Miscellany - Illegal aliens, Islamic terrorists, and the MSM

Michelle Malkin writes about the MSM manipulation of the news when it comes to protecting their favorite subgroups, such as Islamic terrorists:

ISLAMIST TERRORISM IN RUSSIA
By Michelle Malkin · October 13, 2005 04:06 PM
Yesterday, I wrote about the MSM whitewashing Islam out of news reports. Today's coverage of the violent Muslim terrorist outbreak in Russia underscores my point:

60 killed as Chechen gunmen attack city
Chechen rebel attack fuels growing unrest
Chechens attack Caucasus town
Police battle militants in Russia

Look how far down you have to read those stories before you are told that it is Islamic radical terrorists wreaking havoc and murdering innocent people, not just plain-vanilla "gunmen" and nondescript "militants" run amok.

Any Minneapolis area newspapers come to mind that do the same thing?

In other news, Texas governor Rick Perry is angry over the Swiss cheese border:

Texas governor hot over border security

Another Southwest governor is lashing out in frustration over the inability or unwillingness of Washington to handle border-security issues and a flood of illegal immigrants entering the country from Mexico.

He's got every right to be mad, as we all should be:

"This isn't just Texas' problem," Perry said. "This is about a terrorist slipping across the U.S. border with Mexico who has ill will in his heart in Oklahoma, or Pennsylvania, or Washington, D.C."

We shouldn't forget about our friends to the south.

"It is important for the federal government to understand that we have a major problem along the border with Mexico, and it is not going to go away," added Perry.

Perry joins two other governors in the Southwest who have decried inaction by the federal government in response to the crisis on the border.

In August, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano – both Democrats – declared states of emergency because of increasing violence along the border.

Sometimes things that aren't on our immediate radar, like the Texas border for Minnesotans, are too easy to overlook. The similarity is that we have a border to our north here in Minnesota; we ought to pay attention.