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TSA follies: See SPOT fail by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 Air traffic controllers have been catching a lot of grief for sleeping on the job lately. But do you know what Transportation Security Administration officials have been doing — or rather, not doing — lately? A federal watchdog revealed this week that TSA’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Time for a strongly worded letter to customers at Walmart, because it doesn’t sound as if they’re being nearly vigilant enough: Radicalized U.S. residents willing to carry out attacks with “little or no warning” have helped create one of the biggest terrorist threats in years, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said [...]

Ever vigilant

**Written by Doug Powers Nancy Pelosi last seen having a fit of jealousy: The NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation dedicates the 2011 edition of Who Decides? The Status of Women’s Reproductive Rights in the United States to secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Prior to her appointment to this post, Napolitano served for [...]

No words. Just watch John Green, the father of 9-year-old Tucson massacre victim Christina Green, pay extraordinary tribute to his daughter — and to defending the American way of life: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Quote: “This shouldn’t happen in this country or anywhere else, but in a [...]

From MyFoxPhoenix, the 6 innocents who were shot and killed in the Tucson massacre have been identified. R.I.P. and continued prayers for all the victims and families of the crazed nut who wrought havoc on America today: The Pima County Sheriff has confirmed that five people were pronounced dead at the scene, and a 9-year-old [...]

Scroll for updates…Conflicting reports on Giffords’ status in post-shooting chaos…latest as of 2:39pm, Giffords still alive and in surgery…continued prayers…4:216pm Easter…shooter ID’s as Jared Loughner… Terrible, terrible news today out of Tucson, where a gunman shot and killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) and at least 6 others. Several more were injured in the ambush. Reuters [...]

**Written by Doug Powers We won’t know the final fate of the pilot until James Clapper is clapped-on and alerted to this story at some point next week so he can assist Janet Napolitano in deciding what to do, but from the looks of it, the TSA should be hiring this guy as a consultant [...]

In the best of hands

**Written by Doug Powers On ABC’s World News Tonight, Diane Sawyer talked with the Obama Administration’s national security team, including Janet “Swifty” Napolitano. The topic of discussion concerned possible terrorist attacks on or around Christmas (if you’ll forgive the expression). I’ll sleep better tonight, because Napalitano reminded viewers that “thousands of people are working 24/7, [...]

Rhymes with “Zohammed.”

Mohamed O. Mohamud Ho-hum. If it’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, it’s just another day in the life of a true believer in violent jihad. Yes: Violent jihad. Two words the current occupant of the White House won’t say together and about which he remains in stubborn denial. Violent jihad. A fundamental [...]

Don’t squeeze the J-Nap.

I noted the growing brouhaha over TSA’s new, invasive security procedures at the airport compared to the agency’s lackadaisical treatment of illegal alien pilots: Hands-off for law-breakers, hands-all-over for everyone else. The old joke about TSA used to be that it stood for “Thousands standing around.” Now TSA stands for “Touching sensitive areas.” Or, to [...]

My column today spotlights the hands-off policy of the Obama homeland security Keystone Kops when it comes to illegal alien pilot trainees. Meanwhile, it’s hands-on groping for everyone else as the nation revolts against invasive security measures at the airport. The jihadists are laughing their asses off. *** No illegal alien left behind by Michelle [...]

Oooookay. So the Pentagon has no explanation for the mystery missile spotted off the southern California coast last night and reported by CBS News. “The operative word is ‘unexplainable,’” a Pentagon spokesman said. I guess they’ll tell us the “system is working.” Perhaps the most interesting theory: Obama was showing off to Asia while on [...]

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Fort Hood massacre at the hands of jihadist soldier Nidal Hasan. Thirteen men and women, plus the unborn child of Pvt Francheska Velez, died in the bloody rampage. 1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, Havre de Grace, Md. 2. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, Woodbridge, Va. 3. Cpt. John [...]

Scroll for updates… Looks like there has been a coordinated attack on UPS planes worldwide today. Reports are breaking on a Yemen-Chicago plane stopped in London with a bomb on board. Planes also pulled over in Newark and Philadelphia. Wild guess: It wasn’t planned by a Catholic or Mormon network. (Sarcasm off.) Which MSNBC host [...]

The usual suspects at work: CAIR, Think Progress, HuffPo…

So Canada is “annoyed” with Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle because she pointed out that our northern neighbor’s lax immigration policies endanger America? Touchy, touchy. The Canadian government doth protest too much: Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. has called on Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle to take back her claim that terrorists have come [...]

The national security buzz this weekend centered on “commando-style” plots by jihadists in Europe — possibly targeting airport lobbies. Thomas Josceyln at Long War Journal shines light on the ties between the new plotters and the al Qaeda Hamburg cell linked to 9/11. Apparently, some British intel officials are unhappy with how the U.S. leaked [...]

President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security and State Department are hard at work making sure that no drunk foreign teens who call the commander-in-chief names ever set foot in our country. Feel safer? A British teenager who sent an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity was banned from America for life, [...]

At 8:46am this morning, nine years ago, murderous jihadists crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:03am this morning, nine years ago, murderous jihadists crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:37am this morning, nine years ago, murderous jihadists [...]

I wrote this column seven years ago, on the 2nd anniversary of the 9/11 jihadi attacks. Sad to say, I could have just as well written it today. Spitting on their graves by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate 9/10/03 Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried [...]

Sharing a couple of interesting e-mails from my mailbag over the past week… From reader D… Hello Michelle- I am a federal employee…who often does field work near the border. Last week we were told to not travel to field sites within 5 mi of the border between Buenos Aires Nat Wildlife Refuge and Douglas, [...]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers So is it fair to say “I guess this is goodbye” to any of Michelle’s readers who work for the TSA and check out the site from work? From CBS News via Drudge: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency’s computers, including halting access [...]

Adnan Shukrijumah. Does the name ring a bell? It should if you have been a regular reader of this blog since its inception in 2004. In August 2004, I reported on the FBI search for the high-profile fugitive and al Qaeda operative billed as the “next Mohammed Atta.” There’s been a $5 million bounty on [...]

Here we go again. I’ve long reported on the danger of illegal alien sanctuary city policies embraced by woefully misguided (at best) and criminally reckless public officials seeking to appease the open borders lobby. One of the countless casualties of this deadly pandering was Houston PD officer Rodney Johnson, who shot and killed during a [...]

Club Fed for illegal aliens by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Thanks to their international “human rights” advocates, Gitmo detainees receive art therapy, movie nights and video games at their U.S. taxpayer-funded camp in Cuba. Now, the left’s bleeding heart lobby wants to provide similar taxpayer-sponsored perks to illegal alien detainees on American soil. [...]

Former top federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has been one of America’s bravest and most stalwart warriors against Islamic jihad. He’s battled them in court. He’s exposed them here at home and around the globe. His new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, is out today, and I urge you [...]