Senate Benghazi Report Slams State Department

The Senate Homeland Security Committee has released its own report on the 9/11 Benghazi terror attack that killed four, including our Ambassador. It looks more hard-hitting than a report that appeared a couple weeks ago, written by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Michael Mullen for the Accountability Review Board, which even Bloomberg characterized as having “Big [...]

FBI Arrests Pakistani Brothers in Broward County for WMD

Two naturalized citizen brothers born in Pakistan were busted in south Florida for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and authorities say there was no sting behavior on the part of the police. It will be interesting to learn the details of this plot — how the brothers’ plan was discovered and what [...]

Fox News: Moroccan Alien Jihadist Is Homegrown

Will someone please explain how an illegal alien aspiring suicide bomber who grew up in Morocco until age 16 gets to be designated as a “homegrown” terror threat?

Fox News maintains its rep as being squishy on hostile Islam with that spin on the recent story about the would-be Capitol attacker (see below).

A more accurate report [...]

Dallas Jihadist Epilogue: the Valentine to Osama

When wanna-be Dallas bomber and illegal alien Hosam Smadi was sentenced earlier this week, he recited a groveling apology to the court, perhaps hoping for a shorter sentence.

Would-be Dallas bomber gets 24-year sentence, Star-Telegram, October 19, 2010

DALLAS — Minutes before he was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison, Hosam “Sam” Smadi apologized for trying [...]

Terror Threats Reassessed as Enemies Rejigger

On September 10, the day before the 9/11 terror anniversary, the two chairmen of the 9/11 Commission appeared at a press conference to discuss the state of national preparedness against our enemies. (Watch on C-Span.) Former Delaware Governor Tom Kean and Rep. Lee Hamilton were accompanied by other terrorism experts to discuss successes and failures [...]

Rally against Ground Zero Mosque a Great Success

In New York City, June 6 (a date chosen for being D-Day) was observed by a rally against the construction of a territory-marking mega-mosque near Ground Zero. Organizers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer expected a turn-out of 500 or so, and were thrilled when more than 10 times that number showed up.

Below is a shot [...]

A Tale of Two Jurisdictions: Arizona vs. New York City

Consider: two wildly different communities face an escalating crisis of violence against public safety. Both conclude that the federal government’s response to the foreign source of the worsening chaos is insufficient, so they decide to ramp up local enforcement.

One, Arizona, is condemned in the most excoriating manner by liberal elites and media for taking pro-active [...]