KELLY LAYS IT ON THE LINE –  AT 11:45 A.M. ET:  We feel it around us – the terrorists are extremely active, and are striking repeatedly.  Britain is practically an armed camp, following the recent Manchester attack.  From The Hill:  

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would "never leave the house" if they knew the truth.  “I was telling [Fox host] Steve [Doocy] on the way in here, if he knew what I knew about terrorism, he’d never leave the house in the morning,” Kelly said on “Fox & Friends.”  He noted there were four major terror attacks in the last week — in England, Egypt, the Philippines and Indonesia — "by generally the same groups."  “It’s everywhere. It’s constant. It’s nonstop. The good news for us in America is we have amazing people protecting us every day. But it can happen here almost anytime.”  Masked gunmen opened fire on a group of Coptic Christians driving to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 and injuring 25 more.

COMMENT:  We will only wake up when it actually happens.  That's almost in the nature of democracies, at least some democracies.  Other democracies never wake up.  They just start to die.  Paraphrasing Churchill, they feed the alligator with the hope they'll be eaten last.

A British election in less than two weeks will tell us which way the UK is heading.  The bad guys are moving up in the polls.

May 27, 2017