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The new State Department mascot Today’s syndicated column builds on my weekend post about Foggy Bottom foghorn Michael Posner. If you thought the State Department’s handling of Posner’s Arizona-bashing, China-pandering couldn’t get worse than ignoramus P.J. Crowley’s clueless defense yesterday, think again. As Allahpundit points out, Posner is in full spin cycle, playing the “taken [...]

Photo: Yahoo News/AP My syndicated column today explores the persistent homeland security lapses that allow visa overstayers and deportation fugitives like the Boston-area men arrested yesterday in the Times Square bombing plot to embed themselves in the country with impunity. Since I filed the piece, there has been at least one more immigration-related arrest in [...]

There’s so much pussyfooting and high-stepping around the term “radical Islam” here that Attorney General Eric Holder has more than earned a spot on the next “Dancing with the Stars.” Just watch the whole spectacle. Crikey: While jihadists plot, our Justice Department panders. We’re back to Code Red Elmo on the Homeland Insecurity Scale:

On second thought…

The go-fly list for terrorists by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 If America’s homeland security policies were subject to truth-in-advertising laws, the “no-fly” list would be known around the world by its right and proper name: the “go-fly” list. As in: Go right ahead, jihadists, and fly our planes. All aboard, evil-doers. While grandmas [...]

There’s a bit of buzz on Twitter, Reuters, and Fox News right now about an Emirates Airlines plane that has been pulled over on a JFK airport runway in NYC. Reportedly, the plane has a passenger on board who was on the hapless no-fly list (the subject of my newspaper column tomorrow – stay tuned). [...]

The jihadists’ deadly path to citizenship by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 America’s homeland security amnesia never ceases to amaze. In the aftermath of the botched Times Square terror attack over the weekend, Pakistani-born bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad’s U.S. citizenship status caused a bit of shock and awe. The Atlantic magazine writer Jeffrey Goldberg’s [...]

News out of Houston about a suspicious piece of luggage at Bush airport in Houston. From the Houston Chronicle: Houston fire department crews and a hazardous materials team are investigating reports of a suspicious piece of luggage at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Authorities received a small aircraft emergency call around 2:15 p.m., after a bag [...]

Scroll for updates… The Pakistani-born naturalized American who bought the would-be Nissan Pathfinder SUV bomb that fizzled in Times Square was arrested at JFK airport as he attempted to flee for Dubai. Here’s the DOJ statement: Earlier this evening, Faisal Shahzad was arrested in connection with the attempted car bombing in New York on Saturday. [...]

On Saturday night, someone tried to bomb Times Square. For the full recap, review Allahpundit’s blow-by-blow as the news developed. NYPost video of the suspect shows a “balding, 40-something man” at the “end of Shubert Alley peeling off a sweatshirt he’d been wearing over a short-sleeved red shirt, furtively glancing over his shoulder, then stuffing [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing this morning with corruptocrat AG Eric Holder. C-SPAN is streaming it live here. Holder should have worn an Olympic gymnast’s outfit. After boasting last month that bin Laden would be killed and that he’d be reading Miranda rights to his corpse, Holder now says capturing him remains [...]

Wow, what a day. Three makes a Farewell Friday trifecta. Via WSJ: Dawn Johnsen withdrew her nomination to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, after becoming a lightning rod for Republican opposition and languishing more than a year in the Senate confirmation process. Ms. Johnsen, an Indiana University professor, was a strident critic [...]

Try, try again…or a giant “misunderstanding?”

Norman LeBoon, loon.

Scroll for updates… Twitter picture stream from Moscow at PicFog. They’re at it again. Early Monday morning in Russia, two female killers strapped themselves with bombs and attacked rail stations in Moscow. Scores are reported dead; more than 70 injured. “Terrorism is suspected,” duh: Two female homicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow’s subway system [...]

President Obama is two for two so far in his choices to head the Transportation Security Administration — his second pick withdrew from consideration yesterday: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding took himself out of the running as head of the Transportation Security Administration, another setback for Obama after his first choice withdrew in January [...]

This one hits close to home. I grew up in Absecon, New Jersey and attended Holy Spirit High School. Our sports teams competed against Buena High School, which al Qaeda-linked radical Sharif Mobley graduated from before moving to Yemen — where he was reportedly captured this week during a counterterrorism sweep. Mobley shot two guards [...]

My friends at The Jawa Report, the counterterrorism blog that has done heroic work unmasking jihadi operatives online and on YouTube, have an exclusive report on the whistleblower who turned in “Jihad Jane.” Read the whole thing here — and be sure to send thanks and praise to the vigilant bloggers and watchdogs looking out [...]

If not for the vigilant work of Keep America Safe, the corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder’s national security stone wall on DOJ’s terror lawyers would still be standing. Asking politely, in respectful tones with bowed heads and stooped spines, did not get the DOJ to cough up the names. It took relentless pressure and synergistic [...]

Did you remember? It has now been 17 years since the first World Trade Center bombing. The jihadi truck bomb exploded at 12:18pm, Feb. 26, 1993: Four of the six people killed in the attack worked for the World Trade Center’s owner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Most of the victims [...]

Shhhhhhh!

Afghan-born jihadi Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to terrorism charges related to his railway bombing plot hatched in Colorado and NYC: Mr. Zazi appeared before Judge Raymond J. Dearie at Federal District Court in Brooklyn. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder overseas, and providing material [...]

Erick Stackelbeck has the exclusive on a disturbing news development at Fort Jackson in South Carolina: CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in South Carolina were arrested just before Christmas. It is unclear whether the men are still in custody. The five were part of the Arabic Translation program [...]

Get me rewrite!

He’s baaaaaack While national security deputy John Brennan’s comments downplaying the seriousness of Gitmo jihadi recidivism earned most of the headlines this weekend, his exchange at the same event at an NYU Islamic students’ event with an infamous Muslim grievance-monger is crying out for greater exposure. It’s the subject of today’s syndicated column. Take your [...]

Marc Thiessen’s must-read book, Courting Disaster, skyrocketed to #9 on the NYTimes best-seller list this coming week. Thiessen has relentlessly exposed how the Left and Obama are sabotaging all the effective intelligence-gathering programs that the Bush administration created to prevent jihadi attacks after 9/11 — and how media propagandists are helping them. Here’s one of [...]

“From A to Z.”

Hell has frozen over. Pigs are sprouting wings. The left-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has removed a moonbat judge from the botched LAX millenium bomber case and ruled that his sentence was too short, unreasonable, and in blatant violation of federal sentencing guidelines. The story is breaking. Seattle P-I reports: The 9th U.S. Circuit [...]

Make sure you tune in or Tivo: THE FORT HOOD COVERUP: LESSONS NOT LEARNED Tonight on CSPAN (WASHINGTON, DC) – House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter and fellow House Members will address the politically-correct scrubbing of the Department of Defense Report on the Fort Hood Shootings tonight on the floor of the House, after the [...]

My syndicated column today expands on Tuesday’s blog post about the Aafia Siddiqui terror trial debacle in New York City (see here for background/links) and what it portends for the future. Yes, I call it Cirque du Jihad. The White House and DOJ are now scrambling to cook up contingency plans for their jihadi show [...]