Michelle Malkin isn’t letting up on the idiots running the TSA. She’s got lots of anonymous letters of support from Air Marshals.

This is citizen reporting at its finest, and she wouldn’t have been able to get the word out like this before the internet. I’ve been concerned ever since September 11 that it would be used as an excuse for bureaucrats (and in this case, vindictive, petty bureaucrats) to aggrandize power and build little tyrannical fiefdoms that have little or nothing to do with actually defending the country. This is a prime example of that. Let’s get the word out, and maybe we can put enough pressure on so that even this White House will realize how foolish this is. I’d like to see this clown transferred here, where he can guard airplanes in his suit and tie.

I wish we’d had better choices last month.

That’s how long it’s been since the last time we were caught sleeping before September 11.

I think that last month’s election results show that we haven’t drifted back off to slumberland yet. We prevailed then, and we will now as well. The only question is how long it will take, and at what cost.

David Pryce-Jones has a long but interesting read on Europe’s Islam problem.

David Pryce-Jones has a long but interesting read on Europe’s Islam problem.

David Pryce-Jones has a long but interesting read on Europe’s Islam problem.

Europe is waking up.

From Norway to Sicily, governments, politicians and the media are laying aside their doctrines of diversity and insisting that

Zarquawi is running scared:

For his part, Al Zarqawi has also expressed concern over the U.S. military operation against Fallujah, Mosul and other insurgency strongholds.

On Wednesday, an audio tape posted on an Islamic website and purportedly from Al Zarqawi accused Muslim clerics of failing to support the insurgency in Iraq.

“You have let us down in the darkest circumstances and handed us over to the enemy,” the message said. “You have stopped supporting the holy warriors. Hundreds of thousands of the nation’s sons are being slaughtered at the hands of the infidels because of your silence.”

“Hundreds of thousands”?

Is such exaggeration really helpful to his cause? If I were an incipient Jihadi, I might have second thoughts about joining up upon hearing that. If, that is, they subscribe to bin Laden’s “strong horse” theory (that is, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”). The message is, “we’re losing, folks.”

Jack Kelly has a good rundown on the Fallujah battle, and notes like others that it has turned expectations of losses in urban combat on their head.

Jack Kelly has a good rundown on the Fallujah battle, and notes like others that it has turned expectations of losses in urban combat on their head.

Jack Kelly has a good rundown on the Fallujah battle, and notes like others that it has turned expectations of losses in urban combat on their head.