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January 07, 2010 CNN

ROBERTS: Well, the threat from so called homegrown terrorism may be real, but a new study says it's not as great as most people think. Duke University credits the American-Muslim Community with limiting radicalization by policing itself.

Joining us now from Durham, North Carolina is Ebrahim Moosa. He is a co-author of the Duke study. And professor of Islamic studies there, and from Fargo, North Dakota, Jarret Brachman. He is the author of Global Jihadism and an assistant professor at North Dakota State.

Thanks very much, gentleman. Both are being with us.

Let's go to you, first of all, Ebrahim.

When you look at this study, and I've got it here. It's a lengthy study. How big a problem did up find radicalization is in the United States. And is there some way to quantify it?

EBRAHIM MOOSA, PROFESSOR OF ISLAMIC STUDIES, DUKE UNIVERSITY: John, it's very difficult to quantify it. But, you know, in the first areas that we looked at Detroit -- sorry, Seattle, Buffalo, Raleigh, Durham area and also Houston. In those areas we found that the communities are taking active steps in order to combat whatever elements of radicalization there is in their communities, et cetera. And this is a very, very healthy sign.

ROBERTS: You found that 139 people had been arrested and accused of -- arrested or accused of planning or carrying out terror-related violence since the September 11th attacks. Your co-author, Charles Kurtsman, said that the study was a demonstration that the fear of radicalization, homegrown terrorism is out of proportion to the actual threat.

Jarret, do you agree with that?

JARRET BRACHMAN, AUTHOR, "GLOBAL JIHADISM": Well, I mean, that's the inherent nature of terrorism is that it doesn't -- you don't need a lot of people to create a lot of fear. And so, you know, in this case, I think their radicalization is a problem. I think we need to address it in context as the study says, but it's something that law enforcement is going to continue to wrestle with for a while in this country.

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December 31, 2009 FOX and Friends

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December 30, 2009 FOX and Friends

Dave N.: Dick Cheney is the biggest hypocrite in America. From Politico:

"As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of Sept. 11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.

“He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core Al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gets rid of the words, ‘war on terror,’ we won’t be at war. But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency — social transformation — the restructuring of American society. President Obama’s first object and his highest responsibility must be to defend us against an enemy that knows we are at war."

In other words, Obama has been too focused on health-care reform to do the necessary work to protect America from attack, according to Cheney.

It's a vicious canard of the kind we've come to expect from Cheney. But even if it were true, it's a better excuse than going on vacation for a month after getting a memo warning, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

More to the point, Cheney is holding Obama to a standard his own administration miserably failed to meet back in 2001, when shoe bomber Richard Reid was apprehended in a nearly identical bombing attempt. Another Politico story points this out:

Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks about the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate.

But then, we've known all along that there is no depth to which these scumbags will not stoop in order to attack Obama.

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December 30, 2009 CNN

Heather: From John Cole--I Guess Harriet Christian Was Unavailable:

CNN just had a lengthy piece with No Quarter’s Larry Johnson as one of their “experts,” where he used the phrase “Obama bin Laden” instead of Osama bin Laden and never caught himself. He had to be corrected by the bobblehead.

He was not asked about the Whitey Tape.

They didn't ask him about his snake pit of hatred towards Obama his web site turned into ever since the heated primary race with his girl Hillary either. I thought the same thing when they started trotting him out for interviews these last couple of days. Where is that infamous "Whitey Tape" you're supposed to have of Michelle Obama Larry?

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December 28, 2009 MSNBC Rachel Maddow

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December 28, 2009 FOX and Friends

Dave N.: Well, that certainly didn't take long. And as usual, the chief turds -- in this case, the execrable Mike Gallagher -- have come floating to the surface of the punch bowl:

Gallagher: But guys, let's look at the inevitable, the 800-pound gorilla in the room. How about we scrutinize young Middle Eastern men to stop this.

What happens when El Al Airlines, the airline run and operated by the state of Israel, if a Palestinian tries to board that plane? Do you think he goes through an extra degree of security? Well, let's do that with Muslims, let's do that with anybody named Abdul or Mohammad or Ahmed, let's take them and put them in a room and make sure they don't have explosives sewn into their underwear.

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Brian Kilmeade: Do you think we ought to profile any Muslim?

Gallagher: Yes! I think we ought to do what El Al does. Ask anybody who knows El Al what they do with Palestinians who attempt to board El Al. We should anybody who is a known Muslim and put them in a separate line. Call it the VIP line! Treat them with respect!

Christine Fair: That is so preposterous. One-third of the world's population is Muslim. Trying to treat every single Muslim as a terrorist is simply untenable, it's fearmongering.

Gallagher: Who are you afraid of offending Christine? Al Qaeda?

Memo to Gallagher: Nigeria is not in "the Middle East," and the suspect in this case was not "Middle Eastern" -- he was African.

If you want to profile every "known Muslim," you're going to have a hell of a time in countries like Indonesia and the Philippines, considering that their populations are a mix of the world's religions, and any Muslim who wanted to pose as a member of, say, a Christian church in order to fool authorities could do so with ease.

This just underscores how foolish the whole notion of racial profiling actually is, because when you embark on such policies, they actually make you more vulnerable, not less.

That's because terrorists are not that stupid. If you begin profiling for Middle Eastern men, they will find Indonesian or African or European operatives to perform the same task. If you begin profiling for Muslims, they will find ways to conceal their religious preferences.

We know two things about profiling, especially ethnic, religious, or racial profiling: 1) These policies expose the profilers to being gamed by terrorists; and 2) They are always a tremendous waste of resources and inevitably are counter-productive.

Sounds like your classic conservative solution: Hey, let's just make matters worse!

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(Nikita Khruschev and friend - On this day he and the turkey had a lot in common)

On this typical average day in 1964 news came from Moscow that Premier Nikita Khruschev "needed a rest" and was quickly removed from office, sending more than the average shockwave around the world.

Sam Jaffe (ABC News Moscow): “From all outward appearances, the Soviet people responded calmly to the news that Nikita Khruschev has been replaced. Most Muscovites learned of the changes on their way to work today. All Soviet newspapers carried a brief announcement that Premier Khruschev had requested retirement because of his age and poor health”.

This newscast, via WXYZ in Detroit from Friday October 16, 1964 also mentions the ongoing Auto Plant and newspaper strikes and an ever-folksy Paul Harvey extolling the virtues of yet another life insurance policy.

All in all, a typical average day. Kind of like this one.

Or not.

Rachel Maddow from last week, in a clip that explains exactly why I don't get the whole sex/texting trend among the young people today.

On a related topic, The Village Voice has a lovely collection of MP3's of Bill O'Reilly reading icky sex passages from his 1989 crime novel. As the former mayor of Detroit would "say," LOL!

Open thread below....