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Mo’ money.

Reader Karen raises a good point about President Obama’s missing shout-outs last night: Greetings from Tampa, Fl: No one in the media has brought up the ultimate snub from Pres. Obama during his speech last night. He gave a shout out to Michelle Obama- twice, Joe Biden- once, but to the two officers who brought [...]

Under the bus.

Nothing to see here, move along: MyFoxDetroit.com – Sources tell Fox 2 that a flight from Amsterdam into Detroit Metropolitan Airport was held on the tarmac after landing because of unruly behavior by some of the passengers. The source says four men from Saudi Arabia were saying something in Arabic that alarmed four on-board Federal [...]

Okay, how does this just happen? The Morehead City port has been shut down and authorities are say there’s a voluntary evacuation of downtown Morehead City. Morehead City police say nine containers containing highly explosive material were punctured at 4:44 a.m. Tuesday. Officials say the material is PETN. Experts say PETN is used in detonators, [...]

He was reported to have been “drunk” last week on the plane that was diverted. Do you buy that? Just asking: A charge of interference with a flight crew is likely to be filed Monday against Muhammed Abu Tahir, whose allegedly disruptive behavior led to an Atlanta to San Francisco airline flight being diverted to [...]

Photoshop credit: Registered As I mentioned yesterday, my syndicated column today spotlights the abysmally lax visa issuance policies at Hillary Clinton’s State Department — a problem that festered before 9/11 under GOP and Democrat administrations alike and continues now (hello, James Riady). Take a look again at what the White House 6-page summary report says [...]

President Obama had his teleprompter tuned up this afternoon and apparently sipped a bit of Red Bull before taking another stab at making an I’m Really, Really Serious This Time statement about the UndyBomber case. Resolve does not come naturally in this White House. You can read the brief, 6-page “security review” released by the [...]

American taxpayers forked over nearly $70 million to Yemen in security aid last year. The Yemeni government is demanding more now in the wake of the Crotch Bomber attack. What they don’t want: U.S. troops to help them fight jihad effectively: Yemen’s foreign minister said Wednesday that his country opposes any direct intervention by U.S. [...]

Stuck on stupid.

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 [...]

Last week, I spotlighted the dangerous catch-and-release jihadi programs at Yemen and Gitmo. The Times of London has a new report today on the bloody wages of jihadi recidivism: At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of [...]

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 [...]

Five days after the Christmas Day bomber tried to blow up NWA Flight 253 over Detroit, President Obama is still on vacation in Hawaii. He has delivered two hasty, tie-less statements on homeland security from a makeshift podium in Honolulu whose underwhelming sum impact has been the equivalent of voting “present” (Obama’s career m.o.) By [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Obama’s biggest joker.

The Independent of London has a piece up today on the wealthy, pampered lifestyle of would-be Christmas Day bomber Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian elite enginnering student studied at one of Britain’s leading universities, “lived a gilded life” and “stayed in a £2m flat.” The Independent says Abdulmatallab’s privileged status is “surprising” — “a very [...]

Yesterday, ABC News reported that al Qaeda recruiter and Fort Hood jihadist spiritual advisor Anwar al Awlaki was asked by Nidal Hasan if it was okay to kill American soldiers. After mocking U.S. intelligence in an interview with al Jazeera, Reuters is reporting early this morning that Awlaki has been killed in a military strike [...]

How do you say “chutzpah” in Arabic? Because Fort Hood jihadist Nidal Hasan and his lawyer have got a hell of a lot of it: The lead defense attorney for accused Fort Hood shooter Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan says he will file a motion complaining his client’s civil rights are being violated. Belton attorney John [...]

From the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, news of a campus murder that appears to be more than your average street crime: Richard T. Antoun, a respected Binghamton University anthropology professor who grew up in Shrewsbury, spent his entire career seeking peace. His work focused on bridging the divide between religions and cultures, particularly in the [...]

Scroll for updates… How quickly the Fort Hood jihadi massacre has faded from the public radar screen. Don’t let it slide. In Colorado, there’s a new development involving shooter Nidal Hasan and the jihadi imam Anwar al-Awlaki: An arrest warrant for a radical Islamic cleric who has become an important figure in the Fort Hood [...]

Say cheese!

A new Rasmussen poll confirms the blindingly obvious about the deadly nature of blind diversity. It’s good to see the American public waking up to reality. But it’s a damned shame it keeps taking new rounds of jihadi eruptions to jolt them to the truth: Sixty-three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say political correctness prevented [...]

Never forget. Act now.

If there is a shining example of just how dangerous it is for America to give foreign-born jihadists the full panoply of American constitutional rights and all the attendant benefits of a civilian trial, it is Lynne Stewart. I’ve written about her treacherous collaboration with the Muslim terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman many times [...]

You remember that homeland security slogan, “If you see something, say something.” Well, after you say something, the people in charge of defending our country are supposed to DO SOMETHING. But the thread that continues to run through the Fort Hood jihadist debacle is that time after time, Hasan’s colleagues did say something. And his [...]

Nidal Hasan will face 13 charges of premeditated murder for plotting and executing the Fort Hood Massacre. Details here. As I noted yesterday, it really should be 14. Not 13. As for the latest reports of military concerns that Hasan was “psychotic:” With all due respect, what we have here isn’t a mental problem. It’s [...]

Well, this puts a perfect exclamation point on my diversity column: Look at the p.c. pretzel that the Naval Academy twisted itself into in order to try and engineer picture-perfect diversity among its color guard: Leaders of the U.S. Naval Academy tinkered with the composition of the color guard that appeared at a World Series [...]