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On today’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough said that “extreme vetting” would not have stopped yesterday’s terror attack by Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. Julie Pace of the Associated Press then upped the ante, saying: “there may not be anything you can do to prevent what we saw last night.” Wait a second: Scarborough said that extreme vetting wouldn’t work. Pace agreed, adding that “temporary” bans from certain Muslim countries wouldn’t work, either. Didn’t they thus unwittingly suggest a solution? Get the rest of the story here.

It would be laughable if it weren’t so infuriating . . . Every time there is an Islamic terror attack, someone in the liberal media will claim that it is not really Islamic. And so Chris Matthews’ MSNBC show rolled out Malcolm Nance, it’s “terrorism analyst,” this evening to comment on the murderous attack in NYC today. And sure enough: “What you’re seeing is not Islam, whatsoever . . . None of that is Islamic. It’s anti-Islamic.” View the video here.

WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors say the failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway last year was part of a larger Al Qaeda conspiracy that also targeted England.