorado Democrat machine.
As I said, the withdrawal still leaves many unanswered questions about Denver’s ICE bureau, the prosecution of ICE whistleblower Cory Voorhis, and the accountability of DHS — which Sen. [...]

The SEIU needs more dues-paying members.
The open-borders lobby needs something to do.
Voila! Meet the new illegal alien shamnesty push via the Washington Times (readers: note that this is an excerpt from a NEWS story from the Times, NOT a Times editorial endorsement of amnesty!):
Democrats on Tuesday begin their new push for an immigration bill, hamstrung [...]

In October, I called your attention to the smelly US Attorney nomination out of Colorado involving Stephanie Villafuerte (see here and here).
Looks like the stonewall that the Dems and DOJ built for her has collapsed under the weight of local and state pressure — compounded by tough questions from the Denver Post’s Karen Crummy and [...]

Here it comes. Look for John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and the open-borders Republicans to hop on board the Obama Amnesty Bandwagon. God save us from bipartisanship. Via the NYT:
The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to [...]

Judgment.

“It will help us hold meetings”

California authorities believe the wildfires ravaging southern California may have been caused by arson, not global warming.
In other words, it looks to be what Janet Napolitano calls a “man-made disaster.”
Not that fear-mongerers like Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez will care.
She’s never let past arson-related blazes stand in the way of a good eco-apocalypse claim.

Props to the Associated Press for stepping outside its traditional role as Obama water-carriers and shedding light on the none-too-surprising politicization of border security funding under DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
She’s in a state of denial.
The White House is desperately undermining transparency.
And maybe it’s finally dawning on the media stenographers that the Era of [...]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Big Nanny Democrats want to ration health care for everyone in America – except those who break our immigration laws.
The latest cry for help comes from Nevada’s University Medical Center, via the Las Vegas Review Journal:
“Our people are really torn,” said Brian Brannman, UMC’s chief operating [...]

Robert Rosas, U.S. Border Patrol, R.I.P.

*Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down at his church in Kansas Sunday morning in a thoroughly evil, cold-blooded act of domestic terrorism. Yes, terrorism. Not “extremism.” Interesting how the t-word has been rediscovered.
*Every mainstream pro-life organization has unequivocally condemned the killing.
I repeat: Every mainstream pro-life organization has unequivocally condemned the killing. [...]

President Obama tells us this Memorial Day weekend that veterans have not gotten the respect they deserve:
President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect.
In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said people can honor [...]

Okay, the part about Janet Napolitano being in the running for Supreme Court justice is a stomach-turner. It’s the part at the end that is the snort-inducer of the day so far:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was studiously evasive Sunday about whether she coveted an appointment to the Supreme Court, as Republicans and Democrats sparred [...]

Shooting down “misleading” labels

(Photoshop credit: Nice Deb)
My syndicated column commemorates Barack Obama’s 100 days with the Scare Force One story as a take-off point. Imagine if this fiasco had happened under George Bush’s watch. It would have made the Left’s incessant carping over the “fake plastic turkey,” Mission Accomplished banner, and My Pet Goat incidents look like [...]

DiplOmacy

Well, DHS isn’t going to be issuing alerts about it any time soon. But it’s here: the resurgence of left-wing extremism.
Data point – MoveOn.org wailing about torture and indulging in Cheney Derangement Syndrome:

Data point – Hillary cackles at serious questions about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation.
Data point – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ups pressure for [...]

Gaffestastic Janet Napolitano is at it again — this time earning the partially justified derision of Canadians after suggesting that 9/11 terrorists entered the U.S. through the northern border:
The furor began when Napolitano was asked to clarify statements she had made about equal treatment for the Mexican and Canadian borders, despite the fact that a [...]

She said this on CNN over the weekend:
KING: A lot of Democrats in Congress want to you investigate [Joe Arpaio]. They think he is over the line. He says he is just enforcing the law and the problem is the federal government.
NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in that statement, [...]

Here’s a homeland security threat that doesn’t fit the rightwing extremist profile. Paging Janet Napolitano. Oh, never mind:
The Weld County sheriff’s office is looking for whoever sent it a letter threatening to put bombs around Greeley next week unless illegal immigrants are released from jail.
The sheriff’s office says the letter was handwritten in Spanish, and [...]

Senators Coburn, Brownback, DeMint, Burr, Murkowski, Inhofe, and Vitter sent the following letter to DHS Secretary Napolitano yesterday concerning the DHS conservative hit job:
April 16, 2009
The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Secretary
The Department of Homeland Security
310 7th street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20528-0150
VIA FASCMILLE
Dear Secretary Napolitano,
We write today concerning the release of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report titled [...]