AND A SHARP WARNING FROM FRANCE – AT 9:08 A.M. ET:   French experts are warning of horrendous terror attacks they believe are planned for this year.   From France 24: 

French anti-terrorism experts believe the two major attacks in Paris in 2015 were a “dress rehearsal” for more professional and better-organised terror attacks on a much larger scale in 2016.

The January 2015 attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – which had angered many by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2006 – was the first in three days of attacks that claimed a total of 17 lives.

On November 13, gunmen in Paris killed 130 people in a series of coordinated attacks, the deadliest assault on French soil since World War II.

As bad as the carnage was, many experts agree that with the number of attacks on a definite upward swing, the threat will get much worse in the coming year.

"Unfortunately, I think 2015 was nothing," an unnamed French senior counter-terrorism official told AFP last week. “We are moving towards a European 9/11: simultaneous attacks on the same day in several countries, several places. A very coordinated thing. We know the terrorists are working on this."

COMMENT:  We can't say we weren't warned.  There seems now to be a new attack of some kind every week.  And we have in the White House a president whose main concern is his legacy on the political left. 

If you see something, say something.  And vote in November.

January 12, 2016